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

The first, how in the style of a Be it known to all Men, (for we have seen he publisheth it to all) he aloud declares, I for my part am not afraid to die, and go into that other World. Which confidence of his he greatens by this Supposition superadded: That if, when he should come to die, all the Sins of his whole Life were presented afore his view, yet notwithstanding he should not be afraid: thus ver. 5. Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the Iniquities of my heels shall compass me about? A strange confidence! which yet he found reason for from God: For he challengeth all or any thing to bring in reason to the contrary; let them all say, [Wherefore should I fear?] And yet his other Psalms, as well as his Story, tell us what an infinite number of Sins were upon his score, and how sensible he was thereof.—And that this bold Speech of his relates specially to the day of Death, or days wherein he might have cause to fear it, (though I will exclude no other times of Trouble, that were yet to come before, in this Life, to be intended ⟨p. 241⟩by him; which Interpreters wholly carry it unto) that this is his scope, I shall make appeal to the whole drift of what follows throughout the Psalm: which concerns the state of wicked Men in their Death, (which I shall by and by show:) But specially I argue it from the reference and correspondency this Speech hath with and to vers. 15. God will redeem my Soul from the Power of the Grave, for he shall receive me. Selah. There you have the reason or ground of this his Confidence, which he had at first uttered in ver. 5. perfectly expressed, as that which he opposed unto all Therefore's or Wherefore's to the contrary; yea, though they should be fetched from his very Sins, that might (if any thing) make him afraid. But there in that resolve of his, ver. 15. he centres, and landeth this which he had so confidently uttered in ver. 5. And all the rest of his discourse that comes between, is apparently about the opposite condition of wicked Men; As that they must die, and what their estate is in and after Death; all which was but to illustrate this Confidence of his.

The first, how in the style of a Be it known to all Men, (for we have seen he publisheth it to all) he aloud declares, I for my part am not afraid to die, and go into that other World. Which confidence of his he greatens by this Supposition superadded: That if, when he should come to die, all the Sins of his whole Life were presented afore his view, yet notwithstanding he should not be afraid: thus ver. 5. Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the Iniquities of my heels shall compass me about? A strange confidence! which yet he found reason for from God: For he challengeth all or any thing to bring in reason to the contrary; let them all say, [Wherefore should I fear?] And yet his other Psalms, as well as his Story, tell us what an infinite number of Sins were upon his score, and how sensible he was thereof.—And that this bold Speech of his relates specially to the day of Death, or days wherein he might have cause to fear it, (though I will exclude no other times of Trouble, that were yet to come before, in this Life, to be intended