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Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment. By Thomas Vincent, sometime Minister of Maudlins…
Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment. By Thomas Vincent, sometime Minister of Maudlins Milk-Street, London; ; [Three lines from Hebrews]
Boston: printed by Samuel Green for Benjamin Harris, 1690
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Christ's certain and sudden Appearance to Judgment. › Chapter 9
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2. The Bodies of the wicked shall be punished, they have been sharers in sin, and they must share in torment; they must lie in the Lake of Fire and Brimstone, Rev 21 8. the torment of the •od•es of the wicked will be dreadful; besides the impressions which the anguish of Soul will make upon them, they will have their own proper torment, through the sense of the fire which will be kindled about them, and burn more horrible than London's fire did, when it had got into the heart of the City; their torment will be greater than if scalding lead were poured into their bowels; than if they were torn in pieces with wild horses; than if their b•e•sts were rip• up▪ and their heart were plucked out with burning pincers: it will be worse than if they were cast into a Caldron of boiling pitch or lead; or put into Phal•ris Bull, or Ne•uch••n•z••ars fiery Furnace: the torture of the damned's bodies will be far beyond the sharpest pain now incident to humane nature by racking diseases, or have been inflicted upon any of the children of men by the most cruel Tyrant; for the bodies of the wicked when raised again, will be strengthened unto a greater capacity for punishment, when they will he made incorruptible and immortal, and punishment will be the ⟨p. 109⟩and of their resurrection; but more of this punishment under the properties.
2. The Bodies of the wicked shall be punished, they have been sharers in sin, and they must share in torment; they must lie in the Lake of Fire and Brimstone, Rev 21 8. the torment of the •od•es of the wicked will be dreadful; besides the impressions which the anguish of Soul will make upon them, they will have their own proper torment, through the sense of the fire which will be kindled about them, and burn more horrible than Londons fire did, when it had got into the heart of the City; their torment will be greater than if scalding lead were poured into their bowels; than if they were torn in pieces with wild horses; than if their bests were rip up and their heart were pluckt out with burning pincers: it will be worse than if they were cast into a Caldron of boiling pitch or lead; or put into Phalris Bull, or Neuchnzars fiery Furnace: the torture of the damned's bodies will be far beyond the sharpest pain now incident to humane nature by racking diseases, or have been inflicted upon any of the children of men by the most cruel Tyrant; for the bodies of the wicked when raised again, will be strengted unto a greater capacity for punishment, when they will he made incorruptible and immortal, and punishment will be the