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NO
NICHT
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vIt..
to
any manifestations
of
his
face
and
favour..
And,
therefore,
it
is
often called
"
outer
darkness, where there
is
weeping,
and
wailing, and gnashing
of
teeth." There
is no
holiness,
there
is
no comfort,
there are
no benefits
of
the création,
no blessings
of
grace
;
all
are forfeited
and
gone
for
ever.
It
is
everlasting night
and
blackness
of
darkness
in
that
world
:
Horror of
soul
without a
beam
of
refreshment
from the
face
of
God,
or .the
Lamb
for
ever.
The
devils
are
-
now
"
reserved in
everlasting
chains
under
darkness
to the
judgment of
the
great
day,"
Jude
verse
6. But then their confinement
shall
be
closer,
and
their
darkness,
guilt
and
sorrow, shall
be
more over-
whelming.
Is
it
lawful for
me in this place
to mention
the description
which Milton,
our English
poet;
gives
of
their wretched habitation
?
"
A
dungeon horrible,
on
all sides
round,
As
one
great
furnace,
flani'd; yet
from those flames
No
light,
but rather
darkness visible,
Serv'd
only to discover sights
of
woe
;
Regions of
sorrow
!
doleful shades
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where peace
And
rest can never dwell
!
hope never comes,
That
comes
to all: But torture
without,
end
Still urges, and
a fiery
deluge, fed
With
ever
-
burning
sulphur unconsum'd
!
Such
place eternal justice had prepar'd
For
rebel angels; here their pris'u
ordain
d,
In utter darkness;
and
their
portion
set
As far
remov'd
from
God, and light of heaven,
As from
the centre thrice
to
ti'
utmost pole.'
Totbis
the
poet adds,
O how
unlike the place
from
whence
they fell!"
How unlike to
that
heaven, which
I
have
been
describ
ing, in which
there
is
no
night; and
all
the
evils
of
dark
-.
ness,
in
every
sense,
are
for ever secluded from
that
happy
region, where knowledge, holiness
and joy are all
inse-
parable and
immortal.
Remark
II.
Whatever
kind
of
light
we are.
made
partakers
of here
on
earth,-
let
us use
it
with holy
thank-
fulness, with zeal
and
religious improvement." Hereby
we
may be assisted
and animated
to
travel
on
through
the
mingled
stages
and scenes
of light and darkness
in
this
world, till
we
arrive
at
the
inheritance
of
the saints in
per-
fect
light.
It
is
a
glorious
blessing to
this dark
world,
that
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