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

out of the same Matter that is laid up in the Mine ⟨p. 66⟩or Treasury it self; as those out of the Earth use to be.

The second thing requisite to be added for the completing the Demonstration, is, That such immediate Impressions of Divine Wrath in this Life, are sure and certain Evidences (I say not as to what Persons, but) of what kind of Torment it is, which in the fullness of it, befalleth Men in Hell; and that both do proceed from the same immediate Cause. This needs not much probation, for the Instances afore given, carry their own evidence with them of this thing to any intelligent Reader. And this general Reason for it, will readily occur to any ones Thoughts, that surely God will not punish them in Hell with a Punishment of lesser sort or kind (for we speak not now of comparisons of Degrees) than what his Dispensation reacheth forth unto some Men, in this Life. For that is the proper day, and time, and season of Wrath, and of the fierceness of his Wrath; in which the Fruits of their own doings, are every way in their full Ripeness and Maturity to be returned to them: and these inflictions in this Life are but the Buds and the Blooms that proceed; yet both from the same Root and Cause. ⟨p. 67⟩Now to be punished by God's Wrath but mediately, through the force only of created Instruments, &c. as of material Fire, or the like, (if that were all the Punishment there); this were certainly by a lower kind or sort, than to be punished immediately from the Wrath of God it self. As will abundantly appear in the second Section, when I shall set out the dreadfulness of such a Punishment.

The second thing requisite to be added for the compleating the Demonstration, is, That such immediate Impressions of Divine Wrath in this Life, are sure and certain Evidences (I say not as to what Persons, but) of what kind of Torment it is, which in the fulness of it, befalleth Men in Hell; and that both do proceed from the same immediate Cause. This needs not much probation, for the Instances afore given, carry their own evidence with them of this thing to any intelligent Reader. And this general Reason for it, will readily occur to any ones Thoughts, that surely God will not punish them in Hell with a Punishment of lesser sort or kind (for we speak not now of comparisons of Degrees) than what his Dispensation reacheth forth unto some Men, in this Life. For that is the proper day, and time, and season of Wrath, and of the fierceness of his Wrath; in which the Fruits of their own doings, are every way in their full Ripeness and Maturity to be returned to them: and these inflictions in this Life are but the Buds and the Blooms that preceed; yet both from the same Root and Cause.