A Body of Practical Divinity

1. Poena Damni: Punishment of Loss; the Soul is banished from the Beatifical Presence of God, in whose Presence is Fullness of Joy.

1. Poena Damni: Punishment of Loss; the Soul is banished from the Beatifical Presence of God, in whose Presence is Fulness of Joy.

2. Poena Sensus: Punishment of Sense; the Sinner feels the scalding Viols of God's Wrath: It is penetrating, abiding, Joh. 3.36. Reserved, 2 Pet. 2.17. If when God's Anger be kindled but a little, and a Spark or two of it flies into a Man's Conscience here in this life, it be so terrible, what then will it be when God stirs up all his Anger? In Hell there is the Worm and the Fire, Mark 9.44. Hell is the very Accent and Emphasis of Misery: There's Judgment without Mercy. O what Flames of Wrath, what Seas of Vengeance, what Rivers of Brimstone, are poured out there upon the Damned! Bellarmine is of Opinion, That one Glimpse of Hell-fire were enough to make the most flagitious Sinner turn Christian; nay, live as an Hermit, a most strict mortified Life. What is all other Fire to this, but painted Fire? Ejus adesse intolerabile, ejus abbess impossibile: To bear it will be intolerable, to avoid it will be impossible. And these Hell-torments are for ever; have no Period put to them, Rev. 9.6. They shall seek death and shall not find it. Origen fancied a Fiery Stream in which the Souls of sinful Men wer• to be purged after this Life, and then to pass into Heaven: but it is for ever. The Breath of the Lord kindles that Fire; and where shall we find Engines or Buckets to quench it? Rev. 14.11. And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever, and they have no rest night nor day. Thank Original Sin for all.