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'Depart
now, damned, divorced of your own volition from the bliss of angels,
into the everlasting fire that was prepared for Satan and his comrades
with him, for the devil and that dark swarm, hot and deadly fierce:
into that you are constrained to sink.' |
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| 1524 |
This
time they will not be able to slight the commandment of the King of
heaven, being bereft of their powers. They will be forced at once
to fall into the terrible abyss, who formerly strove against God.
The Guardian of the kingdom will be severe then and puissant, angry
and awesome. No enemy on this earthly highway will be able to remain
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With
his right hand he will swing the sword of victory so that the devils
will fall into the deep pit, the horde of the sinful into black flame,
the doomed spirits below the plain of earth, the swarm of those filled
with defilement into the dwelling-place of fiends, those condemned
to perdition into the house of punishment, the devil's hall of death.
Thereafter they will not come into the Lord's remembrance, nor will
they extenuate their sin; there, condemned for their crimes, surrounded
by flame they will suffer death. The penalty of sin will be plainly
present: it is everlasting torment. Not in eternity, not in existence
infinite will the hot pit be able to smelt away the sins of the populace
of hell, the blemish from their souls; but there the deep groundless
gulf will gorge those prostrate spirits and nurture them in the darkness,
and will burn them with the ancient flame and the awful frost; by
fierce serpents and with many tortures and by its greedy deadly jaws
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This
we can appreciate and declare at once and say in truth, that he has
forfeited the Warder of the soul, the Wisdom of life, whoever does
not presently care whether his spirit is wretched, or blessed, since
after its departure hence it will have to stay eternally tied to its
home. Nor does he, this heedless man, regret committing sin, nor does
he have a scrap of remorse in his heart that the Holy Ghost is lost
to him because of his vices in this transient time. Then he will stand,
a dingy malefactor at judgement, afraid before God; and, condemned
to death, damned for his defilements, the renegade will be steeped
in fire. Unworthy of life, harassed by fear, livid and unlovely in
the presence of God, he has the countenance of a criminal, the flawmark
of his life. Then the children of iniquities will gush with tears
and lament their sins - when the time for this is no more; for they
render help to their spirits too late since the Ruler of the multitudes
will not care how those evil-doers sorely bemoan the acquisitions
of their past in that revelatory hour. That hour of griefs is not
granted to people in order that a person might find the medicine there,
who has no will to acquire health for his spirit now, while he is
living here. |
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