Two discourses I. of the punishment of sin in hell, demonstrating the wrath of…

1. What is the thing, or subject devoured by this fiery Indignation? It is the immortal Souls of Men: these are the Fuel which this Fire doth prey upon. As to the truth of the thing it self I need not insist on it: But the Analogy of that as the Shadow; and this as typified thereby, that is the matter afore me.—Let it be considered, that the Death and Destruction of the immortal Soul in Man, could not any other way be more lively shadowed forth, than by such a devouring (as Moses word is) or licking up the vital and animal Spirits that run in the Body, when yet the Body it self remains unburnt: Thereby demonstrating, that it was such a Fire as struck immediately at that which is the Fountain of Life it self in the Body, and at that which is the Bond, the Vinculum, the Tie ⟨p. 45⟩of Union between Soul and Body: for such are those Spirits. And yet not so much, as to singe the outward bulk or carcass of the Body. There could have been nothing invented in the whole compass of Nature, to have born a resemblance so near, to shadow forth the Immortal Soul, as those spirits running in Man's Blood and Arteries, do; which, some affirm to be the very Animal and Vital Soul in Man. Sure I am, they are as the Oil whereby Life is preserved and fed; and in the Blood is the Life, says Moses, our best Interpreter in this. Neither doth this Shadow hold a Similitude in this particular only, but in another like case as evidently. The pouring forth of the Blood of the Beasts that were Sacrificed under the Old Law, was particularly ordained to signify Christ his pouring forth his Soul unto Death, as Isaiah speaks; As well, as in general, that the Sacrifice of those Beasts did typify forth Christ's Sacrifice, in the whole of it. And this was as near a Representation of that Particular, as could any way be made, by what was corporeal in Beasts, or else in the whole Creation (for a Sacrifice of Mankind, or the Blood of Men, God liked not to be made to him, in his Worship) could possibly have been found to portray it forth.

1. What is the thing, or subject devoured by this fiery Indignation? It is the immortal Souls of Men: these are the Fewel which this Fire doth prey upon. As to the truth of the thing it self I need not insist on it: But the Analogy of that as the Shadow; and this as typified thereby, that is the matter afore me.—Let it be considered, that the Death and Destruction of the immortal Soul in Man, could not any other way be more lively shadowed forth, than by such a devouring (as Moses word is) or licking up the vital and animal Spirits that run in the Body, when yet the Body it self remains unburnt: Thereby demonstrating, that it was such a Fire as struck immediately at that which is the Fountain of Life it self in the Body, and at that which is the Bond, the Vinculum, the Tye