despair, whilst they cannot find, and for all eternity never will find, rest or consolation. O hell! hell f is it necessary that men should wait until they are swallowed by thy flames to believe in thee? You, who even now are reading this page, what do you say? [ Pause here awhile , and with this terrible truth in view , think on your besetting sin.] If you had to die this moment, where would you go? What you cannot bear even a spark of fire on your hand; and do you think to be able to live in an ocean of fire, where, abandoned by every creature, desolate and desperate, you will have to pass a never-ending eternity? [Encourage in your heart the deepest sentiments of contrition, and make a firm resolution.]
II. Consider well those pains which afflict the faculties of the soul in hell. The memory will be everlastingly tormented by the stings of conscience. This is that worm which will for ever gnaw in the conscience of the damned, to remind him how foolishly he consented to his own ruin for the sake of a few poisoned pleasures. O God! how will each moment of sinful pleasure appear to him then, after a hundred, after a thousand years spent in hell! That gnawing worm will recall to his mind the time which God gave him for conversion, all the opportunities and means he had to secure the salvation of his soul, the good example of his friends, all the holy resolutions made, alas ! but broken. [Examine yourself well on these points, and place before your eyes your predominant sin.] And then he will see that there is no longer any way of escaping from his eternal ruin. O God ! O God t What a double hell will this be! The will is doomed to be always thwarted; it will never have that which it desires, and will ever have that which it desires not, that is to say, every
