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 after this, there is a hell and a heaven: and however it be that the god of this world has blinded the moſt part, and the devil has bewitched men and women, yet it is certain that there is a God, that there is a hell, and a perdition: So it is certain that there is everlaſting life. The generation before, if ye could hear them, they would all tell you this; ſome in endless pleaſure, ſome in endless torment; for they are all gone before you, to be preachers to you. Now, wherein ſtands this perdition and periſhing? For it is the 1ſt. point I am minded to tell you. 2dly, Wherein all life ſtands.

As for the firſt, there are three things in it: 1ſt, The want of joy. 2dly. The presence of pain. 3dly, The eternity of the loſs of joy, and the eternity of the preſence of pain. Think on them all.

Firſt, is the loss of the presence of God, that the ſaints and angels have in heaven, within  gates of the New Jeruſalem. Thou mayeſt not eat of that tree of life; thou mayeſt not drink of the rivers of the waters of life; thou mayeſt not drink in that company of ſaints and angels, that haſt not believed in the Son of God here: So if there were no other hell, but to be deprived of the blessed ſociety