The happiness of the church, or, A description of those spiritual prerogatives wherewith Christ…The happines of the church, or, A description of those spirituall prerogatiues vvherewith Christ…

I list not to enter discourse of those infernal horrors. I may say with the Poet; if I had a hundred tongues, and a voice of yron; Non Omnia p•narum percurrere nomina pos•. ⟨p. 248⟩I could not run through the names of those endless torments. It is a fearful place: God send us all never to know more of it, then by hearsay. Where Spirits are the tormentors, Damnation the fire; the breath of an offended God the bellows; shrieking and gnashing of teeth the music; the effect of impatient fury. And all these terrors perfected by their eternity, we commonly say in misery; If it were not for hope, the heart would burst: here is no hope and yet the heart must hold. The wretchedness is, it cannot burst. ^ePoena gehennales torquent, non extorquent: puniunt, non finiunt corpora. It is called by Augustine, ^fMors sine morte, sinis sine fine, defectus sine defectu.

I list not to enter discourse of those infernall horrors. I may say with the Poet; if I had a hundred tongues, and a voyce of yron; Non Omnia p•narum percurrere nomina pos•. ⟨p. 248⟩I could not run through the names of those endlesse torments. It is a fearefull place: God send vs al neuer to know more of it, then by heresay. Where Spirits are the tormentors, Damnation the fire; the breath of an offended God the bellowes; shrieking and gnashing of teeth the musike; the effect of impatient furie. And all these terrours perfected by their eternity, we commonly say in misery; If it were not for hope, the heart would burst: here is no hope and yet the heart must hold. The wretchednesse is, it cannot burst. ^ePoena gehennales torquent, non extorquent: puniunt, non finiunt corpora. It is called by Augustine, ^f