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A serious and pathetical description of heaven and hell according to the pencil of the Holy Ghost, and the best expositors: sufficient (with the blessing of God) to make the worst of men hate sin, and love holiness. Being five chapters taken out of a book entituled, The whole duty of a Christian: composed by R. Younge, late of Roxwell in Essex, florilegus.; Whole duty of a Christian. Selections.
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Younge, Richard.
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3 6. Rev. 16. 10 11. which does sadly presage what will be his portion for ever unless repentance quench those flames and so of the like offenders Ps. 9. 17. Rev. 22. 12. As what says the Apostle Neither fornicators nor thieves nor murtherers nor drunkards nor swearers nor raylers nor lyars nor covetous persons nor unbelievers nor no unrighteous person shall inherit the Kingdom of Heaven but shall have their part and portion in that lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death 1 Cor. 6. 9 10. Rev. 21. 8. which did they well consider they durst not continue in the practice of these sins without fear or remorse or care of amendment Sect. 5. Now what heart would not bleed to see men run headlong into those tortures that are thus intolerable Dance hoodwinkt into this perdition O that it were allowed to the desperate ruffians of our days that swear and curse drink and drab rob shed blood c. as if Heaven were blind and deaf to what they do to have but a sight of this Hell how would it charm their mouths appall their spirits strike fear and astonishment into their hearts Yea if a sinner could see but one glimpse of hell or be suffered to look one moment into that fiery Lake he would rather chuse to die ten thousand deaths than wilfully premeditately commit one sin Nor can I think they would do as they do if they did but either see or foresee what they shall one day without serious and unfeigned repentance 〈◊〉 And indeed therefore are we dissolute because we do not think what a judgment there is after our dissolution because we make it the least and last thing we think on yea it is death we think to think upon death and we cannot endure that doleful hell which summons us to judgment Lam. 1. 9. Deut. 32. 29. Oh that men would believe and consider this truth and do accordingly Oh that thou wouldst remember that there is a day of account a day of death a day of judgment coming Heb. 9. 27. Mat. 25. wherein the Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire to render vengeance unto them which obey not his Gospel and to punish them with everlasting perdition from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power as the Apostle speaks 2 Thes. 1. 7 8 9. Jude 15. Isa. 33. 14. Mat. 25. 46. As consider seriously I beseech you whether it will not be worth the while so to foresee the torments of hell that you may prevent them Or if otherwise will you not one day wish you had when death comes and arrests you to appear before the great and terrible Iudge of all the world Luke 16. 23. to 32. Mat. 13. 30 38. at which time an Assizes or Quarter-Sessions shall be held within thee where Reason shall sit as Judge and Satan shall put in a Bill of Indictment as long as that Book in Zachary chap. 5. 2. Ezek. 2. 9 10. wherein shall be alledged all the evil deeds that ever thou hast committed and all the good deeds that ever thou hast omitted with their several circumstances that may aggravate them Eccles. 11. 9. and 12. 14. 2 Cor. 5. 10. and all the curses and judgments that are due to every sin Thine own conscience shall accuse thee and thy memory shall give bitter evidence against thee and thou shalt condemn thy self before the just condemnation of thy Judge who knows all thy misdeeds better than thy self John 3. 20. Which sins of thine will not then leave thee but cry unto thee We are thy works and we will follow thee Rev. 14. 13. And then who can sufficiently express what thy grief and anguish will be when the summons both of the first and second 〈◊〉 do overtake thee at once Prov. 1. 27. And when at once thou shalt think of thy sins past the present misery and the 〈◊〉 of thy torments to come and how thou hast made earth 〈◊〉 Paradise thy belly thy God and lust thy Law so sowing 〈◊〉 and reaping misery and finding that as in thy prosperity thou neglectedst to serve God so now in thy adversity God refuseth to save thee Prov. 1. 24. to 32. Ezek. 23. 35. When thou shalt call to mind the many warnings thou hast had of this doleful day from Christs faithful Ambassadors and how thou then madest but a mock or jeer at it Prov. 1. 25. and think how for the short sinful pleasures thou hast enjoyed thou must endure eternal pains Luke 16. 24 25. and Rev. 6. 12. to 18. Which yet thou shalt think most just and equal saying As I have deserved so I am served for I was oft enough offered mercy yea intreated to accept thereof but I preferred the pleasing of my senses before the saving of my soul and more regarded the words of wicked men and the allurements of Satan than the word of God or the motions of his holy Spirit Prov. 1. 24. c. Mark 16. 16. And which I would have thee think upon Hell-fire is made more hot by neglecting so great salvation Heb. 2. 3. This is the condemnation saith our Saviour none like this that light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil John 3. 29. Now salvation is freely offered but men reject it hereafter they would accept of salvation but God will reject them Yea then a whole world if thou hadst it for one hours delay or respite that thou mightest have space to repent and sue unto God for mercy but it cannot be because thy body which joyned with thy soul in thy sinful actions is now altogether unfit to joyn with her in the exercise of repentance and repentance must be of the whole man Besides death will take no pity the devil knows no mercy and the God of mercy will have utterly forsaken thee Then wilt thou say O that I had been more wise or that I were now to begin my life again then would I contemn the world with all its vanities yea if Satan should then offer me all the treasures pleasures and promotions of this world he should never entice me to forget the terrors of this dreadful hour and those worse which are to follow Luke 16. 24. c. and 13. 28. But oh wretched Caitiff that I am how hath the Devil and my own deceitful and devilish heart deluded me Anâ— how am I served accordingly For now is my case more mâ—serable than the most despised Toad or Serpent that perisâ—â—â— when it dieth in that I must go to answer at the great Judgment Seat for all my sins that am not able to answer for one of the least of them Eccles. 12. 14. Mat. 18. 34. that I who heretofore gloried in my lawless liberty am now to be enclosed in the very claws of Satan as the trembling Partridge within the griping tallons of the ravening and
