Fire and brimstone from heaven, from earth, in hell, or, Three discourses I. Concerning…

O that yet at length you might be awakened, and by the Spirit of the Lord effectually persuaded ⟨p. 122⟩•o lift up your eyes, and look a little before you, Yonder, Yonder! look Sinner yonder! is a horrible burning Tempest driving towards thee, a dreadful burning Lake preparing for thee, but canst not thou see it; look through the perspective of Sodom's burnings, when fire came down from Heaven, and Aetna's burnings when Fire came forth of the Earth, and this will discover something; but the perspective of the word will show it plain; if thou loo•est upwards with this perspective, thou mayest see some glimpse of the Glory of Heaven, and if tho• loo•est downward w•th it thou mayest see some glimpse of the Fire of Hell. Look doest thou not see a horrible deep and large pit filled with horribly burning Fire, and that Fire filled with damned Men and Women? Lay thy ear to the mouth of this pit, and har• what the dolorous complaints, what the shrieks and yellings be of that cursed company! and doest thou not perceive thy self hastening forward in the way to this place of burning? and wilt thou go forward still? or wilt thou suffer thy self to be carried on furiously by thy impetuous lusts, until thou art fallen into this pit, and there be no possibility of ever getting forth again?

O that yet at length you might be awakened, and by the Spirit of the Lord effectually perswaded ⟨p. 122⟩•o lift up your eyes, and look a little before you, Younder, Younder! look Sinner younder! is a horrible burning Tempest driving towards thee, a dreadful burning Lake preparing for thee, but canst not thou see it; look thorow the perspective of Sodom's burnings, when fire came down from Heaven, and Aetna's burnings when Fire came forth of the Earth, and this will discover something; but the perspective of the word will show it plain; if thou loo•est upwards with this perspective, thou maist see some glim•s of the Glory of Heaven, and if tho looest dowward wth it thou maist see some glimps of the Fire of Hell. Look doest thou not see a horrible deep and large pit filled with horribly burning Fire, and that Fire filled with damned Men and Women? Lay thy ear to the mouth of this pit, and har what the dolorous complaints, what the shreeks and yellings be of that cursed company! and doest thou not perceive thy self hastning forward in the way to this place of burning? and wilt thou go forward still? or wilt thou suffer thy self to be carried on furiously by thy impetuous lusts, until thou art fallen into this pit, and there be no posibility of ever getting forth again?