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NO
PAIN
AMONG
THE
SLUM:).
[Ease. ix.
the
great God
can punish
sin
and
sinners when
he
pleases,
in this world,
or
in the
other."
It
is
written
in
the
song
of
Moses, the man
of God
;
Ps.
xe.
11.
"
According to
thy
fear,
so is
thy wrath,"
that
is,
the displeasure
and
anger of the
blessed
God
is
as
terrible
as we
can fear
it
to
be
;
and he can inflict
on us
such intense pains
and
agonies, whose distressing
smart
we
may
learn
by
feeling
a little
of
them.
Unknown multiplications of racking
pain, lengthened
out
beyond years and
ages,
is
part
of
the
description of
hellish
torments,
and
the
other
part
lies
in the
bitter
twinges
of
conscience,
and
keen remorse
of
soul
for our
past
iniquities,
but
without
all
hope. Behold
a
man
under
a sharp
fit
of the
gout
or
stone, which
wrings the groans from his
heart, and tears
from his eye-
lids
;
this
is
the hand of
God
in
the present
world, where
there
are many mixtures
of
divine goodness
;
but
if
ever
we
should
be
so wilfully
unhappy
as to be
plunged
into
those
regions where the almighty vengeance
of God
reigns,
without one
beam
of
divine
light
or
love,
this
must
he
dreadful indeed.
"
It
is
a
fearful thing
to fall
into
the hands
of
the
living
God
;
IIeb.
X.
31.
to be
ba-
nished
far
off from all
that
is
holy
and
happy,
and
to be
confined to
that
dark
dungeon,
that
place
of torture,
where
the gnawing worm
of
conscience never
dies,
end
where
the
fire
of
divine anger
is
never quenched
;"
Mark
ix.
43.
We
who
are made up
of
flesh
and
blood, and inter
-
woven with many nerves and
muscles,
and membranes,
may
learn a little of the terrors of
the Lord,
if
we
reflect
that
every
nerve,
muscle,
and membrane
of the
body
i5
capable of
giving us
most sharp and painful
sensations.
We
may be
wounded
in
every sensible
part
of nature
;
smart and anguish may
enter
in
at
every
pore, and make
almost
every
atom
of our constitution
an instrument
of
our
anguish.
"
Fearfully and wonderfully are
we
formed
;"
Ps.
exxxix.
14.
indeed, capable of pain
all
over
us
and
if
God
should
see fit
to punish
sin to its
full
desert, and
penetrate
every
atom
of our nature
with
pain, what surprizing
and intolerable
misery
must
that
be
?
And
if God
should raise the wicked
out
of their
graves to
dwell
in
such
sort
of
bodies again,
on
purpose
to
shew his
just
anger against
sin in
their
punishment,
how dreadful, beyond expression;
must their
anguish
be