A trumpet blown in Zion, or, An alarm in God's holy mountain containing an…A trumpet blown in Zion, or, An allarm in God's holy mountain containing an…

First, The extremity of their Torment will appear, upon the Consideration that it is inconceivable, beyond all mens understanding; ¹who knoweth the power of thy Anger? who can apprehend ²it, or is rightly and duly affected therewith? we can conceive of all bodily pain, or external Torment, but cannot comprehend the Nature of infinite Wrath, no more than we can conceive or apprehend the Nature of infinite Love and Goodness.

First, The extremity of their Torment will appear, upon the Consideration that it is inconceivable, beyond all mens understanding; ¹who knoweth the power of thy Anger? who can apprehend ²it, or is rightly and duely affected therewith? we can conceive of all bodily pain, or external Torment, but cannot comprehend the Nature of infinite Wrath, no more than we can conceive or apprehend the Nature of infinite Love and Goodness.

1. 1Psa. 90. 11.
2. 2Tormens of Hell inconceivable.

Secondly, It is and will be intolerable, because it is according to that fear, nay beyond the fear that an awakened Conscience hath ¹of it; even according to thy fear so is thy Wrath. O what frightful thoughts and astonishing fears had Spira and Child of Gods Wrath: Now Sirs, it cannot be said of the Wrath of God as some other things, or of Death it self, i. e. that the fear is worse than the thing; No, no, according to the fear, so is the the Wrath and Vengeance of an angry God: The fears of a dreadful Deity are not vain Bugbears, and the effects of ignorance, or of a crazy head, of Folly, Melancholy, or Superstition, as some Atheistical Wretches are ready to say; No, no, but it is grounded and built upon solid Foundations, as it is in part made manifest sometimes by the terrible effects upon mankind, (as I have hinted.) Wrath bears proportion unto the greatest fear of it, nay, doth far exceed the fear thereof, and what prepared Plagues, infinite pains, intolerable anguish, have some self-accused, and self-condemned mortals feared and looked for? what is the nature of that certain fearful looking for of Judgment