The sum of sacred divinity briefly & methodically propoundedThe summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded

This which you have heard, is that miserable and wretched estate which sin hath drawn upon all the sons of Adam, so long as they live in this World. That which we call full cursedness, is a sorer and a more grievous punishment, the full cup of Gods heavy indignation, insupportable of all his Creatures: No Angel, no man, not all the Angels or men of the World able to ⟨p. 253⟩before it, or to endure the least brunt of it: but forceth miserable man, upon whom it lighteth, down into Hell, that horrible place of darkness, where they endure everlasting torments with the Devil and his angels; such as no tongue can express or utter: And therefore it is called, The ^fdestruction of the creature, The second ^gdeath, ^hdamnation: and there is said to be ⁱweeping and wailing, and gnashing of teeth: for first, they are separate and quite cut off from the gracious presence of God. Present indeed they find and feel him by experience; but that presence separated from his favour, is an increase of their fear and horror: not only so, but the wrath of God sensibly pursuing them, giveth no rest unto their souls, but as a Worm biteth and gnaweth on them continually; the fearfulness of which torment what heart is able to conceive? But to give some glimpse of it, the Scriptures use divers names, The ^kWorm that never dyeth, Hell fire, Unquenchable fire, The ^lburning Lake. Therefore wretched and fearful is their condition, yea, thrice miserable are they, and happy had it been for them, if never they had been borne, as also our ^mSaviour Christ doth say.

This which you haue heard, is that miserable and wretched estate which sinne hath drawne vpon all the sonnes of Adam, so long as they liue in this World. That which we call full cursednesse, is a sorer and a more grieuous punishment, the full cup of Gods heauie indignation, insupportable of all his Creatures: No Angell, no man, not all the Angels or men of the World able to