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

If therefore we suppose Justice be left to have but its free and full course; if Justice (according to the Prophet's language, and God's own rule and direction given unto us) run down as Waters, and Righteousness as a mighty Stream, in its proper natural Channel, and so as to fall into that most capacious Vessel or Receptacle that is in Man to receive it. Again, if Divine Justice hath a will to put and lay its charge and execution where principally it is to be laid, even against the Principal, whether in the Obligation for Sin, or in the guilt of the Act of sinning. Or if it be deemed, that Divine Justice will take a recovery where the fullest and fairest advantage lies, and recover his principal Debt of that which is the principal Debtor; and from that in Man which is capable to ⟨p. 103⟩afford the most due satisfaction and punishment, as being that which is the Treasury of all the Guilt of Sin, and most exquisitely capable to suffer, and thereby to make fullest payment for all. Then we may conclude that assuredly God is willing to wreck his just Anger, and in his Wrath to break forth upon the Conscience and Intellectual Faculty of the Sinner in Hell, by the immediate Revelation of his Wrath, and that upon all the accounts fore-mentioned, thereby to punish it.—And we may well suppose that his Justice is willing to do this, because God is (as the Psalmist with an Emphasis) Judg Himself, Psal. 50. 6. And judgeth for Himself, Prov. 16. 4. And for the Recovery of his own Glory, and Revelation of his Righteous Judgment. And this Course of immediate Wrath being a way above all other so natural, so ready, so direct, so compendious, and so suited to the demerit of Sin, (as hath been shown) we may well think that God will be rather willing to show his Wrath (as the Apostle speaks) this way, (if we could suppose there might be another,) because this so falls in with, and agrees unto the rules and proportions of Justice fore-mentioned, which are most near and sacred to him.

If therefore we suppose Justice be left to have but its free and full course; if Justice (according to the Prophet's language, and God's own rule and direction given unto us) run down as Waters, and Righteousness as a mighty Stream, in its proper natural Channel, and so as to fall into that most capacious Vessel or Receptacle that is in Man to receive it. Again, if Divine Justice hath a will to put and lay its charge and execution where principally it is to be laid, even against the Principal, whether in the Obligation for Sin, or in the guilt of the Act of sinning. Or if it be deemed, that Divine Justice will take a recovery where the fullest and fairest advantage lies, and recover his principal Debt of that which is the principal Debtor; and from that in Man which is capable to