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A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written
A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas AdamsA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas Adams
London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Jacob Bloome, 1633London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Iacob Bloome, 1633
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Consider the fearfulness of their judgement, John 15.2. and 6. where you find seven degrees of their fall: 1. They bear no fruit, this is their first step to hell. 2. Bearing no fruit, They are cut away from the Vine: Insition is blessed, but Abscission most wretched.i Cut it down, why cumbreth it the ground? To be excommunicated from JESUS CHRIST, is most accursed. 3. Being cut from the Vine, They are cast out of the Vineyard: The prayers of the Church are not heard for them, nor are they suffered tok suck on the breasts of her consolation. 4. Being cast out of the vineyard, they wither: needs must that branch wither, that receives no life of sap from him, that gives the sap of life unto all. 5. Being withered, they are bound into fagots, like the Tares into bundles, Matth. 13.30. Not all knit into one, but many several fagots. An adulterer with his adulteress make one fagot. A drunkard with his pot-companion, another fagot. A Seminary with a traitor, another fagot. The Extortioner and his Broker, another fagot. The Whore-master and his Pander, another fagot. All shall not be punished in the same degree, albeit in the same torment. 6. Being thus fagotted and coupled together, They are cast into the fire; the most terrible of all tortures. 7. Lastly, being cast into the fire, they burn and fry in those quenchless flames, Mark 9.48. Where the worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. In comparison whereof, our earthly fire is no more than if it were but painted. They are ever frying, never dying: in universal and eternal anguish. Universal upon every part of body and soul. For the body, Matth. 22.13. They are bound hand and foot, and crowded into a prison of outer darkness: like bricks in a fiery furnace, not able to wrench; having not so much as a chink where any cool wind may enter in to refresh them. Their seeing, affrighted with ugly Devils and darkness: their hearing, with hideous outcries: their smelling, with the odious stenches of the filthy bodies under torture: their taste, with a raging thirst: (begging one drop of ungranted water,