. Meditate Upon Hell by William
Dyer Meditate often on these four last things. Death, which
is most certain. Judgment, which is most strict. Hell, which is most doleful. heaven, which is most delightful. Meditate upon hell, which is
most doleful. Heaven is a place where all is
joyful, and hell is a place where all is doleful. In heaven there
is nothing but happiness, but in hell there is nothing but
heaviness. The wicked shall be turned into
hell and all the nations that forget God. Psalm 9 17 Mark says,
The wicked shall be turned into hell. Oh, dreadful place where
the devil is the jailer. Hell is the prison. Damnation
is the punishment, Eternity is the duration, Brimstone is the
fire, And men and devils are the fuel. To endure this will
be intolerable, And to avoid it will be impossible. This is the day of God's long-suffering
that will be the day of man's long-suffering. There they will
suffer pain without ease, torment without end, sorrow without support,
and misery without mercy. Sirs, meditate upon hell Oh,
what hells are there in hell? Hell is the loss of God, the
loss of Christ, the loss of all good. Endless, ceaseless, and
remedyless torments must be their eternal portion. Oh, that you
would often think of hell! If once you drop into hell, then
after a thousand years, you will be as far from coming out of
hell as you were at your first entrance into hell. There is
only one way to keep a man out of hell, but there is no way
to get a man out of hell. In this world, the wheat and
the chaff both grow together, but they shall not always both
lie together. In hell, there shall not be a
saint among those who are terrified. In heaven, there shall not be
a sinner among those who are glorified. The sea of damnation
shall never be sweetened with a drop of compassion. Will you
pity a person who is going to the gallows? And will you not
pity a person who is going to the bottomless pit? What a dreadful
visitation is that, where the black horse of death goes before
and the red horse of wrath follows after. Oh, that must needs be
sad, when one death comes upon the back of another, when the
second death comes upon the back of the first death. A man's condition
in this life may be honourable, and yet his state in eternity
may be damnable. Poor Lazarus goes to heaven when
rich dives goes to hell. It is far better to go to heaven
poorly than it is to go to hell richly. O sirs, let us go to
hell by contemplation that we may never go to hell by condemnation. O sirs, meditate upon hell.