The four last things viz. death, judgment, heaven, hell, practically considered and applied in…

In short, we see by common Experience, that Company and mutual Consent is a usual Motive to Sin; and many Persons that alone would with abhorrence reject some Temptations, yet are sociably sinful. Now all those who by excitation or example, lead others to Destruction, as they are first in Sin, will be chief in Punishment. We read in the Parable of the rich Voluptuary,¹ that being in Hell, he desired a Messenger might be dispatched from the Dead to warn his Brethren, lest they should come to that place of Torment. Is there such Charity in Hell to the Souls of others? ^‖No, that Furnace always burns with its proper Flames, there is not a spark of that Divine Fire there: But remembering how guilty he had been of their Sins, feared that his Torments would be increased by their coming thither. Society in endless Sorrows does not divide, but reflect them.

In short, we see by common Experience, that Company and mutual Consent is a usual Motive to Sin; and many Persons that alone would with abhorrence reject some Temptations, yet are sociably sinful. Now all those who by excitation or example, lead others to Destruction, as they are first in Sin, will be chief in Punishment. We read in the Parable of the rich Voluptuary,¹ that being in Hell, he desired a Messenger might be dispatch'd from the Dead to warn his Brethren, lest they should come to that place of Torment. Is there such Charity in Hell to the Souls of others? ^‖No, that Furnace always burns with its proper Flames, there is not a spark of that Divine Fire there: But remembring how guilty he had been of their Sins, feared that his Torments would be encreased by their coming thither. Society in endless Sorrows does not divide, but reflect them.

1. 1Luke 16.28.
2. ‖Non orat pro fratrum salute quâ non tangitur reprobus, sed pro se ne ipsius tormenta ex consortio fratrum augeautur. Brugen.