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

I say, 1. Of Men in this Life: And if any should deny the Truth hereof, or that which we have been prosecuting, themselves perhaps ere they dye may be made miserable Examples verifying of both; and out of their own woeful Experience, live to confess and acknowledge the Truth herein. For God doth in this Life single out some, both of his Children, and others; to whom he gives a taste what the one should for ever have undergone, but that Christ did it for them; and of what the other must under-go for ever, without Repentance. Whereof those Instances that follow, are undeniable Evidences.

I say, 1. Of Men in this Life: And if any should deny the Truth hereof, or that which we have been prosecuting, themselves perhaps ere they dye may be made miserable Examples verifying of both; and out of their own woful Experience, live to confess and acknowledg the Truth herein. For God doth in this Life single out some, both of his Children, and others; to whom he gives a taste what the one should for ever have undergone, but that Christ did it for them; and of what the other must under-goe for ever, without Repentance. Whereof those Instances that follow, are undeniable Evidences.

And 2. These Terrors are wrought by God's immediate Hand: And from immediate ⟨p. 57⟩Impressions and Representations of his Wrath, made by him, on their Souls, and to their Consciences. For as God puts Joy into the Hearts of his Children in this Life, by the immediate Light of his Countenance, as Psal. 4. ver. 6. Lord lift up the Light of thy Countenance upon us, and ver. 7. [Thou hast put] Gladness in my Heart, more than in the time that their Corn and their Wine increased; And again, whom though we see not, yet believing [we rejoice with Joy unspeakable and glorious] as the Apostle speaks of those Primitive Saints: Even so when he is pleased to rebuke Man for Sin, he doth the like, in a way of Contraries, on Men both Good and Bad; correcting them, by and with Anguishments from the like immediate Strokes of his own Anger. God is the Father of all Spirits: and of the Spirits of his own Children upon a double Creation. And if the Fathers of our Bodies