For [God] shall cast upon him, and not spare
Cast his sins upon him, which will lie as an intolerable weight
upon his conscience; and his wrath upon him, which being poured
out like fire, he will not be able to bear it; and deserved
punishment on him, which, like a talent of lead, will bear him
down to the lowest hell; and this will be done without showing
any mercy at all; for, though the wicked have much of sparing
mercy in this world, they have none in the next; there is sparing
mercy now, but none in hell; God, that spared not the angels that
sinned, nor the old world, nor Sodom and Gomorrah, will not spare
them, ( 2 Peter
2:4-6 ) ; he that made them will have no mercy on them; and
he that formed them will show them no favour:
he would fain flee out of his hands;
in whose hands he is, not as all men are, being the works of his
hands, and supported by him; much less as his people are, secure
there; but in his hands as an awful and terrible Judge,
condemning him for his sins, and sentencing him to everlasting
punishment; and a fearful thing it is to fall into the hands of
the living and almighty God: there is no getting out of them,
though "fleeing, he flees", as the phrase is, with all his might
and main, with all the swiftness he can; it is all to no purpose;
he is where he was, and must continue in the torment and misery
he is in to all eternity; his worm of conscience will never die,
nor the fire of divine wrath be ever quenched; though he will
desire death ten thousand times over, he shall not find it, it
shall flee from him, ( Revelation
9:6 ) .
