The sentence being past in all prescribed order, the Execution must needs follow: but as there is a double sentence, so a double retribution: first, for the wicked, who immediately after the sentence shall be chased into hell, the Execution being speedily and fearfully done upon them, with all horror and haste by the Angels. O what a screech of horror will be heard? what woes and lamentations will be uttered, when Devils, and Reprobates and all the damned crew of hell, shall be driven into hell, whereunto they shall be thrust with violence, never to return again? How desperate is their case, when none will comfort them? the Saints deride them, Angels mock them, their own friends scoff them, devils hate them, the earth groans under them, and hell will swallow them. Down they go howling, and shrieking, and gnashing their teeth, the effect of a most impatient fury. The world leaves them, the earth forsakes them, hell entertains them, there must they live and die, and yet not live nor die, but dying live, and living die; death in life, life in death, miserable ever. If the drowning of the old world, swallowing up of Korah and his complices, burning up of Sodom with brimstone, were attended with such terrors and hideous out-cries, how infinitely transcendent to all possibility of conceit, expression, or belief, will the confusions and tremblings of that red-dread-fiery day be? It is not a few but many; nor many only, but all the wicked of the earth, being ⟨p. 122⟩many millions of men, shall be dragged down, with all the Devils of hell to torments without end, or ease, or past imagination; then to speak it again, that I may the deeper imprint it in your minds and memories: sure there was horrible shrieking, when those five filthy Cities first felt fire and brimstone drop down upon their heads; when those Rebels saw the ground cleave asunder, and themselves and all theirs, Go down quick into the pit: 1when all the sons and daughters of Adam found the flood rising, and ready to over-flow them all at once. But the most horrid cry that ever was heard, or ever shall be heard in Heaven, or in Earth, in this world, or in the world to come, will be then when all the forlorn condemned reprobates upon sentence given, shall be violently and unresistably haled down to hell;
The sentence being past in all prescribed order, the Execution must needs follow: but as there is a double sentence, so a double retribution: first, for the wicked, who immediately after the sentence shall be chased into hell, the Execution being speedily and fearfully done upon them, with all horrour and haste by the Angels. O what a scriech of horrour will be heard? what woes and lamentations will be uttered, when Devils, and Reprobates and all the damned crew of hell, shall be driven into hell, whereunto they shall be thrust with violence, never to return again? How desperate is their case, when none will comfort them? the Saints deride them, Angels mock them, their own friends scoffe them, devils hate them, the earth groans under them, and hell will swallow them. Down they go howling, and shrieking, and gnashing their teeth, the effect of a most impatient fury. The world leavs them, the earth forsakes them, hell entertains them, there must they live and die, and yet not live nor die, but dying live, and living die; death in life, life in death, miserable ever. If the drowning of the old world, swallowing up of Korah and his complices, burning up of Sodom with brimstone, were attended with such terrours and hideous out-cryes, how infinitely transcendent to all possibilitie of conceit, expression, or belief, will the confusions and tremblings of that red-dread-fiery day be? It is not a few but many; nor many onely, but all the wicked of the earth, being ⟨p. 122⟩many millions of men, shall be dragged down, with all the Devils of hell to torments without end, or ease, or past imagination; then to speak it again, that I may the deeper imprint it in your minds and memories: sure there was horrible shrieking, when those five filthy Cities first felt fire and brimstone drop down upon their heads; when those Rebels saw the ground cleave asunder, and themselves and all theirs, Go down quick into the pit: 1when all the sonnes and daughters of Adam found the floud rising, and ready to over-flow them all at once. But the most horrid cry that ever was heard, or ever shall be heard in Heaven, or in Earth, in this world, or in the world to come, will be then when all the forlorn condemned reprobates upon sentence given, shall be violently and unresistably haled down to hel;
- 1Num. 16.33.
