A second Instance is of Bad and Wicked Men. What was it caused Judas to hang himself? The Prophecy of the Psalmist, and the Apostles reference to it, have resolved us. That it was the Curse or Wrath of God entering into his Soul. The Psalm is the hundred and ninth, which was penned on purpose about him; the Apostle's Reference and Application is in Acts 1. 20.—In the Psalm 'tis said, ver. 18. as he loved Cursing, that is, Sin which is that accursed thing, afore God, so the Curse of God came into his Bowels (or inwards) like Water, and like Oil into his Bones, and filled all within him full of Anguish and Torment. And so was fulfilled that Saying, Indignation and Wrath, namely, of God, caused Tribulation and Anguish in his Soul. The Similitudes or Allusions there are Elegant. That as there are Spiritual Oils which Mens Bodies being anointed withal, they soak into the Bones, &c. they cool, refresh, and repair Spirits, and Strength, and allay fervent Heats and Pains; into which more inward parts, other Medicines more crass and druggish cannot soak, or come. In the way of a contrary virtue or effect, he compares the Curse of God on his Soul, unto a spiritual Oil ⟨p. 65⟩of a piercing, penetrating Violence, that strikes in, as Quicksilver, into the Bones, and Nervous Parts, and fills them with unsufferable Torments. He compareth also this Curse, and the Effects of it, unto such painful Diseases as are caused by sharp Corroding Waters in the Bowels; as of the Gout in the Bowels: which when it possesseth those Inwards, is mortal and intolerable. The Apostle's Allusion elsewhere is correspondent to both these of the Psalmist, when he says, The Word of God (through the Power of the Spirit) is a savour of Death unto Death in some Mens Hearts, as of Life unto Life in others, 2 Cor. 2. 16. The meaning whereof is, that look as venomous and sulphurous Vapours and Damps in Mines and Caverns arising out of the Earth, do strike up such scents or smells, as often kill, by extinguishing the Spirits of those that descend into them: Such exhalations of Hell and Wrath, doth the Spirit of God, by the Word preached, exhale and draw forth, and cause to ascend in some Mens Consciences, which gives them the very scent of Hell it self: They are the Savour or Odour of Death afore-hand, [unto Death] and Damnation, and so are Vapours of the same kind:
A second Instance is of Bad and Wicked Men. What was it caused Judas to hang himself? The Prophecy of the Psalmist, and the Apostles reference to it, have resolved us. That it was the Curse or Wrath of God entring into his Soul. The Psalm is the hundred and ninth, which was penned on purpose about him; the Apostle's Reference and Application is in Acts 1. 20.—In the Psalm 'tis said, ver. 18. as he loved Cursing, that is, Sin which is that accursed thing, afore God, so the Curse of God came into his Bowels (or inwards) like Water, and like Oyl into his Bones, and filled all within him full of Anguish and Torment. And so was fulfilled that Saying, Indignation and Wrath, namely, of God, caused Tribulation and Anguish in his Soul. The Similitudes or Allusions there are Elegant. That as there are Spiritual Oyls which Mens Bodies being annointed withal, they soak into the Bones, &c. they cool, refresh, and repair Spirits, and Strength, and allay fervent Heats and Pains; into which more inward parts, other Medicines more crasse and druggish cannot soak, or come. In the way of a contrary vertue or effect, he compares the Curse of God on his Soul, unto a spiritual Oyl ⟨p. 65⟩of a piercing, penetrating Violence, that strikes in, as Quicksilver, into the Bones, and Nervous Parts, and fills them with unsufferable Torments. He compareth also this Curse, and the Effects of it, unto such painful Diseases as are caused by sharp Corroding Waters in the Bowels; as of the Gout in the Bowels: which when it possesseth those Inwards, is mortal and intolerable. The Apostle's Allusion elsewhere is correspondent to both these of the Psalmist, when he says, The Word of God (through the Power of the Spirit) is a savour of Death unto Death in some Mens Hearts, as of Life unto Life in others, 2 Cor. 2. 16. The meaning whereof is, that look as venemous and sulphurous Vapours and Damps in Mines and Caverns arising out of the Earth, do strike up such scents or smells, as often kill, by extinguishing the Spirits of those that descend into them: Such exhalations of Hell and Wrath, doth the Spirit of God, by the Word preached, exhale and draw forth, and cause to ascend in some Mens Consciences, which gives them the very scent of Hell it self: They are the Savour or Odour of Death afore-hand, [unto Death] and Damnation, and so are Vapours of the same kind:
