Look at the Curse

Look outward, and behold a curse in the creature; vanity, emptiness, vexation, disappointments, every creature armed with a sting, to revenge its Maker's quarrel.

Look inward, and behold a curse in the conscience; accusing, witnessing, condemning, hailing to the tribunal of vengeance; first defiling with the allowance, and after terrifying with the remembrance, of sin.

Look upward, and behold a curse in the heavens; the wrath of God revealed from thence upon all unrighteousness.

Look downward, and behold a curse in the earth; death ready to put a period to all the pleasures of sin, and like a trap-door to let down into hell, where nothing of sin will remain, but the worm and the fire.

Look into the Scriptures, and see the curse there described: an everlastmg banishment from the glory of God's presence: an everlasting destruction by the glory of his power. (2 Thess. i. g.) The Lord showing the jealousy of his justice, the unsearcbableness of his severity, the inconccivablencss of his strength, the bottomless guilt and malignity of sin in the everlasting destruction of ungodly men, and in the everlasting preserving of them to feel that destruction.--Anon