Inference 1.
Did God forsake Christ upon the Cross,* 1.1 as a punishment to him for our sins; Then it follows, that as often as we have sinned, so oft have we deserved to be forsaken of God. This is the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 just recompence and demerit of Sin. And indeed here lies the principal evil of sin, that it separates betwixt God and the soul. This separation is both the moral evil that is in it, and the poenal evil inflicted by the righteous God for it. By sin we depart from God, and as a due punishment of it, God departs from us. This will be the dismal Sentence in the last day, Matth. 25. Depart from me, ye Cursed. Thenceforth there will be a gulph fixed be∣twixt God and them, Luk. 16.20. No more friendly interccurses with the blessed God for ever. The eternal shriek of the damned is, Woe, and alas, God hath forsaken us for ever more. Ten thousand worlds can no way recompence the loss of one God. Beware sinners how you say to God now, depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways, lest he say, depart from me, you shall never see my face.