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59.4
THE NATURE
OF
THE PUNISHMENTS IN HELL.
[DISC.XIr.
ter
groans of
ghosts would you
hear,
not
only
oppressed
and
agonizing
under
the wrath
of a righteous
God,
but
also
under
the insults
of
cruel
devils
?
As
"
there
is
joy
among
the angels
of
heaven when
a sinner repents
;"
Luke
xv.
10'.
or
when a soul
arrives
safely
at
those
blessed mansions
;
so
when
a rebellious
and
obstinate
criminal
is
sent
down
to,
hell,
you would
hear the
triumphs
of
those 'malicious spirits
over
him, with
the
voice
of
insulting pride and
hellish
joy
And while they
domineer
over you, and
tear
you
as
roaring
lions, who
seek a,id
tear
their
prey, you
kill
curse
yourselves a
thou,
sand times
for
Hearkening to
their
deceitful allurements.
Ì'ou,
will
vent-your rage against yourselves
at
the
same
time
that
they
s
eff
at
you as
eternal
fools, who have
lost
a God, and
a
heaven;
and immortal happiness,
by
your
own
madness
and
folly in
hearkening to
their
temptations.
II.
"
The
mutual upbraidings of
fellow
-
sinners
and
fellow
sufferers' among the children
of
men,
will.aggra-
vate your wretchedness day
and night without end."
Those
who
drew
each
other
into four
iniquities, shall
fill
the
ears
of
each
ether
with
loud
and sharp reproaches for
their mutual
influence on both
their
ruin, and
shall charge
their
damnation, and
all
their
heavy sorrows,
as
a
heavy
load
on
each other's
souls. Sorne
of
those
who have
been joined
in
the
nearest- ties
of kindred
and
friend=
ship, while
they dwelt
in flesh
and
blood,
shall be the
terrible instruments
of
their
keenest remorse
and vexa-
tion. and teaze
their spirits
with endless
upbraidings.
Here
the sons
of pride,
that
most
hateful iniquity,
shall
he overwhelmed
with huge
mortification and disdain
:
The
mighty
sinner
shall be insulted
by
the
meanest of
the croud, and princes
shall be
bearded
and affronted
by
those
gay
slaves
of
the
court,
whom
they once employed
in
flattering and adoring
them,
They
were once vain
enough
to believe, they
were something more than mor-
tal
;
but
now
they
are spurned
by
those
flatterers
with
a
foot of contempt, and their eternal pride
still
swelling,
gives
their
own
hearts
new
stings and
twinges
at
every
re-
-sentrnent.
None
but
a
proud and
haughty creature here
in this world, who
has
sometimes met
with scorn and in-
sult
from
his
inferiors,
can
speak
feelingly
of
the
exqui-
site
sensibility
of
these torments
of
soul
in hell.
But
besides
this,
there
are
-rihany
sinners
who lived
in