Discourses, or, Sermons on several Scriptures

First, As to outward Afflictions. How dreadfully doth God stretch out his Hand against some, making wide and terrible Breaches upon them; Some in their Estates, some in their ⟨p. 95⟩Relations, and some in their bodily Health and Strength. Have you never been about the sick Beds of those that have roared out through the extremity of their Pains, when every Limb hath been upon the Rack, and God hath filled them with a Complication of loathsome, tormenting and incurable Diseases? and yet all this is but only a falling of God's Hand upon them.

First, As to outward Afflictions. How dreadfully doth God stretch out his Hand against some, making wide and terrible Breaches upon them; Some in their Estates, some in their ⟨p. 95⟩Relations, and some in their bodily Health and Strength. Have you never been about the sick Beds of those that have roared out through the extremity of their Pains, when every Limb hath been upon the Rack, and God hath filled them with a Complication of loathsom, tormenting and incurable Diseases? and yet all this is but only a falling of God's Hand upon them.

Secondly, As to inward Troubles: We see how God cramps some Mens Consciences, breaths Fire and Flames into their very Souls, and makes deep Wounds in their Spirits, forcing them through the extremity of their Anguish to cry out, they are damned, they are damned; yea some have even wished that they were in Hell, supposing those everlasting ⟨p. 96⟩Torments would not be more unsufferable than what they here felt. And indeed these inward Troubles are far more grievous than any outward can be. We hear Heman crying out, that because of these Terrors of the Lord, he was ready to die from his Youth up. And whilst he suffered this Wrath of God, he was even distracted with it,