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A prospect of eternity. Wherein is clearly proved, I. That there is an eternity…
A prospect of eternity. Wherein is clearly proved, I. That there is an eternity into which all men must enter, when they go out of time. II. That we should eye eternity, and look at eternal things. III. That this looking ought to have an influence upon us, in all that we do. / By Tho. Doolittle. ; [Two lines from Matthew]
Boston: printed by T. Fleet and T. Crump for Nicholas Buttolph, 1715
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
10. In Eternity there will be no mixture. In the other World there is all pure Love. or all pure Wrath! all Sweet, or all Bitter, without all Pain, or without all Ease; without all Misery, or without all Happiness. not partly at Ease, & partly in Pain, partly Happy, & partly Miserable, but all the one, or the other. This Life is a middle place betwixt Heaven and Hell, and here we partake of some good, and some evil: No Judgment on this side Hell upon the worst of men, but there is some Mercy mixed with it, for ⟨p. 99⟩it is Mercy they are yet on this side Hell; and no Condition on this side Heaven, but there is some evil mixed with it, for till we get to Heaven, we shall have sin in us. In Heaven all are Good, in Hell all are Bad; on Earth some Good, but more bad. In Hell Misery, without mixture of Mercy, or of Hope; they have no Mercy, and that is bad; and they can hope for none, & that is worse; while they be in Time, they are pitied; God doth pity them, and Christ doth pity them, and Good men do pity them, their Friends & Relations do pity them, pray for them, and weep over them: but when Time is past, all pity will be past, and they in Misery without pity to all Eternity. Rev. 14.10. The same shall drink of the Wine of the Wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the Cup of his Indignation: and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the Holy Angels, & in the presence of the Lamb. 11. And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever & ever, & they have no rest, day nor night.— No! then for the Lords •ake, for your Souls Sake, as upon my knees I beseech you, if you have any ⟨p. 100⟩dread of God, any fear of Hell, any desire of Heaven, any care whither you must go, take no rest night nor day in time, till you have secured your Everlasting happy state, that you might have Everlasting rest, night and Day in Eternity; or that you might pas into that Eternity where it is always day and no night; and not into that, where it shall be always night and never day. Sins! what say ye? What are ye resolved upon? to sin still, or to repent that ye have already sinned, and by the Grace of God to sin no more? To work in Time, for things of Time, or in Time to prepare for Eternity? Will ye obey my Message, or will ye not? Speak in Time, or I will not say, hold your Pease for ever, but repent in Time, or ye shall cry & roar for ever: