The truly blessed man

1. The consideration of the penalty it self, which he is bound to undergo, i. e. All the miseries that are contained in the Threatening. Guilt binds upon the man all the Curses that are written in the Book of God; and what a terrible burden is this? there are all the sorrows that men are exposed to in this life, which are uncountable and astonish ing: and there are all the punishments in another World, to be suffered in the place prepared on ⟨p. 135⟩purpose for the setting forth the triumph of Revenging Justice, over those whom God hateth, and will himself be to them a Consuming Fire,; and the Emphasis of it is in the extremity of it, a Fire unquenchable, a Wor•• •hat dieth not; and therefore called, Everlasting Burnings, Isa 33.14.

1. The consideration of the penalty it self, which he is bound to undergo, i. e. All the miseries that are contained in the Threatning. Guilt binds upon the man all the Curses that are written in the Book of God; and what a terrible burden is this? there are all the sorrows that men are exposed to in this life, which are uncountable and astonis• ing: and there are all the punishments in another World, to be suffered in the place prepared on ⟨p. 135⟩purpose for the setting forth the triumph of Revenging Justice, over those whom God hateth, and will himself be to them a Consuming Fire,; and the Emphasis of it is in the extremity of it, a Fire unquenchable, a Wor•• •hat dieth not; and therefore called, Everlasting Burnings, Isa 33.14.

2. The Consideration of the strength of the Obligation. Guilt is a prison that holds the man fast: the bars of it are too strong for the whole Creation to be able to break: the powerful hand of Omnipotency, keeps them in, and the watchful eye of Omniscience guards them, so that there is no possibility of making an escape: the Sentence declaring them Guilty is positive,