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Meditation LXXXVI.
ON A SHORT INDISPOSITION.
Two days ago, sharp pains perplexed me, and made me turn and toss from side to side, seeking what I could not find—ease to my weary body. The indisposition filled me with disquietude, scattered each composed thought, and fixed an acute sense of pain. Indeed I soon got the better of it—but may I thereby be instructed of the fierceness of the torment of the damned. Let them who have cancer, gout, stone, or any other grievous illness—think what torment must be, and thereby study to escape, while there is left a way to escape.
Or to prize their deliverance (if delivered) from so great a death as the second death is—where all is torment in the highest degree; where the bed is burning brimstone; where the chains and fetters are of fire and flame; where their view is the blackness of darkness forever; where their companions are devils and damned spirits; and where every sense is on the very rack, and nothing free of torment. The most acute agonies which we feel in this present world, would be a kind of pleasure and delight—in comparison of the torments of hell!
What shall people, laboring under excruciating diseases then think, if death, which must end their present disease—shall land them in hell? O then, be wise in time! Mind the concerns of an unseen eternal world—for who knows the power of his wrath?
And if I can scarcely now endure a little pang in one part—how shall I suffer torment in a every part and power, in every sense and faculty, through the whole soul and whole body—and that ages without end?
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