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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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Finally. There is this to render the Punishment of the Wicked in HELL beyond all Imagination Formidable. Do you know of any Period for the Punishment? Only an Aching Tooth, holding One for a Month together, how grievous! But the Exquisite Miseries of the Damned, will they hold no more than a year? or will they come to a Period in a Thousand years? or after as many Millions of years, as there are Leaves upon the Trees, or Drops in the Sea, or Sands on the Shore; will they then come to a Period? or, could a Scroll as wide as the ⟨p. 35⟩System of Our World, filled with Figures, contain the Number of years, which the Wicked are to see passing away in the Wrath of GOD! We know nothing of any Period. This we know, That our SAVIOUR has called it, Mat. XXV. 4•. An Everlasting Punishment. And there is a consideration, which the mind of a Christian cannot hear proposed, but he must like Moses before the Burning Mountain of old, cry out, I exceedingly fear and quake, at the mention of it! It is this; 'Tis plain, That our Mediator unto whom GOD has committed the Judgment, will adjudge the Wicked unto a Punishment which will be Formidable. 'Tis plain, That our Mediator at the Time of the End, when He delivers up his Kingdom to His Father, Leaves the Wicked still under their Punishment. If ever the Wicked be Released from their Punishment, it must be after the Son of GOD, shall cease to act as a Mediator. Now, when the Mediator has left ⟨p. 36⟩them, in the Devouring Fire, and in the Everlasting Burnings, Who, who will there be to bring them out? Or, Is there any likelihood, that Souls, which have outstood their Time for Probation, and are fixed in all Malignity, should ever be changed, and brought back unto an unchangeable GOD, who has finally Rejected them? O Punishment hopeless of a Period? Certainly, No Death can be so Formidable?
Finally. There is this to render the Punishment of the Wicked in HELL beyond all Imagination Formidable. Do you know of any Period for the Punishment? Only an Aking Tooth, holding One for a Month together, how grievous! But the Exquisite Miseries of the Damned, will they hold no more than a year? or will they come to a Period in a Thousand years? or after as many Millions of years, as there are Leaves upon the Trees, or Drops in the Sea, or Sands on the Shore; will they then come to a Period? or, could a Scroul as wide as the