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<P><HI>THE REWARD Of the WICKED, reached in a Sermon at</HI> Li<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">field <HI>in</HI> Su&s;&s;ex, <HI>and publi&s;hed at the reque&s;t of &s;ome well di&s;po&s;ed Chri&s;tians.</HI></P>
<P>By HUMPHREY EVERENDEN.</P>
<P>The ninth Edition.</P>
<Q><BIBL>Eccle&s;. 11. 11.</BIBL>
<P>Rejoice, O young man in thy youth, and let thine heart-cheer thee in the dayes of thy youth, and walk in the &s;ight of thine eyes: but know that for all the&s;e things, God will bring thee to Judgement.</P></Q>
<P>GLASGOW, <HI>Printed by</HI> Robert Sanders, <HI>One of His Maje&s;ties Printers,</HI> 1696.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE Chri&s;tian READER</HEAD>
<P>THe means of Edification in th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Holy Scripture (gentle Reader may all be referred to three heads In&s;tructions for all. Con&s;olations fo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> the oppre&s;&s;ed. Threats for tho&s;e tha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> erre, and are ob&s;tinate. The&s;e make threefold cord, whereby God laboure to draw mankind to this end. Her<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> ha&s;t thou one &s;train twi&s;ted, <HI>viz.</HI> th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> judgement or death of the damned. <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 words"> therefore Gods mercies cannot allu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> thee to love him, here ha&s;t thou hi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> judgements to &s;courge thee that tho<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> maye&s;t fear him, that beginning th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> wi&s;dom in fear, thou maye&s;t &s;o lear<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> to love him, that his judgements bein<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> bitter to thy ta&s;te, may cau&s;e thee &s;eek to try how good he is in his me<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">+cies. God give his ble&s;&s;ing to his ow<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> ordinance for thy good.</P>
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<HEAD>THE REWARD Of the WICKED, SERMON Preached at <HI>Li<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">field in Su&s;&s;ex.</HI></HEAD>
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<BIBL>Matth. 25. 46.</BIBL>
<Q>And the&s;e &s;hall go into everla&s;ting pain.</Q>
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<P>THe recompence of the Righteous, and the reward of the wicked, de&s;cribed in this ver&s;e, are both declared to be everla&s;ting&punc; <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">he one imbracing the other de&s;pi&s;ing an eterna<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Maje&s;ty. The&s;e that &s;hall go into everla&s;ting pain, are the mercile&s;s, the cruel and hard hearted <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nd with them all that go not into life eternal, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ho&s;e that &s;hall not inherit the Kingdom of God.</HI></P>
<P>Our Saviour Chri&s;t de&s;cribing the puni&s;hmen<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> of the damned, in the pa<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">able of the Tares <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">heweth that by his Angels they &s;hall be boun<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> up into bundles to be burned: teaching that the
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<PB N="4" REF="4"> that participate in &s;in &s;hall be partakers <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> puni&s;hment: and further that their Judgeme<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">, &s;hall be irrevocable, their mi&s;ery remedile&s;s, the<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> e&s;tate helple&s;s, for whom God bindeth, who c<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> be able to loo&s;e?</P>
<P>Curious divi&s;ion of the words I purpo&s;ely om<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> ob&s;erving the general in&s;truction which arai&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> out of the words, without wre&s;ting of them, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> digre&s;&s;ing from the true meaning of them.</P>
<P>The ungodly &s;hall a&s;&s;uredly receive the puni&s;h+ment of eternal damnation at the day of Judge+ment.</P>
<P>This doctrine is further confirmed by &s;undr<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> places of Scripture.</P>
<P>In <HI>Matthew</HI> 13 is taught, that the Angels &s;ha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> gather together the tares that is the children <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> the wicked, <HI>and bind them into bundles to bu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> them.</HI></P>
<P>In the 20 of the <HI>Revelation</HI> is &s;hewed th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> <HI>death</HI> and <HI>hell,</HI> that is the heirs of <HI>death</HI> and <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> were ca&s;t into the lake of fire, which is the &s;econ<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> death.</HI></P>
<P>In the 21 of the <HI>Revelation</HI> is threatned, th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> <HI>the fearful and unbelieving, and abominable, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> murther<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rs and whoremongers, and &s;orcerers, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> idolaters, and all liars &s;hall have their part in the la<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> which burneth with fire and brim&s;tone, which is t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;econd death.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Tribulation and angui&s;h</HI> (&s;aith Saint <HI>Paul) &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk"></HI>
<PB N="5" REF="4"> <HI>upon the &s;oul of every one that doth evil, of the Jew <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">, and al&s;o of the Grecian.</HI></P>
