The plain mans path-way to heaven

Theol. The Scriptures do set forth the perpetuity of Hell torments, in saying, they are for ever. The wicked shall be cast into the Lake that burneth with fire and brimstone for ever. The fire never goeth out. When as many hundred thousand years are expired as there be stones by the Sea side, yet still there be so many more to come. For that which hath no end, can never come to an ⟨p. 392⟩end. If all the Arithmeticians in the world were set a work to do nothing but number all the days of their life, even the greatest numbers that they could possibly set down, and should in the end add all their numbers together, yet could they never come any thing near to that length of time wherein the wicked shall be tormented. If the whole circumference of the Heavens were written about with figures of Arithmetic, from the East to the West, and from the West to the East again; yet could it not contain that infinite time, and innumerable years, wherein all unbelievers shall suffer eternal torture. For in things infinite, time hath no place. For time is the measure of those things which are subject to measure. Therefore because hell torments are infinite, they cannot be measured by any time: neither can that which is infinite be diminished. For if you subtract from that which is infinite ten thousand thousand millions of millions, yet it is thereby nothing diminished or made less. Put case a man should once in an hundred thousand years take a spoonful of water out of the great Ocean Sea, how long would it be ere he had so emptied it? Yet shall a man sooner empty the Sea, by taking ⟨p. 393⟩out a spoonful once in an hundred thousand years, then the damned soul shall have any ease. Therefore a certain Writer saith, If a damned soul might be tormented in Hell but a thousand years, and then have ease, there were some comfort in it: (for then there would be hope it would come to an end) but, saith he, this word Ever killeth the heart. O consider this ye that forget God. O ye carnal worldlings, think on this in time. For if you will not now be moved in hearing, you shall then be crushed in pieces in feeling. What availeth it to live in all possible pleasures, and carnal delights here for some sixty years, and then to suffer this eternal torment? what shall it profit a man to win the whole world, and lose his soul?

Theol. The Scriptures doe set forth the perpetuity of Hell torments, in saying, they are for ever. The wicked shall be cast into the Lake that burneth with fire and brimstone for ever. The fire never goeth out. When as many hundred thousand yeares are expired as there be stones by the Sea side, yet still there be so many more to come. For that which hath no end, can never come to an