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

Again, 2. I enquire, when it shall come to the execution of the Punishment sentenced, What is it in the Soul or Spirit of Man that is most directly and naturally capable of Anguish and Torment, and what that part is, which God may most properly strike a Man's Soul in, when he would rebuke him for Sin? Certainly, still a Man's Conscience. All Beasts have one tender part above any other, that most grieves them, if smitten: This, in guilty Man is Conscience. We see it in Cain and Judas, God burnt them both in this Hand; in the Hand of Conscience in this World.

Having by these two Enquiries, stated the Principal, both in Guilt, and in being the Seat of the Execution; I shall for the Proof hereof, as also in order to ⟨p. 87⟩the clearer making forth the Argument afore us, namely, that Justice requires God's immediate Hand, &c. I shall in a more ample manner set together these five ensuing Assertions.

The First, That Conscience, and the intellectual or understanding Power in Man's Soul, are God's Engagee, and the Principal in a double respect. 1. Conscience is responsible for the whole in Man: or if you will, principal in the Obligation. As being that, which, by its own acknowledgement of a Judgment, made unto God, when he shall come to judge, binds over it self, and with it self, the whole Soul for the Payment. And upon that account is to be reckoned the chief Obligee: and therefore the Execution is justly to be served upon it, and through it upon the whole Soul. 2. If we take in together with Conscience, the understanding part in Man; the Intelligentia, or the Spirit of the Mind in the summity of it; That is really to be accounted also the Principal, in respect of its share in the very acts of Sinning; so as justly the Guilt of every act is refunded upon it, as the principal Actor. For it is betrusted by God, with the steering and management of the whole Soul, with the conduct of it, as the General. By