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 Confin'd in chains, fire, and everlasting pains! How great then, I may say, is the difference Between the bad and good! How different is Their afterward existence! When sent to bounty, or to pain, No resemblance appears among the change Of scenes, some more beautiful, and some more ugly:— And the more joyful scenes of Heaven:— Where the Lord's everlasting praise does never end; We then employ our everlasting time In nothing else, but the 'fore-mentioned praise. When good boys think upon their future happiness In heaven, they reflect with joy:— How joyful it must be To be before the presence of the Lord! Oh! Then how pressing is th' idea of the end Of the infamous man! When we reflect On his approach to death, loaded with crimes! In three days he's sent down! And then confin'd In chains unknown;—exists there all the time! The good man then, at least his soul, flies up To everlasting happiness. Oh! then how horrid must it be To be a naughty man! Then to reflect On th' good man's happiness above! Then how Superior it is with the good man! His former state Is also happy, as well as in the future.—