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The sinners last sentence to eternal punishment, for sins of omission
The sinners last sentence to eternal punishment, for sins of omission wherein is discovered, the nature, causes, and cure of those sins / by Geo. Swinnock.
London: printed for Geo. Swinnock, 1675
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
In the Explication of this Doctrine, I shall show: 1. Why the positive punishment of the wicked is set out by Fire? 2. Wherein it exceeds our Fire?
In the Explication of this Doctrine, I shall shew: 1. Why the positive punishment of the wicked is set out by Fire? 2. Wherein it exceeds our Fire?
For the former, the punishment of the damned resembleth Fire.
1. In regard of its intension, and the extreme pain and anguish it causeth. Fire is the most out-ragious and tormenting of all the Elements. Nebuchadnezzar thought to fright and fear men to purpose, with the threatening of a fiery Furnace. The fire in the Valley of Hinnon, wherein Children were offered as a Burnt-Offering to the Devil, was exquisitely tormenting. But who can tell the pains of Hell? Those fires are but dark shadows and representations of this Fire. What elementary or culinary fire is comparable to that Fire. Phaleris Bull, Low-country Racks, Foreign Strappadoes, are nothing; not so much as Flea-bites to the the fire of Hell.
1. In regard of its intension, and the extream pain and anguish it causeth. Fire is the most out-ragious and tormenting of all the Elements. Nebuchadnezzar thought to fright and fear men to purpose, with the threatning of a fiery Furnace. The fire in the Valley of Hinnon, wherein Children were offered as a Burnt-Offering to the Devil, was exquisitely tormenting. But who can tell the pains of Hell? Those fires are but dark shadows and representations of this Fire. VVhat elementary or culinary fire is comparable to that Fire. Phaleris Bull, Low-country Racks, Forreign Strapadoes, are nothing; not so much as Flea-bites to the the fire of Hell.