PUNISHMENT.
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.—Lamentations, iii. 39, 40.
Then shall He say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.—Matthew, xxv. 41, 46.
Governors are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers, and for the praise of them that do well.—I. Peter, ii. 14.
The house of endless pain is built thereby,
In which ten thousand sorts of punishment
The cursed creatures do eternally torment.
Spenser.
If you confess humanity, believe
There is a God, to punish or reward
Our doings here.
Thomas Southern.
Ye princes all, and rulers every one,
In punishment beware of hatred’s ire.
Before you scourge, take heed; look well thereon:
In wrath’s ill will, if malice kindle fire,
Your hearts will burn in such a hot desire,
That, in those flames, the smoke shall dim your sight,
Ye shall forget to join your justice right.
You should not judge till things be well discerned;
Your charge is still to maintain upright laws:
In conscience’ rules ye should be thoroughly learned—
Where clemency bids wrath and rashness pause;
And further saith, strike not without a cause:
And when ye smite, do it for justice’ sake;
Then in good part each man your scourge will take.
Thomas Churchyard.
Had I a hundred mouths, a hundred tongues,
I could not half those horrid crimes repeat,
Nor half the punishment those crimes have met.
Dryden.
A greater power
Now ruled him, punished in the shape he sinned.
Milton.