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

That which in the second place, is proper next to be done, is to provoke those that are secure Sinners, &c. and others also that are awakened, to raise but up their Thoughts from the Consideration hereof, to infer and gather how dreadful this Punishment in Hell must be, above ⟨p. 186⟩all, that these Dispensations can represent unto us. And this is most strongly inferred from these Examples, whether they be the Examples of Good Men, as Job was; or bad Men, as Cain and Judas were, in both which I formerly instanced in. I shall make Inference from each of these apart, as in the first Section, I also did, in arguing from them, the immediateness, &c.

1. From these of good Men. If you consider that all these Terrors, with Job and Heman endured from God, were yet all in Love, out of so solid and substantial a Love, permanent and abiding in God's Heart, all this while towards them; and that all these were but chastisings of them for trial, and to make them partakers of his Holiness. And besides, what manner of Anger was it towards them? It was but Anger, which Love stirred up: and those his Afflictions were accompanied and joined, all with everlasting kindness and thoughts of Peace all the while. According to that in Isa. 54. 8. In a little Wrath I hid my Face from thee, for a moment, but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer. Yea, those two known Cordial Recipes, so frequently made use of, and commonly taken by most Christians in ⟨p. 187⟩their distresses; and cited by two Apostles and Christ himself from Heaven, Happy is the Man whom God correcteth¹: Therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty; were first spoken and directed unto this our Job, whilst in the midst of these Afflictions, in chap. 5. 17. And are particularly applied to that his Condition, in the worst of it by the Holy Ghost,