Mr. Bolton's last and learned work of the four last things death, judgement, hell,…Mr. Boltons last and learned worke of the foure last things death, iudgement, hell,…

and yet for all this he doth not only in a spiritual frenzy desperately deprive himself, and trample under foot this heaven upon earth, and that joyful rest in heaven, world without end: but also throws himself into a hell of ill conscience here, and hereafter into that hell of Devils, which is a place of flames, and perpetual darkness, where there is torment without end, and past imagination.

and yet for all this he doth not onely in a spirituall phrensie desperately deprive himselfe, and trample under foot this heaven upon earth, and that joyfull rest in heaven, world without end: but also throwes himselfe into a hell of ill conscience here, and hereafter into that hell of Devils, which is a place of flames, and perpetuall darknesse, where there is torment without end, and past imagination.

The day will come, and the LORD knows how soon, when he will clearly see and acknowledge with horrible anguish of heart, his strange and desperate madness. See Wisd. 5. 2, &c. For, after the moment of a few miserable pleasures in this life be ended, he is presently plunged into the fiery lake; and ere he be aware, the pit of destruction shutteth upon him everlastingly: and if once he find himself in hell, he knows there is no redemption out of that infernal ⟨p. 242⟩pit: then would he think▪ himself happy, if he were to suffer those bitter and intolerable torments no mo thousands of years, than there are sands on the sea shore, hairs on his head, stars in heaven, grass piles on the ground, and creatures both in heaven and earth: for, he would still comfort himself at least with this thought, that once his misery would have an end: but alas, this word, never, doth ever burst his heart with unexpressible sorrow, when he thinks upon it: for, after an hundred thousand of millions of years there suffered, he hath as far to suffer, as he had at the first day of his entrance into those endless torments: now let a man consider, if he should lie in an extreme fit of the stone; or a woman, if she should be afflicted with the grievous torture of child-bed but one night; though they lie upon the softest beds, have their friends about them to comfort them, Physicians to cure them, all needful things ministered unto them to assuage their pain; yet how tedious, painful, and wearisome would even one night seem unto them? how would they turn and toss themselves from side to side, telling the clock, counting every hour as it passeth, which would seem unto them a whole day? What is it then (think you) to lie in fire and brimstone, inflamed with the unquenchable wrath of GOD world without end? Where they shall have nothing about them but darkness and discomforts, yellings and gnashings of teeth: their companions in profaneness and vanity to ban and curse them: the damned fiends of hell to scourge them and torment