He that has lost his soul has lost himself. He is, as I may say, now
out of his own hands; he has lost himself, his soul self, his own
self, his whole self, by sin and wrath; and hell hath found him. He
is now no more at his own dispose, but at the dispose of justice, of
wrath and hell. He is committed to prison, to hell prison, there to
abide, not at pleasure, not as long and as little time as he will,
but the term appointed by his Judge; nor may he there choose his own
affliction, neither for manner, measure, or continuance. It is God
that will spread the fire and brimstone under him, and it is God
himself that will blow the fire. Isa. 30:33.
There will be no such grace as patience in hell with him who has
lost himself: here will also be wanting a bottom for patience, to
wit, the providence of God; for a providence of God, though never so
dismal, is a bottom for patience to the afflicted; but men go not to
hell by providence, but by sin.
"Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the
devil and his angels." This curse is the chief and highest of all
kinds of curses. It lieth in a deprivation of all good, and in a
being swallowed up of all the most fearful miseries, that a holy and
just and eternal God can righteously inflict, or lay upon the soul
of a sinful man.
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