For the command of men, were made the dumb and unreasonable Creatures, which yet have a sensitive life and feeling. As in the Water, Fishes; in the Air, Birds; in the Earth, Beasts, both going and creeping: all of them Male and Female, for the propagation of their kind. Hell is the lowest World, a soul1 and fearful place of punishment, made for Angels and men that ⟨p. 68⟩should transgress, Peter pgiveth it a name, which signifieth as much as a place of terrible confused darkness, whereof that which qJob speaketh touching the grave, is much more to be verified, that there be no orders there, no alterations of times and seasons, sometimes dark, sometimes light, but whatsoever shineth most, is as the shadow of death, continual night, and a whole day, as a man may say, of darkness: for out of the Kingdom of Heaven there is no light at all. Therefore are the heirs of that Kingdom termed, The rsons of Light. And contrariwise, this place the souter darkness, Luke tcalleth it, The deep or bottomless Gulf, placed beneath, as a most deep and dark Dungeon: a foul and hideous Prison, as Peter unameth it, when he saith, that Christ by the power of his God-head in the Ministry of NOAH, preached to the spirits now in Prison. And again, xthat the Angels which sinned, are kept there in chains of darkness: or as yJUDE hath it, with everlasting bonds under darkness, as in a Gaole, unto the Judgement of the great Day.
For the command of men, were made the dumbe and vnreasonable Creatures, which yet haue a sensitiue life and feeling. As in the Water, Fishes; in the Ayre, Birds; in the Earth, Beasts, both going and creeping: all of them Male and Female, for the propagation of their kind. Hell is the lowest World, a soule1 and fearefull place of punishment, made for Angels and men that ⟨p. 68⟩should transgresse, Peter pgiueth it a name, which signifieth asmuch as a place of terrible confused darkenesse, whereof that which qIob speaketh touching the graue, is much more to bee verified, that there bee no orders there, no alterations of times and seasons, sometimes darke, sometimes light, but whatsoeuer shineth most, is as the shaddow of death, continuall night, and a whole day, as a man may say, of darknesse: for out of the Kingdome of Heauen there is no light at all. Therefore are the heires of that Kingdome termed, The rsonnes of Light. And contrariwise, this place the souter darknesse, Luke tcalleth it, The deepe or bottomlesse Gulfe, placed beneath, as a most deepe and darke Dungeon: a foule and hideous Prison, as Peter unameth it, when hee saith, that Christ by the power of his God-head in the Ministery of NOAH, preached to the spirits now in Prison. And againe, xthat the Angels which sinned, are kept there in chaines of darkenesse: or as yIVDE hath it, with euerlasting bonds vnder darkenes, as in a Gaole, vnto the Iudgement of the great Day.
- 1Those that teach also that Hell is no certain nor local place.Those that teach also that Hell is no certayne nor locall place.
- p2. Pet. 2. 4. [Greek or Hebrew].2. Pet. 2. 4. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
- qJob 10. 22.Iob 10. 22.
- rLuke 8. 31.
- sMat. 8.. 12.
- tLuke 8. 31.
- u1. Pet. 3. 19.
- x2. Pet. 2. 4.
- yJude verse 6.Iude verse 6.
