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

¹3. This eternal death as it hath fullness of torment so likewise Eternity; For heaven and hell have no period; There is no time set when the fire of hell shall go out, called therefore unquenchable fire, So that these two properties easeless and endless might startle and amaze every ungodly man, Why wilt thou buy these eternal torments at so dear a rate, for a moments pleasure to have everlasting woe? So that here are two Eternities before thee, an Eternity of happiness, an Eternity of misery, Sin saith, and the devil saith, taste of the honey of sin, God saith, There is eternal gall for this; Now which wilt thou believe, either sin tempting, or God threatening? Was not Eve at first undone? because she would hearken to the devil against God; What fruit or profit had Judas for thirty pieces, procuring to himself eternal horror and trembling?

¹3. This eternal death as it hath fulnesse of torment so likewise Eternity; For heaven and hell have no period; There is no time set when the fire of hell shall go out, called therefore unquenchable fire, So that these two properties easelesse and endlesse might startle and amaze every ungodly man, Why wilt thou buy these eternal torments at so dear a rate, for a moments pleasure to have everlasting woe? So that here are two Eternities before thee, an Eternity of happinesse, an Eternity of misery, Sinne saith, and the devil saith, taste of the honey of sinne, God saith, There is eternal gall for this; Now which wilt thou beleeve, either sinne tempting, or God threatning? Was not Eve at first undone? because she would hearken to the devil against God; What fruit or profit had Judas for thirty peeces, procuring to himself eternal horrour and trembling?

1. 13. To all Eternity.

Thus you have seen eternal life in the contrary to it, We have been upon the Mount of Blessing, and upon the Mount of Cursing; If good things will not allure,