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London's lamentation, or, A serious discourse concerning the late fiery dispensation that turned our…
London's lamentation, or, A serious discourse concerning the late fiery dispensation that turned our (once renowned) city into a ruinous heap also the several lessons that are incumbent upon those whose houses have escaped the consuming flames / by Thomas Brooks.
London: printed for John Hancock and Nathaniel Ponder, 1670
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.
In Hell there's nothing heard, but yells and cries:1 In Hell the Fire never slacks, nor Worm never dyes. But where this Hell is placed (my Muse) stop there. Lord show me what it is, but never where. To Worm and Fire, to torments there No term he gave, they cannot wear.2
In Hell there's nothing heard, but yells and cryes:1 In Hell the Fire never slacks, nor Worm never dyes. But where this Hell is plac'd (my Muse) stop there. Lord shew me what it is, but never where. To Worm and Fire, to torments there No term he gave, they cannot wear.2
- 1A Pentelogia dolour inferni.A Pentelogia dolor inferni.
- 2Prudentius the Poet.
If after so many millions of years, as there be drops in the Ocean, there might be a deliverance out of hell; This would yield a little case, a little comfort to the damned: O but this word Eternity, Eternity, Eternity, this word Everlasting, Everlasting, Everlasting, will even break the hearts of the damned in ten thousand pieces. There is scarce any pain or torment here on earth, but there is ever some hope ⟨p. 121⟩of ease, mitigation, or intermission, there is some hope of relief or delivery, but in hell the torments there, are all easeless, remediless and endless. Here if one fall into the fire, he may like a brand be pulled out of it, and saved; but out of that fiery Lake, there is no redemption. That Majesty that the sinner hath offended and provoked, is an infinite Majesty. Now there must be some proportion betwixt the sinners sin, and his punishment and torment. Now the sinner being a finite creature, he is not capable of bearing the weight of that punishment or torment that is intensively infinite, because it would be his abolishing or annihilating; and therefore he must bear the weight of that punishment or torment that is extensively infinite; namely, duration infinita, infinite in the continuance and endurance. What is wanting in torment, must be made up in time. Everlasting Fire and everlasting punishment in the New Testament,