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

What Hell and Destruction are, is a Mystery, as well as what Heaven is: And the true and proper Notion or Conception of either, are a Riddle to the most of Men. As Eye hath not seen, Ear not heard, nor hath it entered into the Heart of Man (the Natural Man) what God hath prepared for those that love him; so, nor what God hath prepared for them that hate him. For it is the same, and no other punishment but that which is prepared for the Devil and his Angels, as Christ says. And what it should be that should torment them, or be the immediate Executioner of vengeance on them, the imagination of Man confined to worldly Agents and Instruments, cannot divine or take in.

WHat Hell and Destruction are, is a Mystery, as well as what Heaven is: And the true and proper Notion or Conception of either, are a Riddle to the most of Men. As Eye hath not seen, Ear not heard, nor hath it entred into the Heart of Man (the Natural Man) what God hath prepared for those that love him; so, nor what God hath prepared for them that hate him. For it is the same, and no other punishment but that which is prepared for the Devil and his Angels, as Christ says. And what it should be that should torment them, or be the immediate Executioner of vengeance on them, the imagination of Man confined to worldly Agents and Instruments, cannot divine or take in.

Other Scriptures go Metaphorically to work, in setting out this Punishment by things outwardly, sensibly dreadful. But these Scriptures (of all other) that are my Texts, do more plainly, and without parables declare it to us, in its immediate Causes, and from them do leave us to infer the fearfulness.

For instance, other Scriptures set it out to us as a Prison, 1 Pet. 3. 19. large enough, to be sure, to hold Men and Devils. [The wicked shall be turned into Hell, and all the Nations that forget God,