The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…

2. That which lays this burden on the Sinner is his Guilt. But for that he would not be concerned in it. God is angry at nothing but Sin, and Sinners for it: and that which brings them under this wrath is their Sin, that hath engaged his Revenging Justice against them, on account of his Law, by which he Governs the reasonable Creature. Gods anger, as it is an Attribute in him, would hurt none of his Creatures, but if they become the butt against which it shooteth its ⟨p. 54⟩arrows, then they have put themselves in the way of it, and woe to them; and none but Guilty Sinners so do. The holy Angels have no burden by it, it never toucheth or comes near them: they that are reconciled to God in and through Christ, by the application of his Blood to them, cannot be hurt by it: No, it is the Sentence, which tells the Sinner, from the Mouth of an Holy, and True God, Thou must die; this, this is the burden: and what is it that receives this, but a Conscience convicted of Guilt?

2. That which lays this burden on the Sinner is his Guilt. But for that he would not be concerned in it. God is angry at nothing but Sin, and Sinners for it: and that which brings them under this wrath is their Sin, that hath engaged his Revenging Justice against them, on account of his Law, by which he Governs the reasonable Creature. Gods anger, as it is an Attribute in him, would hurt none of his Creatures, but if they become the butt against which it shooteth its ⟨p. 54⟩arrows, then they have put themselves in the way of it, and woe to them; and none but Guilty Sinners so do. The holy Angels have no burden by it, it never toucheth or comes near them: they that are reconciled to God in and through Christ, by the application of his Blood to them, cannot be hurt by it: No, it is the Sentence, which tells the Sinner, from the Mouth of an Holy, and True God, Thou must dy; this, this is the burden: and what is it that receives this, but a Conscience convicted of Guilt?