heauen and wide gates into hell I pray you therefore proue them out of the Scriptures and lay them forth somewhat more largely Theol. The first which is Infidelity is proued out of the fourth chapter to the Hebrewes where it is written Vnto vs was the Gospell preached as vnto them but the word which they heard profited them not because it was not mixed with faith in those that heard it And againe They could not enter in because of vnbeliefe Héere we sée that vnbeliefe did barre out the old people from entring into the land of promise which was a figure of Gods eternall kingdome And sure it is that the same vnbeliefe doth barre out thousands of vs. For many will beléeue nothing but their owne fansies They will not beléeue the word of God especially when it is contrary to their lustes and likings profits pleasures Though things be manifestly prooued to their faces and both the Chapter and the Uerse shewed them yet will they not beléeue or though they say they beléeue yet will they neuer goe about the practise of any thing but reply against God in all their actions And for the most part when God saith one thing they will say another When God saith yea they will say no and so giue God the lie Some againe will say if all bée true that the Preachers say then God helpe vs. Thus you sée how Infidelity doth barre men out of Heauen and cast them into hell Phila. Let vs heare of the second gate which is Presumption of Gods mercy Theol. This is set downe in the 29. of Deuteronomy where the Lord saith thus When a man heareth the words of this curse and yet flattereth himselfe in his heart saying I shall haue peace although I walke according to the stubbornnesse of mine owne heart thus adding drunkennesse to thirst that is one sinne to another the Lord will not be mercifull vnto him but the wrath of the Lord and his iealousie shall smoake against that man and euery curse that is written in this booke shall light vpon him and the Lord shall put out his name from vnder heauen Héere we sée how the mightie God doth thunder downe vpon such as goe on in their sins presuming of his mercy and saying in their hearts If I may haue but a Lord haue mercy vpon me thrée houres before death I care not But it is iust with God when those thrée hours come to shut them vp in blindnesse and hardnesse of heart as a iust plague for their presumption Therefore the Prophet Dauid seeing the grieuousnesse of this sin praieth to be deliuered from it Keepe me ô Lord saith he from presumptuous sins let them not raigne ouer me Let all men therfore take héed of presumptuous sins For though God be full of mercy yet will he shew no mercy to them that presume of his mercy But they shall once know to their cost that iustice goeth from him as well as mercy Phila. Let vs come to the third gate which is the Example of the multitude Theol. This is prooued in the 23. of Exod. where the Lord saith flatly Thou shalt not follow a multitude to doe euill In another place the Lord saith After the doings of the land of Egypt wherein yee dwelt shall yee not doe and after the manner of the land of Canaan whither I will bring you shall yee not doe neither walke in their ordinances Against this Law did the Children of Israel offend when they said in the stubbornnesse of their heart to the Prophet Ieremy The word that thou hast spoken vnto vs in the name of the Lord wee will not heare But we will doe whatsoeuer goeth out of our owne mouth and we will doe as we haue done both we and our Fathers our Kings and our Princes in the cities of Iudah and in the streets of Ierusalem Note héere how they doe altogether refuse the word of the Lord and how to follow the example of the multitude Wée sée in these our daies by lamentable experience how thousands are violently carried down this streame and for defence of it some will say Doe as the most men doe and the fewest wil speake of you Which is a very wicked speach For if wée will follow the course of the most we shall haue the reward of the most which is eternall perdition Let vs therefore take héed of bending with the sway For the sway of the world doth waigh downe all things that can bée spoken out of the word of God and openeth a very wide passage into Hell Phila. Proceed to the fourth gate into Hell which is the Long custome of sinne Theol. This is noted by the Prophet Ieremy to be a very dangerous thing For he saith Can the blacke More change his skinne or the Leopard his spots then may yee also doe good which are accustomed to doe euill Noting thereby that it is as hard a matter to leaue an old custome of sinne as to wash a black-more white or to change the spots of a Leopard which because they are naturall are most impossible So when men through custom haue made swearing lying adultery and drunkennesse