All the Hell that you shall ever have!

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    ("The Mute Christian Under the Smarting Rod" or, "The Silent Soul with Sovereign Antidotes" by Thomas Brooks, 1659)

Consider Christian, that all your . . .
  trials and troubles,
  calamities and miseries,
  crosses and losses,
which you meet with in this world--is all the Hell that you shall ever have!

Here and now, you have your Hell.
Hereafter, you shall have your Heaven!

This life is the worst of your condition--the best is yet to come!

Lazarus had his Hell first--and his Heaven last.
Dives had his Heaven first--and his Hell at last.

You have all your pangs, and pains, and throes here--that ever you shall have!
Your ease, and rest, and pleasure--is yet to come.

Here you have all your bitters--your sweets are yet to come!

Here you have your sorrows--your joys are yet to come.

Here you have all your winter nights--your summer days are yet to come!

Here you have your evil things--your good things are yet to come.

Death will put an end to all your sins--and to all your sufferings!

Death will be an inlet to those joys, delights, and comforts--which shall never have an end!

Who can seriously meditate upon this, and not be silent under God's most smarting rod?

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