VI. The furnace of eternal Vengeance is heated ready for thee. Isaiah. 30. 33. Hell and destruction open their mouths upon thee, they gape for thee, they groan for thee, Isaiah. 5. 14. waiting as it were with a greedy eye, as thou standest upon the brink, when thou wilt drop in. If the wrath of a man may be, as the roaring of a Lion, Prov. 19. 12. more heavy than the sand; Prov. 27. 3. What is the wrath of the infinite God? If the burning furnace heated in Nebuchadnezzars ⟨p. 126⟩fiery rage, when he commanded it to be made yet seven times hotter, were so fierce as to burn up even those that drew near it, to throw the three children in: Dan. 3. 19, 22. How hot is that burning oven of the Almighty's fury? Mal. 4. 1. Surely this is seventy times seven more fierce. What thinkest thou, O man, of being a faggot in hell to all eternity? Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong in the day that I shall deal with thee, saith the Lord of hosts? Ezek. 22. 14. Canst thou dwell with everlasting burnings? Canst thou abide the consuming fire? Isaiah. 33. 4. When thou shalt be as a glowing Iron in hell, and thy whole body and soul shall be as perfectly possessed by Gods burning vengeance, as the fiery sparkling iron, when heated in the fiercest forge? Thou canst not bear Gods whip: how then wilt thou endure his scorpions? Thou art even crushed, and ready to wish thy self dead, under the weight of his finger: how then wilt thou bear the Weight of his loins? The most patient man that ever was, did curse the day that ever he was born, Job 3. 1. and even woo death to come and end his misery, Job 7. 15, 16. when God did but let out one little drop of his wrath. How then wilt thou endure, when God shall pour out all his vials, and set himself against thee to torment thee? when he shall make thy conscience the tunnel, by which he will be pouring his burning wrath into thy soul for ever; and when he shall fill all thy powers as full of torment, as they be now full of sin? When immortality shall be thy misery, and to die the ⟨p. 127⟩death of a brute, and be swallowed into the gulf of annihilation, shall be such a felicity, as a whole eternity of wishes, and an Ocean of tears shall never purchase? Now thou canst put off the evil day, and canst laugh and be merry, and forget the terror of the Lord, 2 Cor 5. 11.
VI. The furnace of eternal Vengeance is heated ready for thee. Esay. 30. 33. Hell and destruction open their mouths upon thee, they gape for thee, they groan for thee, Esay. 5. 14. waiting as it were with a greedy eye, as thou standest upon the brink, when thou wilt drop in. If the wrath of a man may be, as the roaring of a Lion, Prov. 19. 12. more heavy than the sand; Prov. 27. 3. What is the wrath of the infinite God? If the burning furnace heated in Nebuchadnezars ⟨p. 126⟩fiery rage, when he commanded it to be made yet seven times hotter, were so fierce as to burn up even those that drew near it, to throw the three children in: Dan. 3. 19, 22. How hot is that burning oven of the Almighty's fury? Mal. 4. 1. Surely this is seventy times seven more fierce. What thinkest thou, O man, of being a faggot in hell to all eternity? Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong in the day that I shall deal with thee, saith the Lord of hosts? Ezek. 22. 14. Canst thou dwell with everlasting burnings? Canst thou abide the consuming fire? Esay. 33. 4. When thou shalt be as a glowing Iron in hell, and thy whole body and soul shall be as perfectly possessed by Gods burning vengeance, as the fiery sparkling iron, when heated in the fiercest forge? Thou canst not bear Gods whip: how then wilt thou endure his scorpions? Thou art even crushed, and ready to wish thy self dead, under the weight of his finger: how then wilt thou bear the Weight of his loyns? The most patient man that ever was, did curse the day that ever he was born, Iob 3. 1. and even woo death to come and end his misery, Iob 7. 15, 16. when God did but let out one little drop of his wrath. How then wilt thou endure, when God shall pour out all his vials, and set himself against thee to torment thee? when he shall make thy conscience the tunnel, by which he will be pouring his burning wrath into thy soul for ever; and when he shall fill all thy powers as full of torment, as they be now full of sin? When immortality shall be thy misery, and to die the
