"...part of the happiness of the blessed consists in contemplating the torments of the damned [in hell]. This sight gives them joy because it is a manifestation of God's justice and hatred of sin, but chiefly because it provides a contrast which heightens their awareness of their own bliss."
-- The Decline of Hell -- Seventeenth-Century Discussions of Eternal Torment, D. P. Walker, p. 29
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