A27107:210
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please God / amplified by the author
London: printed for Edward Brewster, 1695
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Ye cursed] There is a black and direful Excommunication.
Into fire] There is the cruelty of Fain.
Everlasting] There is the perpetuity of punishment.
Prepared for the Devil and his Angels.] Here are thy infernal tormenting and tormented Companions.
O terrible Sentence! from which the condemned cannot escape; which being pronounced, cannot possibly be withstood: against which a Man cannot except, and from which a Man can no where appeal: so that to the damned nothing remains but hellish torments, which know neither ease of pain, nor end of time. From this Judgment-seat thou must be thrust by Angels (together with all the damned Devils and1 Reprobates) into the bottomless lake of utter darkness, that perpetually burneth with fire and brimstone. Whereunto as thou shalt be thrust, there shall be such weeping woes and wailing, that the cry of the company of Korah, Dathan and Abiram, when the earth swallowed them up, was nothing comparable to this howling; nay, it will seem unto thee an Hell before thou goest into Hell, but to hear it. Into which bottomless lake after that thou art once plunged, thou shalt ever be falling down, and never meet a bottom; and in it thou shalt ever lament, and none shall pity thee; thou shalt always weep for pain of the Fire, and yet gnash thy Teeth, for the extremity of Cold; thou shalt weep to think that thy miseries are past