In these hellish torments, thou shalt be for ever deprived of the beatifical sight of GOD, wherein consists the sovereign good, and life of the soul. Thou shalt never see light, nor the lest sight of joy, but lye in a perpetual prison ⟨p. 128⟩of v•ter darkness: where shall be no order but horror: no voice but of blasphemers, & howlers: no noise but of torturers and tortured: no society but of the Devil and his Angels, who being tormented themselves, shall have no other ease but to wreak their fury in tormenting thee. Where shall be punishment without pity: misery without mercy: sorrow without succour: crying without comfort: mischief without measure: torment without ease: where the worm dyeth not, and the fire is never quenched:1 where the wrath of God shall seize upon thy soul and body as the flame of fire doth on the lump of pitch or brimstone: in which flame thou ⟨p. 129⟩shalt ever be burning and never consumed: ever dying and never dead: ever rowing in the pangs of death, and never rid of those pangs, nor knowing end of thy pains: So that after thou hast endured them so many thousand years as there are grass on the Earth, or sands on the Sea-shore, thou art no nearer to have an end of thy torments, then thou wast the first day that thou wast cast into them: yea, so far are they from ending, that they are ever but beginning. But if after a thousand times so many thousand years, thy damned soul could but conceive a hope, that those her torments should have an end, this would be some comfort ⟨p. 130⟩to think, that at length an end vvill come. But as oft as the Mind thinketh of this word Never, it is as another Hell, in the middest of Hell.
In these hellish torments, thou shalt be for euer depriued of the beatificall sight of GOD, wherein consists the soueraigne good, and life of the soule. Thou shalt neuer see light, nor the lest sight of ioy, but lye in a perpetuall prison ⟨p. 128⟩of v•ter darkenesse: where shall be no order but horror: no voice but of blas•h•mers, & howlers: no noise but of torturers and tortured: no societie but of the Deuill and his Angels, who being tormented themselues, shall haue no other ease but to wreake their furie in tormenting thee. Where shall be punishment without pitty: misery without mercy: sorrow without succour: crying without comfort: mischiefe without measure: torment without ease: where the worme dyeth not, and the fire is neuer qu•nched:1 where the wrath of God shall sease vpon thy soule and body as the flame of fire doth on the lumpe of pitch or brimestone: in which flame thou ⟨p. 129⟩shalt euer be burning and neuer consumed: euer dying and neuer dead: euer rowing in the panges of death, and neuer ridde of those panges, nor knowing end of thy paines: So that after thou hast endured them so many thousand yeeres as there are grasse on the Earth, or sands on the Sea-shore, thou art no nearer to haue an end of thy torments, then thou vvast the first day that thou wast cast into them: yea, so farre are they from ending, that they are euer but beginning. But if after a thousand times so many thousand yeeres, thy damned soule could but conceiue a hope, that those her torments should haue an end, this would be some comfort ⟨p. 130⟩to thinke, that at length an end vvill come. But as oft as the Minde thinketh of this word Neuer, it is as another Hell, in the middest of Hell.
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