If we take ⟨p. 432⟩Hell for the place of the damned, God's presence is there likewise: One would think, if from any place God would exclude himself, it should be from Hell, since his presence is sufficient to make an Heaven any where; but so infinite is his unlimited Being, that when the Body is in the Grave, and the Soul in Hell, yet then is God present, both with the Soul, and with the Body. If I make my Bed in Hell, that is, If I cover my self never so close and draw the Curtains of the thickest Darkness round about me; If my Body should lye in the deepest Entrails of the Earth, and my Soul be wrapped about with a Winding-sheet of Smoke and Flames, yet thou art there, and thy presence would soon find me out, Job 26.6. Hell is naked before him, and Destruction hath no covering. Yea, the Apostle tells us, 2 Thess. 1.9. That the Wicked in Hell shall be punished, with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his Power. That is, not only that their punishment shall be to be separated from the presence of the Lord; but look how they are said to be punished from the glory of his Power, so likewise are they to be punished from his Presence, their ⟨p. 433⟩Destruction shall be from the Glory of his Power; that is, his Power in inflicting most dreadful Punishments upon them, and his Power in sustaining them under those Punishments, when with one Hand the Lord shall hold them up in Hell, and lift up the other as high as Heaven, to give them redoubled Strokes of everlasting Vengeance. So likewise they shall be punished from the presence of the Lord; that is, God himself will be present in Hell to torment and punish them, that at the very same time that he shall be a cherishing God in Heaven, he will be a tormenting God in Hell: because in them he hath established his two great Thrones, the one of his Mercy, the other of his Justice. But yet possibly there may be found some neglected place here below, where God hath no such concernment to be present in it, as he hath to be present in Heaven and in Hell. Now saith the Psalmist, Verse 9. If I take the Wings of the Morning, and dwell in the uttermost Parts of the Sea, even there shall thine Hand lead me, and thy Right-hand shall hold me.
If we take ⟨p. 432⟩Hell for the place of the damned, God's presence is there likewise: One would think, if from any place God would exclude himself, it should be from Hell, since his presence is sufficient to make an Heaven any where; but so infinite is his unlimited Being, that when the Body is in the Grave, and the Soul in Hell, yet then is God present, both with the Soul, and with the Body. If I make my Bed in Hell, that is, If I cover my self never so close and draw the Curtains of the thickest Darkness round about me; If my Body should lye in the deepest Intrails of the Earth, and my Soul be wrapt about with a Winding-sheet of Smoak and Flames, yet thou art there, and thy presence would soon find me out, Job 26.6. Hell is naked before him, and Destruction hath no covering. Yea, the Apostle tells us, 2 Thess. 1.9. That the Wicked in Hell shall be punished, with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his Power. That is, not only that their punishment shall be to be separated from the presence of the Lord; but look how they are said to be punished from the glory of his Power, so likewise are they to be punished from his Presence, their ⟨p. 433⟩Destruction shall be from the Glory of his Power; that is, his Power in inflicting most dreadful Punishments upon them, and his Power in sustaining them under those Punishments, when with one Hand the Lord shall hold them up in Hell, and lift up the other as high as Heaven, to give them redoubled Strokes of everlasting Vengeance. So likewise they shall be punished from the presence of the Lord; that is, God himself will be present in Hell to torment and punish them, that at the very same time that he shall be a cherishing God in Heaven, he will be a tormenting God in Hell: because in them he hath established his two great Thrones, the one of his Mercy, the other of his Justice. But yet possibly there may be found some neglected place here below, where God hath no such concernment to be present in it, as he hath to be present in Heaven and in Hell. Now saith the Psalmist, Verse 9. If I take the Wings of the Morning, and dwell in the uttermost Parts of the Sea, even there shall thine Hand lead me, and thy Right-hand shall hold me.
