I 202 TgE woa.I.p' TO COMF. thy fear áo is thy wrath, says Moses ; Ps. ac. 11. Our fears do not rise above those evils which the wrath of God will inflict. Who knows what are those arrow's of the Almighty, of 'which Job speaks, the poison whereof drank up' his spirits, and those tern is of God which set them'selves'in array against him ? Job Ni. 4. Who know what our Saviour felt in the hotir of his agony and atonement for our, sins, which made him sweat drops of blood ? And what sort of terrible impressions God himself may make of his own wrath and vengeance, on the heart of such criminals as wilfully reject his salvation, is beyond our thoughts to conceive, or our language to express. Thus much shall suffice concerning the metaphor of fire, and the hand of God himself in kindling'this fire for the execution of his sentence against impenitents: But since I have entered so far into this subject I cannot think it proper entirely to finish it, without giving notice of some different and dreadful additions to their torment' which will 'arise 'froin evil angels, and from their companions in sin and misery among the children of men : For in the agonies of otir Sáviour, men and devils joined together to afflict him, when it p`lea'sed the Father tò bruise hint, and to Make his soul an offering for our sins; Is. lüi. 9. I. " Evil angels, wicked and'unclean spirits, with all their furious dispositions and active powers, will'increase the misery of the damned," They paved the way to hell for man by the first temptation of our parents in paradise; and they have'been ever 'since busy in tempting the children of men tó sin,' and they will be hereafter as busy in giving them tortuètïf:' When these wicked spirits, O shiner, who have.taken thee as a willing'cap- five by their baits and devices in this world, when they have led thee down through the paths of vice to the regions' of sorrow, they will begin then to insult thee with hateful reproaches, and to triumph over thee with insolence and scorn. When they have deceived thee on earth, to thy own perdition they will make'thee the object of their bitter ridicule and mockery in hell. O could we turn aside the veil of the invisible world, and behold the bottomless pit open before. you, what bitter groans of ghosts would you hear, not only oppressed and agonizing under the wrath'of a righteous God, but also' under the insults of cruel devils? As (hire is' joy among the angels of heaven when a sin- oter repents; Luke xv: 10. or when a soul arrives safely at those blessed mansions ; so when a rebellious and obstinate criminal is sent down to hell, you would hear the triumphs of those malici- ous spirits over him, with the voice of insulting pride and hellish joy: And while they domineer over you and tear you as roar= ing lions, who seek and tear their prey,' you will curse yourselves a thousand times for hearkening to their.'deceitful allurements: You will vent your rage' against yourselves at the' 'same time
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