2. In that when he would set out the severeness of this Punishment (which is his professed aim, ver. 29.) as infinitely exceeding all those kinds of Corporal deaths in Moses Law, he inferreth the soreness of this from God himself as the Avenger: We [know him] that hath thus said, Vengeance is mine; that is, what a great and powerful God he is. The Saints only know God by Faith in Himself, and his Greatness, as Heb. 11. and that so as no other Men in this Life do. And by what we know of him, and the apprehensions we have of Him, we cannot but forwarn what that Punishment must needs be, when God himself shall thus solemnly profess himself to be the Avenger. 'Tis argued you see both from what this God is, and from that knowledge the Saints have of Him. They, and they alone know Him in his Love, and have ⟨p. 11⟩tasted and found that his immediate Loving-kindness is better than Life: and from the Law of Contraries, they know that his Wrath must be more bitter than Death. They are able to measure what he is in his Wrath, by what he is in his Love. And some of the Primitive Saints, especially the Apostles, who had the first fruits of the Spirit, knew and had tasted how good the Lord is in his Love, by immediate Impressions of it on their Souls, in Communion with Himself. The like tenor of speech has that in 2 Cor. 5. 11. We knowing the Terror of the Lord: It is termed, [His Terror] as noting out that which is proper to Him and his Greatness, in his being able to punish and destroy Sinners.
2. In that when he would set out the severeness of this Punishment (which is his professed aim, ver. 29.) as infinitely exceeding all those kinds of Corporal deaths in Moses Law, he inferreth the soreness of this from God himself as the Avenger: We [know him] that hath thus said, Vengeance is mine; that is, what a great and powerful God he is. The Saints only know God by Faith in Himself, and his Greatness, as Heb. 11. and that so as no other Men in this Life do. And by what we know of him, and the apprehensions we have of Him, we cannot but forwarn what that Punishment must needs be, when God himself shall thus solemnly profess himself to be the Avenger. 'Tis argued you see both from what this God is, and from that knowledg the Saints have of Him. They, and they alone know Him in his Love, and have ⟨p. 11⟩tasted and found that his immediate Loving-kindness is better than Life: and from the Law of Contraries, they know that his Wrath must be more bitter than Death. They are able to measure what he is in his Wrath, by what he is in his Love. And some of the Primitive Saints, especially the Apostles, who had the first fruits of the Spirit, knew and had tasted how good the Lord is in his Love, by immediate Impressions of it on their Souls, in Communion with Himself. The like tenour of speech has that in 2 Cor. 5. 11. We knowing the Terror of the Lord: It is termed, [His Terror] as noting out that which is proper to Him and his Greatness, in his being able to punish and destroy Sinners.
