A05817:202
The Practice of Piety
The practise of piety directing a Christian how to walk that he may please God.The practise of pietie directing a Christian how to walke that he may please God.
London: printed for John Hodgets, 1613London: printed for Iohn Hodgets, 1613
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.
Everlasting,] there is the perpetuity of punishment.
Euerlasting,] there is the perpetuitie of punishment.
Prepared for the Devil and his Angels.] Here are thy ⟨p. 123⟩infernal tormenting, and tormented companions.
Prepared for the Diuell and his Angels.] Here are thy ⟨p. 123⟩infernall tormenting, and tormented companions.
O terrible Sentence! from which the condemned cannot escape: which being pronounced, cannot possibly be with-stood: against which a man cannot except; and from which a man can no where appeal. So that to the damned, nothing remains but hellish torments, which knows neither ease of pain, nor end of time. From this Judgement-seat thou must be thrust by Angels, (together with all the damned Devils and Reprobates) into the bottomless Lake of utter darkness, 1that perpetually burns with fire and Brimstone. Whereunto, as they shall be thrust, there shall be such weeping, woes, ⟨p. 124⟩and wailing, that the cry of the company of Core, Dathan, & Abiram when the earth swallowed them up, was nothing comparable to this howling; nay, it vvill seem unto thee a Hell, before thou goest into hell, but to hear it.
O terrible Sentence! from which the condemned cannot escape: which being pronounced, cannot possibly be with-stood: against which a man cannot except; and from which a man can no where appeale. So that to the damned, nothing remaines but hellish torments, which knows neyther ease of paine, nor end of time. From this Iudgement-seate thou must be thrust by Angels, (together vvith all the damned Diuels and Reprobates) into the bottomlesse Lake of vtter darknesse,