the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God." The words are
exceeding terrible. If it had only been said, "the wrath of God," the
words would have implied that which is infinitely dreadful: but it is
"the fierceness and wrath of God." The fury of God! the fierceness of
Jehovah! Oh, how dreadful that must be! Who can utter or conceive what
such expressions carry in them! But it is also "the fierceness and wrath
of almighty God." As though there would be a very great manifestation of
his almighty power in what the fierceness of his wrath should inflict,
as though omnipotence should be as it were enraged, and exerted, as men
are wont to exert their strength in the fierceness of their wrath. Oh!
then, what will be the consequence! What will become of the poor worms
that shall suffer it! Whose hands can be strong? And whose heart can
endure? To what a dreadful, inexpressible, inconceivable depth of misery
must the poor creature be sunk who shall be the subject of this!
Consider this, you that are here present, that yet remain in an
unregenerate state. That God will execute the fierceness of his anger,
implies, that he will inflict wrath without any pity. When God beholds
the ineffable extremity of your case, and sees your torment to be so
vastly disproportioned to your strength, and sees how your poor soul is
crushed, and sinks down, as it were, into an infinite gloom; he will
have no compassion upon you, he will not forbear the executions of his
wrath, or in the least lighten his hand; there shall be no moderation or
mercy, nor will God then at all stay his rough wind; he will have no
regard to your welfare, nor be at all careful lest you should suffer too
much in any other sense, than only that you shall not suffer beyond what
strict justice requires. Nothing shall be withheld, because it is so
hard for you to bear. Ezek. 8:18. "Therefore will I also deal in fury:
mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry
in min
>> Stay informed about: 300E