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

It is therefore the Wrath and Face of God and the Lamb, when discovered, which a guilty Conscience flies from, Rev. 6. 16. That, as Luther says, ⟨p. 96⟩Animus sibi male conscius potius ad Diabolum ipsum ferretur, quam ad Deum accederet: It had rather be brought afore the Devil, and see his face, than see God's. Terror of Conscience, what is it, but all one and God's Wrath in Conscience? See it in its contrary: Peace (which we call Peace of Conscience) which passeth Understanding, is rather denominated the [Peace of God] which passeth understanding, Phil. 4. 7. than Peace of Conscience, although Conscience be the Subject pacified, and whose Peace and Quietus est it is. And in like manner Terror is styled, the Terror of the Lord, 2 Cor. 5. 11. And these things may perhaps afford as true a Light towards the understanding of that Maxim of the Apostle, Rom. 2. 8, 9. Indignation and Wrath, (viz. of God,) Tribulation and Anguish upon every Soul (as the seat of their Anguish) of Man that doth evil, as any other. And withal show how it comes to pass, that this Tribulation is executed from that Wrath, even by the reception of Conscience. For of Conscience also the following words, vers. 15. do there speak, and that as in order unto Judgment, vers. 16.

It is therefore the Wrath and Face of God and the Lamb, when discovered, which a guilty Conscience flies from, Rev. 6. 16. That, as Luther says, ⟨p. 96⟩Animus sibi male conscius potius ad Diabolum ipsum ferretur, quam ad Deum accederet: It had rather be brought afore the Devil, and see his face, than see God's. Terror of Conscience, what is it, but all one and God's Wrath in Conscience? See it in its contrary: Peace (which we call Peace of Conscience) which passeth Ʋnderstanding, is rather denominated the [Peace of God] which passeth understanding,