r3(4 THE NATURE OF THE l'UNISHMÊNT§ tH HELL. ['DISC. Xir. over thee be it spoken, that there is a season hastening wherein we shall expect it again from thee in incorrnp- tion, honour, and power. " We now sow it into thee in dishonour, but expect it again returned from thee in glory ; we now sow it into thee, in weakness, we expect it again in power; we now sow it into thee a natural body, we look for it again from thee a spiritual body ; 1 Cor. xv. 42- --44. " And when thou hast fulfilled that end for which the prince of life, who took thee captive, made thee to serve, then shalt thou who hast devoured, be thyself also swal- lowed up ; for thus it is written of thee, ` O death, I will be thy plague, O grave, I will be thy destruction ;' Hoe. xiii. 14. And then shall we sing over thee what also is written of thee, ` O death, where is now thy sting ? O grave, where is now thy victory ?' 1 Cor. xv. 55. Amen. .Note, A line or two is altered in this speech, to suit it more to the understanding and the sense of the pre- sent age. DISCOURSE XII. THE NATURE OF THE PUNISHMENTS IN HELL MARK ix. 46. Where theirworm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. INTRODUCTION. THESE words are a short description of hell, by the lips of the Son of . God, who carne down from heaven : And he who lay in the bosom of his Father, and was in- timate in all the counsels ofhis mercy and justice, must be suppòsed to know what the terrors and the wrath of God are, aswell as his compassion and his goodness. It is confessed, that a discourse on this dreadful subject - is'not a direct ministration of grace, and the glad tidings of salvation, yet it has a great and happy tendency to the same end, even the salvation of sinful men ; for it awakens them to a more piercing sight, and to a more . keen sensation of their own guilt and danger ; it pos- 3
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