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

Wildfire may be tamed, streams of fire have been quenched: ••ely that fire can never be extinguished in the subject it hath possessed. One thing ••ely now can put it out; the water and blood that came out of CHRISTS own •de. Only that water can quench the fire of lust in us, and that blood quench the •re of hell against us.

Wildfire may bee tamed, streames of fire have beene quenched: ••ely that fire can never be extinguished in the subject it hath possessed. One thing ••ely now can put it out; the water and bloud that came out of CHRISTS owne •de. Onely that water can quench the fire of lust in us, and that bloud quench the •re of hell against us.

Down into hell.] Let me a little further enlarge this discourse of hell: wherein you do not find a due method, know that the nature of the place denies it. Who •n speak methodically and orderly of that; Quod nec modum nec methodum novit; •at knows no method, no order. Ibi ordo nullus, horror sempiternus. ¹If any expect […] absolute description; I excuse my selfe; Non mihi si c•ntum linguae. But as Pi•agoras guest at the stature and pitch of Hercules, by the length of his foot; and •e say in the proverbe, Ex ungue leonem: so by shadow and resemblance, we may •ittle conceive what it is in sufferance. This is a cup of the deadliest wine that ever as tasted: those deep graves in the Psalm, from whence there is no rising again. The gates of that infernal prison being kept from egress, as the gates of Paradise e rewarded from entrance: not by Cherubins with a flaming sword, but by the angels of Satan, with all the instruments of death, and the seal of Gods eternal decree set upon them. This is that outer darkness, to comprehend and wrap up the mned. Outer, because in extremity, without the limits of any mercy to be extended: where no light of Sun, Moon, or Star, much less the face of GOD shall er shine. Where the eyes shall distil like fountains, and the teeth clatter like ared men, and the mind muse on nothing but sad desperation. Many and fearful agonies have wrung and wrested the spirit of man, since the spirit of life was first eathed into him: yet if all were put together, to answer the measure of hell torents amongst them; the hand of Tophet hath an unmeasurable portion left bend to distribute to her children, and endless patrimony of howling and gnashing […] teeth. Balance them together, and the least pain of hell is greater than the greatest of this world, Aquin. Horrible torments have bin inflicted on mortal dilinents; they are all but ticklings to those torturings.