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The mischief of sinne it brings a person low / published by Thomas Watson ...
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Watson, Thomas, d. 1686.
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15.24 Hell beneath Hesiod saith Hell is as far under the Earth as Heaven is above it If sin then brings a man to Hell it brings him low Consider 1. The plurality of Hell torments In bodily sickness seldom above one Disease at a time troubles the Patient the Stone or Gout but in Hell there is a diversity of torments There is 1. Darkness Jude 13. Hell is a dark Region 2. There are bonds and chains 2 Pet. 2.4 God hath Golden cords which are his Precepts tying men to duty and Iron chains which are partly his decree in ordaining men to destruction and partly his Power in bridling and chaining them up under wrath The binding the wicked in chains notes that the damned in Hell cannot move from place to place which might perhaps a little alleviate and abate their misery but they shall be tyed to the stake never to stir The wicked could go from one sin to another but in Hell they shall not move from one place to another 3. The Worm that never dyes Mar. 9.44 This is a self-accusing mind which is so torturing as if a Worm full of poison were gnawing at a mans heart Such as would not hear the voice of conscience shall be made to feel the worm of conscience 2. The severity of Hell torment It is expressed by a lake of Fire Rev. 20.15 Fire is the most torturing Element Nebuchadnezzars fiery Fornace was but painted fire to this It is called Fire prepared Matth. 25.41 as if God had been sitting down to devise some exquisite torment Dives cryes out O I am tormented in this flame Luke 16.24 3. The torments of Hell shall be in every part both of body and soul. 1. The body shall be tormented That body which was so tender and delicate that it could not bear heat or cold shall suffer in every part The eyes shall be tormented with sights of Devils the ears with the hideous shrieks of the damned the tongue that was fired with passion shall now have fire enough Luke 16.24 Send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue 2. All the powers of the soul shall be tormented The mind to apprehend Divine displeasure the memory to remember what mercies have been abused what means of Grace have been slighted and what an Heaven is forfeited the conscience shall be tormented with self-accusations the sinner shall arraign himself for stifling and resisting the motions of the blessed Spirit 4. The wicked shall not only be forced to behold the Devil but shall be shut up in the Den with this roaring Lion and he shall spit fire in their faces 5. The wicked shall hear the language of Hell Revel 16.9 Men were scorched with heat and blasphemed the Name of God To hear reprobates cursing God and have ones ears chained to their Oaths and Blasphemies what an Hell will this be 6. The torments of Hell have no period put to them Origen fancied a fiery stream in which the souls of sinful men yea Devils and all were to be purged and then pass into Heaven but the Scripture asserts that whosoever are not purged from sin by Christs blood are to lye under the Torrid Zone of Gods wrath to all eternity Revel 14.11 The smoak of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever This word ever burns hotter than the Fire At death all our worldly sorrows dye but the torments of Hell are as long-liv'd as Eternity Rev. 9.6 They shall seek death and shall not find it Alwayes dying but never dead Here the wicked thought a Prayer long a Sabbath long Amos 8.5 But how long will it be to lye in Hell for ever Vestigia nulla retrorsum 7. The pains of Hell are without intermission If a man be in pain yet while he is asleep he doth not feel it There is no sleep in Hell What would the damned give for one hours sleep Rev. 4.8 They rest not day nor night In outward pain there is some abatement the burning fit is sometimes off and the sick Patient is more at ease than he was But the damned soul never saith I have more ease those infernal pains are alwayes acute and sharp no cooling fits in those inflammations 8. In Hell the wicked shall see the godly advanced to a Kingdom and themselves devoted to misery Luke 13.28 Then shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth when ye shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the Prophets in the Kingdom of God and you your selves thrust out When sinners shall see those whom they hated and scorned to be set at Christs right hand and crowned with glory and themselves cast out to the Devils nay when the ungodly shall see those whom they censured and persecuted sit as their Judges and join with Christ in condemning them 1 Cor. 6.2 Know ye not that the Saints shall judge the world How will this aggravate the misery of those hellish Caitiffs and make them gnash their teeth for envy 9. In Hell the wicked shall have none to sympathize with them It is some comfort to have friends condole with us in our sufferings but the damned have none to compassionate them Mercy will not pity them mercy abused turns to fury God the Father will not pity them he will laugh at them Prov. 1.26 I will laugh at your calamity Is not this sad for a damned soul to lye roaring in flames and have God sit and laugh at him Jesus Christ will not pity the wicked they slighted his blood and now his blood cryes against them The Angels will not pity them it is a desirable sight to them to see Gods Justice glorified The Saints in Heaven will not pity them they were continually persecuted by them and they shall rejoyce when they see the vengeance Psalm 58.10 Nay such as were their nearest Relations on Earth will not pity them the Father will not pity his Child in Hell nor the Wife her Husband the reason is because the Saints glorified have their wills made perfectly subject to Gods will and when they see his will is done they rejoyce though it be in the damning of their near relations Doth not sin then bring men low when it brings them to Hell Ezek. 32.27 They are gone down to Hell they have laid their swords under their heads but their iniquity shall be upon their bones Thus I have shown you how many wayes sin brings one low 2. Why sin must needs bring a man low 1. Because sin is a Disease and that brings low Take the healthiest Constitution the most sanguine Complexion yet if sickness get into it it brings the body low the beauty withers the Silver Cord begins to be loosed So it is in spirituals the soul which was once of an Orient brightness the mind angelified the will crowned with liberty the affections as so many Seraphims burning in love to God yet by sin is become diseased and