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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 punishment of Hell will he Extreme; the souls of the wicked will be filled with anguish, as full as they […] hold; their capacity, will be larger, and they will be filled it to the height of their capacity; and their bodies also will have the most exquisite pain, as it is possible for them to […] ⟨p. 110⟩their sense of pain will be quicker, and their strength to endure pain greater; and their pain will be in the uttermost extremity: some pains of the body here are not very acute; and some troubles of mind may well enough be born, but any disease in extremity is very irksome; the pain of the head, or the tooth in extremity, the gout, stone colic in extremity, especially the troubles of the mind in extremity; will make a man weary of his life; but to have every part afflicted in extremity, and that beyond our now capacity or conception, this will be very dreadful.
2. The punishment of Hell will he Extream; the souls of the wicked will be filled with anguish, as full as they 〈…〉 hold; their capacity, will be larger, and they will be filled it to the hight of their capacity; and their bodies also will have the most exquisite pain, as it is possible for them to 〈…〉 ⟨p. 110⟩their sence of pain will be quicker, and their strength to endure pain greater; and their pain will be in the uttermost extremity: some pains of the body here are not very acute; and some troubles of mind may well enough be born, but any disease in extremity is very irksome; the pain of the head, or the tooth in extremity, the gout, stone chollick in extremity, especially the troubles of the mind in extremity; will make a man weary of his life; but to have every part afflicted in extremity, and that beyond our now capacity or conception, this will be very dreadfull.
3. The punishment of the wicked will be Continual, without any intermission or alleviation; the wicked will have no rest day nor night, Rev 14. 11. there will be nothing but weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth,