Twenty sermons preached at Oxford before His Majesty, and elsewhere

it's said of the damned, their worm shall not dye, nor their fire be quenched, but they shall be an abhorring to all flesh, and the holy Angels and Saints shall go forth and look upon them: those proud ones that scorned Gods people here, shall then be abhorred and scorned of them.

4. Add to all this, that he's not only banished from th• presence of God for a while, but from all hope of ever seeing God again with comfort. Thy estate is endless and remediless. Whilst thou art here in this life, of a Saul thou mayst become a Paul, and though thou art not yet a beloved Son, yet thou mayst come in favour: Whilst thou livest under the means of grace, there is yet hope of recovery left thee, it may be this Sermon may be the means of thy conversion: But then amongst all thy punishments, this will be one of the greatest, that thou shalt be deprived of all means of recovery, and this shall be another hell to thee in the midst of hell, to think with thy self I have heard so many Sermons and yet have neglected them, I had so many opportunities of grace, and yet have slighted them, this will make the sinner rage, and bite his tongue, and tear himself, to think how that now all means are past. And this is the first penalty, the penalty of loss.

That of the sense succeeds. By the former we are deprived of all the joys and comforts of heaven and earth, of Mount Zion, shut out of the City of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, deprived of an innumerable company of Saints, of the general Assembly and Church of the first-born, of God himself the judge of all, and the souls of the Saints made perfect. This shall make a sinner curse himself.

That of the sense succeeds. By the former we are deprived of all the joys and comforts of heaven and earth, of Mount Sion, shut out of the City of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, deprived of an innumerable company of Saints, of the general Assembly and Church of the first-born, of God himself the judge of all, and the souls of the Saints made perfect. This shall make a sinner curse himself.