To lye in everlasting torments, to roar for ever for disquietness of heart; to rage for ever for madness of soul, to weep and grieve, and gnash the teeth for ever, is a misery 1beyond all expression. Bellarmine out of Barocius tells of 2a learned man, who after his death appeared to his friend, complaining that he was adjudged to Hell torments, (which (saith he) were they to last but a thousand thousand years, I should think it tolerable: but alas, they are eternal. And it is called eternal fire, Jude 7. I have read of a Prison among the Persians, which was deep, and wide, and dark, and out of which the Prisoners could never get; and therefore it was called by them Lethe, Forgetfulness: this Prison was a Paradise to Hell. Mark, every thing that is conducible to the torments of the damned is eternal. 1. God ⟨p. 106⟩that damns them is eternal, Isa. 33. 14. Rom. 16. 26. 2. The fire that torments them, is eternal, Isa. 30. 33. Cap. 66. 24. Jude 7. 3. The Prison and Chains that holds them, are eternal, Jude 6, 7, 13. 2 Pet. 2. 17. 4. The Worm that 3gnaws them is eternal, Mark 9. 44. Melanchthon calls it a Hellish fury. 5. The sentence that shall be passed upon them, shall be eternal, Matth. 25. 41, 42. The fire of Hell is called a Burning Lake, R•v. 20. 15. Whosoever was not found written in the book of life, was cast into the lake of fire. You shall know, that fire is the most tormenting Element. Oh the most dreadful impressions, that it makes upon the flesh. The Schoolmen distinguish thus of fire; they say, there is ignis ardoris, foetoris, & terroris, fire of heat, of stench, and of terror: of heat, as in Mount Aetna; of stench, as in Mount Heda; of terror and fear: as ignis fulguris, the fire of lightning in America: All these fires they say are in Hell. But to let the Schoolmen pass. It is disputed among many of the learned, Whether there be material fire in Hell or no. That 'tis very probable, that there is material fire in Hell, or that which is full as terrible, or more terrible, may I suppose, be thus evidenced.
To lye in everlasting torments, to roar for ever for disquietness of heart; to rage for ever for madness of soul, to weep and grieve, and gnash the teeth for ever, is a misery 1beyond all expression. Bellarmine out of Barocius tells of 2a learned man, who after his death appeared to his friend, complaining that he was adjudged to Hell torments, (which (saith he) were they to last but a thousand thousand years, I should think it tollerable: but alas, they are eternal. And it is called eternal fire, Jude 7. I have read of a Prison among the Persians, which was deep, and wide, and dark, and out of which the Prisoners could never get; and therefore it was called by them Lethe, Forgetfulness: this Prison was a Paradice to Hell. Mark, every thing that is conducible to the torments of the damned is eternal. 1. God ⟨p. 106⟩that damns them is eternal, Isa. 33. 14. Rom. 16. 26. 2. The fire that torments them, is eternal, Isa. 30. 33. Cap. 66. 24. Jude 7. 3. The Prison and Chains that holds them, are eternal, Jude 6, 7, 13. 2 Pet. 2. 17. 4. The Worm that 3gnaws them is eternal, Mark 9. 44. Melancthon calls it a Hellish fury. 5. The sentence that shall be passed upon them, shall be eternal, Matth. 25. 41, 42. The fire of Hell is called a Burning Lake, R•v. 20. 15. Whosoever was not found written in the book of life, was cast into the lake of fire. You shall know, that fire is the most tormenting Element. Oh the most dreadful impressions, that it makes upon the flesh. The Schoolmen distingish thus of fire; they say, there is ignis ardoris, foetoris, & terroris, fire of heat, of stench, and of terror: of heat, as in Mount Aetna; of stench, as in Mount Heda; of terror and fear: as ignis fulguris, the fire of lightning in America: All these fires they say are in Hell. But to let the Schoolmen pass. It is disputed among many of the learned, Whether there be material fire in Hell or no. That 'tis very probable, that there is material fire in Hell, or that which is full as terrible, or more terrible, may I suppose, be thus evidenced.
- 1Matth 25. ult.
- 2De arte moriendi.
- 31 Pet. 3. 19. Lucian saith, that it was the common opinion among them, that the wi•ked were held in chains by Pluto (so th•y call the Prince of Devils) in chain•, which cannot be loosed.1 Pet. 3. 19. L•cian saith, that it was the common opinion among them, that the wi•ked were held in chains by Pluto (so th•y call the Prince of Devils) in chain•, which cannot be loosed.
