The truly blessed man

2. This therefore is an effect or display of his anger ▪ ⟨p. 177⟩God hath no affections properly; but there are the resultances of his will in the way of his Dispensation to his Creatures, which carry in them a resemblance of such a thing in us, which is thus expressed according to our manner of conception: Afflictive Providences are therefore usually assigned to his anger; holy men were wont so to express their resentments of them, Psal. 102.9.

3. This sort of affliction is a very heavy hand of God upon a man. One way to judge of the anger, is by the distress which the effect of it puts us to; if God lay the weight on a man, till it sinks and overwhelms him, that hand lieth heavy: and so it is when Conscience is let loose upon him, and chargeth him with Guilt, and threatens him with destruction, this is for the kind, the most insupportable burden that a man can fall under in this life, Prov. 18.14. And when this lasteth long, and hath no intermission, that addeth to the intolerableness of it: when the Arrow sticks fast, and cannot be plucked out.

3. This sort of affliction is a very heavy hand of God upon a man. One way to judge of the anger, is by the distress which the effect of it puts us to; if God lay the weight on a man, till it sinks and overwhelms him, that hand lieth heavy: and so it is when Conscience is let loose upon him, and chargeth him with Guilt, and threatens him with destruction, this is for the kind, the most insupportable burden that a man can fall under in this life, Prov. 18.14. And when this lasteth long, and hath no intermission, that addeth to the intollerableness of it: when the Arrow sticks fast, and cannot be plucked out.