...those cities, not the degree or duration of the misery of the inhabitants who perished. The images of the worm that dieth not, and the fire that is not quenched, used in Mark i.\ . 43, are set in opposition to entering into life, and intended to denote a period...

...exhortations to amend, and repented not of your iniquities, you know that you have nothing to expect but " the worm that dieth not, and the fire that is not quenched." If he spare your lives, while you continue without repentance, you are living under his wrath and condemnation....

...case there is disease within ; and to whatever regions that soul may travel, it will carry with it the worm that dieth not, and the fire that is not quenched. In the other case, the soul is healthful, and is in itself a happy being. All its sufferings arise...

...be a metaphorical phrase, signifying the gracious acceptance of the Saviour ; and the lake of fire, the worm that dieth not, and the fire that is not quenched, may be also figures of speech, designed to represent the horror and the agony of a condition which...

...path ; with this accumulating misery, that we continue to carry corruption in our own breasts, like " the worm that dieth not, and the fire that is not quenched V But after the Christian mind is well settled on Christian objects, when we 1 Eph. iv. 6. 3 Acts xvii....

...doors ? — we shall be utterly lost beyond the hope of escaping " the bitter pains of eternal death," "the worm that dieth not, and the fire that is not quenched." But as soon as we look by faith to Jesus who died for us and rose again, we are pardoned — we are...

...of the same endurance. Both are complete — both unchanging — both eternal. In the one there is " the worm that dieth not, and the fire that is not quenched ;" while as for the other, " they shah1 go no more out, but the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne...

...yourself, 1 have been punished by twenty years of those torments which have been assigned to hell itself— the worm that dieth not, and the fire that is not quenched. But this ia not enough; and if 1 did not trust that the deep repentance which I feel may obtain some...

...would be strange indeed to threaten a man with being cast into a pit in which he had already fallen. If the worm that dieth not and the fire that is not quenched are nothing more than remorse of conscience here in this life, the wicked are not " turned into hell,"...

...of the wicked in the future world mil consist ? or in other words, what is included in the terms, " The worm that dieth not," and " the fire that is not quenched.'' The gnawing worm and the unquenchable fire which will prey upon the wicked hereafter, includes 1. Their...