The Gofpel of the (=liana! Types. y4, to deal with other Rebels : Never any hardened himfelfagainfi God and profpered, Job 9.4. 2. Sodom. Therefore Hell is called the Lake that burnetb withFire and ,Brirnflone,. Rev. 20. TO, and 21. 8. 3. Egypt, when under the Tea Plagues, efpecially that of Darknefs, Exod. to. 21, 22. For Hell is a Place of utter Darknefs, Mat. 2.5. 3o. Inftead of Darknefs the Pfalmifl doth not mention that, but faith, He fent evil Angels among tbem, Pfal. 78.4.9. A lively Prefiguration of Hell, wherein there is utter Darknefs ; but yet Light enough to fee affrighting Apparitions of Devils and evil Angels. 4. Topbet, an horrid and curled Place wherein they were wont to Sacrifice their Children in the Fire, to Molech. It was in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom. Hence Hell is called in the New Teftament y4evra, qua Paths Hinnom. This Topbet was a Place every way execrable, both for the hideous Wickednefa there committed, and for the hide- ous Plagues add Judgments there executed. There they did Sacrifice their Children to. the Devil, with an hideous Noife to drown their Cries and. Skreetchings. For an eternal Deteftation whereof, King 7oßah y=d. m Notes on the polluted it, and made it a Place execrable, ordain- gear ó . Gen. 1. ing it to be the Place, where dead Carcafl'es, Gar- Mede Difc. 7. bage andother uncleanThings fhould be caft out ; for the confirming whereof to prevent Annoyance, a continual Fire was there burning. Yea the Lord himfelf as it were Confecrated this Place of Execrati- on, by making it the Stage of his Fury, and the Field of his Vengeance in hideous Plagues and Judgments : For here he deftroyed Senacberib, with the refl of that blafpheming Army, that damning roaring Crew. Here an hundred eighty Eve -fioufandof themwere (lain miraculouf ly, and their Carcaffes (ask feemeth) burnt with Fire, to prevent Annoyance and Infeaion, and putrefa&ion of the Air. Ifa. 30.31,33. For Topbet is prepared of old. And in the fame Place again in another Day of the Lord's Fury, when he did let loofe the Chaldeans upon them, the Yews were flair in fo great Numbers, till there was no room left tobury them, fee der. 7. 31, 32, 33. From all which this Place came tobe the Name of Hell, as being a Place every way execrable, and having beenmade by God the Gate of Hell as it were, and the Paffage to eternal Deftru&ion, by fo many re- markable Executions of his dreadful and direful Difpleafure in that Place. We do not find Gehinnom ufed in the Old Teftament for the Name of Hell, as the Learnedhaveobferved. But Hell got that Name Y 2 during
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