Sermons preached

then God dealeth with us by way of recompense either in Pains or Joys. Add further, Reason will tell us that these Pains and Joys after Death should be everlasting, that the recompense should last as long as Man lasts. For Man as to his Soul is immortal, and there is no change of Estate in the other World after our Trial is over, and things of Religion become mere matter of Sense. Certainly one that hath lived holily, and is translated to Glory, there is no Reason that he should afterwards be made miserable, and the Punishment holdeth Conformity to the Reward. Luk. 16. 26. Between us and you there is a great Gulf fixed, so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot, neither can they pass to us that would come from thence. There is no changing of Estates or Places in the other World; the Blessedness and Misery is Eternal. Things to come would not considerably counter-balance things present, if there were not Eternity in the case.

then God dealeth with us by way of recompence either in Pains or Joys. Add further, Reason will tell us that these Pains and Joys after Death should be everlasting, that the recompence should last as long as Man lasts. For Man as to his Soul is immortal, and there is no change of Estate in the other World after our Trial is over, and things of Religion become meer matter of Sense. Certainly one that hath lived holily, and is translated to Glory, there is no Reason that he should afterwards be made miserable, and the Punishment holdeth Conformity to the Reward. Luk. 16. 26. Between us and you there is a great Gulph fixed, so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot, neither can they pass to us that would come from thence. There is no changing of Estates or Places in the other World; the Blessedness and Misery is Eternal. Things to come would not considerably counter-ballance things present, if there were not Eternity in the case.

(2.) Conscience hath a sense of it; and on the one hand standeth in dread of Eternal Death, and on the other is cheered with the hopes of Eternal Life. The first is proved,