(Jonathan Edwards)
"His winnowing fork is in His hand,
and He will clear His threshing floor,
gathering His wheat into the barn--
and burning up the chaff with
unquenchable fire!" Matthew 3:12
"They will throw them
into the fiery furnace,
where there will be weeping
and gnashing of teeth!"
Matthew 13:42
"Then He will say
to those on the left--
Depart from Me, you who
are cursed, into the eternal
fire prepared for the Devil
and his angels!" Matthew 25:41
"If your hand causes you
to sin, cut it off. It is better
for you to enter life maimed than
with two hands to go into hell--
where the fire never goes out!"
Mark 9:43
"He will burn up the chaff
with unquenchable fire!"
Luke 3:17
"I am in agony
in this fire!" Luke 16:24
To help your conception
"Those who suffer the punishment
of eternal fire!" Jude 1:7
of what hell is--
imagine yourself to be cast
into a fiery oven--
or into the midst of a great
furnace, where your pain
would be as much greater
than that occasioned by
accidentally touching
a coal of fire--
as the heat is greater.
Imagine also, that your body
were to lie there for a quarter
of an hour, full of fire,
as full as a bright coal of fire,
all the while full of quick sense.
What horror would you feel
at the entrance of such a furnace!
And how long would that
quarter of an hour seem to you!
If it were to be measured
by the hour-glass, how long
would the glass seem
to be running!
And after you had endured it
for one minute, how
unbearable would it be to you--
to think that you had yet
to endure the other
fourteen minutes!
But what would be
the effect on your soul--
if you knew you must lie there
enduring that torment to the full--
for twenty-four hours!
And how much greater
would be the effect--
if you knew you must endure it
for a whole year!
And how vastly greater still--
if you knew you must endure it
for a thousand years!
O then, how would your
heart sink, if you thought,
if you knew--
that you must bear it
forever and ever!
That there would be no end--
that after millions of millions
of ages, your torment would
be no nearer to an end, than
it ever was; and that you would
never, never be delivered!
But your torment in Hell
will be immeasurably greater
than this illustration represents!
How then will the heart of a
poor creature sink under it!
How utterly inexpressible and
inconceivable, must the sinking
of the soul be in such a case!
"If anyone's name was not found
written in the book of life,
he was thrown into the lake
of fire!" Revelation 20:15
"Such, in brief, is the portion
awaiting the lost--
eternal separation from the Fount
of all goodness;
everlasting punishment;
torment of soul and body;
endless existence in the Lake
of Fire, in association
with the vilest of the vile;
every ray of hope excluded;
utterly crushed and overwhelmed by
the wrath of a sin-avenging God!"
(Arthur Pink, "Eternal Punishment")
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