A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations / Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

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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.