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

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.

As we use to say and speak of those glorious Joys, which some Saints aforehand have the priviledge 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.

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And the Argument is strong every way, from the one of these unto the other. For as Heaven and Hell are Parallel in a way of contraries, as out of Rom. 9. 22, 23. hath been shown: So those unspeakable glorious Joys, and these contrary extraordinary Horrors and Anguishes, on the other hand, do hold Parallel also, in being (in their several kinds) Prelibations and Tastes of what is to come in the other World. And in this very posture and tendency doth the