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

First, Consider the soreness and intolerableness of Hell's torments, and that both of the pain, which there you shall feel in your bodies, and of the anguish which shall be put upon your souls; If you be found amongst the Wicked and Ungodly at the last, your bodies shall be tormented in every part in the flames of Hell-fire; no pain is more grievous now to the body, than the pain of Fire; but what is the extinguishable Fire on Earth, in comparison with the unquenchable Fire of Hell? what is the Fire of Mans kindling in comparison with the Fire of Gods kindling? what is Fire fed by Wood in comparison with Fire fed by the breath of God? no Fire here can torment like to the fire which God hath prepared for the bodies of the wicked hereafter. You have seen fiery Ovens, and you have heard of Nebuchadnezzar's fiery furnace, should your bodies now be thrown into such fires, you would find them horribly painful, but the pains of Hellfire will be ten thousand times more horrible and tormenting: your bodies now cannot endure much pain, without expiring which puts an end thereunto; but hereafter God will strengthen your bodies to endure, they shall have greater strength and quicker sense, and so more capacity for pain, and they shall be filled to the uttermost of their capacity; ⟨p. 129⟩your bodies shall never dye, and they sha• be filled with pain in extremity, and that to eternity; this will be very sore. All the tortures that ever were invented by the most mischievous mind, or executed by the most cruel Tyrant on any whom they have had the greatest spleen unto, are not so much as the least gentle touch in comparison with the torture, which the least member of the damned shall endure in Hell.

First, Consider the soreness and intollerableness of Hell's torments, and that both of the pain, which there you shall feel in your bodies, and of the anguish which shall be put upon your souls; If you be found amongst the Wicked and Ungodly at the last, your bodies shall be tormented in every part in the flames of Hell-fire; no pain is more grievous now to the body, than the pain of Fire; but what is the extinguishable Fire on Earth, in comparison with the unquenchable Fire of Hell? what is the Fire of Mans kindling in comparison with the Fire of Gods kindling? what is Fire fed by Wood in comparison with Fire fed by the breath of God? no Fire here can torment like to the fire which God hath prepared for the bodies of the wicked hereafter. You have seen fiery Ovens, and you have heard of Nebecadnezzars fiery furnace, should your bodies now be thrown into such fires, you would find them horribly painful, but the pains of Hellfire will be ten thousand times more horrible and tormenting: your bodies now cannot endure much pain, without expiring which puts an end thereunto; but hereafter God will strengthen your bodies to endure, they shall have greater strength and quicker sense, and so more capacity for pain, and they shall be filled to the uttermost of their capacity;