5. The punishment of the wicked will be Eternal, Hell fire will be unquenchable, Mark. 9 43 Everlasting, Matth. 2• 4• ▪ the smoke of the torment will ascend up for ever and ever▪ Rev. 14 11. This eternity of punishment will, be a fearful aggravation of it: If you saw a Malefactor to•• to pieces with wild horses, or thrown into a fiery furnace, and there burned to ashes; you would say that either of th•• were dreadful punishments, though the pain possibly might not endure a quarter▪ of an hour, for death concludes all bodily pains here: what then will it be to endure the torments of Hell for ever? a small pain, if it should […] long, would be very irksome; much more some ••• ing pains by the stone, strangury, gout, colic, an• […] like, if they should continue for a year, or a moneth•• together, how miserable would they make the life […] yea, if a man should hold but one of his! singers in […] fire but for a day, it would afflict him more, than all ••• ward comforts could delight him; the torments of […] will not be in one part only, but in every part; not […] weaker degree, but in the greatest extremity; […] for […] day, or a month, or a year, but for ever; the […] will be always dying, never dead; the […] […] will […] upon them; and vet they […] never give up the Ghost; if they could die they would think […] […] happy; they will always be roaring, and never breat•• out their last; always sinking, and never come to the ••come; always burning in those flames, and never consumed; ⟨p. 112⟩the eternity of Hell, will be the Hell of Hell, When our Saviour •endured equivalent punishment to this of Hell, for his people, it had not this circumstance of eternity in it; the•e not being that need, because of the excellency of his person; so that though the pains of Hell ••at hold on him, yet they could not keep him in hold, but he brake through them, and triumphed over them, & could say in the conclusion, It is finished: but the damned will not be able to break through their punishment; they will be compassed about with them, and hedged in, and shut down, and never be able to lift up the ••eid; never shall they say of this punishment, It is finished, for their pains will always be as it were beginning;
5. The punishment of the wicked will be Eternal, Hell fire will be unquenchable, Mark. 9 43 Everlasting, Matth. 2• 4• ▪ the smoke of the torment will ascend up for ever and ever▪ Rev. 14 11. This eternity of punishment will, be a fearful aggravation of it: If you saw a Malefactour to•• to pieces with wild horses, or thrown into a fiery furnace, and there burned to ashes; you would say that either of th•• were dreadful punishments, though the pain possibly might not endure a quarter▪ of an hour, for death concludes all bodily pains here: what then will it be to endure the torments of Hell for ever? a small pain, if it should 〈…〉 long, would be very irksome; much more some ••• ing pains by the stone, strangury, gout, cholick, an• 〈…〉 like, if they should continue for a year, or a moneth•• together, how mis••able would they make the life 〈…〉 yea, if a man should hold but one of his! singers in 〈…〉 fire but for a day, it would afflict him more, than all ••• ward comforts could delight him; the torments of 〈…〉 will not be in one part only, but in every part; not 〈…〉 weaker degree, but in the greatest extremity; 〈…〉 for 〈…〉 day, or a moneth, or a year, but for ever; the 〈…〉 will be alwayes dying, never dead; the 〈…〉 〈…〉 will 〈…〉 upon them; and vet they 〈…〉 never give up the Ghost; if they could die they would think happy; they will alwayes be roaring, and never breat out their last; alwayes sinking, and never come to the come; alwayes burning in those flames, and never consumed;
