The truly blessed man

4. From the multitude of these Sorrows. Suppose ⟨p. 525⟩them light and easy in their single consideration, yet all together will make an insupportable weight: it must needs sink the sinner to lie under the countless plagues which the threatenings contain in them. One grain of Sand is not heavy; but it will crush a man to death, to have all that are on the Sea-shore laid upon him; so he complains, Psal. 40.12. Innumerable evils have compassed me &c. therefore my heart fails me.

4. From the multitude of these Sorrows. Suppose ⟨p. 525⟩them light and easy in their single consideration, yet all together will make an insupportable weight: it must needs sink the sinner to ly under the countless plagues which the threatnings contain in them. One grain of Sand is not heavy; but it will crush a man to death, to have all that are on the Sea-shore laid upon him; so he complains, Psal. 40.12. Innumerable evils have compassed me &c. therefore my heart fails me.

5. From the design of them. As they are not casual, but come by Divine appointment, so God hath a design in them: now as they are not grateful but afflictive to them that suffer them, so they •ere not mans lot by Creation, but were procured by his sin, Jer. 2.17 And they are the punishments of it, and for that reason were put into the threatening, and made a Sanction of the Law; that then which God aims at in them, is to display his Holiness, and particularly to show his hatred of Sin, in the Triumphs of his Revenging Justice. Now because Sin is a very hateful thing to him, the sorrows which he inflicts upon Sinners to discover this, are very great, else they would not be a witness to this great truth. It is said,