Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses

At to the second point proposed, namely, the properties of the fiery torments in hell.

1. They will be universal torments, every part of the creature being tormented in that flame. When one is cast into a burning fiery furnace, the fire makes its way into the very bowels, and leaves no member untouched; what part then can have ease, when the damned swim in a lake of fire burning with brimstone? There will their bodies be tormented, and scorched for ever. And as they sinned, so shall they be tormented, in all the parts thereof; that they shall have no sound side to turn them to: for what soundness or ease can be to any part of that body, which being separated from God, and all refreshment from him, is still in the pangs of the second death, ever dying, but never dead? But as the s•• was chief in sinning, it will be chief in suffering too, being filled brimful of the wrath of a sin-revenging God. The d•mmed shall ever be under deepest impressions of God's vindictive justice against them: and this fire will melt their souls, within them, like wax. W•o knows the power of that wrath which had such an effect on the Mediator, standing in the room of sinners, Psal. xxii. 14. My heart is like was, it is melted in the midst of my bowels? Their minds shall be filled with the terrible apprehensions of God's implacable wrath: and whatever they can think upon, past, present, or to come, will aggravate their torment and anguish. Their will shall be crossed in all things for ever-more: as their will was ever contrary to the will of God's precepts; so God, in his dealings with them, in the other world, shall have war with then will for ever. What they would have, they shall not in the least obtain; but what they would not shall be […] upon them without remedy. Hence no pleasant affection shall ever s•••ng up in their hearts any more: their love of complacency, joy, and delight, in any object whatsoever, shall be pluck up by the root; and they will be filled with hatred, fury, and rage, against God, themselves, and their fellow-creatures, whether happy in heaven, or unferable in hell, as they themselves are. They will be sunk in sorrow, rked with anxiety, filled with horror, galled to the heart with fretting and continually darted with despair; which will make them weep, gnash their teeth, and blaspheme for ever.