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5. Our elemental fire may be quenched, that never goes out. This is maintained with wood, and put out with water: that as it hath nothing to maintain it, so nothing to extinguish it. There shall be weeping of eyes, no mitigation of flames: if there be any tears, they shall rather be like oil to feed and nourish it, than like water to put it out.

5. Our elementall fire may be quenched, that never goes out. This is maintained with wood, and put out with water: that as it hath nothing to maintaine it, so nothing to extinguish it. There shall be weeping of eyes, no mitigation of flames: if there be any teares, they shall rather be like oile to feed and nourish it, than like water to put it out.

These are three principal expressions of hell; but is there nothing of pain besides these? It seems they suffer nothing else but fire, because CHRIST dooms them only unto fire, Matth. 25.41. Indeed fire is the principal, but there are other accessories and concomitances. Basil. In the last purgation of the world there shall be a separation made in the elements. Whatsoever is pure, refined, sublimed, and perfect, shall remain above for the solace of the blessed. Whatsoever is feculent, sordid, and ignoble, shall be cast down to the punishment of the damned. That as every creature becomes matter of the Saints joy; so every creature be made matter of the reprobates sorrow.^f God shall make the creature his weapon for the revenge of his enemies: and the world shall fight with him against the unwise. As they have departed from that one God, one good, by sin in many material thing• which are variae & vanae: so that one Justice shall by many material things confound them. But Job 24.19. Ad calorem nimium transibit ab aquis nivium; as the vulgar Latin reads. Now the variety and vicissitude of passions yields some refreshing. As when a man passeth from extreme cold to extreme heat, there is a mediate intermission: but there is no refreshing admitted in hell. Answ. The damned may pass from extremity of cold to extremity of heat, without any re shing: because the passure shall not be by any transmutation of the body from the former natural disposition, nor by reduction to any equality of temper: but ble pains working upon the sensible parts; secundum esse spirituale, non secundum ess materiale, in organum, Aquin. The sum is this; the torments of hell are comprise under fire, because that is most violent, vehement, and sharply afflictive. Wa doth only kill: fire doth vex also, and torment: yea which is worse, this fire doth never kill. It shall be so extreme, that the damned shall prize a cup of cold wa above ten thousand worlds. The use.