Introduction.
Who art thou? Where art thou? How is it with thee now? What art thou thinking of? If I were to put these questions, etc. Continues as above.
FORTY-FIRST SERMON.
ON THE PAIN OF SENSE IN HELL.
Subject.
The pains of the body in hell will be general and at the same time unceasing.—Preached on the third Sunday in Lent.
Text.
Erat ejiciens dæmonium.—Luke xi. 14.
“He was casting out a devil.”
Introduction.
Worthy of pity is the man possessed by the devil! For we can see clearly enough from the frightful gestures and actions of possessed persons how cruelly the hellish foe treats, night and day, the bodies of those in whom he dwells. But still more unfortunate is the man who on the last day is condemned to the eternal flames of hell, and given over body and soul to be tormented by legions of demons. O torments of hell! I tremble when I think of you! O foolish mortals, who make deliberate choice of those torments! After having portrayed the pains that rack the soul and mind in hell and drive them to madness, I shall go on in this meditation to describe, in order to inspire sinners with a salutary fear, the torments that there torture the body and its senses.
Plan of Discourse.
The pains of the body in hell are general, and at the same time unceasing. There you have the whole subject.
O Mary, Mother of mercy, and you, holy guardian angels, obtain for us all the grace to descend into hell frequently in thought during life, that none of us may have to go there after death.
The pains and torments of this life do
The crosses and trials, pains and torments that strew this vale of tears, no matter how great or numerous they may be, are yet so divided and controlled that they never all attack the same