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

Some of you have had extreme pain in your heads, others have had extreme pain in your bowels, others have been extremely afflicted with pain in your legs; others have felt much torture with the pain of your teeth; but if you live and dye in Sin, you shall be extremely and eternally tortured with pain in every part, your eyes shall be full of pain, your tongues full of pain, your hands full of pain, your heads full of pain, your backs full of pain, your bellies full of pain, your feet full of pain, from the crown of your head unto the sole of your feet, no part shall be free; your bodies shall roll and tumble in flames, and there burn with horrible pain, and yet never be consumed.

Some of you have had extream pain in your heads, others have had extream pain in your bowels, others have been extreamly afflicted with pain in your legs; others have felt much torture with the pain of your teeth; but if you live and dye in Sin, you shall be extreamly and eternally tortured with pain in every part, your eyes shall be full of pain, your tongues full of pain, your hands full of pain, your heads full of pain, your backs full of pain, your bellies full of pain, your feet full of pain, from the crown of your head unto the sole of your feet, no part shall be free; your bodies shall roul and tumble in flames, and there burn with horrible pain, and yet never be consumed.

But the anguish of your Soul will far exceed the tortures of your bodies, and here words fail, conceptions fall short; who can tell how the worm of conscience will bite! how dreadful the lashes of your consciences will be, when they are let loose (as Gods executioners) with full rage upon you? who can utter the anguish you shall endure under the immediate impressions of God's wrath upon your souls; this will exceed what ever can be inflicted by the means of any second causes: The punishment of Hell fire will be very sore and intolerable, such ⟨p. 130⟩as are tender cannot without unutterable fear and grief bear the thoughts of being burned alive here on Earth, and oh the shre•kings of such persons, when they have been brought to the fire, and the flames have begun to seize upon them! O I cannot endure it! O I cannot endure it! how intolerable then will Hell-fire be! many Martyrs have endured great tortures in their bodies with much patience, some were slain with the Sword; some burnt with fire, some scourged with whips, some stabbed with Iron forks, some their skins plucked off whilst alive, some their tongues cut out, some stoned to death, some starved with hunger & cold, some dismembered and naked to the shame of the World; and yet in the midst of all their pains they have had a composed mind; yea, sometimes have been filled with joy; God hath not suffered man to inflict upon them more than he hath given them strength to bea; but there will be no patience to undergo the pains of Hell; the spirit will utterly sink under the the heavy burden and pressure thereof, especially the pressure of that pure and weighty wrath, which shall be immediately upon the soul. The terrors of conscience here and foretasts of wrath, are intolerable in this World, Prev. 18. 14. The spirit of man will sustain his infirmity, but a wounded spirit who can bear? If the body be infirm and weak, full of distemper and pain, yet whilst the spirit is whole and sound, whilst there is peace within, the spirit may sustain this, and bear up under it: but if the spirit be wounded by the Arrows of the Almighty shot into it, who can bear it? if God let fall some scalding drops of his wrath upon the spirit, if he kindle a spark of Hell-fire in the conscience, who