<P>And in his Epi&s;tle to the <HI>The&s;&s;alonians</HI> that <HI>Je&s;us <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ri&s;t &s;hall &s;hew him&s;elf from Heaven, with his mighty <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ngels in flaming fire, rendring vengeance to them <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">t do not know God and which obey not the Go&s;pel <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>Becau&s;e the Ju&s;tice of God doth exact and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">erre, that as every man doth &s;ow, &s;o he &s;hall <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">p, and therefore he that &s;oweth to the fle&s;h of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> fle&s;h &s;hall reap corruption, as on the other <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">e, he that &s;oweth to the &s;pirit, doth of the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">it reap eternal life.</P>
<P>How doth it &s;tand with Gods Ju&s;tice to puni&s;h <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">emporal offence with an eternal puni&s;hment? The wicked are ju&s;tly puni&s;hed for the&s;e cau&s;es. <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">cau&s;e their &s;ins are an offence of an eternal <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">aje&s;ty. 2. Becau&s;e they neglect an eternal <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">od propounded, and &s;et before them, which <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> obedience they may obtain; and &s;o choo&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">rnal mi&s;ery through walking in di&s;obedience.</P>
<P>Becau&s;e if they did live eternally, they would <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">o &s;in eternally. 4. Becau&s;e the damned do <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> eternally, their tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions is coeternal with <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">eir puni&s;hment; as therefore they &s;hall ever <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">main in torment&punc; &s;o &s;hall they for ever remain <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> unbelief impenitency bla&s;phemy: &s;o that their <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ni&s;hment is not larger then their &s;ins de&s;erving</P>
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<P> For the opening of this Doctrine, two thi+<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> are to be con&s;idered&punc; Fir&s;t, wherein the damnat<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> of the wicked con&s;i&s;teth Secondly, How their puni&s;hment extendeth. For the fir&s;t, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> damnation of the wicked &s;tandeth in a twof<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> pun&s;hment, called <HI>poena damni, &amp; poena &s;en<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk"></HI> puni&s;hment of lo&s;s, and the puni&s;hment of &s;en<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2+ letters"></P>
<P>The puni&s;hment of lo&s;s, is a &s;eparation fr<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> the pre&s;ence of God, and from all joyes, plea&s;ures attending the &s;ame. This is that wh<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> the Apo&s;tle teacheth, that they &s;hall be puni&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> with everla&s;ting perdition from the pre&s;ence the Lord and from the glory of his power. <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> how great a mi&s;ery this is, may appear, in t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> they are &s;eparated from Gods pre&s;ence, are &s;epe<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">+ted from all joy and plea&s;ure, between which&punc; extream &s;orrow, and mi&s;ery there is no mean; in Gods pre&s;ence (and not el&s;e where) is fuln<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> of joy, and at his right hand (and no where to be found) are plea&s;ures for evermore: <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> for this cau&s;e our Saviour Chri&s;t accounteth it greate&s;t happine&s;s of the pure in heart that <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;hal &s;ee God: And <HI>Cain</HI> accounteth it not the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> judgement that &s;hould befall him here on e<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters"> that he &s;hould be hid from the face of God. <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> were &s;o grievous to <HI>Cain</HI> to be &s;eparated from place of Gods Wor&s;hip here on earth, which is a type of the &s;eparation in the life to come: how grievous then mu&s;t it needs be to the dam<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">
<PB N="7" REF="5"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">e life to come to be indeed excluded from the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">y of God, and happine&s;s of the glorified? <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">he puni&s;hment of &s;en&s;e is the inflicting of tor|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">nts, and mi&s;eries, both on &s;oul and body; for <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;hall be the mi&s;ery of the damned, that they <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">ll not re&s;t without joy, and &s;orrow but as they <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> be deprived of al happine&s;s, &s;o &s;hal they be op|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">&s;&s;ed with all unhappine&s;s as they &s;hal be debar|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> of all delight and plea&s;ure &s;o they &s;hall be filled <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">h all un&s;peakble torments, by many th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ngs are <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">ir torments expre&s;&s;ed in the holy Scripture, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">&s;t terrible, and mo&s;t painful.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ur Saviour Chri&s;t &s;aith, <HI>Their worm never dyeth <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> their fire never goeth out,</HI> and again <HI>Ca&s;t that <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rofitable &s;ervant into utter darkne&s;s, there &s;hall be <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">ping, and gna&s;hing of teeth, Matth.</HI> 25 30. with <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">y the like paraphra&s;es and denominations ex|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">&s;&s;ing the like. Now if nothing can be more <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">rible then utter darkne&s;s, being that plague of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">pt,</HI> which next to the death of the fir&s;t born <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">&s;t of all moved <HI>Pharaohs</HI> hard heart: if nothing <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">re painful inwardly, then the gnawing of the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">rt with the teeth of the &s;erpent; if nothing <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">wardly then the heat and burning of fire; yea, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">othing more intollerable then the continuance, the&s;e torments without cea&s;ing or intermi&s;&s;ion <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">n &s;urely by the&s;e de&s;criptions the Lord would <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ve us know that the puni&s;hment of the damned mo&s;t intollerable and &s;o great as the fury of Gods
