All The Hell That You Shall Ever Have!
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 life is the worst of your condition - the best is yet to come!
Lazarus had his hell first - and his heaven last. 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 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?
~Thomas Brooks~
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