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The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…
The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham, minister and preacher of the Word of God collected into one volume: revised, corrected, and published, for the further building of all such as love the truth, and desire to know the power of godliness. By H.H.The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham, minister and preacher of the Word of God collected into one volume: reuised, corrected, and published, for the further building of all such as loue the truth, and desire to know the power of godlinesse. By H.H.
London: printed by Thomas Snodham and Thomas Creede for William Welby, 1612London: printed by Thomas Snodham and Thomas Creede for VVilliam VVelby, 1612
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CHAP. XXXIII. Of God's wrath, and justice, and mercy.
CHAP. XXXIII. Of Godswrath, and iustice, and mercie.
There are three things which do slake our pains in this life, mitigation, hope, and comfort, but none of these can help in hell. For the first we know the rich1 man could not have• drop of water. In this life, it may fall out, that a man that whippeth us an whole day long may be weary, but our tormentors in hell are spirits, and therefore never weary. Again if such whippers in this life should never wax ⟨p. 696⟩weary in whipping us, yet it may be they shall kill us, or at the least leave us nu•• and senseless, but in hell though our bodies continually burn, yet shall they never consume. Thirdly on earth, though neither tormentors wax weary, nor we tormented be consumed, yet the whips and instruments would wear and waste, and should have some ease that way: but hell fire is unquenchable, and the worm of conscience unsatiable; and therefore no hope of mitigation. But what comfort is there in hell? if the sight of the pleasures lost, which they might have had, if the beholding of our enemies advanced into that glory, which we could not deny to them, and wish for our selves, if the entering into pain and shame even before our adversaries, whom we hate, and in whose sight we would be better esteemed, do increase the pains of the sufferers, then all these show there is little comfort in hell. First the damned shall be within the hearing of this, which they have lost, Come ye blessed of my father; and the godly shall be within the hearing of this to the damned, Go ye cursed into everlasting fire. The wicked indeed shall remember their pleasures, they had on