94 THE GREAT MISERY OF THOSE own tormentor ! Say not, that they are only imagi- nary. Read what Dives thought, being in torments. (y) As the joys of heaven are chiefly enjoyed by the rational soul in its rational actings, so must the pains of hell be suffered. As they will be men still, so will they feel and act as men. CHAP. VI. The Misery of those, who, besides losing the Saint's Rest, lose the Enjoyments of Time, and sujér the Torments of Hell. § 1. The connection of this with the preceding chapter. § 2. (I) The enjoyments of time which the damned lose: § 3. (1) Their presumptuous belief of their interest in God and Christ; § 4. (2) All their hopes; § 5. (3) All their peace of conscience; 6. (4) All their carnal mirth ; § 7. (5) All their sensual de- lights. § 8. (II) The torments of the damned are exceeding great : § 9. (1) The principal author of them is God himself; § 10. (2) The place or state of torment : § 11. (3) These tor- ments are the effects of divine vengeance ; § 12. (4) God will take pleasure in executing them ; § 13. (5) Satan and sinners themselves will be God's executioners : § 14. (6) These tor- ments will be universal ; § 15. (7) without any mitigation ; § 16. (8) and eternal. § 17. The obstinate sinner convinced of his folly in venturing on these torments; § 18. and entreat- ed to fly for safety to Christ. 1. As godliness hath the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come ; and if we seek first the kingdom of God and his righteous- ness, then all meaner things shall be added unto us : so also are the ungodly threatened with the loss both of spiritual and temporal blessings ; and because they sought not first God's kingdom and righteous- ness, therefore they shall lose both it and that which they did seek, and there shall be taken from them CO Luke xvi.
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