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

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.

Now to prosecute this: The evil of Sin is not sufficiently or perfectly felt, no, not in the effects of it, by the Conscience of a Sinner, (so as it may be) until it be felt in that which is the highest, and most transcendent, and proper, most immediate and first-born effect thereof, of all other. And that is no other than the Wrath and Indignation of the All-powerful God: For that his Wrath shall break in upon the Sinner, and so considered, it is the most proper effect of all other of the demerit of Sin, God being stirred up and provoked thereunto by Sin. Do you provoke the Lord to Jealousy? 1 Cor. 10. 22. The like, Jer. 7. 19. Sins are as a heap of Charcoal, wicked Mens Consciences the Oven, and God's Wrath the Fire: Let this Fire be put into this Coal, and let both meet in a guilty Conscience, and it instantly becomes a fiery Oven within it self. And as concerning all other Punishments, I may say it, That all other, of what kind or from whomsoever, although they are all the effects and deserts of Sin, according to that in Jeremiah: [Thy way, and thy doings have procured these things to thee,] and this is thy Wickedness; as it follows there in