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C.l'II.]
THE NATURE
OF
THE PUNISHMENTS IN HELL. 583
overwhelm
our
souls with
unsupportable agonies:
"Who
knows
the
power
of
thy
anger
?
For
according
to thy
fear
so
is
thy wrath,"
says
Moses
;
Ps.
xc.
11.
Our
fears do
not
rise
above those
evils which
the wrath
of
God
will
in-
flict.
Who
knows
what
are
those. arrows
of
the Al-
mighty,
of
which
Job
speaks,
"the.poison
whereof
drank.
up
his
spirits, and those
terrors
of God
which set
them-
selves' in
array
against
him
?"
Job.
vi.
4.
Who
knows
what
our
Saviour
telt
in the
hour of
his agony
and
atone-
ment
for our
sins,
which made
hire
sweat drops
of
blood
?
And what
sort
of
terrible
impressions
God himself
may
make
of
his own
wrath and
vengeance, on the
heart
of
such criminals
as wilfully
reject
his
salvation,
is
beyond
our
thoughts
to conceive,
or
our
language to express.
Thus
much
shall
suffice
concerning
the
metaphor
of
fire,
and
the
hand
of
God
himself
in
kindling
this
fire
for
the execution of
his
sentence against impenitents. But
since
I
have entered
so
far into
this
subject,
I cannot
think
it
proper
entirely
to finish
it,
without'giving notice
of
some
different and dreadful additions
to
their torment
which
will
arise from
evil
angels, and from
their cpmpa-
nions in sin
and
misery
among the children
of
men
:
For
in
the agonies
of our
Saviour, men and devils
joined to-
gether
to afflict
him, when
"
it
pleased the
Father
to
bruise
him,
and
to
make
his
soul an offering for
our
sins
;"
Is.
liii.
9.
I. "
Evil
angels, wicked
and unclean
spirits,
with all
their
furious dispositions and active
powers,
will
increase
the
misery
of
the
damned."
They
paved
the
way
to
hell
for
man
by
the
first
temptation
of
our parents
in
para-
dise,
and
they have
,been
ever since busy
in
tempting the
children
of
men
to sin,
and
they
will
be
hereafter
as
busy
in
giving them
torment. When
these
wicked
spirits,
C?
sinner,
who
have taken
thee
as
a willing
captive
by
their
baits
and
devices in this world, when they
,have
led
thee
down
through the paths
of
vice
to
the regions
of
sorrow,
they
will
begin
then
to
insult thee
with
hateful
reproaches,
and
to
triumph
over thee
with
insolence and
scorn.
When
they have deceived
thee
on
earth, to
thy own
perdi-
tion they
will
make thee the object
of their bitter ridicule
and
mockery
in hell.
O
could
we
turn
aside the
veil
of
the invisible world,.
and behold the bottomless
pit open
before
you,
what bit-
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