Discourses, or, Sermons on several Scriptures

And in this there is a true Parallel between Heaven and Hell; for as in Heaven, though there are many created Excellencies and Glories which contribute to the Beatitude of the Saints, yet their most substantial Happiness is derived from their immediate fruition of God: So likewise in Hell, though there be many created and (if I may so call them) many invented ⟨p. 80⟩Tortures, yet the highest and most intolerable Misery of the Damned, is from the immediate infliction and infusion of the Divine Wrath into them, which no Creature doth or can convey to them in such a Manner and Measure as they there feel it, but God himself pours the full Vials of it into their Souls. And therefore as the Saints are called Vessels of Mercy, ¹so the Wicked are called Vessels of Wrath, fitted for Destruction, Rom. 9.22. Such Vessels into which God will pour in of his Vengeance, and fill brim-full with his Wrath and Fury for ever.

And in this there is a true Parallel between Heaven and Hell; for as in Heaven, though there are many created Excellencies and Glories which contribute to the Beatitude of the Saints, yet their most substantial Happiness is derived from their immediate fruition of God: So likewise in Hell, though there be many created and (if I may so call them) many invented ⟨p. 80⟩Tortures, yet the highest and most intolerable Misery of the Damned, is from the immediate infliction and infusion of the Divine Wrath into them, which no Creature doth or can convey to them in such a Manner and Measure as they there feel it, but God himself pours the full Vials of it into their Souls. And therefore as the Saints are called Vessels of Mercy, ¹so the Wicked are called Vessels of Wrath, fitted for Destruction, Rom. 9.22. Such Vessels into which God will pour in of his Vengeance, and fill brimm-full with his Wrath and Fury for ever.

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