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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	day_n	dead_a	die_v	4,346	5	5.5733	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61219	A discourse of the misery of Hell and happiness of Heaven grounded from the following words, Matth. 25, 46, And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1697 (1697)	Wing S5116; ESTC R26941	13,459	16

A DISCOURSE OF THE Misery of Hell AND Happiness of Heaven Grounded from the following Words Matth. 25.46 And these shall go away into Everlasting Punishment but the Righteous into Life Eternal THE foregoing part of the Words is to be understood of the Goats of those of all Nations v. 32 33. and Generations who shall be placed on the Left Hand That is as it is spoken in other places of ●cripture such as shall then be found to have been Sinners ●nbelievers Hypocrites the Children of Disobedience ●icked and Ungodly and such like According as is writ●●n The Hour is coming in the which all that are in the Graves ●●all hear his Voice and shall come forth They that have done ●ood unto the Resurrection of Life and they that have done Evil ●●to the Resurrection of Damnation We are told and warned ●hat the final Condition of Mankind will be and what … t shall be allotted to the one and what shall be allotted 〈◊〉 the other Now as we are in the Body we are con … med herein and in short every one of us must go to ●●e of them either to Heaven or to Hell They go to Hell ●f whom it is written And these shall go away into Ever●asting Punishment And here this word Everlasting Punishment sounds terrible ●nd dismal at the very first for alas so weak and little so ●…etful and impatient is our present Nature and Condition that we cannot or at least we do not care to endure or undergo any short Pain or Punishment now how much more intollerable must that then be which is Eternal Who now think it so irksome to tarry a few and evil Days here on Earth although they have several good ones intermingled How can they endure to be in Hell for Thousands and Millions of Years without an Hour of Comfort or Freedom from Misery Even now although there are the Intervals of Sleep and those necessary and common Actions of Life which divert from the Sence and Feeling thereof yet still a wounded and troubled Spirit who can bear Much more may the Question be asked Can thine Heart endure under the gnawing of the Worm which shall never die To whom every least spark of Fire that falls upon any part of the Body is so painful Can thine Hands be strong or how can they abide to lie down in Everlasting Fire Or how can they rest in a Cradle of Flames Or to be refreshed in that Fire which the Breath of the Lord like a stream of Brimstone doth kindle It is as bad as bad can be For lay together all the Evils Pains Torments Fears Diseases Afflictions Crosses and such like which are throughout the whole Earth and they do not make up the ten thousandth part so bad as the Damnation of Hell It will be one of the Torments of Hell to be depriv'd not only from the Beatifical Vision but even from the sight of the Heavens of God Persecute and destroy them in Anger from under the Heavens of the Lord Lam. 3.66 which must needs be very melancholy and uncomfortable not so much as to see the outside of that place where Blessedness dwells For if one should be kept in a very low Pit without Light or Company What a restless thing would this be or as they took Jeremiah and cast him down into the Dungeon that was in the Court of the Prison and they let down Jeremiah with Cords and in the Dungeon there was no Water but Mire so Jeremiah sunk in the Mire Jer. 38.6 Here were Sufferings indeed which would make ones Heart ake to thoroughly think of it much more would it fill the Soul with Anguish and Restlesness to undergo it And what is it to be in a Dungeon for a few Days or Years in comparison to be in the lowest Hell for all Eternity The other is Light and as nothing in comparison unto it As to all the Devices and Places of Torment Vexation and Misery which People now use one to another all these are but Instruments in the Hands of God who created the Waster to destroy and made all those Places and Things which are now used for Pain and Punishment And if he hath created such on this Earth as we sensibly know and see much more hath he created alike Things under the Earth and in Hell beneath He is the great law-giver who is able to save and to destroy As he doth Good so likewise he can and doth punish There are on this Earth some things which are very grievous and irksome but as long as there is Life even in the worst Evils that befall the Children of Men there is no such thing as perfect absolute and compleat Misery I mean such Misery as is without any Good or Comfort There is no such thing on Earth as utter Darkness or the Blackness of Darkness for in the most cloudy and misty Night some little of Light may be still perceived especially if you look up towards Heaven Again on this Earth all things are short and passing away But in Hell it is perfect compleat and absolute Misery That is It is Misery wholly throughout and nothing but Misery The Egyptians had for three Days such Darkness which may be felt even thick Darkness Exod. 10.21 22 23. But in Hell there is utter Darkness cast the unprofitable Servant into utter Darkness and the Blackness of Darkness for ever Which word for ever is the greatest Sting and Aggravation of the Torment and Punishment hereof for herein it infinitely exceeds and is worse than all the Evils and Pains on this Earth and of this State for whereas they all pass away either they go off again from the Sufferer or else they make an end of the Sufferer so as to kill him and render him in such a Condition that he becomes past feeling thereof It will be otherwise as to Hell for there if the Spirit should fail before him and the Souls which he hath made yet they are kept alive still to undergo and endure the Severity of God's Vengeance It is called Death the Second Death for it is a State of ever dying and never dead In that Day shall Men seek Death and it shall flee from them Now Death is the worst and most terrible thing in the World for all other things are so much the more feared as they may the sooner occasion or bring on this thing of Death But the second Death or Death Eternal is indeed worse than any Tongue of Man can express forth I cannot pencil forth Shadows dark enough to set forth the utmost Horror and Misery thereof The Lord preserve every one that will be sure to comply and to work together with his Grace from doing those things the end whereof is Death Eternal So that the Reader may not know and feel how bad indeed it is One saith well Let us not flee from Sermons of Hell that we may flee from Hell and by that manner of Speech of John Baptist who