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Thirdly, Consider also that the Wrath and Vengeance of God is most dreadful, not only from the Eternal Continuance and Duration thereof, but also from the excessive Anguish and Smart of those Torments that he inflicts; nothing that we have ever felt, or can feel in this present Life, can come into any comparison with them; and therefore the Text calls it, A falling into the Hands of God. Here on Earth God's Hand doth sometimes fall upon us, and it falls very heavy too, and lays upon us fore and weighty Burdens; but these are nothing considerable to our falling into the Hands of God. There is as much difference between his Wrath and Displeasure falling upon us, and ⟨p. 94⟩our falling upon it, as there is between our having a few drops of a Shower falling upon us, and our falling into a River, or into the Sea, and being overwhelmed with the great Waters thereof; and yet how dreadful is it when God's Hand only falls upon us! It was a sad Complaint of the Psalmist, Psalm 32.4. That God's Hand lay heavy upon him. And Psalm 38.2. That God's Hand pressed him sore. Grievous Burdens and sore Pressures may be laid upon us by this Hand of God, and that both as to outward Afflictions, and inward Troubles.

Thirdly, Consider also that the Wrath and Vengeance of God is most dreadful, not only from the Eternal Continuance and Duration thereof, but also from the excessive Anguish and Smart of those Torments that he inflicts; nothing that we have ever felt, or can feel in this present Life, can come into any comparison with them; and therefore the Text calls it, A falling into the Hands of God. Here on Earth God's Hand doth sometimes fall upon us, and it falls very heavy too, and lays upon us fore and weighty Burthens; but these are nothing considerable to our falling into the Hands of God. There is as much difference between his Wrath and Displeasure falling upon us, and ⟨p. 94⟩our falling upon it, as there is between our having a few drops of a Showre falling upon us, and our falling into a River, or into the Sea, and being overwhelmed with the great Waters thereof; and yet how dreadful is it when God's Hand only falls upon us! It was a sad Complaint of the Psalmist,