A Body of Practical Divinity

Use 2. of Terror to the Wicked. God is a God of Truth, and he is true in his Threatenings; the Threatenings are a flying Roll against sinners. God hath threatened to wound the hairy scalp of every one that goes on still in his Trespasses, Psal. 68.21. He hath threatened to judge Adulterers, Hebr. 13.3. to be avenged upon the malicious; Psal. 10.14. Thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy own hand: To rain fire and brimstone upon the sinner, Psal. 11.6. And God is as true in his Threatenings as his Promises; God hath oft (to show his Truth) executed his Threatenings, and let his Thunder-bolts of Judgment fall upon Sinners in this Life: He struck Herod in the act of his Pride: He hath punished Blasphemers; Olympius, an Arian Bishop, reproached and blasphemed the blessed Trinity, immediately Lightning fell down from Heaven upon him, and consumed him. God is as true in his Threatenings, as in his Promises. Let us fear the Threatening, that we may not feel it.

Use 2. of Terrour to the Wicked. God is a God of Truth, and he is true in his Threatnings; the Threatnings are a flying Roll against sinners. God hath threatned to wound the hairy scalp of every one that goes on still in his Trespasses, Psal. 68.21. He hath threatned to judge Adulterers, Hebr. 13.3. to be avenged upon the malitious; Psal. 10.14. Thou beholdest mischief and spight, to requite it with thy own hand: To rain fire and brimstone upon the sinner, Psal. 11.6. And God is as true in his Threatnings as his Promises; God hath oft (to shew his Truth) executed his Threatnings, and let his Thunder-bolts of Judgment fall upon Sinners in this Life: He struck Herod in the act of his Pride: He hath punished Blasphemers; Olympius, an Arrian Bishop, reproached and blasphemed the blessed Trinity, immediately Lightning fell down from Heaven upon him, and consumed him. God is as true in his Threatnings, as in his Promises. Let us fear the Threatning, that we may not feel it.