CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

2. This eternal death brings all the positive evil that can be feared or imagined upon a man; For as here we told you,¹ was not one kind of comfort but an aggression of all, therefore the Scripture delights to represent it under several desirable good things, so neither is hell one kind of misery, one kind of torment, but the Scripture represents it under every thing that is terrible, Because death is so much feared, therefore it's called death, because fire and brimstone are so terrible in burning it's called that; Because a dark dungeon and prison with chains in the darkness are so miserable, It's resembled to that, ⟨p. 66⟩because men in extremity of pain and misery do use to weep and wail, and gnash their teeth, therefore is hell set out by all these dreadful things, so that as the glorified in heaven have every thing they can desire, there is no good they want; Thus the damned in hell have every thing they fear; There is no torment or pain imaginable but they partake of it, and this they are filled with, having not the least ease or respite: Dives desired but a drop of water to cool only the top of his tongue, and he could not obtain so much; Oh that men who give themselves up to the pleasures of sin would remember these torments; These howlings to all Eternity: What are we preaching follies and fictions to you? If you believe the Scripture, you must believe those things to be the portion of every unreformed sinner; O what a vast difference will there be between thy pleasures here and eternal torments hereafter, and not to have a drop of ease in all thy misery.

2. This eternal death brings all the positive evil that can be feared or imagined upon a man; For as here we told you,¹ was not one kinde of comfort but an aggression of all, therefore the Scripture delights to represent it under severall desirable good things, so neither is hell one kinde of misery, one kinde of torment, but the Scripture represents it under every thing that is terrible, Because death is so much feared, therefore it's called death, because fire and brimstone are so terrible in burning it's called that; Because a dark dungeon and prison with chains in the darknesse are so miserable, It's resembled to that, ⟨p. 66⟩