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THE NATURE
of
THE PUNISHMENTS
IN
HELL:
579
shall
not
find
us,
fdr
it
is
bred and
lives
within.
There
is
no
couch
there
to lull the conscience
into
soft
repose,
and
to
permit
the sufferer to
forget
his
agonies.
Ancient
crimes shall
rise
up and
stand
for
ever before
the
eyes
of
the sinner
in all
their
glaring
forms,
and
all
their
heinous
aggravating circumstances
:
These
will
sit heavy
upon
the
spirit
with teazing
and
eternal
vexation. O
dreadful
state
of
an
immortal creature,
which must
for ever
be
its
own
tormentor, and
shall know no
relief through
all
the
ages
of
its
immortality
!
Think
of
this
bitter
anguish
of
soul, O
sinner, to
guard
thee
from sin in an
hour
of
strong
temptation.
II.
Another spring
of
this
torment
will be
the
"
over-
whelming
sense
of
an angry
God, and
utter
despair
of
his
love
which
is
lost
for
ever."
It
was
the
thought
of
the
;displeasure
of
God, which
pierced
the soul
of David
with such
acute
pain, when
he
remembered
his
sins;
Ps.
li,
3,
4.
"
My
sin
is
ever before
me
:
Against thee,
against thee
only
have
I
sinned, and
I
have
done this
evil
.
in thy sight
:"
And again he pleads with God
;
Ps.
vi. 1.
"
O
Lord, chasten
me
not
in thy anger,
nor
vex
nie
in
thy
sore displeasure."
He
could
face
a host
of
armed
men without
fear,
but
he could
not
face
an angry
God,
whose loving kindness
is life,
and
the
loss
of
whose love
is
worse
than
death.
Ps.
lxxvii.
3.
"
I
remembered
God,
said
he,
and
was
troubled,
that
is,
lest be should
be
fa-
vourable
no more,
and
shut up
his
tender
mercies
in
ever-
lasting anger."
This
was
the
terror of that
good man,
under
a
deep
sense
of
his
crimes, and
of
God hiding
his
face
from
him,
and
this even while he
was in
the land
of
the
living,
and
was
not cast out
beyond all hope.
But
when the grave shuts
its
mouth
on the sinner,
and he
is
thrust
out into
utter
darkness, where the
light of
God's
countenance
never
shines,
nor
will
shine, how
unsup-
portable
must
such
anguish
be
?
Here
in
this
life
perhaps
a
profane
wretch
has
imagined
he
could
live well
enough
without God
in
the
world, and
was
content
to have
no-
thing
to do with
him in
a
way
of
worship or
dependence
here
:
He determined
with himself,
that
the
less he
could
think
of
God
the
better, and
so
forgot
his
Maker
clays
without number
:
But in those regions
of
hell,
whither
the
sinner
shall be
driven, he can never
forget
an
angry
God, nor
fly
out of
the
reach
of
his
terrors.