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

And either of them will afford an Argument for the proof of this Proposition in Hand.

1. These direful Impressions of God's immediate Wrath, when they do befall wicked Men, what are they to them? Not only Pledges or Fore-runners of that Punishment to come (for such all sorts of Afflictions are unto wicked Men.) But further these are Spices and Grudgings, and lesser intermitting Fits of those future fiery, burning, and continued Calentures and Fevers; yea, Earnest-Pennies of Hell: and so of the same kind, ⟨p. 68⟩with what in full Men shall there receive.

1. These direful Impressions of God's immediate Wrath, when they do befal wicked Men, what are they to them? Not only Pledges or Fore-runners of that Punishment to come (for such all sorts of Afflictions are unto wicked Men.) But further these are Spices and Grudgings, and lesser intermitting Fits of those future fiery, burning, and continued Calentures and Feavers; yea, Earnest-Penies of Hell: and so of the same kind, ⟨p. 68⟩with what in full Men shall there receive.

As we use to say and speak of those glorious Joys, which some Saints aforehand have the privilege to partake of, that they are pure drops of those Rivers of Pleasure, flowing immediately from the same Fountain of Life: So we may as confidently say of those breakings forth of Wrath upon wicked Mens Souls here, that they are the sippings of that Cup of Wrath without mixture (as the Revelation ¹distinguisheth it from those in this Life) whereof the Wicked must drink the Dregs, though it be Eternity, unto the bottom. And therefore we may make a true and warrantable measure, of what all such Men are to look for in Hell, by what some few of them do partake of here.