The justice of God in the damnation of sinners. Illustrated in a sermon

I do not say, but that men may be willing to be saved from an undeserved punishment; they may rather not suffer it than suffer it: But a man cannot be willing to accept one at God's hands, under the notion of a Saviour from punishment deserved from him, that he thinks he has not deserved▪ it is impossible that any one should freely allow a Saviour under that notion▪ Such an one cannot like the way of salvation by Christ; For if he thinks he has not deserved hell, then he will think that freedom ⟨p. 53⟩from hell is a debt; and therefore cannot willingly and heartily receive it as a free gift.—If a king should condemn a man to some exceeding tormenting death, which the condemned person thought himself not deserving of, but looked upon the sentence unjust and cruel, and the king, when the time of execution drew nigh, should offer him his pardon, under the notion of a very great act of grace and clemency, the condemned person never could willingly and heartily allow it under that notion, because he judged himself unjustly condemned.

Now by this it is evident that you are not willing to accept of Christ as your Saviour; because you never yet had such a sense of your own sinfulness, and such a conviction of your great guilt in God's sight, as to be indeed convinced that you lay justly condemned to the punishment of hell. You never was convinced that you had forfeited all favour, and was in God's hands and at his sovereign and arbitrary disposal, to be either destroyed or saved, just as he pleased. You never yet was convinced of the sovereignty of God. Hence are there so many objections arising against the justice of your punishment from original sin, and from God's decrees, from mercy shown to others, and the like.