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

then what is the Terror ⟨p. 26⟩and Power of the Wrath of the Great God? That alone strikes dead. And thus understood, it is an Argument of it self alone, that the Power of his Wrath doth speak an immediateness of God's Execution.

then what is the Terror ⟨p. 26⟩and Power of the Wrath of the Great God? That alone strikes dead. And thus understood, it is an Argument of it self alone, that the Power of his Wrath doth speak an immmediateness of God's Execution.

A second Particular is, that that which makes God willing by reason of Sin to execute this, is thereby to obtain a Glory unto his Power, by showing his Wrath. So as, that although he hath already shown his Power in creating the World at first, and upholding it by the Word of his Power, and other Effects, that yet over and above, and besides all this, he takes the advantage of Sin, to show (as the riches of his Mercy in saving from Sin, so) the Greatness of his Power, another way, namely, in destroying for Sin. And accordingly in that 2 Thes. 1. 9. there is a peculiar Glory attributed unto that Power of his, from or by which Men are destroyed; [punished from the Glory (says that Text) of his Power] or from his Power, giving a Demonstration, or showing his Glory therein: that is, unto that end that it might be known how great and powerful a God he is in Himself, by the Judgment which he executes, as the Psalmist speaks.

A second Particular is, that that which makes God willing by reason of Sin to execute this, is thereby to obtain a Glory unto his Power, by shewing his Wrath. So as, that although he hath already shewn his Power in creating the World at first, and upholding it by the Word of his Power, and other Effects, that yet over and above, and besides all this, he takes the advantage of Sin, to shew (as the riches of his Mercy in saving from Sin, so) the Greatness of his Power, another way, namely, in destroying for Sin. And accordingly in that