5. The pouring out of the Vial, Psalm. 75.8. For in the hand §5of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red, it is full of mixture, and he poureth out of the same. This is the sad execution: hell is set out by Tophet, Isa. 30.33. which was a place situated near Jerusalem*, where they offered their children in the fire to Moloch. A Metaphor to figure out the infinite torments of hell: the sinner shall lie in the furnace of Gods wrath, and the breath of the Lord, as a pair of bellows, shall blow the fire. Hell is said to be prepared, as if God had been sitting down to study and devise some exquisite torment: Hell is set out in one place by fire*, and in another place by darkness*; to show that hell is a fire without light: the hypocrite ⟨p. 226⟩while he lived, was all light, no fire, and in hell he shall be all fire, no light; nothing there to give comfort, no music but the shrieks of the damned; no wine but what is burnt with the flame of God's wrath: There shall be weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth. The weeping hypocrite shall go to the place of weeping: while he lived, he lifted up his eyes in a false devotion, and now being in hell he shall lift up his eyes*. He that gnashed his teeth at the godly, shall now have gnashing enough; before he gnashed in envy, now in despair; and this for ever. He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire, the word unquenchable scorcheth hotter then the fire.* The fire of hell is like that stone in Arcadia I have read of, which being once kindled, could not be extinguished. Eternity is the hell of hell; the loss of the soul is irreparable; if all the Angels in Heaven ⟨p. 227⟩should go to make a Purse, they could not make up this loss. Si rursum corruerit anima, unde reparabitur? num potest alter Christus, aut idem iterum crucifigi*? When a sinner is in hell, shall another Christ be found to die for him, or will the same Christ be crucified again? oh no: they are everlasting burnings. *Thus the sinner hath all his worst things to come: but a believer hath all his best things to come, the things which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, viz the beatifical vision, the crystal streams of joy that run at Gods right hand: his Heaven is to come.
5. The pouring out of the Vial, Psalm. 75.8. For in the hand §5of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red, it is full of mixture, and he poureth out of the same. This is the sad execution: hell is set out by Tophet, Isa. 30.33. which was a place situated neare Hierusalem*, where they offered their children in the fire to Moloch. A Metaphor to figure out the infinite torments of hell: the sinner shall lie in the furnace of Gods wrath, and the breath of the Lord, as a pair of bellows, shall blow the fire. Hell is said to be prepared, as if God had been sitting down to study and devise some exquisite torment: Hell is set out in one place by fire*, and in another place by darknesse*; to shew that hell is a fire without light: the hypocrite ⟨p. 226⟩while he lived, was all light, no fire, and in hell he shall be all fire, no light; nothing there to give comfort, no musick but the shriekes of the damned; no wine but what is burnt with the flame of God's wrath: There shall be weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth. The weeping hypocrite shall go to the place of weeping: while he lived, he lifted up his eyes in a false devotion, and now being in hell he shall lift up his eyes*. He that gnashed his teeth at the godly, shall now have gnashing enough; before he gnashed in envy, now in despair; and this for ever. He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire, the word unquenchable scorcheth hotter then the fire.* The fire of hell is like that stone in Arcadia I have read of, which being once kindled, could not be extinguished. Eternity is the hell of hell; the losse of the soul is irreparable; if all the Angels in Heaven ⟨p. 227⟩should go to make a Purse, they could not make up this losse. Si rursum corruerit anima, unde reparabitur? num potest alter Christus, aut idem iterum crucifigi*
- *Calvin.
- *Mat. 18.8
- *Mat. 12.13.
- *Luk. 16.
- *Mat. 3.12
- *Bern.
- *Isa. 33.14.
