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

2. The end of your Faith, that is, of your aims and expectations in your Faith: the end importing the aim or expectation, which is also proper and a literal sense of that word. And upon this account also ⟨p. 297⟩the salvation of the soul, when they should die, that being the very next thing their eyes must needs be upon, is therefore here intended.

2. The end of your Faith, that is, of your aims and expectations in your Faith: the end importing the aim or expectation, which is also proper and a literal sence of that word. And upon this account also ⟨p. 297⟩the salvation of the soul, when they should die, that being the very next thing their eyes must needs be upon, is therefore here intended.

And 3. The end of your faith, that is, as being that for which the great God (who keeps us by his power through faith unto salvation, v. 5.) hath wrought this faith in you. Accordingly we find it termed the work of faith, 1 Thes. 1. 3. Which when God hath fully wrought, and brought to that degree he aimed at in this life; (or to use the Apostles own expression of it, 2 Thes. 1. 11.) when God hath fulfilled the work of faith with power, he then crowneth it with this Salvation of the Soul without end. As James speaks of Patience, when it hath had its perfect Work, chap. 1. 4. compared with verse 12. And so speaks my Text, for this self-same thing he hath wrought us. And therefore when this Faith shall cease which he wrought for this, he will attain his end without delay: and you (says he) shall attain your end also: and Faith thus ceasing, if this salvation of the soul did not succenturiate and recruit it anew, the end of this Faith were wholly and altogether present destructive loss unto the soul in its well-being, until the Resurrection.