: hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire: where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched." (Mark ix. 43, etc.) "He that believeth not shall be damned." (Mark xvi. 16.) "Woe unto you that are rich for ye have received your consolation. Woe unto you that are full for ye shall hunger. shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now: for ye shall mourn and weep." (Luke vi. 24, 25.) "But I will forewarn you whom you shall fear. Fear him which, after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell: yea, I say unto you, fear him. But if that servant say in his heart, My Lord delayeth his coming, the Lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and will cut him in sunder, and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. And that servant which knew his Lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison. I tell thee, thou shalt not depart thence, till thou hast paid the very last mite." (Luke xii. 5, etc.) “When once the master of the house is risen up, and has shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us, he shall say, I tell you, I know you not; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth when ye shall see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.' (Luke xiii. 25, etc.) "The rich man also died, and was buried. And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried, and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy life time receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed; so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us that would come from thence." (Luke xvi. 22, etc.) "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted; that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever be lieveth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." (John iii. 14-16.) In these words it is implied, that they who believe not on Christ shall perish; and perishing is directly opposed to having everlasting life. All is implied here which is expressly asserted in v. 36, " He that believeth not the Son, shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him." "The hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done. evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." (John v. 28, 29.) "I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins. Ye are of this world; I am not of this world. I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins." (John viii. 21, 24.) What Christ repeatedly threatens in these words must be evil which would come on them after their death, which can be no less than a proper punishment for their sins. "He that loveth his life, shall lose it: and he that hateth his life in this world, shall keep it unto life eternal." (John xii. 25, 48.) Losing his life, is an evil which is opposed to keeping it to life eternal; therefore, must mean eternal death. "He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day." That is, he shall then be condemned and punished. "If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned." (John xv. 6.) "Then shall he say unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment." (Matt. xxv. 41, 46.) Who can read all these words of Christ, and yet think that he came into the world with a design to save all men from future punishment? If we had nothing but his own declarations to determine us, these are more than sufficient to give us as much assurance that the wicked will be punished to a great and awful degree in a future state as we can have that he is the Son of God, the Savior of the world; yea, we cannot doubt of the former, without calling the latter equally in question. No person that ever spoke on earth by divine inspiration has said so much of the future punishment of the wicked, and preached hell and damnation so much and so often, or set it in so awful and shocking a light, as did the only begotten Son of God, who is full of grace and truth. But what we find in the writings of the apostles of Christ will show how they understood him on this point, and strengthen the evidence of the destruction and punishment of the wicked in a future state, if it be capable of receiving any addition. Paul "And it shall come to pass that every soul which will not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among the people." (Acts iii. 23.) These words, with the foregoing, are a quotation from Moses made by the apostle Peter in his speech to the people in the temple, which words he applies to Christ, as being the Prophet of which God speaks by Moses; and here is a threatening of certain destruction to every soul which shall disregard this Prophet: "Beware, therefore, lest that come upon you which is spoken of in the prophets: Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish." (Acts xiii. 40, 41.) "And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judg ment to come, Felix trembled." (Acts xxiv. 25.) What could there be in Paul's preaching to make Felix tremble, if he brought no evil into view as coming on the unrighteous and intemperate at and after the day of judgment? If he had preached to this wicked Roman governor that there was no future punishment to be feared,-yea, if he had not preached the contrary, Felix could not have been terrified. brought the day of judgment into view as matter of great terror to wicked men; therefore, he preached that they would then be condemned and punished according to their evil deeds in this life. This appears from the words under consideration, and also from St. Paul's own words: "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men." (2 Cor. v. 10, 11.) What words can more expressly declare that they who die impenitent in their sins shall, at the day of judgment, be condemned by Christ to a punishment answerable to the number and magnitude of the crimes of which they were guilty in this life? And this was the terror which the apostles had in view, by displaying which they sought to persuade men to fly from the wrath to come. They who believe the wicked will not be punished after the day of judgment, do not know the terror of Christ, of which St. Paul here speaks, but deny that there is any such terror; and were a Felix to hear them preach, and believe what they say, he would be so far from trembling, that he would be soothed into perfect security. But let us proceed, and see what this apostle says further of future punishment. "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness." (Rom. i. 18.) "But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; who will render to every man according to his deeds: unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doth evil. For as many as have sinned without law, shall perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law, shall be judged by the law, in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel." (Rom. ii. 5, etc.) "For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die;" (Rom. viii. 13;)—that is, the second death, which is the wages of sin, in opposition to eternal life: "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord." "What if God, willing to show his wrath, and make his power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction." (Rom. ix. 22.) "For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God. For we are unto God a sweet savor of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish. To the one we are a savor of death unto death; and to the other a savor of life unto life." (1 Cor. i. 18, with 2 Cor. ii. 15, 16.) "If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy." (1 Cor. iii. 17.) "But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection; lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway." (1 Cor. ix. 27.) "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he reap. For he that soweth to his flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting." (Gal. vi. 7, 8.) "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience." (Eph. v. 5, 6.) "And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God." (Philip. i. 28.) "For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you, even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end is destruction." (Philip. iii. 18, 19.) "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, covetousness," etc.: "for which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience." (Col. iii. 5, 6.) "But he that doth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons." (Col. iii. 25.) "Whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come." (1 Thess. i. 10.) "That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter; because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified." (1 Thess. iv. 6.) "For when they shall say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape." (1 Thess. v. 3.) "Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; and to you who are troubled, rest with us; when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power." (2 Thess. i. 6-9.) "And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness." (2 Thess. ii. 10-12.) "Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after." (1 Tim. v. 24.) "But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which draw men in destruction and perdition." (1 Tim. vi. 9.) "If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us." (2 Tim. ii. 12.) "For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward, how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?" (Heb. ii. 2, 3.) "So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief." (Heb. iii. 19 compared with iv. 11.) "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened," etc., "if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance, seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. For the earth, which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and |