The Fountain of Life Opened

Inference 3.

¹How dreadful a place is Hell! Where this cry is heard for ever, I thirst. There the wrath of the great and terrible God flames upon the damned for ever, in which they thirst and none relieve them. If Christ complained, I thirst, when he had conflicted but a few hours with the wrath of God; what is their state then, that are to grapple with it for ever! When millions of years are past and gone,² ten thousand millions more are coming on. There's an everlasting thirst in Hell, and it admits of no relief. There are no full cups in Hell, but an eternal unrelieved thirst. Think on this ye that now add drunkenness to thirst, who tumble in all sensual pleasures, and drown nature in an excess of Luxury. Remember what Dives said in Luk. 16.24. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me; and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue, ³for I am tormented in this flame. No cups of water, no bowls of wine in Hell. There that throat will be parched with thirst, which is now drowned with excess. The songs of the Drunkard turned into howlings. If thirst in the extremity of it be now so unsufferable, what is that thirst which is infinitely beyond this in measure, and never shall be relieved. Say not it's hard that God should deal thus with his poor creatures. You will not think it so if you consider what he exposed his own dear Soul to, when sin was but imputed to him. And what that man deserves to feel, that hath not only merited Hell, but by refusing Christ the remedy, the hottest place in Hell.

¹How dreadful a place is Hell! Where this cry is heard for ever, I thirst. There the wrath of the great and terrible God flames upon the damned for ever, in which they thirst and none relieve them. If Christ complain'd, I thirst, when he had conflicted but a few hours with the wrath of God; what is their state then, that are to grapple with it for ever! When millions of years are past and gone,