<PB N="8" REF="6"> wrath again&s;t &s;in can kindle, and the rage of S<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk"> can inflict.</P>
<P>Now the rea&s;ons that the damned do &s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters"> not only the puni&s;hment of lo&s;s, but of &s;en&s;e, is, that they do not only lo&s;e the benefit of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">+fort, but are al&s;o tormented, are the&s;e: Fir&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> the puni&s;hment, of lo&s;s. Becau&s;e they neg<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk"> and de&s;pi&s;e the true good grace and glory off<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters"> unto them yea, and GOD him&s;elf, the founta<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> all good, and therefore it is equal, and ju&s;t their puni&s;hment extend to this that they be &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters">+rated from GOD and his Glory from all good <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> happine&s;s. For GOD will for&s;ake them <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> for&s;ake him.</P>
<P>Secondly, of the puni&s;hment of &s;en&s;e, bec<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters"> they have cho&s;en to follow that which is evil, forbidden unto them, therefore it is ju&s;t tha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> reward of their own hands be given unto t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk"> yea, it is equal <HI>Prov.</HI> 5. <HI>that his <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">wn iniquitie<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> the wicked him&s;elf, and that be holden with the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> of his own &s;in.</HI></P>
<P>As for the &s;econd con&s;ideration, How fa<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> puni&s;hment of the wcked doth extend, it is evi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters"> that it extendeth.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, to every one, without re&s;pect or differ<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters"> of per&s;ons or properties, to old, young, poor, weak, and mighty, noble and ign<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters"> wi&s;e and fooli&s;h, <HI>Tribulation and angui&s;h &s;hall b<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">he &s;oul of every one that doeth evil, Rom.</HI> 2. 6. <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB N="9" REF="6"> <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">het is prepared of old; it is even prepared for the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">g he hath made it deep, and large, I&s;aiah</HI> 30. 33. <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">ondly, to every part of the damned both to &s;oul <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> body; yea, to every part of either of them &s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> not &s;o much as <HI>Dives</HI> tongue can be free from <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> heat of this torment, <HI>Luke</HI> 16. 24. Th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rdly <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> the uttermo&s;t extremity, for it &s;hall be the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">reame&s;t torment that may be the breath of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ds fury kindling it <HI>I&s;a</HI> 30. 33 and being without <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> pittying or commi&s;eration: <HI>For there &s;hall be <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">ement m<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rcile&s;s to him that &s;heweth no mercy, Jam.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> 3. Fourthly, to be without cea&s;ing, or inter+<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">lion, &s;o that it &s;hall be re&s;tle&s;s without &s;o much <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">he refre&s;hing of a drop of water, which were <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">al thing in &s;uch a fire, to cool any part of the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">mented; and therefore our Saviour Chri&s;t &s;aith <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">he place before nam'd <HI>that their worm never <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">h, and their fire never goeth out:</HI> the worm biteth <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ong as he liveth and the fire tormenteth &s;o long <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">t burneth. Fifthly, to eternity, for it &s;hall be <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">rla&s;ting without end, and therefore it is not <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">y called fire, to expre&s;s the greatne&s;s of it, but <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">rla&s;ting fire, to expre&s;s the continuance of it. <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">tth.</HI> 25. 41. Which cau&s;eth me to remember <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">at one &s;aith in his meditations: If the damned <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">re to continue in their torments but a thou&s;and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">u&s;and years, yet had they &s;ome hope, if but &s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ny years as there are &s;tars in the sky, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;ands on &s;ea, gra&s;s on the ground, and du&s;t on the face
