\ 72 The Lift of G-OD efl:eem them when they lived in the'world, fhall look upon thern with indignation and abhorrence, and never n1ake one re– quefl: for their deliverance. Let us confi– der the eternal puniihmets of the damned fouls; which are fhadowed forth in fcri– ture by metaphors taken from thofe things that are mofl: terrible and grievous in the world, and yet all do not fuffice to con– vey unto our n1h1ds any full apprehenfions of then1. When we have joined all to– gether the importance of all thefe expref– fions, and added unto the1n what~ver our fancy can conceive of n1ifery and torn1ent, we mufl: fl:ill remember, that all this con1es infinitely fhort of the truth and reality of the thing. It is true, this is a fad and melancholy fubjecr; there is anguifh and horror in the confideration of it: but fure it n1ufi: be in– finitely tnore dreadful to endure it; and fuch thoughts as thefe may be very ufeful to fright us from the courfes that would lead us thither. How fond foever we n1ay be of finful pleafures, the fear of hell \vould make us abfl:ain. Our mofi: for– ward inclinations will fl:artle and give back, when prdfed with that quefi:ion in the ptophet,
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