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

And I may say of all the former, in comparison to this latter, that they all are but as the Batteries of the Out-works, and as Bullets shot against the Walls, in a Siege, which may indeed terrify the Inhabitants, and make them tremble; ¹and so these the Soul, as by remote effects in the Suburbs of it. But the latter is as shooting in of Granadoes, which have been laid up with him in his Treasury, carrying Fire from thence in them, the Fire of his fierce and sorest Indignation; and these himself alone can shoot into the inwards of Mens Souls. And this is as shooting Fire into the the very Magazine, into that which is the most inward in the Soul, and fortified against the entrance of all created Powers; the Magazine where all the Gun-powder lies, that is, the guilt of a Man's Sins: so as there needeth nothing else to blow up all. If his Wrath doth but touch, it takes, and sets all on Fire.

And I may say of all the former, in comparison to this latter, that they all are but as the Batteries of the Out-works, and as Bullets shot against the Walls, in a Siege, which may indeed terrify the Inhabitants, and make them tremble; ¹and so these the Soul, as by remote effects in the Suburbs of it. But the latter is as shooting in of Granadoes, which have been laid up with him in his Treasury, carrying Fire from thence in them, the Fire of his fierce and sorest Indignation; and these himself alone can shoot into the inwards of Mens Souls. And this is as shooting Fire into the the very Magazine, into that which is the most inward in the Soul, and fortified against the entrance of all created Powers; the Magazine where all the Gun-pouder lies, that is, the guilt of a Man's Sins: so as there needeth nothing else to blow up all. If his Wrath doth but touch, it takes, and sets all on Fire.

1. 1Deut. 32. Rom. 2.