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

Again, God's Life, as it is in himself a continual Act, so in its being attributed to him with respect to this Punishment, it imports his continued acting therein without cessation or intermission. For he doth it, as the Living God. Job, whilst he endured the Terrors of the ⟨p. 193⟩Almighty, complains they were so unceasing, that God suffered him not to take Breath, Job 9. 18. he followed his Strokes so thick, with one Breach (as he there speaks) upon another.

Again, God's Life, as it is in himself a continual Act, so in its being attributed to him with respect to this Punishment, it imports his continued acting therein without cessation or intermission. For he doth it, as the Living God. Job, whilst he endured the Terrors of the ⟨p. 193⟩Almighty, complains they were so uncessant, that God suffered him not to take Breath, Job 9. 18. he followed his Stroaks so thick, with one Breach (as he there speaks) upon another.

You have both these set forth in one and the same Scripture, Rev. 14. 10, 11. He shall drink of the Wine of the Wrath of God, and he shall be tormented with Fire and Brimstone in the presence of the Holy Angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: and the smoke of their Torment ascendeth up for ever and ever. And they have no rest Day nor Night. First, they have no rest Day nor Night; That shows they have no intermission. And then that the smoke of their Torment ascends up for ever, shows the Eternity. Yea and further, to strike out dull Hearts, with the sense of this Eternity, if one [ever] be not enough, another is added, [For ever and ever.] Which Eternity as you know, our Saviour is still careful to indigitate, when he speaks of Hell, in love and warning unto Mens Souls, that they might be moved by the moment thereof, to endeavour to escape it.