as it were naturall vnto them oh how hard it is to leaue them For custome maketh another nature and taketh away all sense and féeling of sinne Phila. Let vs heare of the fift gate which is the Long escaping of punishment Theol. This is auouched by the wise man in these words Because sentence against an euill worke is not executed speedily therefore the hearts of the children of men are set in them to doe euill Where he sheweth that one cause why men are so hardned in their sinnes is because God winketh at them and letteth them alone not punishing them immediately after they haue sinned For if God should forthwith strike downe one and raine fire and brimstone vpon another and cause the earth to swallow vp the third then men would feare indéed But it hath béene shewed before that God taketh not that course but though he méet with some in this life yet he lets thousands escape and that makes them more bold thinking they shall neuer come to their answer Euen as an olde théefe which hath a long time escaped both prison and gallowes thinkes he shall alwaies so escape and therefore goeth boldly on in his thefts But let men take héed For as the prouerbe saith Though the pitcher goeth long to the well yet at last it commeth broken home So though men escape long yet they shall not escape alwaies For there will come a day of reckoning a day that will pay it home for all Thus you sée how impunity leadeth numbers to destruction That is when men are let alone and neither smitten by the hand of God nor punished by the law of the Magistrate Phila. Let vs come to the sixt gate which is the Hope of long life Theol. This is affirmed by our Lord Iesus concerning that rich worldling who
will take the matter into his owne hands and bee reuenged in his owne person which is most dreadfull and daungerous For it is a fearefull thing to fall into the handes of the liuing God Theo. You haue spoken a truth For if those which are Gods deputies and vice-gerents in the earth doe their duties faithfully in punishing vice and maintaining vertue in smiting the wicked and fauouring the godly then assuredly euill shall bée taken out of Israel Gods wrath preuented and his iudgments intercepted as it is written Phineas stood vp and executed iudgement and the plague was staied But if they for feare fauour affection gaine flattery bribery or any other sinister respect will be too sparing and remisse in punishing of grosse offenders and be rather ready to smite the righteous then doe they excéedingly prouoke Gods wrath against the land and against themselues Phila. One thing I doe greatly lament that there be either none at all or very slender censurers either by the Ciuill or Ecclesiasticall authority for diuers of these fore-named vices as pride couetousnesse oppression lying idlenesse swearing c. Theol. It is a thing to be lamented indéed For where doe wée sée a proud man punished a couetous man punished an oppressor punished aswearer punished a liar punished an idle person punished Now because they know they cannot or shall not be punished therefore they are altogether hardned and imboldned in their sinnes as the wise man saith Because sentence against an euill worke is not executed speedily therefore the hearts of the children of men are fully set in them to doe euill Phila. One thing I do much muse at wherein also I desire to be further satisfied to wit what is the cause that vnder so godly a prince so many good lawes and so much good preaching and teaching there should notwithstanding be such an excesse and ouerflowing of sin in all estates Theo. The causes héere of are diuers and manifold But I will nominate soure especiall ones in my iudgement The first is mans naturall corruption which is so strong as almost nothing can bridle it The second is ill presidents and externall prouocations to euill The third is the want of teaching in many congregations of the land by reason whereof many know not sinne to be sinne The last reason is the corruption and negligence of some such as are in authority Phila. Doth not this inundation and ouerflowing of sinne with the impunity of the same Prognosticate great wrath against vs Theol. Yes vndoubtedly as hath in part béene shewed before And there he diuers other presages of wrath though not of the same kinde which are these Vnthankefulnesse for the Gospell The abuse of our long peace Our generall security Our secret Idolatries Our ripenesse in all sinne Our abuse of all Gods mercies Our abuse of his long patience The coldnesse of professors Our not profitting by former iudgements as pestilence famine dearth and the shaking of the Sword Phila. This last I take to be a speciall token of approching vengeance that we haue not profited by former warnings Theol. True indéed For it is