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SOS
THE ETERNAL DURATION OF'
[DISC.
XIII.
by
his
glorious undertaking,
if
we will
stretch
out
the
powers
of
our
souls, and
survey the lengths, and the
breadths, and
the depths
of
this distress
.and
misery which
we have deserved, this
will
discover
to us
the
heights,
and
the
depths,
and the lengths
of
his love, who
submit-
ted
himself
to,
the curses
of
the
law
of
God, and
was
made a curse for
us,
that
he
might redeem
us
to
the
pos-
session
of
an
eternal
blessing
;'
Gal.
iii.
13.
This
will
shew us
what exceeding riches of
the grace
of
God, have
been laid out upon
us
for
our
salvation. This
will
spread
before
us
the unmeasurable
love of Jesus,
which has
brought
him down from the bosom
of
his
Father, into
.
such agonies
as he
sustained
-in
the garden, and on the
cross,
that
he
might rescue
us
from
the wrath
to come.
O
what immense and
endless debts
of gratitude
and love
are
due from every ransomed sinner,
who has
been
released
from
the
bonds
of
his
guilt,
and from
all this
wretchedness,
by the
love
of God
the
Father,
and
the
grace
of
his
Son
Jesus
Christ,
to whom be glory
and
honour, and most exalted
praise, for ever
and ever."
Amen.
DISCOURSE
XIII.
THE
ETERNAL DURATION
OF
THE
PUNISHMENTS IN HELL.
nsec
ix.
46.
Where their
worm
dieth
not, and the
fire is
not
quenched.
SECTION
I.
Arguments
to
prove the
perpetuity
of
Hell.
WHEN
HE
the
great
and
blessed
God
had
a
mind to
make
known
his wisdom, his
power,
and
his
goodness amongst
creatures;
he
built
this world as
a
theatre,
in which
those
perfections of
his
nature
might
be
displayed amidst the
various works
of
his
hands
:
He
spread
it
round
with the
blessings
of
life
and pleasure,
he over
-hung it
with a
ca-
nopy
of
skies
and stars,
and placed
the
glories bodies
of
the
sun and
moon
there
to
appear
in
their alternate
tea-