our body. Chrift was most holy, pure, incorrup tible and glorious; even fo fhall we be: We fhall be for ever free from fin, Satan, Death, Hell and the Grave. And at the point of Death let us intreat the Lord, that he would be à Fountain of Everlasting Water, to befprinkle our Souls and Hearts, for his Son's fake Jefus Chrift.

Fourthly, in Heaven we fhall reap endless Foy, and eternal Happiness; and shall delight in praifing God for ever, so as we shall keep a perpetual Sabbath, and Foy in the Service of God for ever..

Oh it is a great happiness to be in the prefence of God, for there is Glory and Honour, and true content indeed: Where we shall have Joy without Sorrow, Day without Night; no Valley of Tears, but a Sion of Glory, and endless comforts. And this fhall be for all that Fear God, and whofe Names fhall be found written in the Book of Life.

Oh then, curfed be thofe men and women, who think and fay, it is in vain to ferve the Lord: or as Pharaoh faid, who is the Lord that I should fear him? Then men fhall know it is not in vain to ferve the Lord; for if we will not be careful to keep a good Conscience, and ferve God aright, and fo go to Heaven by good Example; we then must expect to go to Hell with the wicked for Company; Nay, God will put a difference between them that ferve kim and them that ferve him not. And this fhould encourage all men to labour to abound in holy Duties, feeing God will reward even the least work of Faith,

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If thou give but a Cup of cold Water in the Name of Chrift, verily, thou shalt not lose thy reward. Tho' our works cannot any way me rit, yet he will in Mercy for his Son Chrift's fake thus Crown the good Works of his Children: For tho Works do not Merit, yet they are Rewardable, And feeing few fhall be faved, let us labour to be of that little Flock, let us above all things feek this Kingdom of God; if thou obtain this, thou art happy and blessed, altho thou lofe all the World befides; and if thou lofe it, thou art miferable and wretched, tho' thou win the whole World. O then, what midmen are we, if we never feek for this, or think of Heaven, until we have one foot in the Grave or Hell; let us not think to gain a King dom fo eafily; we cannot go to Heaven on Beds of Down, but we muft ftrive to enter therein,. we must take pains, for what is got without 2 And as Life, Joy, Riches, Honour, and Pleasures are fweet; fo to enjoy them for ever without fear of lofing, this is a bleffed thing, for fo it is with them that are in poffeffion of this Kingdom, they be out of all fear to lofe it, and hall reign with Chrift for evermore.

Thus (in fome fort) you may conceive the bleffed and moft happy eftate of all the Elect, and faithful Children of the Almighty, which ought to stir up to repent and turn to God, while we have time and fpace.

But what fhall become of the ungodly finners," of them whofe Names are not written in the Book of Life? Als poor wretched Souls! ic

grieves me to think of them; It would make a man's heart melt, to think on their woful mifery; and I quake to fpeak what fhall become of them after this Life. The Holy Ghoft faith here, They shall be caft into the Lake of Fire. What then fhall become of the fwearer, drunk. ard, &c. They shall be caft into the Lake of Fire. And fo faith Chrift, Go ye curfed into Everlaft. ing Fire, &c. Mat. 25. 41. This is their End, and their Portion for evermore! Ah miferable Wretches! Ah vile and miferable Sinners! It had been better for them they had never been born, or had been rather Toads or Serpents,, than Men. For they fhall not only be caft out of the glorious and comfortable Prefence of Almighty God, and his Holy Angels, But they Shall be caft into the Lake of Fire for ever.

This Lake of Fire, into which all impenitent and hard-hearted finners fhall be caft for ever, I have already defcribed to you; and for a Conclufion, to put you ftill in mind of this Lake, this Hell, this Tophet, this place of Torment, which will never have end, I will let down three weighty Points, and that briefly. First, the extremity of it.

Secondly, the perperuity of it.

And thirdly, that it is remedilefs.

And which well confidered, methinks fhould make the flinty hearts of finners to melt, and break to pieces for fear they come into this Place of Torment, this Lake of Fire.

And feeing the Spirit of God doth repeat it again and again: that all reprobate finners fhall

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be caft into the Lake of Fire, it is to fhew, that men little confider of it, they do not tremble at it: and therefore he infifts upon it, to teach us, that it is a weighty Point to be thought on, to mollify our hard Hearts. And firft, concern ing the fame Lake of Fire in that it is named here a Lake of Fire; this noteth to us the extremity of the Torment, that it is a place of endless woe, and unspeakable pain. The Scriptures afford it fundry Names, to fet forth the unfpeakable torments thereof. All wicked and impenitent Sinners fhall be caft into the Lake of Fire. For of all Torments none is so extreme as Fire, and Chrift faith, There shall be weeping, wailing, &c. And it fhall be most hot and yet most cold, which fhews the ftrangeness of this Fire. Again, Their Worm Shall never die Mark 8. 44. That worm which fhall gnaw their Conscience. Oh what a woful thing is this for any man or woman to have a worm continually to gnaw their Bowels within, never to let them alone, or give them any reft! Such hall be the mifery of the wicked. Again, Tophet is prepared for the King, he cannot escape and it is deep and large,and the burning thereof is Fire and much Wood, and the Breath of the Lord as a River of Brimftone fhall kindle it, Ifa.30.338 So as the wrath of God (hall be as Bellows to blow it, and as a River of Brimftone to maintain it. By this you may conceive the extremi ty of this woful Lake of Hell Fire. But if I had the Tongue of Men and Angels, I could never expres it to the full: For as the Joys of

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Heaven are unspeakable, fo the Torments of
Hell are unexpreffible: For then the full wrath
of God thall feize upon the Reprobates, both
Body and Soul, and that for evermore.

Now to the end you may the better conceive
the extremity of it, you must know that the
Torments of Hell are univerfal, even in all the
Parts of the Body, and the faculties of the Soul
at once, the Mind, the Will, the Confcience,
the Affe&tions, the Head, the Heart, &c. all at
once fhall be tormented. The pains in this
Life are for the moft part particularly in fome
part of the Body, but in this Fire the Sinner
ihall be tormented in all parts at once, and yet
we fee that fome pains there be, as in Convul.
fiors, or the Stone, &c. which men would not
willingly have for a whole Wor d. Alis, what
a woful thing will this be, to be tormented in
all, and every particular Member fo extreamly?
Let one example ferve in this point; the Rich
Glutton cries out,
out, Oh, I am Tormented in this
Flame! Luke 16. 24. The Torments and heat
was fo grear, that he would have given whole
World, if he had been Master of it, for fo much
Water as would have ftuck upon his Finger, to
have cooled his flaming Tongue Thus you
fee that the First is molt extream and woful,
and yet men will not confider it, they mind it

But let every one think on the woful and extream pain of this Lake of Fire, let us make that ufe which our Saviour teacheth, Mat. 5. 22. If thy Right-Hand or For offend thee, that

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