Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Awakened Out of a Dream

Here is Jonathan Edwards on hell in his sermon "That Such Persons Are Very Imprudent and Foolish Who Don't Consider Their Latter End" in the book, The Blessing of God: Previously unpublished sermons of Jonathan Edwards:
'Tis not at all more eligible to suffer tomorrow than today. You will hate pain and sorrow and torment as much when you come to die and after you are dead as you do now. You will not be at all more insensible of pain in that world that looks to you like a dream. Then in this world it will not look like a dream when your time comes, but you will be awakened out of a dream, for a person's sense and perception will be abundantly quicker and more lively hereafter than at present.

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