You may see a few of the sparks of the justice of God against sin
and sinners, by his casting off angels for sin from heaven and hell,
by his drowning the old world, by his burning of Sodom and Gomorrah
to ashes.
God is resolved to have the mastery. God is merciful, and is come
forth into the world by his Son, tendering grace unto sinners by the
gospel, and would willingly make a conquest over them for their good
by his mercy. Now he being come out, sinners like briars and thorns
do set themselves against him, and will have none of his mercy.
Well, but what says God? Saith he, "Then I will march on. I will go
through them, and burn them together. I am resolved to have the
mastery one way or another; if they will not bend to me and accept
of my mercy in the gospel, I will bend them and break them by my
justice in hell-fire."