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Fire and brimstone from heaven, from earth, in hell, or, Three discourses I. Concerning…
Fire and brimstone from heaven, from earth, in hell, or, Three discourses I. Concerning the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah formerly, II. Concerning the burning of Æetna, or Mount Gibel more lately, III. Concerning the burning of the wicked eternally, with fire and brimstone / by Thomas Vincent ...
London: printed for George Calvert, 1670
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.
Take part of Virgil's Description of this place, which he feigneth Aeneas to have visited, Lib. 6.
Hâc iter Elisium nobis: at l•eva malorum Exercet p•nas, & ad impia Tartara mittit Respicit Aeneas subito, & sub rupe sinistr â Maenia lata vidit, triplici circundata muro: Quoe rapidus flammis ambit torrentibus amnis Tartarens Phlegethon, torquetque sonantia saxa: Tisiphoneque sidens, pal• à succincta cruent à, Vestibulum insomnis servat nosttesque, diesque. Hinc exandiri gemitus, & s•va sonare Verbera, tum stridor ferri, tractaeq•e catenae. This way unto Elysium leads, where such do dwell As have lived virtuously, th'other leads to Hell, Where wickedness is punished. Aeneas's eye Turns quick unto the left-hand-Rock, and there […] ⟨p. 91⟩Great structures closed in with triple Wall about▪ This compassed by Tartarian Plegethon throughout With fierce and fiery streams, with noise like stones on shore Rolled by Waves of Sea. On th'threehold of the •or Which lets into the place Tisiphone doth sit Awake, both day and night to watch and look to it Girt with Red-pall. Here he did hear the noise of chains, The sound of cruel lashes, th'groans and cries from pains Which they endured within—
Hâc iter Elisium nobis: at l•eva malorum Exercet p•nas, & ad impia Tartara mittit Respicit Aeneas subito, & sub rupe sinistr â Maenia lata vidit, triplici circundata muro: Quoe rapidus flammis ambit torrentibus amnis Tartarens Phlegethon, torquetque sonantia saxa: Tisiphoneque sidens, pal• à succincta cruent à, Vestibulum insomnis servat nosttesque, diesque. Hinc exandiri gemitus, & sva sonare Verbera, tum stridor ferri, tractaeqe catenae. This way unto Elisium leads, where such do dwell As have liv'd vertuously, th'other leads to Hell, Where wickedness is punished. Aeneas's eye Turns quick unto the left-hand-Rock, and there