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

A third Particular, in this Rom. 9. 22. that contributes to this, is: That, As the Cause inflicting is termed the Power of his Wrath, so the miserable Subjects hereof are denominated Vessels of Wrath: Even as on the other side, those saved, are termed Vessels of Mercy. Common use of Speech tells us, that Vessels ordained to be filled with such or such Materials, have their Denomination, from that matter they are ordained to contain, and are filled withal. You say this is a Vessel of Oil, that a Vessel of Wine; these here you see are said to be Vessels of Wrath. If you demand whose Wrath? God's. What if [God willing to make known his Wrath.] Now as touching its opposite here, [Vessels of Mercy,] all will acknowledge that when it is spoken of as ⟨p. 31⟩in relation to Heaven (as here it is) that importeth, Souls their being set apart to be immediately filled with the Love and Mercy of God: that as God is Love, so that they, as Vessels, swim in that Ocean for ever: That they dwell in God immediately, and are filled with fullness of him. And why should not then, this other of being Vessels of Wrath, be intended in the same Sense also, and that Sense be urged accordingly? Especially seeing it is evident that one scope of the Apostle here, was to make a Parallel between the eternal Glorification of the one, and eternal Destruction of the other; and accordingly between what are to be the Causes of them. And if so, the Law of this Parallel will also carry it to this, that as the Saints in Heaven have an immediate Participation of God, that likewise in Hell, there shall be oppositely, an immediate Participation of God's Wrath. In Heaven they are not said to be Vessels of Mercy, because God shows them Mercy, only, by created Benefits or Gifts bestowed; or because they have God's Mercy communicated by Creatures (though it must be affirmed that there is a confluence of these) but because God himself appears all in Love, Mercy, and Kindness to them.

A third Particular, in this Rom. 9. 22. that contributes to this, is: That, As the Cause inflicting is termed the Power of his Wrath, so the miserable Subjects hereof are denominated Vessels of Wrath: Even as on the other side, those saved, are termed Vessels of Mercy. Common use of Speech tells us, that Vessels ordained to be filled with such or such Materials, have their Denomination, from that matter they are ordained to contain, and are filled withal. You say this is a Vessel of Oyl, that a Vessel of Wine; these here you see are said to be Vessels of Wrath. If you demand whose Wrath? God's. What if [God willing to make known his Wrath.] Now as touching its opposite here, [Vessels of Mercy,] all will acknowledg that when it is spoken of as