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The valley of Hinnom. The terrors of hell demonstrated and the methods of escaping…The valley of Hinnom. The terrours of hell demonstrated and the methods of escaping…
The valley of Hinnom. The terrors of hell demonstrated and the methods of escaping the terrible miseries of the punishments on the wicked there, declared. In a sermon preached in the hearing, and at the request, of a man under a sentence of death for a murder; just before the execution of the sentence; and upon a text by himself assigned for the sermon to insist upon. At Boston, 13.d. IV.m. 1717, : [Two lines of quotation in Latin]The valley of Hinnom. The terrours of hell demonstrated and the methods of escaping the terrible miseries of the punishments on the wicked there, declared. In a sermon preached in the hearing, and at the request, of a man under a sentence of death for a murder; just before the execution of the sentence; and upon a text by himself assigned for the sermon to insist upon. At Boston, 13.d. IV.m. 1717, : [Two lines of quotation in Latin]
Boston: printed by J. Allen for Robert Starke, 1717
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Secondly. We have seen HELL begun upon Earth; And from thence we may gather, how Formidable, and much more painful than any Death, will be the Punishment of the Wicked, in that HELL to which they are going down. If the Raised Bodies of the Wicked, must feel Pains at least Equal to what they gave unto the Bodies of others here, and be used no better than some Inhumane Caribbeans do their Slaves, they will now be worse of it, because their Souls will feel, what the sufferers from them here, did not undergo. The Horrors raised in a Guilty Conscience, what are they but some sparkles of HELL shot into the Souls of Men? But these Horrors, How Intolerable! How Intolerable! It was long since observed; Prov. XVIII. 14. A wounded Spirit, who can bear? Persons under the Horrors of a Guilty Conscience, how Formidably are they Cruciated? They Roar by Reason of the Disquietness ⟨p. 29⟩of their Heart. Yea, They choose Strangling rather than Life. One among us, kept fearfully crying out, I am all on Fire under the Wrath of GOD! and went, and hanged himself. Some that have wounded their Conscience by sinful Compliances and Apostasies, have been so unable to bear the Wounds, that they have Retracted what they have done, and have gone and have told, the Tormentors, No Death you can inflict, is a thousandth part so bad, as the wounds which we feel in our Souls! Yea, How often have People under the Horrors of a Guilty Conscience, grown lean, and pale, and ghastly; and been mere Magor-Missabib's, a Terror to themselves, and all about them! How often, have they professed, That Burning in the Fire on the Hearth, would be a Mitigation of their Miseries! One of them over hearing People speak, about Burning in the Fire, cried out, Oh! That is but a mere Metaphor for what my […] Endures! Now, In HELL, the ⟨p. 30⟩Horrors of a Guilty Conscience do seize upon the Souls of the wicked, in the fullest Efficacy, and with a vast Enlargement of their Faculties, to receive the lashes of the Furies. GOD has an Instrument of His Vengeance in the Conscience of a Wicked Man. And Oh! the Scourges, Oh! the Scorches, which it will give unto him, when the Vengeance of Eternal Fire falls upon him! Can any Death be so Formidable, as what is felt from a Conscience armed with Guilt, and in the Name of the Holy GOD upbraiding a Sinner with a Fiery Indignation?