Discourses, or, Sermons on several Scriptures

When we fall into the Hands of God, we are plunged into an Ocean of Wrath, and are covered all over with his Fury and Indignation; the Understanding, Will, Conscience, Affections, are all as brim-full of Torments as they can hold: For what can be greater Anguish to the Mind than to know our Misery, and to know it to be remediless? And what can be greater Anguish to the Will and Affections, than most ardently and vehemently to desire freedom from those Torments, but yet to despair of ever obtaining it? And what ⟨p. 103⟩can fill the Conscience with greater Anguish, than to reflect with infinite Horror and Regret, that it was only Sinners own Folly and Madness that brought them to this woeful and miserable Condition? How will they be ready even to rend and tear themselves in pieces, their Consciences curse their Wills, and their Wills curse their Affections, and their Affections the Objects that enticed them to the commission of those Sins, the Revenges of which they must now eternally suffer? And as for the Bodies of these Damned Souls, they shall after the Resurrection and dreadful Day of Judgment, become all Fire, like a live Coal, Fire shall be imbibed into the very Substance of them, and they not have so much as a drop of Water afforded ⟨p. 104⟩them to cool the tip of their Tongues. ¹Every Limb shall drop whole flakes of Fire and Brimstone, and they shall be so scourged with knotted and twisted Serpents, as to be made all over one great fiery Wound and Ulcer. And this is a third Consideration of the dreadfulness of everlasting Vengeance; It is a falling into God's Hands.

When we fall into the Hands of God, we are plunged into an Ocean of Wrath, and are covered all over with his Fury and Indignation; the Understanding, Will, Conscience, Affections, are all as brim-full of Torments as they can hold: For what can be greater Anguish to the Mind than to know our Misery, and to know it to be remediless? And what can be greater Anguish to the Will and Affections, than most ardently and vehemently to desire freedom from those Torments, but yet to dispair of ever obtaining it? And what ⟨p. 103⟩