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

I Would first persuade you to believe, that there is this Wrath to come. We knowing the Terror of the Lord; that is, our selves being assured by believing, that such a Wrath is in the Heart and Breast of God against impenitent Sinners, as also understanding what and how dreadful that Wrath is, we do persuade Men, 2 Cor. 5. 11. And for Men to apprehend and believe it, is the first most effectual Engine to persuade them by. God did not, ere he placed these Souls of ours in our Bodies, first carry them down to Hell, and then up to Heaven, that so we having a fore-knowledge of either by Sight and Sense, might then be left to act in this World accordingly: But God hath left only the Revelation of both these unto Faith, in this World, by the Word.—Heb. 11. 7. 'Tis said, Noah being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with Fear, prepared an Ark to the saving of his House: By the which he condemned the World, and became Heir of the Righteousness which is by Faith.

I Would first persuade you to believe, that there is this Wrath to come. VVe knowing the Terror of the Lord; that is, our selves being assured by believing, that such a Wrath is in the Heart and Breast of God against impenitent Sinners, as also understanding what and how dreadful that Wrath is, we do persuade Men, 2 Cor. 5. 11. And for Men to apprehend and believe it, is the first most effectual Engine to persuade them by. God did not, ere he placed these Souls of ours in our Bodies, first carry them down to Hell, and then up to Heaven, that so we having a fore-knowledg of either by Sight and Sense, might then be left to act in this World accordingly: But God hath left only the Revelation of both these unto Faith, in this World, by the Word.—Heb. 11. 7. 'Tis said, Noah being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with Fear, prepared an Ark to the saving of his House: By the which he condemned the VVorld, and became Heir of the Righteousness which is by Faith.