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

some high End and far transcending Design ⟨p. 147⟩that was to be the Issue and Product of it. Which as you know was the Glory of his Mercy and Love in the Salvation of Men; Glory to God on High, Good Will to Men. And this is as great an Evidence and Argument to our Faith, that God is resolved to save Sinners, as can be given. For what hath been thus done to Christ is past recalling; not to be recompensed any other way than by saving many by the Knowledge of him, as God there speaks. Now as this Instance of the highest kind serves to evidence this thing to us, so though in a far lesser Proportion, you may take somewhat alike Illustration, at least, in the Point in Hand; That certainly it must be a great surpassing mass of Glory that will come in unto him by this Punishment for Sin, which should any way gain him to be so much as willing to it, against which, otherwise he hath so much in his own Nature; who had it withal in his absolute Power to have given effectual Grace to all, as well as to some; which latter all acknowledge he hath done. Even as it was in his Power to have saved the World without Christ's Death, Mark 14. 36. Oh! ye Sons of Men, know and understand your God, and be moved thereby to turn unto him: and the more by this, that it ⟨p. 146⟩[…] ⟨p. 147⟩[…] ⟨p. 148⟩must and will prove an infinite Punishment that is coming upon you; because were it not an immense sum of Glory would accrue to him out of it, and that but upon your final impenitency: He that is a God so good in himself, would never else bring it upon you. And according to that first Maxim premised, it must be the soreness of the Punishment from whence that Glory must arise.

some high End and far transcending Design ⟨p. 147⟩that was to be the Issue and Product of it. Which as you know was the Glory of his Mercy and Love in the Salvation of Men; Glory to God on High, Good Will to Men. And this is as great an Evidence and Argument to our Faith, that God is resolved to save Sinners, as can be given. For what hath been thus done to Christ is past recalling; not to be recompensed any other way than by saving many by the Knowledg of him, as God there speaks. Now as this Instance of the highest kind serves to evidence this thing to us, so though in a far lesser Proportion, you may take somewhat alike Illustration, at least, in the Point in Hand; That certainly it must be a great surpassing mass of Glory that will come in unto him by this Punishment for Sin, which should any way gain him to be so much as willing to it, against which, otherwise he hath so much in his own Nature; who had it withal in his absolute Power to have given effectual Grace to all, as well as to some; which latter all acknowledg he hath done. Even as it was in his Power to have saved the World without Christ's Death,