For instance, other Scriptures set it out to us as a Prison, 1 Pet. 3. 19. large enough, to be sure, to hold Men and Devils. [The wicked shall be turned into Hell, and all the Nations that forget God, Psal. 9. 17.] As also by their being retained in Chains of Darkness; 2 Pet. 2. 4. where Men must lie till they have paid the utmost farthing, Mat. 5. 26. where is nothing but darkness, utter darkness, blackness of darkness; Jude 4. that is, an emptiness of all Good, not a Beam of Light to all Eternity. Also a place of torment, Luke 6. 48. where there is not admitted one drop to cool ones Tongue (Luke 15.) in the midst of the most raging scorchings. Also, I find it elsewhere expressed by the most horrid Punishments and Tortures that were found amongst the Nations, cutting Men in pieces, dividing them in the midst, ([Greek or Hebrew], Mat. 24. 49, 51.) tearing them in pieces, Psal. 50. last, cutting them up to the Back-Bone, Heb. 4. 12, 13. *drowning Men in perdition, 1 Tim. 6. 9. and that with Millstones about their Necks, as Christ adds, Mat. 18. 6. to make sure they never rise again: also unto a being cast bound Hand and Foot, Mat. 22. 13. into Fire to be burnt alive; a Furnace of Fire, twice in one Chapter, Mat. 13. 42, 49, 50. A Lake of Fire; and so drowned over Head and ⟨p. 4⟩Ears, for ever. A Lake fed with a Stream of Brimstone, which (of all matter that feedeth Fire) is the most fierce. Then again, Eternal Fire, and that never to be 2slacked or extinguished. And you may with the like Analogy, go over what ever else of torment is most exquisite to outward Sense.
For instance, other Scriptures set it out to us as a Prison, 1 Pet. 3. 19. large enough, to be sure, to hold Men and Devils. [The wicked shall be turned into Hell, and all the Nations that forget God, Psal. 9. 17.] As also by their being retained in Chains of Darkness; 2 Pet. 2. 4. where Men must lie till they have paid the utmost farthing, Mat. 5. 26. where is nothing but darkness, utter darkness, blackness of darkness; Jude 4. that is, an emptiness of all Good, not a Beam of Light to all Eternity. Also a place of torment, Luke 6. 48. where there is not admitted one drop to cool ones Tongue (Luke 15.) in the midst of the most raging scorchings. Also, I find it elsewhere expressed by the most horrid Punishments and Tortures that were found amongst the Nations, cutting Men in peices, dividing them in the midst, (〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Mat. 24. 49, 51.) tearing them in peices, Psal. 50. last, cutting them up to the Back-Bone, Heb. 4. 12, 13. *drowning Men in perdition, 1 Tim. 6. 9. and that with Milstones about their Necks, as Christ adds, Mat. 18. 6. to make sure they never rise again: also unto a being cast bound Hand and Foot, Mat. 22. 13. into Fire to be burnt alive; a Furnace of Fire, twice in one Chapter, Mat. 13. 42, 49, 50. A Lake of Fire; and so drowned over Head and ⟨p. 4⟩
- *See for this, The interpretation hereof in the Child of Light, &c. pag. 49, 50.
- 2Rev. 14. 19. Rev. 19. 20. & Chap. 20. 10. 14. 25. & chap. 21. 18. Mat. 3. 1. Mat. 18. 8. Mat. 25. 41.
