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6. The openings and discoveries of the pains of Hell are as helps to restrain us from sin, and to keep us in the way to Christ. This, some call legal, but Christ in the Gospel tells us of this; in the Gospel we find a description of hell-pains, set out by weeping, and wailing and gnashing of teeth; by a worm never dying, ¹and a fire never going out; Oh when I think of those unquenchable flames, those remediless torments, without hope of recovery, remission, or mitigation; when I think of that privation and loss of the sight of Gods face, prepared only for those that serve him in holiness, how should I but look about me, and prepare for my reckoning? Nay how easy should I think any pains in comparison? Some persons in affrightment have been seen to carry burdens, and to leap ditches, and climb walls, which their natural power could never have done; and if we understood the sadness of a cursed eternity, from which we are commanded to fly, and yet knew how near we are to it, and how likely to fall into it, if we continue in sin, it would be able to create fears greater than a sudden fire, or a mid-night alarm.

6. The openings and discoveries of the pains of Hell are as helps to restrain us from sin, and to keep us in the way to Christ. This, some call legal, but Christ in the Gospel tells us of this; in the Gospel we find a description of hell-pains, set out by weeping, and wailing and gnashing of teeth; by a worm never dying, ¹and a fire never going out; Oh when I think of those unquenchable flames, those remediless torments, without hope of recovery, remission, or mitigation; when I think of that privation and loss of the sight of Gods face, prepared only for those that serve him in holiness, how should I but look about me, and prepare for my reckoning? Nay how easie should I think any pains in comparison? Some persons in affrightment have been seen to carry burthens, and to leap ditches, and climb walls, which their natural power could never have done; and if we understood the sadness of a cursed eternity, from which we are commanded to fly, and yet knew how near we are to it, and how likely to fall into it, if we continue in sin, it would be able to create feares greater than a sudden fire, or a mid-night alarm.

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