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

(1.) Because they are more capable to conceive of the Torments of Hell, than the Joys of Heaven. Storms and Darkness are more easily drawn by a Pencil, than a clear calm Day. Fire mixed with Brimstone, is very painful to Sense; and the Fancy strongly represents its Vehemence in tormenting the Body: And what Misery the unceasing remorse of the guilty Conscience will cause in the Damned hereafter, is in part understood by the secret Accusations and Twinges of Conscience in self-condemning Sinners here. But they are absolutely strangers to the Joys of the Holy Ghost, to the Delights of the Soul in communion ⟨p. 533⟩with God, and to Peace of Conscience in his favour. They cannot without experience, know how good the Lord is, no more than see a taste. To discourse to them of spiritual Pleasures that flow from the Divine Presence, of the Happiness of the Saints that are before the Throne of God, and serve him in his Temple, is to speak with the Tongue of an Angel ^*unintelligible things. Their Minds and Language are confined to sensible things. The natural Man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. There may be in the carnal Mind a conception of Heaven as a Sanctuary wherein they may be secured from the Wrath of God, and some smothering confused thoughts of its Felicity, as the Idea of Light and Colours in one blind from his Birth; but only the pure in Heart can see God, as in the perfect Vision of Glory hereafter, so in the imperfect reflection of it here.

(1.) Because they are more capable to conceive of the Torments of Hell, than the Joys of Heaven. Storms and Darkness are more easily drawn by a Pencil, than a clear calm Day. Fire mix'd with Brimstone, is very painful to Sense; and the Fancy strongly represents its Vehemence in tormenting the Body: And what Misery the uncessant remorse of the guilty Conscience will cause in the Damned hereafter, is in part understood by the secret Accusations and Twinges of Conscience in self-condemning Sinners here. But they are absolutely strangers to the Joys of the Holy Ghost, to the Delights of the Soul in communion ⟨p. 533⟩with God, and to Peace of Conscience in his favour. They cannot without experience, know how good the Lord is, no more than see a taste. To discourse to them of spiritual Pleasures that flow from the Divine Presence, of the Happiness of the Saints that are before the Throne of God, and serve him in his Temple, is to speak with the Tongue of an Angel