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

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 ⟨p. 86⟩to be atoned with us as a Judg; is all one as to say, that we on our parts have no more Conscience of Sins, Heb. 10. 2, 3, 10, 11, 17. verses compared. Conscience is that part of the Soul, whereby God as the Judg arraigneth every Man. It is the Hand which a guilty Soul holds up at God's Bar for all the rest of Man; and is God's Witness within Man against himself, Rom. 2. 15. and that in order unto Judgment, as follows in verse 16.

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 acknowledg 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 ⟨p. 86⟩to be atoned with us as a Judg; is all one as to say, that we on our parts have no more Conscience of Sins, Heb. 10. 2, 3, 10, 11, 17. verses compared. Conscience is that part of the Soul, whereby God as the Judg arraigneth every Man. It is the Hand which a guilty Soul holds up at God's Bar for all the rest of Man; and is God's Witness within Man against himself,