Again, after the last judgement there remains death eternal appointed for him: which stands in these three things. I. A separation from all joy and comfort of the presence of God. II. Eternal fellowship with the devil and all his angels. III. The feeling of the horrible wrath of God, which shall seize upon body, soul, and conscience, & shall feed on them as fire doth on pitch and brimstone: and torment them as a worm crawling in the body and gnawing on the heart: they shall always be dying, and never dead: always in woe, and never in ease. And this death is the more grievous, because it is everlasting. Suppose the whole world to be a mountain of sand, and that a bird must carry from it a mouthful of sand every thousand years: many innumerable thousands of years will be expired before she will have carried away the whole mountain: well, if a man should stay •n torment so long and then have an end of his woe, it were some comfort: but when the bird shall have carried away the mountain a thousand times: alas, alas, a man shall be as far from the end of his anguish and torment as ⟨p. 50⟩ever he was. This consideration may serve as an iron scourge to drive men from their wicked lives. Chrysostom would have men in their meetings in taverns and feasts, to talk of hell, that by often thinking on it, they might avoid it. A grave and chaste matron, being moved to commit folly with a lewd ruffian; after long discourse, she called for a pan of burning coals, requesting him for her sake to hold his finger in them but one hour; he answered, that it was an unkind request: to whom she replied, that seeing he would not hold so much as one finger in a few coals for one small hour, she could not yield to do the thing, for which she should be tormented body & soul in hell fire for ever. And so should all men reason against themselves. None will be brought to do a thing, that may make so much as their finger or tooth to ache: therefore we ought to have great care to leave our sins, whereby we bring endless torment to body and soul in hell.
Againe, after the last iudgement there remains death eternal appointed for him: which standes in these three things. I. A separation from all ioy and comfort of the presence of God. II. Eternall fellowship with the divell and all his angels. III. The feeling of the horrible wrath of God, which shall seaze upon bodie, soule, and conscience, & shall feed on them as fire doth on pitch and brimstone: and torment them as a worme crawling in the bodie and gnawing on the heart: they shall alwaies be dying, and never deade: alwayes in woe, and neuer in ease. And this death is the more grievous, because it is euerlasting. Suppose the whole worlde to be a mountaine of sande, and that a birde must carrie from it a mouthfull of sand euerie thousande yeeres: many innumerable thousands of yeres will be expired before she will haue caried away the whole mountaine: well, if a man should stay •n torment so long and then haue an ende of his woe, it were some comfort: but when the bird shall haue caried away the mountaine a thousand times: alas, alas, a man shall be as far from the ende of his anguish and torment as ⟨p. 50⟩ever he was. This consideration may serve as an yron scourge to drive men from their wicked lives. Chrysostome would have men in their meetings in tavernes and feastes, to talke of hel, that by often thinking on it, they might avoyde it. A grave and chaste matrone, being mooved to commit folly with a lewd ruffian; after long discourse, she called for a panne of burning coales, requesting him for her sake to holde his finger in them but one houre; he answered, that it was an unkinde request: to whome she replyed, that seeing he would not holde so much as one finger in a fewe coales for one small houre, she could not yeeld to do the thing, for which she should be tormented body & soule in hell fire for ever. And so shold all men reason against themselves. None will be brought to doe a thing, that may make so much as their finger or tooth to ake: therefore we ought to have great care to leave our sinnes, whereby we bring endlesse torment to bodie and soule in hell.
