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

Now the Scriptures of the New Testament do improve this relation of God's unto us, unto two Inferences drawn from Abraham's Instance: whereof the one is the point afore us.

The first is Christ's Inference from thence, That therefore Abraham's Soul lives, and Abraham both Soul and Body shall rise again, for God is not the God of the dead, but of the living, Matth. 22. 31. Thus Christ.

2. Paul's Collection from the same Promise, is, That God had provided in the mean time for Abraham's Soul afore the Resurrection, a City, and an House therein for him. Thus Heb. 11. 16. But now they desire a better Country, that is, an heavenly: ⟨p. 323⟩wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a City. To give light to this, Paul had represented the Story and Case of Abraham, and the rest of the Patriarchs, in the verses afore, to have been this; That God had indeed promised the Land of Canaan to him and them, ver. 8, 9. whereupon, ver. 13. it is said, That these all died in Faith, not having received the Promises, being Strangers in the Land; yea, not having a foot of Land in the Land of Promise, as Stephen speaks, Acts 7. 5, 6, 7. And also Paul, in the 9th verse of this Heb. 11. Now then, when they died, what was it their Faith expected in stead thereof? The 10th verse tells us, He looked for a City whose Maker and Builder is God. From which compared, observe, That when he died, his Faith was thus pitched to look for this City, in stead of that Land of Canaan promised. This was the expectation of their Faith on their part. Well, but how doth it appear, that this flowed from God's having professed himself to be the God of Abraham, &c. his Reward, and his Friend? You have this clear in the 16th verse, where you have the whole summed up as the Conclusion of the Story, and as the proof and ground hereof; but now they desire