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VISC. %II.]
THE NATURE
OF
THE PUNISHMENTS
INNELL.
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malice, and
who
died
with
their
hearts
full
of
revenge
against their
fellow-
sinners;
and
when they shall
meet
them
in
those
deplorable
regions,
how
natural
is
it to
suppose
they
will
endeavour
to
execute this revenge
upon
them
without end and without mercy?
For
it may
be easily
supposed
that
malice, revenge and cruelty,
which
are
the
proper character
of
devils, shall
not
be
abated
among
the
children.of
men,
when
they are grown
so
near
a
-kin
in
their
tempers
to those
evil
spirits, and
are
now for
ever
mingled
amongst
them.
And yet
further,
who knows
what the damned
in
hell,shall
endure
from
the
endless
brawls
and
bitter quarrels among
themselves?
What
new
contentions
will
arise
perpetually
in such
a
country, where
it
is
perhaps the practice and custom
of
the place, and the
nature
of
the
inhabitants, for the most
part,
to
make every one
of
their
fellows as
uneasy and
as
miserable
as they can
?
O
what mad and furious
prided
and
malice,
and every
hellish passion,
will be
raging
al}
most
in
every
bosom
against
all
those
who
are
nearthem;
and
this in
a dark
prison where
all
are intensely
tor.
mented,
and
where
there
is
no
such thing as compassion
or sincere
love,
nothing
to
soothe each others
sorrows,
but
every thing
that
may
add
to
the
smart and
anguish
l
"
O
that
the
present
survey
of
these
horrors
of
soul,
these
complicated
distresses and miseries
from
within
uS,
and
without
us,
from every
quarter of
heaven
and
hell,
from the
gnawing worm within
us,
and
from
the
fire
of
the
wrath
of
God, and
the
mutual insults,
railings
and
injuries
of
men
and
devils,
might
all
lie
with its
due
weight
upon
our
spirits
now, while we
are
in
the
lanciof
hope
;
that
every one
of
us may
be
awakened
to a
timely
concern
about
our
highest interest, and hasten to
Make
our
escape as
Lot
did from Sodom,
lest
the
sentence
of
death
be
pronounced
upon
us while we delay,
and the
fiery
deluge
overtake
us."
But here
I
would
tarry
a
little
to
answer
a
repeated
Objection,
vit.
The
terror of
this
outward punishment
from the hand
of
God,
which
is
described
by
avenging
fire,
is
so
severe and intolerable,
that
it
awakens
sorne
,lesser criminals
to
raise the same
cavil
against
the
unquenchable
fire,
or God's
punishing
hand, as
was
raised
before
against
the
never
-dying worm,
or the inward
anguish of
soul arising from its
own
con.
science.
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