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[ 201 ] Ye sinful wights, and cursed sprights, that work Iniquity, Depart together from me for ever to endless Misery; Your portion take in yonder Lake, where Fire and Brimstone flameth: Suffer the smart, which your desert as it's due wages claimeth. The Judge pronounceth the Sentence of condemnation. Matt 25:41 [ 202 ] Oh, piercing words more sharp than swords! what, to depart from Thee, Whose face before for evermore the best of Pleasures be! What? to depart (unto our smart) from thee Eternally: To be for aye banish'd away, with Devils company! The terrour of it. [ 203 ] What? to be sent to Punishment, and flames of Burning Fire, To be surrounded, and eke confounded with Gods Revengful ire. What? to abide, not for a tide these Torments, but for Ever: To be released, or to be eased, not after years, but Never. [ 204 ] Oh, fearful Doom! now there's no room for hope or help at all: Sentence is past which aye shall last, Christ will not it recall. There might you hear them rent and tear the Air with their out-cries: The hideous noise of their sad voice ascendeth to the Skies. [ 205 ] They wring their hands, their caitiff-hands and gnash their teeth for terrour; They cry, they roar for anguish sore, and gnaw their tongues for horrour. But get away without delay, Christ pitties not your cry: Depart to Hell, there may you yell, and roar Eternally. Luke 13:28 Prov 1:26 [ 206 ] That word, Depart, maugre their heart, drives every wicked one, With mighty pow'r, the self-same hour, far from the Judge's Throne. Away they're chaste by the strong blast of this Death-threatning mouth: They flee full fast, as if in haste, although they be full loath. It is put in Execution. Matt 25:46 [ 207 ] As chaff that's dry, and dust doth fly before the Northern wind: Right so are they chased away, and can no Refuge find. They hasten to the Pit of Wo, guarded by Angels stout; Who to fulfil Christ's holy will, attend this wicked Rout. Matt 13:41-42 [ 208 ] Whom having brought, as they are taught, unto the brink of Hell, (That dismal place far from Christ's face, where Death and Darkness dwell: Where Gods fierce Ire kindleth the fire, and vengeance feeds the flame With piles of Wood, and Brimstone Flood, that none can quench the same,) HELL. Matt 25:30 Mark 9:43 Isa 30:33 Rev 21:8 [ 209 ] With Iron bands they bind their hands, and cursed feet together, And cast them all, both great and small, into that Lake for ever. Where day and night, without respite, they wail, and cry, and howl For tort'ring pain, which they sustain in Body and in Soul. Wicked Men and Devils cast into it for ever. Matt 22:13 & 25:46 [ 210 ] For day and night, in their despight, their torments smoak ascendeth. Their pain and grief have no relief, their anguish never endeth. There must they ly, and never dy, though dying every day: There must they dying ever ly, and not consume away. Rev 14:10-11 [ 211 ] Dy fain they would, if dy they could, but Death will not be had; God's direful wrath their bodies hath for ev'r Immortal made. They live to ly in misery, and bear eternal wo; And live they must whilst God is just, that he may plague them so. [ 212 ] But who can tell the plagues of Hell, and torments exquisite? Who can relate their dismal state, and terrours infinite? Who fare the best, and feel the least, yet feel that punishment Whereby to nought they should be brought, if God did not prevent. The unsufferable torments of the damned. Luke 16:24 Jude 7 [ 213 ] The least degree of miserie there felt's incomparable, The lightest pain they there sustain more than intolerable. But God's great pow'r from hour to hour upholds them in the fire, That they shall not consume a jot, nor by it's force expire. Isa 33:14 Mark 9:43-44 [ 214 ] But ah, the wo they undergo (they more than all besides) Who had the light, and knew the right, yet would not it abide. The sev'n-fold smart, which to their part, and portion doth fall, Who Christ his Grace would not imbrace, nor hearken to his call. Luke 12:47 [ 215 ] The Amorites and Sodomites although their plagues be sore, Yet find some ease, compar'd to these, who feel a great deal more. Almighty God, whose Iron Rod, to smite them never lins, Doth most declare his Justice rare in plaguing these mens sins. Matt 11:24 [ 216 ] The pain of loss their Souls doth toss, and wond'rously distress, To think what they have cast away by wilful wickedness. We might have been redeem'd from sin, think they, and liv'd above, Being possest of heav'nly rest, and joying in God's love. Luke 16:23, 25 Luke 13:28 [ 217 ] But wo, wo, wo our Souls unto! we would not happy be; And therefore hear Gods Vengeance here to all Eternitee. Experience and woful sense must be our painful teachers Who n'ould believe, nor credit give, unto our faithful Preachers. Luke 13:34 [ 218 ] Thus shall they ly, and wail, and cry, tormented, and tormenting Their galled hearts with pois'ned darts but now too late repenting. There let them dwell i'the' Flames of Hell; there leave we them to burn, And back agen unto the men who Christ acquits, return. Mark 9:44 Rom 2:15 [ 219 ] The Saints behold with courage bold, and thankful wonderment, To see all those that were their foes thus sent to punishment: Then do they sing unto their King a Song of endless Praise: They praise his Name, and do proclaim that just are all his ways. The Saints rejoyce to see Judgment executed upon the wicked World. Ps 58:10 Rev 19:1-3 [ 220 ] Thus with great joy and melody to Heav'n they all ascent, Him there to praise with sweetest layes, and Hymns that never end, Where with long Rest they shall be blest, and nought shall them annoy: Where they shall see as seen they be, and whom they love enjoy. They ascend with Christ into Heaven triumphing. Matt 25:46 I John 3:2 I Cor 13:12 [ 221 ] O Glorious Place! where face to face Jehovah may be seen, By such as were sinners whilere and no dark vail between. Where the Sun shine, and light Divine, of Gods bright Countenance, Doth rest upon them every one, with sweetest influence. Their Eternal happiness and incomparable Glory there. [ 222 ] O blessed state of the Renate! O wondrous Happiness, To which they're brought, beyond what thought can reach, or words express! Griefs water-course, and sorrows sourse, are turn'd to joyful streams. Their old distress and heaviness are vanished like dreams. Rev 21:4 [ 223 ] For God above in arms of love doth dearly them embrace, And fills their sprights with such delights, and pleasures in his grace; As shall not fail, nor yet grow stale through frequency of use: Nor do they fear Gods favour there, to forfeit by abuse. Ps 16:11 [ 224 ] For there the Saints are perfect Saints, and holy ones indeed, From all the sin that dwelt within their mortal bodies freed: Made Kings and Priests to God through Christs dear loves transcendency, There to remain, and there to reign with him Eternally. Heb 12:23 Rev 1:6 & 22:5

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