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* fine Linnen, and laid in Odors? his Senfes are not gratified by any fuch Delicacies, nor "would he feel any thing befides the Torment of being withheld from the Mire. And as little Complacency would a Brutish Soul find in those purer and refined Pleasures which can only upbraid, not fatisfie him. But what still more. confirms the Truth of that which has been writ in this Section; according to the Do&trin afferted in it, Heaven and Hell are directly fet against each other; and the feveral ways that lead unto them diametrically oppofite to one another. For the Joys of Heaven are the fulfilling the Souls defires in the fruition of the really chief Good of man. The Torments of Hell, the Fruftration of the Souls defires of fome falfly fuppofed Chief Good. Virtue, the Way of Blifs, is the preferring the Love of God before the Love of the World. Vice, the Path of Hell, is the preferring the Love of the World before the Love of God. And as the Beatified Souls according to the higher degree of Love wherewith they are affected to God,are more happy because fuller of delight fo the damned Spirits,the ftronger affection they have to the things they lust after are more grievoutly tormented, the difappointment of a stronger affection being more afli&tive than of a weaker.

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Object.3. According to this Doctrin, neither the Bodies of the glorified Saints would participate of Blifs; nor the Bodies of the damned have any portion of Pain.

Solut Not fo; for if when the Soul abounds with Joy and Delight, it be able to quicken, chear and make brisk this dull and heavy Lump of Clay, as we fee it doth how much more will it through the immenfe Joys of Heaven have a powerful influence on a fpiritual Body? And if Grief for the difappointment of mens wished defires here can caft them into violently fcorching Fevers, how fhould the exceffive Pain of the perpetual Fruftration of the damneds hot Lufts, but put their Bodies into an everlasting state of Burning? Be fides, fince all Bodies must be contain❜d in Placed as the Bodies of the Saints fhall poffefs the most glorious which are fuitable for them, fo the Bodies of the damned fhall in habit the molt difinal that are proper for them and therefore what difference of Place can contribute to Bliss and Mifery, they'differently share there in refpect of that alfoot rub bust britnads Objech 4 Sin that cries for A Murther is a Vengeance, and yet if the Torments of Hell confift in the Difappointment of mens

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Defires, there would be no Punishment but only the lofs of Heaven, allotted to that most horrid Crime,

Solut. Murthers a crying Sin indeed; forit ftays not for the Judgment of the World to come but it self begins its own Pasifh nent heley the Mutherer being tortured and distracted almost with the reprefentation of the Act alone, whilft it is a thing fo deteftable, and repugnant to the very Being of human Nature, that in de fpight of all his endeavours to the contrary, he ftarts, and is agaft at the horror of it, as often as it occurs to his mind (though but in fleep, when he neither dreads the Sentence of a terreftrial nor celeftial Judg.) So that when after this Life, he fhall have no intervention of neceffary bufinefs to divert his Thoughts from it, 'twill be terrible and tormentive to him beyond expresion, fince his very Effence will have a perpetual perfect antipathy to it, and yet he shall ever be haunted and infefted with its ghastly and dreadful vifage. But befides, murtherers are tormented as well as other Sinners by their fruftrated defires; for Good being the Object of the Will, every Creature which is endued therewith, has an affection for fome or other either real or ap

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parent Good, and 'tis this latter that the wicked of all forts ardently affect; though they judg in general the state of the glorified Saints to be true felicity, and their own condition a ftate of mifery (notwithftanding that they can by no means relish the manner of delight which the Bleffed have for otherwife there could be no fuch Pain as Pena Damni, the lofs of Heaven, fince none are troubled for the want of that which they have not any respect or efteem at all for; whence the very Inconfiftency of the Thoughts of the damned concerning true and falfe Blifs, fet their minds upon the Rack. To which is to be added yet another Torment which afflicts likewife, without exception, the whole Crew of reprobate Souls, to wit, the gnawing Viper of Envy and Malice towards the Saints in Blifs, in that they obtain their full defires, when they themselves are totally deprived of their own.

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The only Evil which is prejudicial' to Man in respect of the End for which he was created is Malum Culpæ, the Evil of Fault; and it is either Privative or Pofitive, The former confists in an Averfion from God; the latter in a Converfion to the Creature. Each of them is called Sin, the one Formal, the other Material.The greatest Alienation of the Heart from God makes the greatest Sinner. Bad sila Tos un gaiduong

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Eeing it was proved (sec. 4. ) that God created Man, not for any Good whatfoever to accrue thereby to himself, but folely and wholly to communicate Good to his Creature, tis manifeft that noprejudice Man in re of the End for which he was cr that alone which is prejudicial to him in refpect of his own final Good; which fince it has been fhewn (fect. 4. par. 13, 14.) to confist in the perfect Love of God, 'tis clear that nothing is evil to man as man, or created to inherit Blifs, but either the very Alienation it felf of the Hearts Affection from

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