devouring Falcon Oh cursed be the day when I was born and the time when my mother conceived me c. Job 3. Sect. 6. And so death having given thee thy fatal stroke the Devil shall seize upon or snatch away thy soul so soon as it leaves thy body Luke 12. 20. and hale thee hence into the bottomless Lake that burneth with fire and brimstone where she is to be kept in chains of darkness until the general judgment of the great day Jude 6 7. 1 Pet. 3. 19. Rev. 21. 8. Thy body in the mean time being cast into the earth expecting a fearful Resurrection when it shall be re-united to thy soul that as they sinned together so they may be everlastingly tormented together Heb. 10. 27. At which general Judgment Christ sitting upon his Throne John 5. 22. shall rip up all the benefits he hath bestowed on thee and the miseries he hath suffered for thee and all the ungodly deeds that thou hast committed and all the hard speeches which thou hast spoken against him and his holy ones Jude 15. Eccles. 12. 14. and 11. 9. Within thee shall be thine own conscience more than a thousand witnesses to accuse thee the Devils who tempted thee to all thy lewdness shall on the one side testifie with thy conscience against thee and on the other side shall stand the holy Saints and Angels approving Christs Justice and detesting so filthy a creature behind thee an hideous noise of innumerable fellow-damned Reprobates tarrying for thy company before thee all the world burning with flaming fire above thee an ireful Judge of deserved vengeance ready to pronounce his heavy Sentence upon thee beneath thee the fiery and sulphureous mouth of the bottomless pit gaping to receive thee Isa. 5. 11. 14. And in this woful and doleful condition thou must stand forth to receive with other Reprobates this thy Sentence Rom. 14. 10. 2 Cor. 5. 10 Depart from me there is a separation from all joy and happiness ye cursed there is a black and direful excommunication into fire there is the extremity of pain everlasting there is the perpetuity of punishment prepared for the devil and his angels there are thy infernal tormenting and tormented companions Mat. 25. 41. O terrible sentence from which there is no escaping withstanding excepting or appealing Then O then shall thy mind be tormented to think how for the love of abortive pleasures which even perished before they budded thou hast so foolishly lost heavens joys and incurred hellish pains which last to all eternity Luke 16. 24 25. Thy conscience shall ever sting thee like an Adder when thou callest to mind how often Christ by his Ministers offered thee remission of sins and the Kingdom of heaven freely if thou wouldst but believe and repent and how easily thou mightest have obtained mercy in those days How near thou wast many times to have repented and yet didst suffer the devil and the world to keep thee still in impenitency and how the day of mercy is now past and will never dawn again Thy understanding shall be racked to consider how for momentany riches thou hast lost eternal treasure and exchanged heavens felicity for hells misery where every part and faculty both of body and soul shall be continually and alike tormented without intermission or dismission of pain or from it and be for ever deprived of the beatifical sight of God wherein consists the soveraign good and life of the soul Thou shalt never see light nor the least sight of joy but lye in a perpetual prison of utter darkness where shall be no order but horrour no voice but howling and blaspheming no noise but screeching and gnashing of teeth no society but of the devil and his angels who being tormented themselves shall have no other ease but to wreak their fury in tormenting thee Mat. 13. 42. 25. 36. c. Where shall be punishment without any pity misery without any mercy sorrow without succour crying without comfort malice without measure torment without ease Rev. 14. 10 11. where the wrath of God shall seize upon thy soul body as the flame of fire does on the lump of pitch or brimstone Dan. 7. 10. in which flame thou shalt ever be burning and never consumed ever dying and never dead ever roaring in the pangs of death and never rid of those pangs nor expecting end of thy pains So that after thou hast endured them so many thousand years as there are blades of grass on the earth or sands in the Sea hairs on the heads of all the sons of Adam from the first to the last born as there have been creatures in heaven and earth thou shalt be no nearer an end of thy torments than thou wast the very first day that thou wast cast into them yea so far are they from ending that they are ever beginning For if after a thousand times so many thousand years thy damned soul could but conceive some hope that those torments should have an end this would be some comfort to think that at length an end will come but as often as thy mind shall think of this word never and thou shalt ever be thinking of it it will rend thy heart in pieces with rage and hideous lamentation as giving still new life to those unsufferable sorrows which exceed all expression or imagination It will be another hell in the midst of hell Wherefore consider seriously what I say and that while the compassionate arms of Jesus Christ lye open to receive you and do thereafter Prov. 1. 24. c. take warning by Pharaoh's example We in the rich mans scalding torments have a Discite à me Learn of me Luke 16. 23. c. For he can testifie out of woful experience that if we will not take warning by the word that gentle warner the next shall be harder the third and fourth harder than that yea as all the ten plagues did exceed one another so the eleventh single exceeds them altogether Innumerable are the curses of God against sinners Deut. 28. but the last is the worst comprehending and transcending all the rest The fearfullest plagues God still reserves for the upshot all the former do but make way for the last Hell in Scripture is called a Lake that burneth with fire and brimstone and than the torment of the former what more acute than the smell of the latter what more noysome CHAP. XX Sect. 1. THus I say shall they be bid Depart ye cursed into everlasting fire c. while on the contrary the same Christ shall say unto the other Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from before the foundation of the world Mat. 25. 34. Which Kingdom is a place where are such joys as eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither hath it entred into the heart of man to conceive 1 Cor. 2. 9. A place where there shall be no evil present nor good absent Heb. 9. 12. Mat. 6. 20.