Let us learn from this description of Hell, and our imminent danger of it, the infinite value and worth of the Gospel of Christ; this Gospel, which calls us aloud to fly from the wrath to come, and points out to us the only effectual way to escape it. What can all the riches of the Indies do to relieve us under the guilt and distress into which sin has brought us? What can the favor of princes and the flattering honors of the world do to rescue us from this danger? What can the highest gust of sensuality, and the most exquisite delights of flesh and blood, do to secure us against this overwhelming misery? Only the Gospel of the blessed Jesus is our refuge and our safety from the tremendous destruction. 

What are the heights, and depths, and lengths, of human science, with all the boasted acquisitions of the brightest genius of mankind! Learning and science can measure the globe, can sound the depths of the sea, can compass the heavens, can mete out the distances of the sun and moon, and mark out the path of every twinkling star for many ages past, or ages to come; but they cannot acquaint us with the way of salvation from this long, this endless, distress. What are all the sublime reasonings of philosophers upon the abstruse and most difficult subjects? What is the whole circle of sciences which human wit and thought can trace out and comprehend? Can they deliver us from the guilt of one sin? Can they free us from one of the terrors of the Almighty? Can they assuage the torment of a wounded spirit, or guard us from the impressions of divine indignation? Alas, they are all but trifles in comparison of this blessed Gospel, which saves us from eternal anguish and death.

The World To Come - Isaac Watts