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

xvi. 21. And there fell upon men, a great ha• out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God, because of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great Conscience will be a worm to g••w and prey upon them; remorse for their sins shall seize them, and torment them for ever, and they shall not be able to shake it off, as sometimes they did; for "in hell—their worm d•ech not," Mark ix. 45, 46. Their memory will serve but to aggravate their torment, and every new reflection will bring another pang of anguish, Luke xvi. 25. "But Abraham said, (viz. to the rich man in hell) S••, remember, that thou in thy life-time receivedst thy good things."

2. The torments in hell are manifold. Put the case, that a man were, at one and the same time, under the violence of the gout, gravel, and whatsoever diseases and pains have ever met together in one body; the torment of such a one would be but light in comparison with the torments of the damned. For as in hell there is an absence of all that is good and desirable, so there is the confluence of all evils there; since all the effects of sin and of the curse take their place in it, after the last judgment, Rev. xx. 14. "And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire." There they will find a prison they can never escape out of; a lake of fire, wherein they will be ever swimming and burning; a part where they will never find a bottom. The worm that dieth not, shall […] on them, as on bodies which are inferred: the f• that is not quenched, shall devour them, as dead bodies which are burned. Their eyes shall be kept in blackness of darkness, without the […] comfortable gleam of light: their ears filed with the frigh […] of the infernal crew. They shall taste nothing but the vine of God's wrath, the dregs of the cup of his fury. The stench of the burning lake of brimstone will be the smell there; and they shall feel extreme pains for evermore.