4 T 4 c715.! Pu11ijl.~nu12t qf Senft in Hell. State IV, .Hy whomfoever men are rejected on the earth, they ordi– fiarily find fo,me to pity them, but if ye be thus feparated from God, ye will finJ all doors !hut againli you. Ye wi1l :fi nd r:.o pity from aoy in heaven; neithtr faints no.r angels will pity tbem whom God has utterly call off: none will f'ity you in he!J, where there is no love but loathing; a!l : being loathed of God, loathing liim, and loathing one a– n~th~r. This is a day of Jc,ff,·s and fears. I ihew you a. I Jofs, 'ye would do well to fear in time; be afraid Jea yoll lofe God: if ye do, a long eternity will be fpent in roriog €>Ut lamentations for this !ofs. 0 h(Jrt id O:upidity !. men a1 e in·a mighty care and concern to p1 event worldly loffes: h \;t. 'they QI'e in hll zud of l d ing the erj.)y ment of God for evt:r a-nd ever; in hazard of Jofing heaven the communion (;f the ~lciTtd, 2nd.all good things bod1 for foljl and body is– another worJd; yet as careJefs in th01t matter as if they were uoc<tpab!e of thought. 0! compare this _day '-'Vit h· the day out text <tims at. This day is heaven open'd to. them, who lmhnro have r£j t:Cted Chrill, and yet there is, room, if the-y will come: but that day the doors !hall be fhut. N\1W Chrifl: is fayiog unto you, Come: then he wilf , fay, Depart; fe.eing ye would not come, when ye were bid· den. Now pity is fhown ; the Lord pities. you, his fer– vants pity you, ;wd tell you , that the pit is before yon, and~ cry to yoll, that ye doyourfelvun~ harm·: bu.t then ye ilia!~ have -ho pity from God oor man . Secondly, The damned /hall be punifhecl in hell with the JUnifh":lent offenje; they mufi df'p:ut from God, into ever– J.afiing fire. I am 'not in a mind to difpute what kind of fire it is which they fha11 depatt into, aud b-e tornwn-ted by· for ever, whether a rriaterial !ire, or r.ot? Experience wilt - more than fati~ly the curioG~y of tbofe . who are difpofe& nther ~·ifpute about it . than to feek how to efcape it •. Neither""' \vill I meddle with tbat quefFon, Whelfe it ir? It is enough, that the worm which ne,:eT rlieth. and the fira– that is never quenched, w= ~~ be found fomev,..here hy impe- , nitent finners. But ( 1,) l {hall ednce that whatever kind of fire it ia, it is more vehement and terribl'e than any fire we on c~tth are acquainted with. (2.) 1 {hall coodefcend• ..n .fcn-;e properties of thofe fiery torments • .{ls. to the. 1fi ~f thef~; burning is the tno!l tetrible pu. 1 ' ~.i!hmen t~ .,
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