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NATURE
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THE PUNISHMENTS IN HELL, {DISC.
XII.
" I
am
now
convinced,
smith
lie,
but too late,
that
hap-
piness
dwells
in
his
presence, and rivers
of
pleasure
flow
at
his
right-hand
;
but
this happiness
I
shall never
see,
these streams
of
pleasure
I
shall
never
taste
;
he
is
gone
for
ever
with
all
his
love
and
with all
his
blessings,
God.
is
gone
with
all
his
graces
and
pardons
beyond
my
reach
:
IIe
stands afar
off frommy
groanings.
Ïle;told.me of
it
heretofore
in the
ministry
of
his
word
;
but, wretch
that
I
was
!
I
would not
hearken,
I
would
not
believe
:
I
was
invited by
the
Son
of
his love to
receive
his.
gospel,
and
to
partakeof
forgiving
mercy
;
be
stretched:out-his hands
With
divine
compassion, and
offered to
receive
my
soul
to
his-
grace,
and
to
wash
away
tray,
defilements with his
own
blood
;
he
beseeched
me
to
repent and
return
to
God;
and assured
me he would
secure
his
Father's
favour to
rne,
and
a.
place among
the:
mansions
of
his
glory
:
But
cursed
Trebel
that
I
was,
to
despise this salvation, and re-
sist the
offers
of
such love, and
to
renounce. such divine
compassion! These
offers
of
mercy are for
ever
finished,
h shall
never
see him
more
as.
surrounded
with the bles-
sings
of
his
grace, but
as
the
minister
of
his.
Father's
jus,
trice,
and
the avenger
of
his
abused mercy,
There
is
no
other
Saviour, no
other intercessor
to
procure
divine fa-
vour
for
me,
and
my
hopes.are overwhelmed
and
buried
in
the
eternal despair of
his
love."
III.
There
will be
found also among
the damned
"a
constant
enmity,
and
malice,
and hatred
against
the
blessed God,
which can
never
satisfy
or
ease
itself
by
revenge."
It
seems
very
strange indeed
that
a creature
should
design
revenge against
his
Maker
;
but
thus it
is
in
these dismal regions
of
hell
:
Every wicked man
is by
nature at
enmity
with
God,
and
in
a
state
of rebellion;
and
when this
enmity
is
wrought
up
to malice,
under
a
sense
of
his
punishing hand,
timen
wrists
that
cursed and
detestable
desire
in the soul
of
revenging
itself
against its
Maker. The
fallen
angels, those wicked spirits, have
found
this
dismal
temper of
mind reigning in
them:
They
hate
the blessed
God
with
intense malice,
because
his governing
justice
sees
fit
to
punish their pride and
other
iniquities, and
they would fain
be
revenged
of
him
by
destroying mankind
who
were made after
his
image:
Their
malice
cannot reach
him
in
the heights
of
his glory,
but
they
can
reach
man
his
creature
made
in his likeness,