E 34 The Evil of Evils, or the the great Waters, confider how many drops there might be in the Sea, as big as the bill ofa Bird could carry, and that this Bird thould be fuppofedonce in a thoufandyears to carryaway one drop, yet this Bird would fooner empty that mightySea than the torments of thedam- ned thould be at an end. Oh how dreadful will it be to them when as Chrifis tortures which he did endure but a little while, made him to cry out fo. Oh Brethren, put all thefe togetherand then know the evil of fin. Oh that we could apprehend it nowbeforewe come to feel it. For this is the end for which I speak of thefe things and prefent them before you, that you may nowknow them, and nevercome to feel expe- rimentally what theybe. Bleired be thofe that inhearing tremble and beleeve, and do not come to knowby experience that dreadful evil in them, If God thould in his infinite wifdom have ffudied (as one may fo (peak) from all E- ternity to have found out a way tohave prefen- ted fin to be dreadful to the Children of men, we could not conceive how infinite Wifdom thould from all eternity have found out an Ar- gument to manifefi the evil of fin more, or fo much as in the fufferinls of Jefus Chrift : So that in themGod doth as it were fay, Wel, I fee wretched Men and Women will not beleeve the evil of fn; well, among other Arguments, I will have one that if poffible, thall Convince all wicked hard hearts in the world to make them fee what fin is, and that is in my Son, in my dealings with my Son ; and that wrath of mine
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