. BEt 
fo vice, eonfidered as a growing and deadly difeafe of 
the mental conititution, may end in its total derangement 
and final deftruGion. If fuch cafes fhauld 
feems to be inconfiftent neither with juftice or r benevolence, 
nor with any known meafure of the divine bes gree 
to expunge characters of this kind from the book o 
life, and to confign the wicked, thus iichpaBle of refor- 
mation, to utter annihilation. icine whom ig milder 
tive’ moral’ Benefit from the penal effecis of prefent mif- 
conduét in a future world; the feverer difcipline of a 
{tate of anguifh and mifery may recover them to a right 
mind; ‘and the chaftifements of juitice, infiéted in a lefs 
or greater degree and of fhorter or longer duration, as 
is to c 
To all peices: which fuppofe the termination of the 
future punifhment of the wicke nnihilation, or the 
limitation of its i 
gate het > 
withltanding ear “2 — punifhment ; and 
ime io o inquire ona 3 im 
s, it does not feem, that 
, prop 
partially a the truth. 
even i . 
meat dreadful and durable, infomuch, that we 
can fet no bounds either to the degree or duration of it: 
occur, it . 
‘tion itfelf, the words of which he undertakes to explain and 
- tion of his body. 
the reception and right application of this doétrine. The 
preacher, he thinks, takes the way, who, in his 
public difcourfes on this fubject, goes no farther than revela- 
enforce. It doth not behove him to difpel that wife 9 fa- 
latary darknefs with which feripture has envelope u- 
ture fate of mankind. ALBEE Wy he adds, che V aieets of 
hell have ever been reprefe ented as eternal, Our auditors are 
fo accuttomed to this notion, that they have affociated the 
idea of eternity with that of hell- sass in fuch a manner 
as to confider it an effential part of t 
men, therefore, hearing that it is impoflible for them to 
os converted in eternity, and that i i i 
their torments would 
ealt no longer cares th 
by them; in the fame manner as a man w 
to fee-and to fuffer fevere punifame nt, little heeds a milder 
chaftifement, though it would fenfible and efficacious 
enough of itfelf, or in other circumftances; or, as aman 
who has borne a very heavy burden, when a lighter is placed 
on his gow ts is infenfible of the lead. But if it be ad- 
mitted, on the o er hand, that the’ {criptures do not cle “#4 
seogtd “i daeadly. and perhaps wholly pafs over the 
fiewilar point, of the poflibility of a death-bed conver-_ 
e 
Het » Hads, is fometimes alfo ufed, in the pe de 
ftyle for ‘Luk and burial; becaufe the Hebrew and 
names fignify fometimes the place of the damned, and Be, 
times pein the grave. See Anes 
word hell is of Saxon ee ain, and fignifies a cover- 
ed ie and thence, by an eafy tranfition, the place of the 
dead, or the invifible ftate into which death removes mankind. 
From the fame original, we ftill retain in our language the 
word heal, or hele, which fignifies. to cover over: and inthis 
fenfe lord King maintains that the word hell is ufed pate 
to be underftood in the Apo les’ Creed. : the m 
the place ef torment, where he triumphed over the devils, 
&e. Crit. Hitt. of Me T saslaes s Creed, p. 181, &c. Pear- 
fon on the Creed, p 
The Romanitts Pad, pte he there comforted wd at im 
they. are therefore Gtically infinite. M the purgatory: and brought away the fpirits of the 
eu of love are ie neatly eekaia by fuppefing and scat jutt perio departed till that time, pe ae chee 
i anpinnt  whilft ity with him into pa 
the molt wicked wt ine ae fe of all, whillt we Pe Tn the Romih church, that part of hell, wherein thofe 
ake he eeetat pes of rejoicing with them at laf; were retained who- died in the mercy and favour of God 
rt to bring this to pafs, and to haften it ; and con- before a Ponca s fufferings, is "called limbus, See 
er os a go od URGATORY. 
in the ee pure, and He Y eaeas ed ody t of America, near the 
what di 4 Spores Long if ibsed ud, i oppot to Harlem in York 
Uiat the ifland, and abou New York city, remark- 
vifable to this, suit a te able for its spol Ms ch ake é. wR, Hg A 
tuxed fo eis toe oe eee certain times of the t ’ Thefe whirlpools are occ: 
for anfwerin wering in a ae — he has Piet greater by the narrownefs and crookednefs of ae paflage, and abed 
pared for of rocks which extends ete acrofs it. A fkilful pilot 
porate wie may not be fuficintly aac 
