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

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.