Discourses, or, Sermons on several Scriptures

For if we observe it, it is said to be everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels, ¹Matth. 25.41. Now the Devils are spiritual Substances, and flames of Fire themselves. ²He maketh his Angels Spirits, and his Ministers, that is his Ministering Spirits, whether good or evil, whether the Ministers of his Wrath and Vengeance, or the Ministers of his Mercy, He makes them Flames of Fire, Psalm 104.4. They are such piercing and subtle Flames that Lightning it self is but gross and dull compared to them: Yet here is a Fire that shall even torture Fire it self, a Fire that shall burn those Flames of Fire; and that is God, who being a Spirit, and the God of Spirits, can easily pierce and insinuate into the very Centre of their Beings. So that ⟨p. 79⟩the Damned in Hell shall for ever find themselves burnt up with a double Fire, a Material Fire, suited and adapted to impress Pain and Torment upon the Body, yet without wasting and consuming it; And an invisible intellectual Fire, that shall prey upon the Soul, and fill it with unspeakable Anguish and Horror, and this is no other than God himself.

For if we observe it, it is said to be everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels, ¹Matth. 25.41. Now the Devils are spiritual Substances, and flames of Fire themselves. ²He maketh his Angels Spirits, and his Ministers, that is his Ministring Spirits, whether good or evil, whether the Ministers of his Wrath and Vengeance, or the Ministers of his Mercy, He makes them Flames of Fire, Psalm 104.4. They are such piercing and subtile Flames that Lightning it self is but gross and dull compared to them: Yet here is a Fire that shall even torture Fire it self, a Fire that shall burn those Flames of Fire; and that is God, who being a Spirit, and the God of Spirits, can easily pierce and insinuate into the very Centre of their Beings. So that