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

And further, consider how he hath given out afore-hand, almost six thousand years before, concerning this Work, above all Works else, and hath posted it upon Enoch's Pillars, (you know the Tradition I allude to) as you use to do Citations, Jude 14, 15. or as you do indicere diem, set a Day for the most solemn Works. Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied hereof, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his Saints, to execute Judgment upon all, &c. And further ⟨p. 164⟩and besides, God speaks of Preparations to have been all along made by him, during the time of this World, against that Day. The Persons are a fitting, Rom. 9. The Punishment a preparing; prepared for the Devil and his Angels, even from their very first Fall. Now certainly God would never raise up in us, by such words given out by himself, so great expectations, if the Reality, the Execution, the Thing it self, should not answer to all these. Yea, after all his other Works of Wonder finished and perfected, he professeth to come on purpose to be glorified. And in what? as well in rendering Vengeance in the Destruction of Wicked Men, as in the glorifying his Saints, 2 Thess. 1. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Seeing it is a righteous thing with God, to recompense Tribulation to them that trouble you: And to you that are troubled, Rest with us. When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from Heaven, with his mighty Angels, in flaming Fire, taking Vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting Destruction from the Presence of the Lord, and from the Glory of his Power: When he shall come to be glorified in his Saints, ⟨p. 165⟩and to be admired in all them that believe, in that day. He carries on the glorifying himself, and of his Power, in the one, as well as in the other.

And further, consider how he hath given out afore-hand, almost six thousand years before, concerning this Work, above all Works else, and hath posted it upon Enoch's Pillars, (you know the Tradition I allude to) as you use to do Citations,