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

§. IV.

Demonstrations taken from the satisfying God's Justice: Which is the second particular Attribute.

The second Attribute is Justice, which he will to the utmost show forth in this Punishment. So in the Text, The Lord shall judg his People. And 2 Thess. 1. 9. [Greek or Hebrew], they shall lay down, or pay a Punishment: And v. 6. It is a righteous thing in God to [recompense] Tribulation, &c. And indeed God's Power herein is not put forth simply out of Sovereignty, or for it self, but is drawn out by Justice and Wrath, to execute what they are provoked unto. I afore gave this as one reason why God himself must execute this Punishment, because else the Punishment will not come up to satisfy his Justice. But now I make use of the same, to infer the Dreadfulness thereof: That it is the falling into the hands, as of a potent God, so of a just God recompensing for Sin, and extending his mighty Power ⟨p. 157⟩to inflict a Punishment, which should in Justice hold proportion with the demerit of Sin, that so the exactness of his Justice might appear.

THe second Attribute is Justice, which he will to the utmost shew forth in this Punishment. So in the Text, The Lord shall judg his People. And 2 Thess. 1. 9. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, they shall lay down, or pay a Punishment: And v. 6. It is a righteous thing in God to [recompence] Tribulation, &c. And indeed God's Power herein is not put forth simply out of Soveraignty, or for it self, but is drawn out by Justice and Wrath, to execute what they are provoked unto. I afore gave this as one reason why God himself must execute this Punishment, because else the Punishment will not come up to satisfy his Justice. But now I make use of the same, to infer the Dreadfulness thereof: That it is the falling into the hands, as of a potent God, so of a just God recompencing for Sin, and extending his mighty Power