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

So as it was Conscience which was the Seat, the Habitation, (as it were) where these two took up their dwellings, continually quartered upon, and possessed. Jeremiah says the same, To see and know how bitter a thing it is to sin, &c. And though these Scriptures speak not immediately of Hell, yet they do clearly point out to us, what, and wherein the most exquisite punishment of Sin lieth, and by what effected; namely, Knowledge of Sin and Wrath: whether it be in Men in forerunning Anguish in this Life, or hereafter in Hell in the fullness of it.

So as it was Conscience which was the Seat, the Habitation, (as it were) where these two took up their dwellings, continually quartered upon, and possessed. Jeremy says the same, To see and know how bitter a thing it is to sin, &c. And though these Scriptures speak not immediately of Hell, yet they do clearly point out to us, what, and wherein the most exquisite punishment of Sin lieth, and by what effected; namely, Knowledg of Sin and Wrath: whether it be in Men in forerunning Anguish in this Life, or hereafter in Hell in the fulness of it.

3. It is not, nor can it be the mere Spiritual evil that is in Sin, as Sin is Sin, and an opposite to true Holiness, and as it stands in a contrariety to the Holiness and Goodness of God; that is not it which Men in Hell shall spiritually know and see, so as to lay to heart the evil thereof in that respect: No, for that is the peculiar effect of Grace, and proper to the Saints; even as to see the Beauty that is in Holiness, as it is Holiness, likewise is—It is therefore Sin in the bitter effects thereof only, whereby Souls still remaining wholly sinful, (as those in Hell do) can come to know this bitterness of Sin.

3. It is not, nor can it be the meer Spiritual evil that is in Sin, as Sin is Sin, and an opposite to true Holiness, and as it stands in a contrariety to the Holiness and Goodness of God; that is not it which Men in Hell shall spiritually know and see, so as to lay to heart the evil thereof in that respect: No, for that is the peculiar effect of Grace, and proper to the Saints; even as to see the Beauty that is in Holiness, as it is Holiness, likewise is—It is therefore Sin in the bitter effects thereof only, whereby Souls still remaining wholly sinful, (as those in Hell do) can come to know this bitterness of Sin.