Merrily on in the way to hell – Thomas Brooks

“Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.” Matthew 25:46

Certainly there is a hell, a place of torment provided and prepared for all wicked and ungodly people.

Ah, how many are there that rejoice to do evil, and delight in their abominations, and take pleasure in unrighteousness! But could men do thus, dared men do thus did they really believe that hell was prepared and fitted for them, and that the fiery lake was but a little before them?

Heaven is a place where all is joyful and hell is a place where all is doleful. In heaven there is nothing but happiness and in hell there is nothing but heaviness, nothing but endless, easeless, and remediless torments. Did men really believe this, how could they go so merrily on in the way to hell?