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THE
PTINTSHMENTS
IN
HELL.
637
against
his
judgments.
The
counsel
of
the Lord shall
stand, and
he
will
do all
his
pleasure,"
Isa.
xlvi.
10,
in
the
eternal manifestations
of
his
justice
as well as
his
grace.
If
there
be any
supposed inconsistency or cloud
of
difficulty
remaining
on
his
conduct,
he
will
clear
it
up
to the
satisfaction
of
every
rational
mind one
day,
and
will
bring
the conscience
of
every condemned sinner to
acknowledge the equity
of
his
proceedings.
The
whole
creation
shall
then
justify
the
final
sentence
of
judgment
on all the sons
of
men.
I
cannot
finish
this awful
argument
better than the
apostle
finishes
the
same
sort of
subject
in
the
ninth and
eleventh chapters
to
the
Romans.
"
O
man, who
art
thou
that
repliest against God
?
What if
God,
willing
to
shew
his
wrath, and to
make
his
power
known, bath
endured
with
much
long- suffering
the
vessels
of
wrath
who have fitted themselves for
destruction?
And
that
he
might
make known
the riches of
his
glory
on
the
.vessels
of
mercy,
which
he
bath
afore
prepared unto glory?
chapter
ix. 20, 22; 23.
0,
the
depths
of
the riches both
of
the
wisdom
and knowledge,the
justice
and goodness
of
God,
how
unsearehable are
his
judgments, and
his ways
past
finding
out
?
For of
him,
and
through
him,
and
to
him,
are
all things, to whom
be
glory
for ever and ever."
Chapter
xi.
33-36.
Amen.
SECTION
III.
Reflections
on
the
Eternity of
Punishment in Hell.
As
we
have before drawn various inferences from
the
nature
of
those
punishments
that
are
-
prepared
for sinners
in
the world
to
come,
so
there are
other
inferences
and
terrible
reflections
which
may be
derived from
the
dura
tion
or
perpetuity of
the torments
of
.hell.
Reflection I.
What unspeakable
anguish
and
torture
Both
this
one
circumstance
add
to every pain
and
sorrow
of
damned creatures,
that
it
is
everlasting, and
-has
no
end
?"
What
unknown twinges
in
the conscience
Both
this
thought give
to
the-gnawing
of
the cruel worm,
viz.
that
it
is
a worm
that
never dies?
.
What
inconceivable
force
and sting
of torment
does
this add
to
the
fire
of
God's
indignation
in hell,
that
it
is
a
fire
which shall
never
be quenched
?
When
one year
of torment
and sorrow
is
ended, or one
thoúsand years are
come
to
their period,
the
case
of sinners
is
still much the
samethe
vengeance