A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto

Nor are the things themselves, remote, or unconnected, God's right to punish a reasonable Creature that hath lived in contempt of him, and his own reasonable apprehension hereof, or his Conscience both of the fact and desert. They answer as face to face, as the stamp on the Seal, and the impression on the Wax. They would fain make their Reason a protection against their fear, but •h•t cannot serve both ways. The Reason of the thing lies against them already, and there cannot be an eternal War between the Faculty and the Object. One way or other the latter will overpower the former, and draw it into consent with it self: Either by letting it see there is a just true cause of fear, or (assisted by Divine Grace) prevail for the change ⟨p. 49⟩of the sinners course. Whereupon that troublesome fear, and its cause, will both upon the best terms cease together: And that what hath been proposed to consideration under this Head, may be the more effectually considered, to this blessed purpose. I add that,

Nor are the things themselves, remote, or unconnected, God's right to punish a reasonable Creature that hath liv'd in contempt of him, and his own reasonable apprehension hereof, or his Conscience both of the fact and desert. They answer as face to face, as the stamp on the Seal, and the impression on the Wax. They would sain make their Reason a protection against their fear, but •h•t cannot serve both ways. The Reason of the thing lies against them already, and there cannot be an eternal War between the Faculty and the Object. One way or other the latter will overpower the former, and draw it into consent with it self: Either by letting it see there is a just true cause of fear, or (assisted by Divine Grace) prevail for the change ⟨p. 49⟩of the sinners course. Whereupon that troublesome fear, and its cause, will both upon the best terms cease together: And that what hath been proposed to consideration under this Head, may be the more effectually considered, to this blessed purpose. I add that,