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

I am aware how these words, Receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls, are interpreted of that joy unspeakable, and full of glory, which the Verse afore had spoken, that many Saints through believing do in this life enjoy, as being salvation imperfect, and the earnest of it in the same kind, and so a part of the Reward of Faith received in hand (as we say) or aforehand, and vouchsafed over and above the ordinary way of living by Faith. This interpretation I no way gainsay, nor will go about to exclude: for I know it doth consist with that other I am ⟨p. 291⟩about to give, and is subordinate to it: (And I have learned to take the most comprehensive sense the holy Ghost may be supposed to aim at in any Scripture.) But if this sense should directly alone obtain, yet by consequence, and at the rebound, it doth strongly argue the Point in hand. For if whilst Faith continues, God is pleased to vouchsafe the Soul, through believing, such joys; much more when Faith ceaseth, he will vouchsafe the same Soul a fuller enjoyment of himself at the ending of Faith: For why else are these present joys termed Salvation, and that as distinct from that right to salvation, which otherwise Faith at all times estates us into, but for this, that these joys are an entrance into, and a taking possession of Glory, over and above what ordinarily Faith giveth? And therefore they have the name given them, as being the earnest of the same kind, unto that greater fum is to be paid (as in all Contracts it useth to be) at the end of that performance on one part: which end is when Faith ends. And so that is made the set Date or time when this full payment is to begin, which this earnest aforehand bindeth God unto.

I am aware how these words, Receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls, are interpreted of that joy unspeakable, and full of glory, which the Verse afore had spoken, that many Saints through believing do in this life enjoy, as being salvation imperfect, and the earnest of it in the same kind, and so a part of the Reward of Faith received in hand (as we say) or aforehand, and vouchsafed over and above the ordinary way of living by Faith. This interpretation I no way gainsay, nor will go about to exclude: for I know it doth consist with that other I am ⟨p. 291⟩about to give, and is subordinate to it: (And I have learned to take the most comprehensive sence the holy Ghost may be supposed to aim at in any Scripture.) But if this sence should directly alone obtain, yet by consequence, and at the rebound, it doth strongly argue the Point in hand. For if whilst Faith continues, God is pleased to vouchsafe the Soul, through believing, such joys; much more when Faith ceaseth, he will vouchsafe the same Soul a fuller enjoyment of himself at the ending of Faith: For why else are these present joys termed Salvation, and that as distinct from that right to salvation, which otherwise Faith at all times estates us into, but for this, that these joys are an entrance into, and a taking possession of Glory, over and above what ordinarily Faith giveth? And therefore they have the name given them, as being the earnest of the same kind, unto that greater fum is to be paid (as in all Contracts it useth to be) at the end of that performance on one part: which end is when Faith ends. And so that is made the set Date or time when this full payment is to begin, which this earnest aforehand bindeth God unto.