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Or if Imagination can give being to a more fearful place, that, or rather worse then that is Hell. If a poor man suddenly starting out of a golden slumber, should see his house flaming about him, his loving Wife and loved Infants brea•hing their spirits to heaven through the merciless fire, himself inringed with it, calling for despaired succour; the miserable Churl his next neighbour, not vouchsafing •o answer, when the putting forth of an arm might •ave him: such shall be their miseries in Hell, and nor an Angel nor a Saint shall refresh them with any comfort. These are all but shadows, nay not shadows of the infernal depth here expressed. You hear it; fear it, fly it, scape it. Fear it by Repentance, fly it by your Faith, and you shall scape it by Gods mercy.

Or if Imagination can giue being to a more fearefull place, that, or rather worse then that is Hell. If a poore man sodainely starting out of a golden slumber, should see his house flaming about him, his louing Wife and loued Infants brea•hing their spirits to heauen through the mercilesse fire, himselfe inringed with it, calling for despaired succour; the miserable Churle his next neighbour, not vouchsafeing •o answere, when the putting forth of an arme might •aue him: such shall be their miseries in Hell, and nor an Angell nor a Saint shall refresh them with any comfort. These are all but shadowes, nay not shadowes of the infernall depth here expressed. You heare it; feare it, fly it, scape it. Feare it by Repentance, flye it by your Faith, and you shall scape it by Gods mercie.

This is their (Poona sensus) positive punishment ▪ There is also (Poena damni) to be considered, their privative punishment. They have lost a place on earth, whose joy w•s temporal; they have missed a place in Heaven, whose joy is eternal. Now they find that