Meditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many years sinceMeditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many yeares since

Secondly, it may respect the end for which it is inflicted, it is not the torment of the Creature, whom as a Creature God loveth, neither is it the pleasing of the Devil, whom as a Devil God hateth, but only the Satisfaction of Gods Justice, and the Manifestation of his Wrath. These things being thus premised, we will again make a double Consideration of Punishment, either it may be taken improperly, and incompletely, for whatsoever oppressive evil doth so draw its original in a Reasonable Creature from Sin, as that if there were not an habitation of sin, there should be no room for such an evil, as in the man that was borne blind, though sin were not the cause of the blindness, yet it was that which made room for the blindness: or it may be taken properly and perfectly, and then I take it to admit of some such Description as this Punishment is an evil or pressure of Nature, proceeding from a Law-giver just and powerful, and inflicted on a Reasonable Creature, for the disobedience and breach of that Law unto the performance whereof it was originally by the ⟨p. 136⟩natural faculty of free-will enabled, whereby there is intended a Declaration of Wrath, and Satisfaction of Justice.

Secondly, it may respect the end for which it is inflicted, it is not the torment of the Creature, whom as a Creature God loveth, neither is it the pleasing of the Devill, whom as a Devill God hateth, but onely the Satisfaction of Gods Justice, and the Manifestation of his Wrath. These things being thus premised, wee will againe make a double Consideration of Punishment, either it may be taken improperly, and incompletely, for whatsoever oppressive evill doth so draw its originall in a Reasonable Creature from Sinne, as that if there were not an habitation of sinne, there should be no roome for such an evill, as in the man that was borne blinde, though sinne were not the cause of the blindenesse, yet it was that which made roome for the blindenesse: or it may bee taken properly and perfectly, and then I take it to admit of some such Description as this Punishment is an evill or pressure of Nature, proceeding from a Law-giver just and powerfull, and inflicted on a Reasonable Creature, for the disobedience and breach of that Law unto the performance whereof it was originally by the ⟨p. 136⟩naturall faculty of free-will enabled, whereby there is intended a Declaration of Wrath, and Satisfaction of Justice.