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XII.]
THE NATURE
OF THE
YUNrsmitis
1rs
IN
HELL.
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blood
do to
secure
us
against
this overwhelming
misery?
It
is
only the gospel
of
the blessed
Jesus
is
our refuge,
and
our
safety from the
tremendous destruction.
"
What
are the
heights, and depths,
and lengths
of
human
science, with all
the boasted
acquisitions
of
the
brightest
genius
of
mankind
?
Learning
and science can
measure the globe,
can
sound the depths
of
the
sea,
can
compass the
heavens, can mete
out
the distances
of
the
sun
and
moon,
and mark out
the
path
of
every twinkling
star
for
Inany'ages past
or
ages
to come
;
but
they can-
not acquaint
us with
the way
of
salvation
from this long,
this endless distress.
What
are
all the
sublimereason-
ings
of
philosophers upon the abstruse and most
difficult
subjects
?
What
is
the
whole circle
of
sciences
of
which
human
wit
and
thought
can
trace out
and comprehend
?
Can
they deliver
us
from the
guilt of
one
sin
?
Can they
free
us from
one
of
the
terrors of
the Almighty
?
Can
they
assuage
the
torment
of
a
wounded-
spirit,
or guard
us from the impression
of
divine
indignation
?
Alas,
they
are
all
but
trifles,
in
comparison
of
this blessed gospel,
which
saves
us
from
eternal
anguish and death.
It
is
the gospel
that
teaches us the holy
skill to
pre
-
vent
this
worm
of
conscience from gnawing the soul,
and instructs
us
how to
kill
it
in
the
seed
and first springs
of
it,
to mortify the
corruptions of
the heart, to resist the
temptations
of
Satan, and
where to wash away the
guilt
of
sin.
It
is
this blessed gospel
that
clearly discovers
tx)
us
how we
may
guard against the
fire
of
divine wrath,
or
rather
how to
secure
our soäls
from
becoming
the fuel
of
it.
It
is
this book
that
teaches
us
to sprinkle the blood
of
Christ
on
a guilty conscience
by
faith,
that
is,
by
receiv-
ing
him
as sincere
penitents, and thereby
defends
us
from
the
angel
of
death
and
destruction. This
is
that experi-
mental
philosophy
of
the saints
in heaven,.
whereby they
have been released from the bonds
of their
sins,
have been
rescued from the curse
of
the
law,
and been secured
from the gnawing
worm
and the
devouring-fire.
"
A
serious meditation
of
hell in its
exquisite pain
and
sorrow,
will
inhance our value
of
the
salvation
of
Christ,
and
will
exalt our
esteem
and'honour of
the
love
of
God,
who
has
delivered us from
eternal
death.
If
we
will
but
appoint
our thoughts
to dwell
a
little
on the
terrors
and
vengeance from which the blessed
Jesus
has rescued
ús