an ordinary thing with God when men will not profit by milde corrections and common punishments then to lay greater vpon them And when a former trouble doth vs no good we are to feare a finall consuming trouble For so we reade in the Prophecie of Hosea that at the first God was to Ephraim as a moth and to Iudah as rottennesse but afterward when as they profited not by it he was to Ephraim as a Lion and to Iudah as a Lions whelpe So the Lord saith in another place that if they will not come in and yéeld obedience at the first call of his wrath then he will punish them seuen times more But if they continue in their stubbornnesse then he threatneth to bring seuen times more plagues vpon them according to their sins If by all these they would not be reformed but walke stubbornely against him then he threatneth yet seuen times more for their sins and the fourth time yet seuen times more The proofe héereof wée haue in the booke of the Iudges Where we read how the people of Israel for their sins were in subiection to the King of Aram Naharim eight yéeres afterward because they profited nothing by it but returned to their old sinnes therfore they serued Eglon king of Moab eightéene yéeres After that againe for their new sinnes and prouocations the Lord gaue them vp into the hands of Midian seuen yéeres After all this for the renewing of their sins the Lord solde them into the hands of the Philistins and the Amonites which did gréeuously vex and oppresse them for the space of eightéene yéeres Last of all we reade that when neither famine nor pestilence could cause them to returne vnto him then he deliuered them vp to the sword of their enemies and held them in bondage captiuity thréescore and ten yéeres After all this when they were deliuered out of Captiuity and returned home safely to their owne nation and inioyed some good time of peace and rest yet at last they fell to renewing of their sinnes and therfore the Lord plagued them most grieuously by the diuided Gréeke Empire euen by Magog and Egypt Seleucidae and Lagidae and that by the space almost of thrée hundred yéeres And this is it that the Prophet Hosea did foretell that the children of Israel should remaine many daies without a King and without a prince without an offering and without an image without an Ephod and without Teraphim Phila. You haue very largely laide open this last token of vengeance to wit that God at the first doth but beat vs vpon the coat but if we continue in sinne he will whip vs on the bare skinne and if men will not yeeld at the first gentle stroaks then he wil strike harder and harder till he haue broken our stout stomacks and made our great hearts come downe Therefore it is good yeelding at the first for we shall get nothing by our sturdinesse against him We doe but cause him to double his strokes and strike vs both sidelings and ouer-thwart For he cannot indure that we should gruntle against him with stubborne fullennesse But now to the point Sith there are so many presages and foresignes of Gods wrath I pray you shew what it is that staieth the execution and very downefall of the same Theo. The praiers and téeres of the faithfull are the speciall mean that stay the hand of God from striking of vs. For the praiers of the righteous are of great force with him euen able to do all things Saint Iames saith that the prayer of a righteous man auaileth much if it be feruent and bringeth the example of Elias to proue it For saith he Though Elias was a man subiect to the like passions that we be yet was he able by his praiers both to open
and shut the heauens Abraham likewise preuailed so farre with God by his praiers for Sodome that if there had béene but ten iust men found in it it had béene spared The almighty God saith in the 15. chap. of Ieremy Though Moyses and Samuel stood before me yet mine affection could not bee toward this people Which doth plainely shew that Moyses and Samuel might haue done much with him had he not béene so fully bent against his people for their sins as he was So likewise he saith in the Prophecie of Ezechiel Though these three men Noah Daniel and Iob were amongst them they should deliuer but their owne soules by their righteousnesse Which also sheweth that if there had béene any possible entreating of him for the Land these thrée men might haue done it but now he was resolutely determined to the contrary In respect therefore that the zealous preachers and true professors of the Gospell doe so much preuaile wish God by their praiers they are said to be the defence and strength of Kingdomes and Countries of Churches and Common wealthes as it is said of Eliah that he was the Chariot of Israel and the horsmen thereof Elishah also was enuironed with a mountaine full of horses and Chariots of