{"id":58547,"date":"2017-03-31T12:28:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T16:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58547"},"modified":"2017-03-28T06:29:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T10:29:30","slug":"still-more-john-donne-for-john-donne-day-on-the-awfulness-of-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58547","title":{"rendered":"Still More John Donne for John Donne Day: on the Awfulness of Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When all is done, the hell of hells, the torment of torments, is the everlasting absence of God, and the everlasting impossibility of returning to his presence&#8230;to fall out of the hands of the living God, is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination&#8230;. What Tophet is not Paradise, what Brimstone is not Amber, what gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worme is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;From a sermon to the Earl of Carlisle in 1622<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8216;Death be not proud &#8230; for thou art not so&#8217; &#8211; John Donne, poet, priest &amp; Dean of St Paul&#8217;s, died <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OnThisDay?src=hash\">#OnThisDay<\/a> 1631 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KXNGZlsv7m\">pic.twitter.com\/KXNGZlsv7m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral (@StPaulsLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StPaulsLondon\/status\/715452236151783426\">March 31, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; When all is done, the hell of hells, the torment of torments, is the everlasting absence of God, and the everlasting impossibility of returning to his presence&#8230;to fall out of the hands of the living God, is a horror<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58547\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-eschatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58548,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58547\/revisions\/58548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}