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1. This Poena damni, or privation of blessedness, may seem to be implied in the first degree here mentioned, Rejection. The reprobate are cast away of God. Much like that form of the last sentence, Math. 25. 41.¹ Depart from me, ye cursed: a fearful sentence, a terrible separation. From Me, saith Christ; that made my self man for your sakes, that offered my blood for your redemption, & received these & these wounds for your remedy. From Me, that would have healed, would have helped, would have saved you. From Me, that invited you to mercy, and you would not accept it. From Me, that purchased a kingdom of glory, for such as believed on me; and will wrap their heads with crowns of eternal joy: Depart from Me. This is a fearful Rejection, My friendship, my fellowship, ⟨p. 154⟩my Paradise, my presence, my heaven, where is fullness of joy, and pleasure for evermore, ²are none of yours. They might have been; they are lost. Neither shall they only loose Christ, but all the company with Christ: the Quire of glorious Angels, the society of his blessed Mother, the Prophets, Apostles, Martyrs, all the happy and holy Saints, with the whole host of heaven. They shall fret, and vex, and be ready to eat their own galls, to see those triumphing in glory, whom they on earth persecuted, martyred, tortured. They could here exercise their savage tyranny over them; not only denying their own bread, but taking away theirs: they could despise, beat, malign, undo, burn them at stakes: now the estate of both is changed: as Abraham told Dives. They are comforted, ³and thou art tormented.

1. This Poena damni, or priuation of blessednesse, may seeme to be implyed in the first degree here mentioned, Reiection. The reprobate are cast away of God. Much like that forme of the last sentence, Math. 25. 41.¹ Depart from me, yee cursed: a fearefull sentence, a terrible separation. From Me, sayth Christ; that made my selfe man for your sakes, that offered my bloud for your redemption, & receiued these & these wounds for your remedie. From Me, that would haue healed, would haue helped, would haue saued you. From Me, that inuited you to mercy, and you would not accept it. From Me, that purchased a kindgome of glory, for such as beleeued on me; and will wrappe their heads with crownes of eternall ioy: Depart from Me. This is a fearefull Reiection, My friendship, my fellowship,