fire And sure it is that Eliah and Elishah are not onely the Chariots and Horsemen of Israel but also by their praiers they do cause God himselfe to be a wal of fire round about it as the Prophet saith in the 22. of Ezechiel verse 30. the Lord God saith I sought for a man among them that should make vp the hedge and stand in the gappe before me for the land that I might not destroy it but I found none Which sheweth that if there had béene but some few to haue stood in the breach he would haue spared the whole land This also appeareth more plainely in the Prophecie of Ieremy where the Lord saith thus Run to and fro by the streets of Ierusalem behold and inquire in the open places thereof if yee can finde a man or if there be any that executeth iudgement and seeketh the truth and I will spare it Oh then marke and consider what a man may doe yea what one man may doe what an Abraham may doe what a Moyses may doe what an Eliah may doe what a Daniel what a Samuel what a Iob what a Noah may doe Some one man by reason of his high fauor with the Eternal is able sometimes to do more for a land by his praiers and téeres then many prudent men by their counsell or valiant men by their swords Yea it doth euidently appeare in the sacred volume of the holy Ghost that some one poore Preacher being full of the Spirit and power of Eliah doth more in his study either for offence or defence either for the turning away of wrath or the procuring of mercie then a Campe-royall euen forty thousand strong or as the Spirit speaketh though they all haue their swords girded to their thighes and be of the most valiant men in Israel All this is clearly proued in one verse of the booke of the Psalmes where the Prophet hauing reckoned vp the sins of the people addeth Therefore the Lord minded to destroy them had not Moses his chosen stood in the breach to turne away his wrath lest he should destroy them Sée therefore what one man may do with God! Some one man doth so binde the hands of God that when he should strike he hath no power to doe it as it is said of Lot I can doe nothing till thou be come out Sée how the Lord saith he can doe nothing because he will doe nothing Hée doth wittingly and willingly suffer his hands to be manacled and bound behind him for some fewes sake which he doth make more account of then all the world besides so pretious and deare are they in his sight Likewise it is written that the Lord was excéedingly incensed against the Israelites for their idolatrous Calfe which they made in Horeb yet he could doe nothing because Moyses would not let him And therefore he falleth to intreating of Moyses that Moyses would let him alone and entreat no more for them Oh saith the Lord to Moyses let me alone that my wrath may wax hote against this people and that I may consume them Thus wée sée that except Lot goe out of the City and Moyses let him alone he can doe nothing Oh the profoundnesse and altitude of Gods mercy towards mankind Oh the height and depth length and breadth of his loue towards some Oh that the most glorious inuisible God should so greatly respect the sonnes of men For what is man that hée should be mindfull of him or the sonne of man that he should regard him Let vs therfore that are the Lords remembrancers giue him no rest nor let him alone vntill wée haue some security and good assurance from him that he will turne away from vs the wrath which we most iustly haue deserued that he wil spare vs and be mercifull vnto vs. Yea as the Prophet saith Let vs neuer leaue him nor giue him ouer till he repaire and set vp Ierusalem the praise of the world lest for default héereof that be charged vpon vs which was charged vpon the head of some of the Prophets in Israel that they were like the foxes in the waste places that they had not risen vp in the gaps neither made vp the hedge for the house of Israel For now adaies alas wée haue many hedge-breakers few hedg-makers many openers of gaps few stoppers many breakers of breaches to let in the flouds of Gods wrath vpon vs but very few that by true repentance goe about to make vp the breach and to let downe the sluces that the gushing streames of Gods vengeance may be stopt and staied Phila. I doe now plainely see that there be some in high fauour with God and as wee say greatly in his books sith his loue is so great vnto them that for their sakes he spareth thousands Theol. It is written in the Prouerbs of Salomon that the righteous in a land are the establishment of the kings throne and the wicked the ouerthrowing of the same The words are these Take away the drosse from the siluer and there will proceed a vessell for the finer Take away the wicked from the King and his throne shall be established in righteousnesse Likewise in another place the wise man affirmeth that the righteous are the strength and bulwarke of Cities Townes and Corporations but the wicked are the weakening vndoing of all Scornefull men saith he set a City on fire but the wise turne away wrath To this purpose most excellent is that saying of Eliphas in Iob The innocent shall deliuer the Iland and it shall be preserued by the purenesse of their hands Wée reade in the booke of the Chronicles that when the Leuites the
