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 more from your own children. O! but what is that, in comparison to be ſeparated from ſo loving a God? But this is not all, the depriving of endless joy; (now, this ſhould cause you know the necessity of believing:) but, besides this, there is an eternity of pain. To lose heaven, is no great matter; but to be cast into hell, is greater! To want the place is great, but to be flung into prison is greater. To lose the pleasure of heaven is great, but to be caſt into the lake of fire and brimſtone, where the worm never dies, and the fire never goes out, into ſuch a fire, that the violence thereof ſuch, that there is no patience to bear it; for it is ſo great and painful that iſ thou hadst ten thousand worlds, thou would give them all for one drop of cold water to cool thy tongue; a fire that ſhall never be ſlockened, for it ſhall burn as long as God lives. Again, That fire ſhall not conſume the carcase and ſoul; but it is a furnace that ſhall burn for evermore! and thou ſhalt have none to keep the flames of that fire from thy conscience and carcase; and there ſhall be the wrath of God, and the vials full of his indignation, poured out continually upon thy ſoul, that it ſhall get no leave to look for mercy, and put off all hope of help, or ending of that pain!—Besides this, there are these particulars and circumstances that aggravate this