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[b]All the hell that you shall ever have![/b]

("The Mute Christian Under the Smarting Rod"
or, "The Silent Soul with Sovereign Antidotes"
by Thomas Brooks, 1659, London.)

Consider Christian, that all your . . .
trials and troubles,
calamities and miseries,
crosses and losses,
which you meet with in this world--is
all the hell that you shall ever have!

Here and now you have your hell.
Hereafter you shall have your heaven!

This is the worst of your condition;
the best is yet to come!

Lazarus had his hell first, his heaven last; but
Dives had his heaven first, and his hell at last.

You have all your pangs, and pains, and throes
here--that ever you shall have! Your ease, and
rest, and pleasure--is yet to come!

Here you have all your bitters;
your sweets are yet to come!

Here you have your sorrows;
your joys are yet to come!

Here you have all your winter nights;
your summer days are yet to come!

Here you have your evil things;
your good things are yet to come!

Death will put an end to all your sins
--and to all your sufferings!

Death will be an inlet to those joys, delights,
and comforts--which shall never have an end!

Who can seriously meditate upon this, and not
be silent under God's most smarting rod?


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 2006/9/1 2:16Profile









 Re:

Hallelujah!

 2006/9/1 4:41
AshleyJnr
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 Re:

I was reading through this text and I am UNDONE!!

Christian! Your present afflictions are not great—if compared
with the afflictions and torments of many of the damned, who
when they were in this world, never sinned at so high a rate
as you have done! There are many now in hell, who never
sinned against such clear light as you have done, nor against
such special love as you have done, nor against such precious
mercies as you have done! Certainly there are many now
a-roaring in everlasting burnings, who never sinned as you
have done!

What are your afflictions, your present torments—compared
to the torments of the damned, whose torments are . . .
numberless,
bottomless,
remediless, and
endless!
Whose pains are without intermission of mitigation; who have:
weeping served for the first course, and
gnashing of teeth for the second course, and
the gnawing worm for the third course, and
intolerable pain for the fourth course!
Yet the pain of the body is least part of pain. The very soul of
sorrow and pain is the soul's sorrow and pain! The everlasting
alienation and separation from God is served for the fifth course!

Ah, Christian! how can you seriously think on these things and
not lay your hand upon your mouth—even when you are under
the greatest temporal sufferings? Your sins have been far greater
than many of those who are now in hell, and your 'great' afflictions
are but a flea-bite! compared to theirs! Therefore hush your
murmuring, and be silent before the Lord!

 2006/9/2 4:34Profile





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