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

Men indeed have some lesser stitches in Conscience afore-hand, both from it and about it, but little do they imagine that these will or should ever become the matter of such torturing Aches, as they rise up to in the end: Men do as little imagine this of these fore-running Warnings, or secret Gripings and Twitches, as the Old World did then, that the usual Clouds of Heaven that caused Storms, would have ever swelled to the drowning of the World. Nor indeed doth this fall out to Mens Souls, until the Curse or Wrath of God enters, like Oil into their Bones, as the Psalmist speaks of Judas, Psal. 109. 18.

Men indeed have some lesser stitches in Conscience afore-hand, both from it and about it, but little do they imagine that these will or should ever become the matter of such torturing Aches, as they rise up to in the end: Men do as little imagine this of these fore-running Warnings, or secret Gripings and Twitches, as the Old World did then, that the usual Clouds of Heaven that caused Storms, would have ever swell'd to the drowning of the World. Nor indeed doth this fall out to Mens Souls, until the Curse or Wrath of God enters, like Oil into their Bones, as the Psalmist speaks of Judas, Psal. 109. 18.

For this Wrath is in the mean time a thing hidden in the Breast and Bosom of the Almighty, and is therefore termed, a Treasure of Wrath: A Treasure, because hid, so Treasures use to be; (they are termed hidden Treasures, Prov. 2. 4. and elsewhere.) And for the same reason the coming of it upon Men is called the Revelation of the righteous Judgment of ¹God: As the things belonging to Mens Peace, so their Destruction, are hidden from their Eyes. Though Damnation slumbers not, 2 Pet. 2. 3. but is in its March, and proceedeth in its approaches towards them, every hour nearer and nearer; yet Men slumber in respect of the belief thereof, and not so much as dream of it in their Slumber,