Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

3. This Punishment must be terrible. How doth David, a great King, sound in his body, prosperous in his Crown, and successful in his conquests, settled in all his Royal conveniences, groan under the wrathful touch of a greater King than himself, Psal. 6. Psal. 38. and his other Penitential Psalms; Not being able to give himself a writ of ease, by all the delights of his Palace and Kingdom. If the wrath of a King be as the roaring of a Lyon to a poor subject, Prov. 19.10. how great is the wrath of the King of Kings, that cannot be set forth by the terror of all the amazing volleys of thunder, that have been since the Creation, if the noise of all were gathered into one single crack? As there is an unconceivable ground of joy in the special favour of so mighty a King, so is there of terror in his severe displeasure. Psal. 76.12. He is terrible to the Kings of the earth, with God is terrible Majesty. What a folly is it then to rebel against so mighty a Sovereign?

3. This Punishment must be terrible. How doth David, a great King, sound in his body, prosperous in his Crown, and successful in his conquests, setled in all his Royal conveniencies, groan under the wrathful touch of a greater King than himself, Psal. 6. Psal. 38. and his other Paenitential Psalms; Not being able to give himself a writ of ease, by all the delights of his Palace and Kingdom. If the wrath of a King be as the roaring of a Lyon to a poor subject, Prov. 19.10. how great is the wrath of the King of Kings, that cannot be set forth by the terror of all the amazing vollies of thunder, that have been since the Creation, if the noise of all were gather'd into one single crack? As there is an unconceivable ground of joy in the special favour of so mighty a King, so is there of terror in his severe displeasure. Psal. 76.12