chap.S.Se8:.6. as an husband, and challenge hi•n as their own, and come and fpcak good words to him in a complemental way, JVe have eat and drunkjn thy prefence, we have bembaptiz..ed in thy name , we have bem oftm at thy table, we have been kJnd to o11r Mmifters, and we have done thtfe and thcfe things f ur the publick.) 0 but fa1th Chntl:, I bgmyounot,depart from me ye that work._ iniq~<ity; ph what_a loffe is this., to be forced even toturne the Marth. 7· 33• back upon Jcfus Chritl:, to be.out~fall hqpes, or po!fJbility of Gods mercy mChntl:, and to be fent packing into hell, and the~e chained up? 3. This depart, comprehends the lofie of that glorious company of Samts and Angels for ev~r;.whJl(t they were on earth, they enjoyed the company of the Saints of God , but the ume of then b:mg m hell is the time of their feparauon, let bothgrow together umil the harvejl, but m the ttme M,m!J. 13 3o of h~rveft IwiU [ay to the reapers,g_ather ye together firft.the tares,and bmd them in bundles. to burnt them,bnt gather the wheat mt 0 my barne. 4· Th1s depart compreh€nds the loffe oi L•~ , 6 ; 20 , heaven, the place ofblcffedneffe ; there is a great gulfe ( faith Abraham) betlveen ,., and you, f othat they which woid.d pajJefro'!' hence to ~ou c.annot,.ncither can they pajJe to tu that . would c·ome from thence. ,f._,T ully d1d fo bewaJle h1s bamilimcnt, that every tunc he looked towards Italy he fell a weeping; and if Dcmojlhenes did fo bewaile his banifhinent, that every time he looked towards .Athens he fell a weeping ; how will the iho~ghtsofthis loffe of heaven grieve the damned? and efpecially if this be con!idered, that all this loffe is without all hope of any recovery at all? we fay ufually_, if it JVtre mtfor hope theheart tv.uldbreak_, but here is no hope; and yet the heart mull: hold. 0 loffe never to be redeemed ! never to be retl:ored, or recovered! 2. Confider the Eternity of that which Divines call the paine of fenfe; not that thou canll confider it fully,!but that in fome briefdifcovery thou maill: think over the great– nefs of thofe fiery torments that are in helL As r. there is variety of torments; 011 carth ,thou mayll: b~ lick of a frome, or gout, or plague, or feavour; but in hell there is. not one of thefe kinds, but variety of torments; there is fire to .burne and brimllone to ehoak, and chaines to bind; a11d dar\mefs to a.ffright ; all the difeafes under heaven are in hell ; there is the ll:one ; and the cholick,and firangury ,and toothache , an1 pangs of travaile : who knows what to call t\10fe torments, we may give them fuch names as thcfe, as being things moll: terrible and tormenting in this world, but certainly all thcfe. are nothing to thofe hellifh tortures, which the bodies and fouls of the damned do endure. 2. There is not only variety, but univerfaUty of torments : ( i.) in refpeCl: .of .the. fubjeds that mull endure; all the parts of the body, and all the powers. of rhc; foul (hall be tormented~t once: and this makes the torments o[ hell more dreadful; the eye (h"all b~ tormented with the fight of devils, the cares with the hideous yellings and out-cryes of toe damned in flames, the noll:rils £hall be fmothered (as it were) with brimll:one, the hand, the foot, ,the tongue , and every part fhall fry in flames of lire: nor ondy the body,but the foul (hall be tormented, yea thefoul-torments £hall exeed all the torments of the body; it was chief in fuming , and therefore mull: be chief in fuffering; it is of a more fpiritual and excellent nature than the \1ody, and therefore it is capable of more fpiritual and more exqui!ite torments; as the )oyes ofihe .fotil do tar furpaff~ all fenfual pleafures, and corporal c?ntcntments, fo the paines of the foul do far furpaffe thofe corporal paines, which eJther we have na111ed, .or poffibly can name. 3 .- There· is not only variety, and umverfaltty, but extrenuty of torments; the lire of hell burns fo violently, that all the waters of thefea are not able to quench it. Suppofe a man had a dill:emper upon all . the parts ofh1s body , ~ne! powers of his foul, yet if his paine were not extream, he . would better endure It: but iliould. a m~n have his body affiictecl, a)!d his ~1ind troubled, and all thJs m the h1ghell: extremJty that may be, to this man death ,~far better. Certamly hell-torments are. to the utn10fl: extremity.; the fire is an hundred tunes hotter than the fire of Ncbuchanez.U~r; that \vas heat fevcn times hotter than at ufual tunes ; the damned lye under.as heavy a weight of Gods wrath as their natures tan bear. 0 the.liercenefs of this fire! 0 my foul ! if lying under the gui!t of thy fin ut for an hour or two, was.fo Cl!:tream to Chrill:, th~t it made hnu tweat drops, even ;;e:t ~rops of blood; wha: will the cxtre~mitie ?f.'thofe. torments in hell make the . . P? atesdo? 4· There tsnot onelyvanety, umverfahty, .aJrd eXtremity, but a hontJ~UJt;;kf tormeDts; he11 1 torments are witbout any intcrmiffion ;1 whertthc damned .hve ru en down whole draughts of brimll:one one-day,they mull: do fo an· other day; 'f. en they hav~ larn under the fury of an incenJed Goa one ,day, they mufi lye againe· under the fame WC1ght of his divine and Almighty wCmth a~other day; in hell there .iS, c 2 not
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