The sinners last sentence to eternal punishment, for sins of omission

But the great pain of the wicked will more fully appear, if we consider the difference between our fires on Earth, and that in Hell.

BUt the great pain of the wicked will more fully appear, if we consider the difference between our fires on Earth, and that in Hell.

1. They differ in the cause of their kindling. Our fires are kindled with cold Air, a puff of Wind; thus the spark is blown up into a flame. But Tophet is prepared of old: for the King it is prepared: the pile thereof is fire and much wood, and the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it, Isa. 30.33. O what a flame is that which is blown up by the breath of an Almighty God. What a vast difference is there between the breath of man, or of a pair of Bellows, and the breath of a God? This breath is like a stream of brimstone; and if the breath that kindleth the fire be like a stream, or rather a Sea of brimstone, what is the fire it self? What a vast difference is there between ⟨p. 75⟩the breath of a pair of Bellows, and the fire kindled by them.

2. They differ in their nature. Our fires are by Philosophers described to be a stream of sulphurous particles, or swarm of motes of brimstone, violently agitated, and forcibly breaking forth from those respective Bodies to which they did formerly belong. And this is apparent, because when any body is throughly burnt, the sulphurous parts are almost gone; and when those parts are gone, what remains will burn no longer. But the fire of Hell, whether it be material or metaphorical, is quite another thing. It is a deep impression of infinite wrath and fury on every member of the Body, and faculty of the Soul. And O what a fearful thing is it to fall into the hands of the living God, for our God is a consuming fire,