...::::;;;;--- 7le Puni.Jbm~nf ~(Set:~ il1 Hell. ··fT; nifhrnent, ar:d brings the mo!l exq~iG(e pain and torment with it. Hy wlut re w.trd couid :nn;m he incluced to ho!d' but his hand in the fl.Olme of ii CJndle for one hOLll'? An– ·imagi nary pleo run.s on e01nh, would never preva il with. tne moll voluptuous man , to venture to locge but: orJe haH hou-;o i{l a burning fiery furnace; nc)r woold all the .weahh in tlH!. world prevail with the mofi covetous to do it. 'Yet, on mt!ch lower terms, do moH me11, in effect, ,e:tpofe themfdves to ever!afling fire in heli> which is more vehement and terri~ ble than any fire we on earth are acqtlainted with; as wiH ap.pear by the following confideratio os . · 1. A,s in heaven grace being brcJught to its perfttlion, profit t~nd pleafure do alfo ·arrive at their height then: ; {(:P. fin being come to its height in hell, the evil of pu n ilhmen~ doth alfo arrive at i t~ pedeclion there • . Wherefore as th.: ' j oys i.o heaven are far greater than any joys which the faints obtain on eanh, fo the punifhment cf hcil rnun be gr~ater tba.n any earthly torments whatfoever; . nc.t only i" refpeel;– of the continuance of them, bnt alfo in refr,ecr of vehemency and exouiti tenefs. . • ' <"' 2. Vlhy are the things of the other world reprefented to us in an earthly drefs in tbe w.ord, but that the we,•knefs– of- our capacity in fuch matt en (which th,e LoJ d ia plea fed to condefcend unto) does trquire it; it being always fu-p– pofed, that thefe things of the other world are in their 1 kind more perfeCl:, than. that by which they are reprefented ?' When hea Hn is ,reprefer.ted unto us uode:- the notion of ~ city with gates of pearls, and the Hreet of gold; we look not to find gold and pearls there, which are · fo mightily prized on earth, but fomethiog more_excellent than thefe fi11~:H and rnoft precious things in the world: when there– fore we bear of hell fite, it is nectJTary we U·nderfiand by it fomething more veh,ement, piercir1.g, and tormenting, th B!l any fire ere~ feen by our eyes. And here it is worth confi. dering, ·rhat the t1:>rments of hell are-.hel<i forth under fe– vera! 'o-ther notions than that of fire fimply: and the re~!fon of ids plain; namely, that hereby, what of honoris wanting• in one notion of hell, is fupplied ·by another. Why is hea– ven's happinefs reprefented 1-mder the v-arious notions of 41· lreu(ure, a paradift, a fiaflt a r~JJ, &c. but that there is. IW-t on~ gf ihefe thio&s fufficitnt ~~ exprefs it?. Even fo hell tor men.t.s
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