The sovereign and final happiness of man with the effectual means to obtain itThe soveraign and final happiness of man with the effectual means to obtain it

With the loss of the most excellent Good, the suffering of the most afflicting painful Evil is joined. The Sentence is, Depart ye cursed into everlasting Fire. And if an imaginary Sorrow conceived in the Mind without a real external Cause, as in Melancholy Persons, when gross Vapours darken and corrupt the brightness and purity of the Spirits that are requisite for its cheerful Operations, is often so oppressing that Nature sinks under it, how insupportable will the Sorrow of condemned Sinners be, under the impression and sense of God's Almighty and avenging Hand, when it shall fully appear how pure and holy he is in his Anger for Sin, how just and dreadful in punishing Sinners? It may be the indulgent Sinner may lessen his fear of Hell, by fancying the number of Sufferers will assuage the sense of their Misery. But this is a foolish mistake. For the number of Sufferers shall be so ⟨p. 253⟩far from affording any relief, that the Misery is aggravated by the Company and Communication of the Miserable. Every one is surrounded with Sorrows, and by the sights of Woe about him, feels the universal Grief. The weeping and wailing, the cries and dolorous expressions of all the Damned, increases the torment and vexation of every one. As when the Wind conspires with the Flame 'tis more fierce and spreading.

With the loss of the most excellent Good, the suffering of the most afflicting painful Evil is join'd. The Sentence is, Depart ye cursed into everlasting Fire. And if an imaginary Sorrow conceived in the Mind without a real external Cause, as in Melancholly Persons, when gross Vapours darken and corrupt the brightness and purity of the Spirits that are requisite for its chearful Operations, is often so oppressing that Nature sinks under it, how insupportable will the Sorrow of condemned Sinners be, under the impression and sence of God's Almighty and avenging Hand, when it shall fully appear how pure and holy he is in his Anger for Sin, how just and dreadful in punishing Sinners? It may be the indulgent Sinner may lessen his fear of Hell, by fancying the number of Sufferers will asswage the sence of their Misery. But this is a foolish mistake. For the number of Sufferers shall be so ⟨p. 253⟩far from affording any relief, that the Misery is aggravated by the Company and Communication of the Miserable. Every one is surrounded with Sorrows, and by the sights of Woe about him, feels the universal Grief. The weeping and wailing, the cries and dolorous expressions of all the Damned, increases the torment and vexation of every one. As when the Wind conspires with the Flame 'tis more fierce and spreading.