For Those Fearing Their Day of Grace is Past. 1694

The Narrated Puritan

Lastly, the severity of this judgment will appear, in that it can never be inflicted but in anger. This is the fruit of divine wrath. All other calamities and afflictions may be the fruit of love, may be sanctified for our good, may turn to our advantage- but this calamity has no such original, and no such effect. A man may be given up to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the soul may be saved- but to be given up to sin is a thousand times worse, because that is the fruit of divine anger, in order to the damnation of the soul.