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

We Preachers have it in use, as to allege Proofs of Scripture for the Points or Subjects we handle: So to give Reasons or Demonstrations of them. And so doth our Apostle here of this great Point ⟨p. 269⟩he had been treating of: and such Reasons or Demonstrations run often upon Harmony and Congruity of one Divine Thing or Truth kissing another. Also upon Becomingnesses or Meetnesses, that is, what it becometh the great God to do. For instance; In giving an account, why God in bringing many Sons to Glory, did choose to effect it by Christ's Death, rather than any other way. It became him (says he) Heb. 2. 10. For whom are all things, and by whom are all things, &c. And so in the point of the Resurrection, 1 Cor. 15. 21. Since by Man came Death, by Man came also the resurrection of the dead; that is, it was congruous, harmonious, it should thus be; the one answering correspondently to the other. The like congruity will be found couched here, in God's bringing Souls to Glory, afore that Resurrection.