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ors
the
Excellency
of
the
Seul.
filled
with
the
wra-h
of God,
to
have the
underflanding
to
bee
hllcd
with what may
ìncreafe
tòrment
in
that,
and
for
the
confcience, to
have
the
worm gnawing,
which ne-
ver
diech;
and to have the thoughts employed,
and
running
-upon thofe things
that
will bee
fo
hideous
unto them,
and
to
have the will
continually
croifed
by
God
himfelf,
and
to
have the heart
finking
under the wrath
of
the infinite
God
iu
defpair
for
ever.
Brethren,
the
foul of'
man,
it
is
a
ve-
ry
largeveffel,
and becaufe wee
know
but
little
of the
large
extent of
our
fouls,
therefore it
is
that
wee are
fo
little
fenfible
of the
lofs
of
them,
or
of
the pain
and tor-
ment
they
are
capable of,
or
liable unto
:
But
as
the
foul
is
larger
than
the
body
to
take in
comfort
;
fo is
it
larger
than
the
body
lilewife to
take in pain, niifery, and wrath:
%ve
fhould
bee fenfible
of
fuch an expreüïon
as
this
;
to
have
the body
in
all
the members of it to bee filled
with
fire,
fo
as
to
bee all
on
a
hot
fiery
hurting
coale, and that
to
all eternity.;
this
you
would think could
not
but
bee
an
extreme
mifery
:
But
the
fouls
capacity
is
far larger
than
the
bodies
:
And
to
have the
foul filled
in every faculty
of
it
with
the
wrath
of
God, it
is
far greater pain, than
to
have the
body
in
fuch
a
condition,
which is
the
condition
of
a
loll
foul.
Further, it
doth confifl in having the
power
of God
firetched
forth
to
bring evil and wrath upon
it,
and,
that
to
the
utmofl,
Rom.
9. 22.
What
if
God,
willing
to
(yew
his
wrath, and
to
make
his
power known,
endureth
with
much long
-
fuf
ering
the vef
ell of
wrathfitted
unto
deflru5tioo?
(As
thus )
Firft, The
infinite power of
God
put forth in
enlarging
their natures
,
that
they
may
bee
the more
capable
of
evil.
Secondly, The infinite
power
of God.put forth
to
uphold
their
natures,
that
they
bee not funk down
with
thofe
dreadful
evils
that
God.hathto.put
upon
them.
Thirdly The infinite power
of God to let
out
upon
the
'Coal
What
ever
it
can
bear
to make
it
miferable,
fo as
not
to
bee
a
nihilated therewith,
which
it
(hall
bear forever.
And
further,