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

The Spirit would fail (says he.) Now doth God thus profess to have a regard to them in this Life, and that upon this account, that they are Spirits, lest they should fail, or faint; and shall we not think that when indeed otherwise they do fail (as after Death you have heard (even now) Christ himself expresseth they would) and would upon all these considerations before-mentioned, sink into utter desolation, unless they were received into everlasting Habitations (as Christ there also speaks) Do we think that God will not now entertain them? The time is now come, the full time to have pity on them.

2. God at this season, forgets not, but full well remembers his Relation of being [Their Creator] both by the new, and also first Creation (the new reviving and ingratiating the remembrance of the first) [The Souls which I have made] said he in Esa. But in St. Peter this is more express, and mentioned as that which indeed moves God (and should be accordingly a support to our Faith) to take care of our Souls when we come to die, even upon this account, that he is the faithful Creator of them, 1 Pet. 4. last. Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God, ⟨p. 315⟩commit the Keeping of their Souls to him, in well-doing, as unto a faithful Creator. He speaks this specially unto such as were continually exposed unto persecution unto death for Christ in those Primitive times; which therefore, v. 12. he terms the fiery trial, and ver. 17. forewarns them of a time of judgment was begun, and going on upon the of house God, such as they had not yet felt; who yet, Heb. 10. 32, 33, 34. had suffered reproach and spoiling of their Goods (as Peter writes to the same Jews) hereupon Peter pertinently instructs them to commit the keeping of their Souls unto God. At death you know it is that when Mens bodies are destroyed, and so the season when their Souls to be separated therefrom, should be committed to God's care; as our Darling (as our Translation) or lovely Soul, when separate