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

He smites his own in measure. You may then take the Compass, the Magnitude, and Depth of it by this; that therefore oppositely his Punishing the other exceeds all measure. Sin is the Creatures proper work, and Punishment is God's work. [Vengeance belongeth unto me,] says the Text; he challengeth it as his. Now it is certain, God will show himself as perfect and as exact in his Work, as Man and Satan have been in theirs; he will not be exceeded or out-gone by them. The Lord is known, says the Psalmist, by the Judgment that he executeth, Psal. 9. 16. If the Creature be so wicked, as to bring forth so heinous an Evil (in genere morris) as Sin is, which is Malum Catholicum [a Catholic Evil] and accordingly hath the Name of all Evil given it, as virtually and transcendently containing all that God or Man calls Evil; then be assured, that God, who is so just, will be as sure to bring forth, by way of return upon the Creature, ⟨p. 160⟩a Punishment, that shall be in genere Poenae, in it's kind, Malum Catholicum, an universal Evil also. And such Ezekiel terms it, speaking of the Evil of Punishment: It is an Evil, and an only Evil, Ezek. 7. 5. That is, such an Evil as shall be nothing but evil, and that shall contain the Spirit, the Quintessence of all Evil in it. Therefore, Psal. 75. 8. In the hand of the Lord there is a Cup, and it is full of Mixture. As if an Artist, that knows the Nature of all Simples, should temper a Cup, that is full of all sorts of Poisons, and which is a Compound of the bitterest, loathsomest Ingredients this Earth puts forth. Even thus hath God strained the quintessence of all Evils into one Cup; and it follows there, The Wicked of the Earth must drink the dregs of it. Which Phrase also argues such a Mixture as this we speak of; the bitterest of all is at the bottom; and 'tis Eternity to the bottom, and they must not, nor shall not leave a drop, but suck out the Dregs, as the Prophet's Phrase is, Ezek. 23. 34. Thou hast a Cup of Abomination, and when thou hast filled up thy measure, then will God take measure of thy Cup, and fill the same proportion of Dregs and Mixture to thee, in a Cup of his tempering.