The application of redemption

But dost thou know what thou sayest? true thou¹ shalt bear thy damnation, but thou art never able to bear it without breaking under it, being helpless and hopeless forever. O woe to thee that ever thou wert born! O poor creature! If I should cease speaking and all of us join together in weeping and lamenting thy condition it were the best course; It is impossible thou shouldest ever bear Gods wrath. Let these three things be considered.

But dost thou know what thou sayest? true thou¹ shalt bear thy damnation, but thou art never able to bear it without breaking under it, being helpless and hopeless forever. O woe to thee that ever thou wert born! O poor creature! If I should cease speaking and al of us joyn together in weeping and lamenting thy condition it were the best course; It is impossible thou shouldest ever bear Gods wrath. Let these three things be considered.

1. 1Answ.

Judg the Lion by the Paw, judg the torments of Hell by §1some little beginnings of it, and the dregs of Gods vengeance by some little sips of it, and judg how unable thou art to bear the whole, by thy inability to bear a little of it in this life, In terror of Conscience as the wise man says, A wounded spirit who can bear? When God lays the flashes of hell fire upon thy soul thou canst not endure it. Whatsoever a man can inflict upon a poor wretch may be born, but when the Almighty comes in battle array against a poor soul how can he undergo it? Witness the Saints that felt it, as also the wicked themselves who have had some beginnings of hell in their […]; when the Lord hath let in horror into the soul of a poor sinner, how is he transported with an insupportable burden, When it is day he wisheth it were night, and when it is night, he wisheth it were day, all the friends in the world cannot comfort him, nay many