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

Having thus considered how the immediateness of God's working doth comparatively exceed that of the Creatures, or of himself by the Creatures: In the

Fourth place, Let us go on more sadly, in a positive way, to consider, What his immediate Power is; what the Strength of those hands is which Men must fall into. And how may this amaze you? As it is said of God's Wisdom, There is no end of it, no searching of his Understanding; so nor of his Power. And how can I discover or unbar that Arm before you? I begin to do it thus: God had begun to enter into a Contest with Job, and touched him but with his little Finger; and Job soon felt him, and cries out: If I speak of Strength, or think that way to grapple with him, He is strong, Job 9. 19. If but his little Finger be so strong, as Job found it, what is his Fist, which Ezekiel next sets ⟨p. 126⟩forth his Strokes of his Wrath by? And what God himself there speaks, against covetous and bloody Men, Ezek. 22. 13, 14. do you apply to every Sin you live and go on in. Says God, I will strike with my Fist at thy dishonest Gain. And can thy Heart endure, or thy Hands be made strong, in the Day in which I shall have to do with thee? Let every one that heareth or readeth this, who yet go on in their Sins, consider with themselves: Am I able to stand it out, and encounter this God? And encounter him thou must, if thou goest on in thy Sins. Or can my Heart endure? say thou. The Apostle puts the very same consideration upon the Corinthians Spirits, when guilty of Idolatry. (And 'tis the same case of uncleanness, or any other known Sin) Do you provoke the Lord to Jealousy? Are you stronger than he? 1 Cor. 10. 22. As if he had said: Do you not consider what a powerful God you have to do withal, and that immediately? Can you grapple with him, think you? or make your part good with him? Hear yet further, by what way it is that the Apostle sets forth to us the Strength of God, and let us make a further estimate thereby, as to the matter in hand. The Apostle in