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

1. The most heavy Judgments of God upon Sinners here, are light and tolerable in Comparison of the Punishment of Sinners in the next State. For,

(1.) Temporal Evils of all kinds and degrees, as Pestilence, Famine, War, are designed for the bringing of Men to a sight and sense of their Sins, and are common to Good and Bad ⟨p. 497⟩here. And if his Anger be so terrible when he chastises as a compassionate Father, what is his Fury when he punishes as a severe Judg? If the correcting Remedies ordered by his Wisdom and Love for the conversion of Sinners be so sharp, what is the deadly revenge of his irreconcilable Hatred?

(1.) Temporal Evils of all kinds and degrees, as Pestilence, Famine, War, are designed for the bringing of Men to a sight and sense of their Sins, and are common to Good and Bad ⟨p. 497⟩here. And if his Anger be so terrible when he chastises as a compassionate Father, what is his Fury when he punishes as a severe Judg? If the correcting Remedies ordered by his Wisdom and Love for the conversion of Sinners be so sharp, what is the deadly revenge of his irreconcileable Hatred?

(2.) The Miseries of the present State are allayed with some enjoyments. None are so universally afflicted, so desolate, but something remains to sweeten the sense of their Sufferings. Judgments are tempered with Mercies. No Man is tortured with all Diseases, nor forsaken of all Friends, nor utterly without Comfort. And when the Affliction is irremediable, yet if our grief produces Sympathy in others, 'tis some ease to the troubled Mind, and by that assistance the Burden is made lighter. But in Hell the Damned are surrounded with Terrors, encompassed with Flames, without any thing to refresh their Sorrows, not a drop of Water to a Lake of Fire. All that was esteemed Felicity here, is totally withdrawn. Death puts a period to their Lives, and Pleasures of Sin for ever. For 'tis most just, that those Objects which were abused