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Secondly, Consider God can easily destroy a Creature without showing any great Power, or putting forth his Almighty Arm and Strength to do it. If he only withdraw his Power by which he upholds all things in their Beings, we should quickly fall all abroad into nothing: So easy is it for God to destroy the well-being of all his Creatures. But now if God will express the greatness and infiniteness of his Power in destroying Sinners, whom yet he can destroy without putting forth his Power, yea only by withdrawing and withholding it; O how fearful must this Destruction needs be! Alas we are crushed before the Moth, and must needs ⟨p. 145⟩perish, if God doth but suspend the influence of his Power from us. How dreadfully then will he destroy when he shall lay forth his infinite Power to do it, who can easily do it without Power?

Secondly, Consider God can easily destroy a Creature without shewing any great Power, or putting forth his Almighty Arm and Strength to do it. If he only withdraw his Power by which he upholds all things in their Beings, we should quickly fall all abroad into nothing: So easy is it for God to destroy the well-being of all his Creatures. But now if God will express the greatness and infiniteness of his Power in destroying Sinners, whom yet he can destroy without putting forth his Power, yea only by withdrawing and withholding it; O how fearful must this Destruction needs be! Alas we are crusht before the Moth, and must needs ⟨p. 145⟩perish, if God doth but suspend the influence of his Power from us. How dreadfully then will he destroy when he shall lay forth his infinite Power to do it, who can easily do it without Power?

And thus I have laid down some Demonstrations of the dreadfulness of the Wrath and Vengeance of God, five of them drawn from the Words of the Text, and five drawn from other Considerations. I shall now shut up with two or three Words of Application.