Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment. By Thomas Vincent, sometime Minister of Maudlins…

2. Concerning the subject of the punishment which the wicked shall go into, and that will be both soul and body.

1. The Souls of the wicked will be punished; not only with the loss of the glorious and comfortable presence of God, and the happiness of heaven; but also I conceive that they will be filled with anguish through the impressions of Gods wrath upon them; they will be filled up to the brim with the fierce wrath of God; the Arrows of the Almighty will be shot up to the head in them, and pierce them through and through; we read Ro•. 2. 8,9. Of indignation and wrath, tribulation, and anguish, which at the day of wrath shall be upon every soul that doth evil. The impressions of Gods indignation and wrath on the foul will ⟨p. 108⟩effect tribulation and anguish: such wounds they will have in their spirits, as well be unsupportable, such tribulation as will be horrible, such anguish as is inconceivable, when the hand of the Lord is upon them, when they see the frowns of his brow; when he strikes them with the blow of his anger. Christ rasted the bitterness of Gods wrath in his soul, for the sins of others, which caused his bloody sweat in the garden, and such roarings upon the cross: O how bitter will the wrath of God be unto the wicked, when their souls taste of it for their own sins; It will be Gods wrathful presence, which the souls of the damned will feel the impressions of, which will make Hell to be Hell, as it will be the glorious and comfortable presence of God, which the souls of the righteous will feel the impressions of, which will make Heaven to be Heaven.

1. The Souls of the wicked will be punished; not only with the loss of the glorious and comfortable presence of God, and the happiness of heaven; but also I conceive that they will be filled with anguish through the impressions of Gods wrath upon them; they will be filled up to the brim with the fierce wrath of God; the Arrows of the Almighty will be shot up to the head in them, and pierce them thorow and thorow; we read Ro. 2. 8,9. Of indignation and wrath, tribulation, and anguish, which at the day of wrath shall be upon every soul that doth evil. The impressions of Gods indignation and wrath on the foul will