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

And this Dispensation of immediate Wrath riseth up unto the exactest demonstration of the evil that is in Sin, which any way from Effects can be made or given unto the Creature.

4. Of this immediate Wrath (as it is an evil of Punishment) the Conscience and intellectual part in Man's Soul is not only capable to be made the Vessel, the Receptacle thereof, but it lies immediately exposed unto it. It is bare and naked unto him with whom we have to do, Heb. 4. 13. as in respect to God's knowledge, so of God's punishing, as I have elsewhere shown. Conscience is as an open Door or In-let; or as an open Window is to the Sun, so it to God, for him to come in at at any time. That when ever God will but take upon him to perform and execute the part of a Judg and Avenger, a Conscience that is guilty lies exposed nakedly and barely unto his Anger, to receive the strokes and impressions of it. For I ask, What is God's Justice against Sin, but his just Anger against Sin? (as Rom. 3. 5. the Original hath it.) And what is a guilty Conscience, but that in Man that is naturally suscipient or apprehensive of it? And these two are suited as Faculty and Object, and are (as it were) made one for the other; there needs no third or other thing (if God but please to hold forth his Anger, and apply the Corrosive to the Sore, so this unto the Soul) to convey his own displeasure by; Conscience hath an ear ⟨p. 95⟩to hear what God will speak, without any Medium to convey the Voice. Look as Faith is a Principle peculiarly fitted to take in God's free Grace, and Christ's Righteousness; such is Conscience (when guilty) unto God's Wrath, immediately susceptive of it. If God will but set a Mans Sins in order afore him, and withal say unto Conscience, I am angry; yea, look but angrily, and present himself as such; then Conscience instantly, like the sensible Plant, is struck, shrinks, and falls down. For if God be angry but a little, as