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 of the glorified ſaints and angels with God, it were hell enough.

Secondly, Consider, that no excuſe will be adınitted that day. Friendſhip will do thee no good, propheſying and preaching will do thee no good. The other thing that augments it, is the loss of happiness. An unknown a benefit, when it is loſt, ſhall not bring meikle pain with it; but a ſeen benefit, a joy which ye might have gotten, if ye could have believed, ſhall augment your pain wonderfully: As the pain of the rich glutton, had not been ſo great, if he had not ſeen Lazarus in Abraham's boſom: So the exclusion, and the barring of the yate on the miſbeliever, on the ſoul and carcase for evermore, this is the first in the perdition: therefore the tribunal must be in the air. for thou ſhall never win at the yate of that kingdom. And if there were not another torment but the want of these joys in heaven for evermore, it were torment enough. But if there were no more, what rack of all this want of joy, and rugging and ſeparation of the ſoul and body from the presence of God and his ſaints, in whom is all-ſufficient joy? How grievous ſhall that be to thee? How ill-will had Peter to come down from the mount, trow ye? Ye would think it hard to be tugged and ſeparated from a friend, and