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

A second equitable rule of Proportion, that Justice (requiring the fullest satisfaction that may be had) will exact, is that ⟨p. 58⟩the principal Author and Actor in the Sin should principally bear the Punishment. This not only Vengeance (which is the second Topic) doth in a more eminent manner aim at, and affect, but Justice doth call for it also; The Justice both of God, and Men. Now the principal in Sin is known to be the Soul of Man. Which I shall urge, when I come to show how Vengeance also seeketh to wreck it self thereon. That which serves to my present purpose (which is this, that in the point of satisfaction, to be made unto God's Justice, it is most proper for God Himself to punish Sin in the Soul) in order thereunto, is,

A second equitable rule of Proportion, that Justice (requiring the fullest satisfaction that may be had) will exact, is that ⟨p. 58⟩the principal Author and Actor in the Sin should principally bear the Punishment. This not only Vengeance (which is the second Topick) doth in a more eminent manner aim at, and affect, but Justice doth call for it also; The Justice both of God, and Men. Now the principal in Sin is known to be the Soul of Man. Which I shall urge, when I come to shew how Vengeance also seeketh to wreck it self thereon. That which serves to my present purpose (which is this, that in the point of satisfaction, to be made unto God's Justice, it is most proper for God Himself to punish Sin in the Soul) in order thereunto, is,

First, to enquire, What is it in Soul or Spirit of Man, which God, when he comes to deal strictly and down-rightly, as a Judg of Mens Souls, hath principally to do withal? All must acknowledge that it is Conscience that hath to do with God as a Judge: for it must be that in Man, which is the most proper seat of the guilt of Sin, which guilt is the obligation unto Judgment and Punishment. And this to be Mens Consciences, the Scriptures hold forth, and every Man's own Soul feels. Hence also to be purged from an evil Conscience, is all one, and to be perfectly acquitted from the Guilt of Sin. And for God no more to remember our Sins, or