<PB N="10" REF="7"> of the earth in the greate&s;t drought, yet &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> there be an end; nay, if but &s;o many tho<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> thou&s;and years as are &s;tars in the sky, &s;and on <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;ea, gra&s;s on the ground, and du&s;t on the fa<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> the earth yet &s;hould there be one day an en<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> their torments, but their mi&s;ery is far other<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk"> for &s;o many thou&s;and years being ended, &s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> thou&s;ands of thou&s;ands are again to begin, w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters"> al&s;o ever &s;hall begin, and never &s;hall have en<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"></P>
<P>Now if it be demanded by the way, whe<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk"> there &s;hall be in hell material fire to the torme<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> the damned.</P>
<P>I An&s;wer, it is no point of faith, or ma<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> nece&s;&s;ary to &s;alvation to know yet freely to de<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk"> my opinion without di&s;paragement to the opi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters"> of the contrary minded, I &s;ee no rea&s;on to <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> contrary: for ina&s;much as the body &s;inneth <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> the &s;oul it is ju&s;t that it be puni&s;hed with the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Now in&s;omuch as the Scripture hath expre&s;&s;ed torment of fire, I think it curio&s;ity to expo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> that by a figure, and to be fain to &s;earch out a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">+ther figurative &s;peech, to find a matter to torm<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> the body, fire being apt to torment and being <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> greate&s;t of all torments, neither is it material <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> may be &s;aid that then there mu&s;t by that rea&s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> a material worm to gnaw, as well as fire to bu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> for fire can torment the body, but a worm can torment the &s;oul, and therefore that which can <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">ally be under&s;tood to be done mu&s;t be fig<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters">+tively
<PB N="11" REF="7"> expounded, which expo&s;ition that may be <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">ne, &s;o under&s;tood need not but literaturely to <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e expounded.</P>
<P>This doctrine may be a powerful motive to all <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">andring &s;inners that go a&s;tray after the corrupti|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ns of their own hearts in the de&s;ert paths of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;obedience, to return unto their GOD by true <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">pentance, lea&s;t they die the death for their <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;obedience: If the poor &s;heep in the wilderne&s;s <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">d but know, that if they continue &s;tragling from <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">eir folk, they would a&s;&s;uredly be devoured of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">e Wolfe, they would &s;urely (although wanting <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">a&s;on) by the very conduct of &s;en&s;e, make ha&s;te <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> the cu&s;tody of their &s;hepherd: This then being <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">o&s;t certain, that all that go a&s;tray from the wayes <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> GOD, and &s;o continue wandering either till <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">e day of their vi&s;itation be pa&s;t, or till death <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ke away the time and place of repentance, &s;hall <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> devoured of hell and de&s;truction: Oh, how <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ould this move us &s;peedily to return to the fold <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> CHRIST to wa&s;h away our &s;ins with the tears <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> repentance, to redeem the time, and to be <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">rned, that they come not into this damnation? <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">nce may all ob&s;tinate and impenitent &s;inners to <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">eir terror, &s;ee the a&s;&s;ured end of all their wicked <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ur&s;es by the eternal damnation both of body <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">d &s;oul. What then &s;hal become of all Idolaters, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">dulterers, Drunkards, Swearers, breakers of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ds Sabbaths, Covetous, Earth-Worms, U&s;erers,
<PB N="12" REF="8"> Oppre&s;&s;ors, and &s;uch like, that live and die in t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters"> &s;ins? &s;urely they &s;hall be bound up in bundle<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> be burned, they &s;hall go into everla&s;ting p<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk"> Malefactors on earth have &s;ome hope after &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">+tence to e&s;cape their temporal puni&s;hment&punc; men are drawn by many means to revoke t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk"> &s;entences, and to grant their gracious pardo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> But in this judgement the damned have to do <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> GOD, who is feared by no mans greatne&s;s alte<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk"> by no reward, with whom is no changing <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;hadow of turning, and therefore his &s;entenc<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> unrecoverable: neither after this life is there <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> time, place or liberty of repentance: but as <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> tree falls &s;o it lyes, either to life or de&s;truct<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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