So that they will have an intestine War in their own Breasts, 6. Of all Love and Favour, 1. From their Fellow-Creatures. 2. From their Creator himself, Pfal. xxx. 7: Luke xiii. 27. Prov. i. 26. 7. Of all their Hopes and Expectations of ever bettering their Condition, fo that they will not only be miferable to Eternity, but they will know too that they fhall be fo as never to look for good Days more, nor for any thing in World that is good for them.. II. Pana fenfus. Everlasting Punishment. Εἰς κόλασιν αιώνιον. 1. The Thoughts tormented. 1. With the Remembrance of their former Sins, Job xiii. 26. 2. With the Apprehenfion of God's Wrath 2. The Affections all in a Combuftion. No Defires ever fatisfied, Luke xvi. 25. 3. The Confcience racking them for neg lecting the golden Opportunities they once had, Mark ix. 44. 2. The Body. In a continual high Fever always burning, Mark ix, 45. Luk. xvi. 23. Revel. xx. 15. c. xxi. 8. The The Eyes tormented with frightful Sights, The Ears with Screechings, Wailing and 2. Everlafting. That it will be fo, is plain; for it is exprefly said, Dan. xii. 2. Matt. xxi. 41. Mark ix. 44. 2 Theff. i. 9: 1. Because tho' Sin be but Temporal; yet God, against whom it is committed, is Eternal. 2. If finful Men fhould live eternally, they would Sin eternally, their immortal Souls being habituated to it. 3. They have their Choice or Option, eternal Life or eternal Death, Deut. XXX. 15, 19. US Ei 1. Often think of Hell, Deut. xxxii. 29. 2. Let the Confideration of it deter you from finning, Rom. vi. 21. MATT. XXV. 46. But the Righteous into Life Eternal. ÖBSERV. UR Saviour mentions only Two and Life Eternal: No Purgatory. By Purgatory, they mean a Place betwixt Hea ven and Hell, where the Faithful, that have not fully fatisfied for their Sins in this World, are kept in Torment till they have fatisfied Divine Juftice, and are purged from all their Sins, fo as to be fit for Heaven. Limbus Patrum, They call a Place where the Faithful before Chrift were kept in the Dark. Limbus Infantum, For Infants that die without Baptifm, deprived only of heavenly Joys, but in no Pain. That there is no fuch Place, appears, r. In that the Scripture mentions only Two Places for the Receptacle of Souls after Death, as in my Text; fo Man viii: 11, 12. Luke xvi. 22, 23. 2. In that the fame Scriptures plainly affert, That the Faithful go directly from Earth to Heaven, without ever touching at any fuch Place as Purgatory, John v. 24. Phil. i. 23. 2 Cor. v. I, 8. So the Thief on the Crofs, Luke xxiii. 43. J 3. There is no more Work to be done after Death, but to be received into Glory, Rev.xiv. 13. 2 Tim. iv. 8. 4. The Saints that are alive when our Saviour comes again fhall go immediately to Heaven, therefore all others, Theff. iv. 17. Matt. XXV. 34 5. The Blood of Chrift purgeth us from all Sin, and therefore we need not be purged afterwards in Purgatory, 1 John i. 7. Rev. 1. 5. Quando iftine exceffum fuerit, nullus jam locus paz nitentiæ eft, nullus fatisfactionis effectus. Cyprian. Μετατίθενται δ, ἐκ το κόσμο τότε εἰς τὴν αἰώνιον avdavor. Chryf. Nullus eft ullibi medius, locus, ut poffit effe nifi cum Diabolo, qui non eft cum Chrifto. Aug. US E. Hence we must be fure to be ready for Hea ven whilft we are here, for after Death there is nothing to be done, Ecclef. ix. 1o. c. ix. 5, 6. Who are thofe who are here called the Righteous? They who live Righteously, John iii. 7. ή δε δικαιοσυνη συλλήβδην πᾶς ἀρετὸς ὄξι. Fuftitia eft conftans & perpetua voluntas jus fuum tuique tribuendi. Il. He that is Righteous, gives to every one his due. 1. To Men, Rom. xiii. 7. 1. In General. To all Men we owe, 1. Honour and Refpect, 1 Pet. ii. 17. Philii. 3. 2. Love and Favour, 1 Joh. iv. 20, 21. Matt. v. 44 3. Juft and equitable Dealings, 1 Theff. iv. 6; Matt. vii. 12. 4. Our Prayers and Thanksgiving, 1 Tim. it: I, 2. 2. To our Superfours, we owe, 1. Reverence and good Opinion, Eccl. x: 20: 2 Pet. ii. 10. 2. Subjection and Obedience, Rom. xiii. 1. 1 Pet. ii. 13. Wherefore Rebels and Tray tors are not Righteous. 3. To our Inferiours, efpecially to the Poors we owe Alms and Affftance, Dan. iv. 27. 1978; 1 Tim. vi. 17, 18. Matt. ✯xV: 34, 386 2. To God, he performs his Duty, in 1: Believing what he hath faid upon his Te ftimony, because he hath faid it, Heb. vi: 18 2: Obey Pz 2. Obeying what he hath commanded upon his Authority, because he hath commanded it. 1. Sincerely, Prov xxiii. 26. 1 Chron. xviii. 9. 2. Univerfally, Pfal. cxix. 6. and to ferve, love, fear, and submit to him, Matt. xxii. 37. 3. Trufting-on what he hath promised upon his Veracity, because he hath promised it, Heb. xiii. 5, 6. They who are thus fincerely Righteous in themselves, by Vertue of their Faith in Chrift, are accepted as perfectly Righteous in him, Phil. iii. 8,9. None but they who are thus Righteous can enter into Life. To fave others, is inconfiftent, 1. With the Juftice of God, Luk. xiii. 3. 2. With the Defign of Chrift, i Job. iii. 8. With the Nature of Heaven, i Cor. xv. 5o. 3. US E. Labour to be thus Righteous before all Things elfe, Matt. vi. 33. I. Life. So Happiness is often called, and Heaven it felf, Matt. xviij. 8. c. xix. 16, 17. For then the Soul will properly live in God, its Life, I Job. V. 12. Dua vitæ funt, una corporis, altera anima. Sicut vita Corporis anima, ita vita anima Deus. Aug. Eam quippe vitam æternam dicimus, ubi eft fins fine falicitas, Aug. |