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The next question is, what is Hell? It is that place where the Justice of God •nfineth reprobates to their eternal punishments. The plagues thereof are inter••ll, external, eternal. Internal, that consists in a plenary desertion of God; so ••t they are continual sinners, and continual sufferers. Two contrarieties being reconciled in them; extreme presumption, and extreme desperation. Presumption, […] with bitter malice and curst heart they shall perpetually blaspheme, and sin against the Holy Ghost, Revel. 16.11. Desperation, without all hope of mercy, or ••itting one thought of peace. The one being a sin against Gods Justice, the •her against his mercy. External, that consists. 1. In a deprivation of all com•rt; that they do feel, being not more bitter, than the thought of that they can••t feel, Chrys. A privative cause hath a positive effect. Tully banished from Ita•• though it were into Greece, wept bitterly when he remembered Rome. Exiled ⟨p. 504⟩Demosthenes, though he found much kindness amongst his enemies, yet wo•ld weep when he looked towards Athens. The captive Jews hung up their harpe•, when they remembered Zion. Another laments that Roma relinquenda est: but wh•• he considers, Scithia est quo mittitur; bursts out into tears it is the most unhappy part of unhappiness, to remember former welfare. Dura satis miseris mem••• prisca bonorum. 2. In a sensible passion of universal anguish: as a brand in a gr••• fire, no part free from burning. Eternal, not determinable with time, for th•• Time shall be no more: everlastingness shall make absolute their sorrows: […] arm may be weary of smiting, not Gods: it is fabled of Jupiter, that if he shou spend his artillery as fast as men sin, Exiguo tempore inermis erit, his quiver wo soon be empty: Vulcan could not make his thunderbolts fast enough. But the d ned are punished in hell, so long as there is a God in heaven.