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The fading of the flesh and flourishing of faith, or, One cast for eternity…
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London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1662
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Chapter 15: The difference betwixt the Sinners and Saints portion in the other world.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Three drops of brimstone (saith one) lighting on any part of our bodies, will make us cry and roar out for pain: what then will befall the sinner, when he shall both ever drink and ever live in this lake of fire and brimstone, when he shall drink this cup of pure wrath, of poisonous dregs, of fire and brimstone, though there be eternity to the bottom! Who can dwell in everlasting burnings? Isai. 33.14.
Three drops of brimstone (saith one) lighting on any part of our bodies, will make us cry and roar out for pain: what then will befall the sinner, when he shall both ever drink and ever live in this lake of fire and brimstone, when he shall drink this cup of pure wrath, of poysonous dregs, of fire and brimstone, though there be eternity to the bottom! Who can dwell in everlasting burnings? Isai. 33.14.
Observe secondly the certainty of the punishment.1 Upon the wicked he shall rain an horrible tempest. Some read it a whirlwind, a horrible blasting whirlwind, which carrieth all before it; but its properly, saith Ainsworth, a hideous burning tempest, named by the Greeks [Greek or Hebrew], Acts 27.14. It is an allusion to the boisterous wind Turbo, which casteth down and overthroweth all that is near it; which as it is hot and fiery is named Prester, and burneth and layeth along whatsoever it toucheth and encountereth. The sinner thinketh that he is sure, but this horrible tempest will overturn him: His squeazie stomach (used to rich wines) nauseates this loathsome nasty water. When God puts this cup into his hand, O how his heart will rise against it! but he shall ⟨p. 136⟩be forced to drink off this cup of fire and boiling brimstone whether he will or no.