A trumpet blown in Zion, or, An alarm in God's holy mountain containing an…A trumpet blown in Zion, or, An allarm in God's holy mountain containing an…

Fourthly, The State of the Damned is void of the least degree ¹of Comfort, Ease and Refreshment: The same shall drink of ²the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the Cup of his indignation, and he shall be tormented with fire and ³brimstone in the presence of his holy Angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: They shall have Judgment without Mercy, Sorrow without Joy, Pain without Ease, Darkness without Light, ⁴all felicity is totally withdrawn. Pity is the cheap and smallest relief any here can meet withal in misery, not denied to the most guilty notorious Criminal, but yet this is not afforded to the damned; all their bitter Cries cannot move the Compassion of God nor the Blessed Angels or Saints in Heaven toward them, for they are not Objects of Compassion, their Miseries being the just punishments of an offended God, whom they wilfully and of their own choice contemned, through' love to Sin and this present World; besides, in Hell all humane affections are extinguished for ever. Ah, this is the quintessence and perfection of Misery, the excess of Anguish and Sorrow, to be deprived of all good things pleasing to our desires, and to suffer all evils from which we have the deepest aversation and ⟨p. 55⟩abhorrence; for as in Heaven all Good, all Felicity, all Joy, is inconceivable, so in Hell all evil is felt and endured to the highest degree, and nothing but what is evil.

Fourthly, The State of the Damned is void of the least degree ¹of Comfort, Ease and Refreshment: The same shall drink of ²the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the Cup of his indignation, and he shall be tormented with fire and ³