A trumpet blown in Zion, or, An alarm in God's holy mountain containing an…A trumpet blown in Zion, or, An allarm in God's holy mountain containing an…

Secondly, To proceed, by burring up the Chaff with unquenchable fire, or by the Wrath of God in this place, our Blessed ¹Saviour doth intend, casting the wicked into Hell it self: Remarkable it is, that no less than four or five times the Lord Christ positively affirms in Mark 9. that the fire of Hell into which Body and Soul of wicked men shall be cast, cannot be quenched; where the worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched, &c. Why repeated ²so often? is it not to assure all ungodly persons of the certainty of it? Men are not willing to believe this great truth, they are too ready to think that it is inconsistent with infinite goodness to inflict such Punishment on his Creatures, but alas, they forget that there is an infinite perfection in every one of the Divine Attributes, and that as Gods mercy is infinite, unsearchable, and unconceivable, so is his wrath and fury; none are able to conceive, much less to declare, what pain and anguish the damned undergo. What torments like fire? and what fire is so hot and so tormenting as Hell-fire? sad it is to burn half an hour in an Elementary fire, yet the Martyrs have endured that for Christs sake; God made it easy to some of them: But alas, who can bear the burnings of Hell-fire, when wrath shall be let out upon the Soul to the uttermost?

Secondly, To proceed, by buring up the Chaff with unquenebable fire, or by the Wrath of God in this place, our Blessed ¹Saviour doth intend, casting the wicked into Hell it self: Remarkable it is, that no less than four or five times the Lord Christ positively affirms in Mark 9. that the fire of Hell into which Body and Soul of wicked men shall be cast, cannot be quenched; where the worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched, &c. Why repeated ²so often? is it not to assure all ungodly persons of the certainty of it? Men are not willing to believe this great truth, they are too ready to think that it is inconsistent with infinite goodness to inflict such Punishment on his Creatures, but alas, they forget that there is an infinite perfection in every one of the Divine Attributes, and that as Gods mercy is infinite, unsearchable, and unconceivable, so is his wrath and fury; none are able to conceive, much less to declare, what pain and anguish the damned undergo. What torments like fire? and what fire is so hot and so tormenting as Hell-fire? sad it is to burn half an hour in an Elementary fire, yet the Martyrs have endured that for Christs sake; God made it easie to some of them: But alas, who can bear the burnings of Hell-fire, when wrath shall be let out upon the Soul to the utterermost?