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Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment
Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment by Thomas Vincent ...
London: printed for George Calvert, 1667
Christ's certain and sudden Appearance to Judgment. › Chapter 9
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Thus concerning the first particular in the execution of the sentence on the wicked, they shall go away.
2. They shall go into punishment, and here I shall speak, 1. Of the punishment which they shall go into. 2. Of their entering into this punishment.
2. They shall go into punishment, and here I shall speak, 1. Of the punishment which they shall go into. 2. Of their entring into this punishment.
1. Concerning the punishment which the wicked shall go into. Take two or three places of Scripture which set forth this punishment, Matth. 25. 41. D•p•rt ye cursed into everlasting Fire, Mark 9. ⟨p. 132⟩43, 44. Then to go into Hell, where their worm dyeth not, and the Fire is not quenched. Rev. 14. 10, 11. They shall drink of the Wine of the wrath of God, which shall be poured out, without mixture, into the Cup of his indignation, and be tormented with Fire and Brimstone, and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever. The punishment then will be Gods wrath, which the damned shall drink of, so as to feel the immediate impressions thereof upon their souls; and Fire and brimstone kindled by the breath of God, the impression whereof they shall feel upon their bodies; but what tongue can express the punishment of the wicked in Hell? if some expressions in Scripture concerning it be metaphorical, surely they fall short of what the real punishment will be; the drops and sprinklings of Gods wrath here are but small in comparison with the Ocean, which the wicked shall be cast into: the top of the Cup hath nothing of the bitterness which they will find in the dregs: never was there such a Fire on Earth, as the Fire of Hell; never was there such a pain endured by those which have undergone the more exquisite torments; as the pains and torments which shall be inflicted hereafter upon the damned. Yet, though we are not able here to conceive how dreadful this punishment will be, we may conceive it to be unexpressibly more dreadful than any punishment on Earth; if we consider, 1. The Inflicter of it. 2. The subject of it. 3. The properties of it.