All the hell that you shall ever have!,.

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("http://www.gracegems.org/Brooks/Thomas_Brooks.htm" Thomas Brooks, "The Mute Christian Under the Smarting Rod"
or, "The Silent Soul with Sovereign Antidotes" 1659, London.)

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 is the worst of your condition; 
the best is yet to come! 

Lazarus had his hell first, his heaven last; but 
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 all your bitters;
your sweets are 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?

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