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"What if the whole world was drowned by a wrathful deluge, Sodom and Gomorrah consumed to ashes by a shower of fire? What if every son of Adam were to lie roaring in endless torments? What if not an angel in heaven had escaped the sin and punishment of devils?...What if every spire of grass, grain of corn, atom of sand, were made a rational creature, and for sin thrown for ever into devouring flames? Is not here inexpressible justice? But what is this justice upon the creatures which were made, to that justice upon His Son, by whom He made the creatures? What is this to the Son of God trailing a weak body for thirty-three years in the world, suffering the indignities of men and devils, bearing the weight of an infinite wrath? What are all other judgments to His bloody sweat in the garden, or the groans of this divine person upon the cross, of more worth than innumerable worlds of creatures?"
-- Stephen Charnock (ca. 1680)
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