A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written

Object. The torments of hell are far beyond any pains of this world: […] a man here, lying under some lethargical and stupefying pressure, cannot confide•• those intelligible conclusions, as he might being abstracted from his pain. A••• The soul is here joined to a corruptible body, straitened by the Organ: so th•• while the body is afflicted, the consideration of the soul is hindered. But there […] soul cannot be inclined by an incorruptible body: but while the flesh suffers according to the capableness thereof, the soul is prostrated to all the pains she can •• dure. Object. But the damned are the subjects of time, and time causeth forg•••lnesse. Answ. Time is the cause of forgetting, but only by accident: because moti•• which is the measure of time, is the cause of transmutation. But after this […] there shall be no more motion of the heavens: and even the soul that is now s• parated, is not changed from her disposition by the motion of heaven. Luk. 16.2• Son, remember: this is a gnawing worm: which if it hath made some ackno• ledge ⟨p. 505⟩(Infernum in mundo, qualiter sentient in inferno?) a hell on earth, what shall it •e to their sense in hell it self? Oculos quos culpa claudit, paena aperiet, Greg. The eyes which sin hath shut damnation shall open.

Object. The torments of hell are farre beyond any paines of this world: 〈…〉 a man here, lying under some lethargicall and stupefying pressure, cannot confide•• those intelligible conclusions, as he might being abstracted from his paine. A••• The soule is here joyned to a corruptible body, straightned by the Organ: so th•• while the body is afflicted, the consideration of the soule is hindred. But there soule cannot be inclined by an incorruptible body: but while the flesh suffers according to the capablenesse thereof, the soule is prostrated to all the paines she can dure. Object. But the damned are the subjects of time, and time causeth forglnesse. Answ. Time is the cause of forgetting, but only by accident: because moti which is the measure of time, is the cause of transmutation. But after this there shall bee no more motion of the heavens: and even the soule that is now s parated, is not changed from her disposition by the motion of heaven.