shall burst them, puffed up and speechless, and shall shake them from the foundations, and they shall be utterly laid waste; they shall be in sorrow, and their memory shall perish; they shall come with fear at the thought of their sins, and their iniquities shall stand against them to convict them,' Wisd. iv. 18. "Wherefore thou hast also greatly tormented them, who in their life have lived foolishly and unjustly, by the same things which they worshipped... thou hast sent a judgment upon them, as senseless children to mock them," Wisd. xii. 23, 25, "They are confounded and ashamed; the forgers of error are gone together into confusion," Isaiah xlv. 16. "Fear shall cover them, and shame shall be upon every face, and baldness upon all their heads," Ezek. vii. 18. For, "Behold I come against thee, saith the Lord of Hosts, and I will discover thy shame to thy face, and I will shew thy nakedness to the nations, and thy shame to kingdoms; and I will cast abominations upon thee, and will disgrace thee," Nah. iii. 5.

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Thou shalt drink thy sister's cup deep and wide; thou shalt be had in derision and scorn; it containeth much. Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow with the cup of grief and sadness . and thou shalt drink it up even to the dregs, and thou shalt devour the fragments thereof,' Ezek. xxiii. 32. Yea, God himself shall deride them: "I also," saith he, "will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when they shall come upon you which you feared," Prov. i. 26. Then shall they cry out in the words of the Psalmist,

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All the day long my shame is before me, and the confusion of my face hath covered me," Psal. xliii. 16. (2.) Fire; for they shall be cast into the hell of unquenchable fire, where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not extinguished ... for

every one shall be salted with fire, and every victim shall be salted with salt," Mark ix. 44, 48.. Accordingly the sentence of the judge shall be, "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels... and these shall go into everlasting punishment," Matth. xxv. 41. "For thou, O Lord, shalt make them as an oven of fire in the time of thy anger. The Lord shall trouble them in his wrath, and fire shall devour them," Psal. xx. 10. "He shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mingled with pure wine in the cup of his wrath, and shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the sight of the holy angels, and in the sight of the Lamb, and the smoke of their torments shall ascend up for ever and ever, neither have they rest day nor night," Rev. xiv. 10. (3.) The cup of the wrath of God: "In the hand of the Lord there is a cup of strong wine full of mixture. . . the dregs thereof are not emptied; all the sinners of the earth shall drink," Psal. lxxiv. 9. "Take the cup of wine of this fury at my hand, and thou shalt make all the nations to drink thereof, unto which I shall send thee, and they shall drink, and be troubled, and be mad . . . to make them a desolation, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a curse,' Jerem. xxv. 15. And this dreadful cup of the wrath of God contains all manner of evils: "A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest hell... I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among them; they shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them with a bitter bite; I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents . . . their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters most bitter; their wine is the gall of dragons, and the

venom of asps, which is incurable. Are not these things stored up with me, and sealed up in my treasures? Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time," Deut. xxxii. 22, 32. (4.) In the midst of all these dreadful evils, no comfort, nor peace, nor ease, "Neither have they rest day nor night," Rev. xiv. 11. No ray of light to cheer their disconsolate mind; for that land is a land of darkness, covered with the mist of death; yea, a land of misery and darkness," Job x. 21. Hence the sentence pronounced against the wicked servant in the gospel, "Bind him hand and foot, and cast him into the exterior darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth," Matth. xxii. 13.; for to them" the storm of darkness is reserved for ever," Jude, verse 13. Yea, the fire itself which torments them, shall be a fire of darkness to them: "Shall not the light of the wicked be extinguished, and the flame of his fire not shine? The light shall be dark in his tabernacle," Job xviii. 5. No drop of water to cool his parched tongue, burnt and scorched in these tormenting flames. The rich glutton "lifting up his eyes, when he was in torments, saw 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 to cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame," Luke xvi. 23. What is a drop of water to that ocean of fire? and yet this drop of water was denied him. No pleasant sound of music shall be found there to soothe or ease their pain; for "I will take away from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, and the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the mill and the light of the lamp, and all this land shall be a desolation and an astonishment," Jer. xxv. 10.; and, "the voice of harpers and of

musicians, and of them that play on the pipe and on the trumpet, shall be no more heard at all." Rev. xviii. 22.

(5.) Their employment in the midst of that abyss, of misery, is thus declared: "There shall be weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth," Matth. viii. 12. "They shall seek death, and shall not find it; they shall desire to die, and death shall fly from them," Rev. ix. 6. They shall torment themselves with bitter, but fruitless remorse, "Saying within themselves, repenting, and groaning with anguish of spirit, We have erred from thy way of truth, and the light of justice hath not shined unto us-we wearied ourselves in the way of iniquity and destruction, and have walked through hard ways, but the way of the Lord we have not known. What hath pride profiteth us; or what advantage hath the boasting of riches brought us? All these things are passed away like a shadow," Wisd. v.3.. But knowing all this is to no purpose; they burst out into rage and despair," gnawing their tongues for pain, and blaspheming the God of heaven, because of their pains and wounds,” Rev. xvi. 10..

(6.) The pain of loss, or their eternal separation: from God and all good. This will be the most dreadful of all their torments; for God is an infinite good in himself, and the inexhaustible source of all good to us: our hearts are made for him, and nothing less than God can satisfy to the full the boundless capacity of our souls. Even in this life we partake numberless ways of his infinite goodness, all the real good we enjoy being emanations from the boundless ocean of his divine goodness. Poor unhappy sinners are not sensible of this while they are partaking of his sweetness in this life; but being blinded by their passions, and occupied with a thousand extravagant and sensual pursuits,,

they forget the sovereign source from whence all good flows: but in hell the case will be immensely altered. Being then loosed from the chains of mortality, sensual objects will no longer be able to bind them; they shall then find and feel, to their woeful experience, that God alone is their sovereign, their universal, their eternal good, that nothing else can possibly ease them; they shall find themselves racked with the most ardent desire of possessing this immense good; but at the same time shall feel, to their inexpressible torment, that this eternal good is eternally lost to them; lost to them in himself, lost to them in themselves, and lost to them in all his creatures. Their lively sense of this dismal and irreparable loss, and of all the fatal consequences of it, shall continually rack their despairing souls; nor shall they be able for a single moment, to turn away their thoughts from it; lost to their God, and lost to all good, and eternally fixed in an ocean of exquisite torment, they are in a continal state of inexpressible violence, and all the efforts of their vehement longings after happiness shall only serve to redouble their misery; hence the soul becomes a hell to herself, perpetually racked and torn asunder by the most horrid envy, sadness, hatred, rage, despair. Even in this life, the holy servants of God find the greatest joy and consolation from that small glimpse of the divine presence which God sometimes communicates to them for their consolation; and nothing gives them so great affliction as when he at times, and for their trials, deprives them of it. Thus Job, amidst his other afflictions, complains, in a particular manner, of this, as of the most severe of his sufferings: Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy?" Job, xiii. 24. When all his other trials came upon him, he was content, and blessed God for them. So long as he enjoyed the divine pre

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