Chap.5. according to St M A T T H Eve. 145 Thou be cafl into prim.] Into hell, worfe then any prifon. Uf Roger Bifhop of Salifhury, the fecond man from King Stephen, it is ítoried, that he was fo tortured in prifon with hunger and other calamities accompanying tuchmen, ut vivere noluerit, mori nef- cierit, live he wouldnot, die he could not. This and much wore is the cafe of thole that are caft intohell, they feek death,but finde it not,they delire it,but it fleeth from thetn,Rev.9.6. Verfe 26. Thou /halt by no meant come out thence, till, &c.]. i. Never come out. Let our merit-mongers firft go to hell for their fins,and fray all eternity there : then afterward, ifGodwill create another eternity, theymay haveliberty to relate theirgood works, and call for their wages. But the curie of the law will &I/be fer- ved of fuch, as feeking to be faved by the worksof the law,are fal- len from Chrift, there (hall nevér come out till they have paid the utmoft farthin And when will tint be? We reade of a mi- ferable malefacfour (Me; Chambone by name) who had lain in the dungeonat Li.ins rho fpace of (even or eig'.t moneths. This thief, for pain and torment cried out ofGod, and cutít his parents that begat him, being atmoft eaten up with lice, and ready toeat his own flefh for hu rger ; being fed with fuch bread as doggs and horfes had refuted to ear. So it pleated the goodnede of Almighty God, that PermBergerin a French Martyr, was at into the fame dungeon : through whofe preaching and prayers he was brought w repentance, learning much comfort and patience by theword of the Go(pel preachedunto him. Touching his conver- (ion he wrote a very (weet Letter outofhis bonds, declaring there- in,that the next day after that he had taken hold oftheGotpel, and framed himfelf to patience according to the lime, his lice ( which he could pluck out before by twenty at once betwixt his fingers ) tow were to gone horn him, thathe had not one. Furthermore fo the alines of good people were extended towards him, that he was fed with white bread, and that which was verygood. His im- "a man. prifonment, at utmoft, failed but while life: death as a goaler 101'328. knockt off his (hackles, and let him into the glorious libertyof the Saints above. So the penitent thief in theGofpel : anO, fo that Rob. Samue /,Martyr,above mentioned. But not fo, thole that are claps up in the dark dungeonofhell. Their mifery is as endltfie as eafelcflè. A river of brimftone isnot confumed by burning : the fmoke of that pit afcendeth for ever. A childe with a 1poon may boner empty the Ea, then the damned in hell accomplish their ani- derv: L Verfe
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