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

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 ¹corrected us, and had power to do it with bodily Punishment, by bodily Instruments; do we think that our Souls which lie naked afore God, Heb. 4. 13. are not as immediately subject and exposed to his Correction, as a Father of Spirits? And if so, that then he may and doth sometimes choose to correct even his own Children with no other Rods but of his own: ⟨p. 58⟩which are the immediate Emanations, streamings and dartings of his own Displeasure. Which when they feel, they wax pale and wan, and wander up and down, like unto Ghosts in Hell, as if they were cut off by his Hand. And that those Anguishments which either of these feel, are from God's immediate Hand alone; those that have felt the smart thereof, do readily acknowledge: for it is not in the power of any Creature to strike so hard a stroke.

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