Chap.3. according to s M A T T H lì vv. From the wrath to come] Called the damnationofhell, Chap.23. 23, which bath torments without end, and pall imagination. For, Who knoweth thepower ofthine anger, faith David ? Even ac- cording to thyfar, Ì° is thy Wrath. That is, as I conceive it, Let a man fear thy wrath never fo much, he isPure to feel a fair deal more thereof, then ever hecould have feared. Whenbut a drop of Godsdifpleafure lightsupon a poor foul in this prefent world. What intolerable pain is it put to ? The f]airit efamanmay Main hie infirmity, faith Solomon, q. d. fume forty fhift a man may make to rub thorow an outw and affliction, and to bear it offby head and (boulders, Bret aWounded i irit Who can bear ? q. d. the ftouteft cannot poflibly ftand under it : there's noproportion be- tween the back and the burden ; it's able to crulh and crack the might ie(t amongft us. lochs chofean halter rather then toendure it : and well he might, when as fob ( with whomGod was but in lei}, in comparifon) preferred flrangling, and any death be- fare loch a life. But all this (alas) is but prefent wrath, and no- thing at all to the Wrath to come. A phrafc of fpecch that in- volves and carries in it flings and horrours, woe and alas, flames ofwr-ath,and theworm that never death, tremblingandgnafhing of teeth, feas ofvengeance, rivers ofbriimftone, unutterable and unfufLrable tortures and torments. We read of racking, matting, hanging, honing, plattingmen under harrows ofiron, and fawn of iron, fcratching offtheirflefh with thorns of the wilderpeffe, pulling their skins over their ears, and other exquifiteandunheard ofmiferies that men have here been put unto. But what'sall this to the wrath to come ?. not fo much as a flea-biting, as a prick with apin, orfillip with a,finger : no, though a man fhould go thorow a thoufand crueli deaths every hour, his whole life tho- rowout. Ohblef e andkiffe that bleffed Son of. God, that bore for us thebrunt of this unfupportable wrath, even lefus that deli.. vereduufrom the Wrath to come, i Theft z . i o. And (bun fin, that draws hell at the heelsof it. Is it nothing to lofean immortali' foul topurchafe an ever-living death ? Verfe 8. 'Bring forth therefore fluiti ] q. d. You cannot wafh your hands in innocency, wath them therefore in tears there's. no way to quenchhell flames, but by the tearsof true repentance;.. toprevent the wrath to come, but by bearing thofe fruits of righteoufncffe that areby. Chrift Jefus to the glory and praife of God, Phil,I.I I. Optima & aptifrnapai itentii eft ttovavita, faith Linker. 41 Pfal.9v, 041. Prov. t 844. Job 7tf gavuxaef: , otto. deb.i.
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