The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

2. I argue it from the Terror of the Punishment: And certainly the Just God hath proportioned the evil of this, to the quality of that. Study well these few places of Scripture, Joh. 3.19. Mat. 21.41. Heb. 2.3. & 10.28, 29. & 12.25. Rev. 2. & 3. throughout. Oh the terrors of the Lord, that will one day be heaped upon the haters of his Son! See Rev. 6.16. But we need not look any further for this matter, than into the awakened conscience of a Rebel against Christ in a fit of desperation: what Scorpion-lashes doth such a mans conscience give him? Oh the heat of this burning Caldron! with what rage and fury doth it break forth on every side, until the soul is even become a Hell to it self! And wouldest thou not love Christ (will enraged conscience then say) so lovely in himself, and so full of love to thee? Couldest thou see him sighing, bleeding, sweating, dying for thy sake, and yet not love him? Couldest thou spurn at such bowels, and contemn such prodigious mercy? and that when this love would have opened to thee, the door of glory? how great? how infinite glory? and when the rejecting of it would infallibly plunge thy soul into misery? how dreadful, how intolerable? was ever madness like thine, oh my soul, will conscience say? certainly Hell is too easy a punishment for such a Serpent, such an Incarnate Devil as thou art; well may God rejoice to be avenged on such a wretch as thee, and make thee to drink up the very dregs of his Indignation; while others that dwell in God, shall dwell in love, oh how will God be nothing else, but fury, and wrath, and vengeance to thee? Thou shalt one day (and that day such as never shall have an end) hear Justice call upon Omnipotency still to add more flame to thy torment? Thus conscience will look backward, and forward, and even wreak it self with the most dismal flaming language, that it can find out, upon the haters of Christ; And is not that a dreadful sin, which shall thus set a man against himself? and put a sword into the hand of cruel conscience to cleave the soul in pieces? And is not that a dreadful punishment, when a man shall become his own Accuser, Judge, and Executioner? When conscience shall burn so hot within a man, that he shall be a terror to himself, and an eternal amazement? And yet alas what is all this to the immediate impressions of the wrath of God upon the soul?