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

Again, consider how the Soul is capable of more Joys and Sorrows, than the Bodily Senses are, and this by how much it doth exceed them in its Eminency and Capacity. The Soul is able to drink up all the Pleasures the whole Creation can afford the Bodily Senses, or they bring in: to drink them up (I say) even at one Draught, and yet would in the midst of it, still cry, Give, Give. Now as it is in the Body of a Man, look whatever part is capable of more Pleasure, it is also capable more of Pains: So the Soul proportionably; look how capable it is of greater Joys (as it is from God) it is as much of Sorrows also, unto the same extension and intention of them.

Again, consider how the Soul is capable of more Joys and Sorrows, than the Bodily Senses are, and this by how much it doth exceed them in its Eminency and Capacity. The Soul is able to drink up all the Pleasures the whole Creation can afford the Bodily Senses, or they bring in: to drink them up (I say) even at one Draught, and yet would in the midst of it, still cry, Give, Give. Now as it is in the Body of a Man, look whatever part is capable of more Pleasure, it is also capable more of Pains: So the Soul proportionably; look how capable it is of greater Joys (as it is from God) it is as much of Sorrows also, unto the same extention and intention of them.

Add II. As to this Point, That as the Soul is thus vastly capable of more Sorrow ⟨p. 138⟩and Anguish; So further, that these Souls to be punished are filled with Sin, and in that respect termed Vessels of Wrath fitted to Destruction, Rom. 9. 22. Take a Barrel of Wood; and of it self it will burn as it is Wood: but if withal it be Pitched within, and full of Tar and combustible Matter, it will burn more ragingly. Of unfruitful Branches, Apostatizing from Christ, it is said John 15. 6. That they are cast into the Fire, and they are burned, that is, they burn to purpose; make a mighty Fire. That Clause [And they are burned] is added by way of Auxesis or Emphasis, else it needed not. We see when Sins were but laid upon Christ by Imputation, who in himself was separate from Sinners, and had no Conscience of Sin, how yet the Anger of God against Sin dealt with him, as undertaking to be a Surety for Sin. And can you drink, says Christ, the Cup that I am to drink of, that is, so as to bear it and not be overcome with it? Now in