And then, Let thy Meditation remove the Bars of the Pit, & uncover the dismal Vault, & Look down into the Infernal World. Meditate on the tremendous Things which are inflicted on the Prisoners in that place of Torment. Visit the gloomy & howling Regions, where GOD sets them in dark places, who have been Dead of old: GOD hedges them about, they cannot ⟨p. 34⟩get out: GOD makes their chain heavy: Also when they Cry and Shout, He shuts out their prayer. GOD is as a Lion unto them in the secret Places: He pulls them in pieces, and makes them Desolate. GOD causes the Arrows of His Quiver to enter into them, & He fills them with Bitterness: Think, If I must go down to that World, I shall carry thither with me the Raging Desires of the diverse Lusts which I am now serving of; But they will only help to Torture me; I shall not have so much as a Drop of water to gratify them. I shall be hardly bestead, and hungry, & fret my self, & curse GOD, & look upward. And when I look back unto the Earth, & Remember the Good, things I received there, Oh! the Dimness of the Anguish I shall have upon me, finding my self driven into Darkness! Think again, If I go down to that World, all the painful Things, that ever I did or could Suffer, by the mediation of my senses here, I shall have without them, dispensed unto me there, in very Tormenting Sentiments which a Provoked GOD will compel me to; And all those pains little enough to punish my Crimes in Denying the GOD that is above. Think once more; If I go down to that World, an Almighty GOD Himself will take me into His own Hands, and make me feel such Scalding Strokes, of His Wrath as no Tongue is able to Express, no Heart able to Conceive. Immediate Emanations from an Offended, Omnipotent, Omniscient & Omnipresent ⟨p. 35⟩GOD, will penetrate like Hot Lightning into my Soul: immediate Coruscations from GOD acting as a Consuming Fire. GOD Himself will fight against me, with a Strong Arm, even in Great Wrath. And can my Hands be strong, or can my Heart endure, when GOD shall deal with me? But then, let thy Meditation mind thee of the Eternity which renders That World, yet more Terrible: The Everlasting Punishment, which the Wicked shall go away into. Think; If I come to be tormented in that World, I know not of any Period for my Torment. An Aching Tooth for one Month, how grievous would it be unto me here!
And then, Let thy Meditation remove the Bars of the Pit, & uncover the dismal Vault, & Look down into the Infernal World. Meditate on the tremendous Things which are inflicted on the Prisoners in that place of Torment. Visit the gloomy & howling Regions, where GOD sets them in dark places, who have been Dead of old: GOD hedges them about, they cannot ⟨p. 34⟩get out: GOD makes their chain heavy: Also when they Cry and Shout, He shuts out their prayer. GOD is as a Lion unto them in the secret Places: He pulls them in pieces, and makes them Desolate. GOD causes the Arrows of His Quiver to enter into them, & He fills them with Bitterness: Think, If I must go down to that World, I shall carry thither with me the Raging Desires of the diverse Lusts which I am now serving of; But they will only help to Torture me; I shall not have so much as a Drop of water to gratify them. I shall be hardly bestead, and hungry, & fret my self, & curse GOD, & look upward. And when I look back unto the Earth, & Remember the Good, things I received there, Oh! the Dimness of the Anguish I shall have upon me, finding my self driven into Darkness! Think again, If I go down to that World, all the painful Things, that ever I did or could Suffer, by the mediation of my senses here, I shall have without them, dispensed unto me there, in very Tormenting Sentiments which a Provoked GOD will compel me to; And all those pains little enough to punish my Crimes in Denying the GOD that is above. Think once more; If I go down to that World, an Almighty GOD Himself will take me into His own Hands, and make me feel such Scalding Strokes, of His Wrath as no Tongue is able to Express, no Heart able to Conceive. Immediate Emanations from an Offended, Omnipotent, Omniscient & Omnipresent ⟨p. 35⟩GOD, will penetrate like Hot Lightning into my Soul: immediate Coruscations from GOD acting as a Consuming Fire. GOD Himself will fight against me, with a Strong Arm, even in Great Wrath. And can my Hands be strong, or can my Heart endure, when GOD shall deal with me? But then, let thy Meditation mind thee of the Eternity which renders That World, yet more Terrible: The Everlasting Punishment, which the Wicked shall go away into. Think; If I come to be tormented in that World, I know not of any Period for my Torment. An Aking Tooth for one Month, how grievous would it be unto me here!
