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YIII.a
THE PUNISHMENTS
IN HELL.
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vided a covenant
of
grace,
and
brought
thee
into some
knowledge
of
it
:
And this had been effectual to have
recovered and
saved thee from
the ruins
of
the
fall
if
thou hadst exerted
all thy force,
employed all thy
natu-
ràl
powers
of understanding
and
will
for
this
purpose,
and
used
all thy
diligence to follow
the methods
of
his
grace,
and hadst sought earnestly for divine
aids
For
there
is
no
man among the damned
is
able to
say,
"
X
have done every
thing:
that
was
in my
power to
do
"
No
man shall
be
condemned for what
was
utterly impos-
sible for
him to
avoid
:
It
is
confessed
indeed
thou,
art
laid under
some
hardships and
difficulties by
the
sin
of
thy
first
father
;
yet
it
is
thy
own
actual and personal
crimes for
which
thou
art
condemned
at
this
judgment,
wherein
"
every one shall be
judged
and
rewarder
according to
his works
;" 2
Cor.
v.
10.
It
is
for many
wilful offences
against the
law
of
God, and for sinning
against the
offers
of
divine
grace;
it
is
for
obstinacy
Against
thy own conscience,
and all the outward and
in-
ward monitions
of
thy
duty,
that
thou
art
fallen
under
this sentence,
and
because
thou didst
not
labour and
strive against
sin,
and resist
it
even to the
end
of
thy
state
of
life
and trial.
Thou hast
had many an
inward
reproof
for
sin,
many
a secret or
public call
to'virtue,
and perhaps loud and fair warnings of thy
danger;
but
thou hast
turned
a
deaf ear
to them
all,
and
it
is
thy own
folly, obstinacy,
and
iniquity,
that
have
brought
thee
into
this
misery,
and thou must
eat
the
fruit
of
thy own
works.
If
there should
be
any person found indeed
among
Jews,
gentiles
or
christians,
who
justly
complain,
"
I
have
not
had a fair and
full
state
of
trial,
and
yet
I
am
condemned,"
I
think
we
may
grant
that
the
righteous
God
will
release such from
their
misery,
after
they
have
worn
out a proper number
of
years
in
punishment
pro-
portionable
to
their past
crimes;
and
that
there shall
be
a
fair,
and
full,
and
proper
state
of
trial appointed to
them before they shall
be
utterly
and
unretrievably mi-
serable
:
But
if
no
such
person
be
found there,
if
there
be no such
just
complaint
to be
made among the millions
of
the damned, then they may
be-
still
continued
in
their
prison and punishment without any
imputation upon
di,,
Pine
juatiçe and
equity.
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