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

The truth and real verification of both these so immediate effects by God, and from God, (he as with a double-edged sword striking contrary ways at once.) Multitudes of Instances of both kinds the Story of the Martyrs doth relate; and particularly in the examples of those persecuting Emperors Galerius and Maximinus, as Eusebius hath Recorded them. Insomuch as that lamentable out-cry in the sixth Seal, Rev. 6. 16. Which the Kings of the Earth, and mighty Men (the Persecutors) are brought in so loudly uttering, in saying to the Mountains, Fall on us, and hide us from the Wrath of the Lamb. Mr. Mede and others have applied (as the Time and Order of the Visions of that Prophecy require) unto those Great Persecutors in the Roman Empire, whom authentic Antiquity hath related to have been terrified and struck with horror, by God and the Lamb, in prodigious ⟨p. 74⟩extraordinary ways of confusion; and those Terrors, such, as Stories have related them, as were the liveliest representations of that Great Day of Wrath, ver. 17. And are therefore set out under the Notion thereof, as having been to them the very imperfect beginnings of it. This for the Argument from the instances of wicked Men.

The truth and real verification of both these so immediate effects by God, and from God, (he as with a double-edged sword striking contrary ways at once.) Multitudes of Instances of both kinds the Story of the Martyrs doth relate; and particularly in the examples of those persecuting Emperors Galerius and Maximinus, as Eusebius hath Recorded them. Insomuch as that lamentable out-cry in the sixth Seal, Rev. 6. 16. Which the Kings of the Earth, and mighty Men (the Persecutors) are brought in so loudly uttering, in saying to the Mountains, Fall on us, and hide us from the Wrath of the Lamb. Mr. Mede and others have applyed (as the Time and Order of the Visions of that Prophecy require) unto those Great Persecutors in the Roman Empire, whom authentick Antiquity hath related to have been terrifyed and struck with horror, by God and the Lamb, in prodigious ⟨p. 74⟩extraordinary ways of confusion; and those Terrors, such, as Stories have related them, as were the liveliest representations of that Great Day of Wrath, ver. 17. And are therefore set out under the Notion thereof, as having been to them the very imperfect beginnings of it. This for the Argument from the instances of wicked Men.