and the starres shall fall from heauen Meaning thereby that the most glorious and bright-shining creatures shall be clouded and obscured by the vnconceiuable brightnesse of Christs comming Moreouer is noted vnto vs the terrour of Christs comming in this that immediatly before it the very sea shall quake and tremble and in his kind crie out For it is said that the sea shall roare and make a noise in most doleful and lugubrious manner and mens hearts shall faile them for feare and for looking after those things which shall come on the world for the powers of heauen shall be shaken Oh what shal become of swearers drunkards whore-mongers such like in that day They shall séeke to créepe into an auger hole to hide their heads They shall then cry wo and alas that euer they were borne They shal wish that they had neuer béen borne or that their mother had born them toads And as it is said in the Apocalyps They shall say to the mountains and rocks Fall on vs and hide vs from the presence of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lambe For the great day of his wrath is come and who can stand We sée therfore that the comming of Christ shall not be base and contemptible as in his first visitation but it shall bée most terrible princely and glorious And as the Scriptures doe affirme that his comming shall bee with great terror and dread so also they doe shew that it shall bée very sudden and vnlooked for For the day of the Lord shall come as a theefe in the night as the trauell that commeth vpon a woman As a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the earth That is it shall suddenly catch and intangle all men wheresoeuer they bée in the world As the Earthquake which was some twentie yéeres agoe did suddenly take the world tardy they not thinking of any such matter So shall the comming of the sonne of man to iudgement take the world tardy and vnprepared For few there be that thinke of any such matter Sith therefore the second appearing of Christ shall bée with such suddennesse let vs feare and tremble for all sudden things are to be feared Phila. Well sir as you haue shewed vs the terror and suddennesse of Christs comming so shew vs the purpose and end of his comming Theol. The principall end of his comming shall be to kéepe a generall audit to call all men to an account to haue a reckening of euery mans particular actions to reward them according to their déeds as it is written The Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his Angels and then shall he giue to euery man according to his deeds Againe the Apostle saith to the Corinthians We must all appeare before the iudgement seat of Christ that euery man may receiue the things which are done in his body according to that which he hath done whether it be good or euill Héere wée doe plainely sée that the end of Christs comming shall be to iudge euery man according to his works that is as his works shall declare him and testifie of him and of his faith In another place the Apostle saith That the end of his comming shall be to render vengeance vnto them which know not God and which obey not the Gospell of our Lord Iesus Christ which shall be punished with euerlasting perdition from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power Woe then vnto two sorts of men the ignorant the disobedient For the Apostle saith flatly they both shall be damned Me thinketh both the ignorant disobedient all other prophane men shold tremble to thinke of this that Christ shall come to render vengeance vnto them If we did certainely know that the Spaniard should inuade our Nation ouerrunne it and make a conquest of it that he should shead our blood destroy vs and make a massacre amongest vs yea that wée should sée our wiues our children our kindred and deare friends slaine before our faces so as their blood should streame in the stréets what a wonderfull feare and terrour would it strike into vs we would quake to thinke of it Shall we not then be much more afraide of the damnation of our soules Shall we not quake to think that Christ shall com to take vengeance If the Lion roare all the beast of the field tremble and shall not we be afraid of the roaring of the Lion of the Tribe of Iudah But alas we are so hard hearted and so rockt aslepe in the cradle of security that nothing can mooue vs nothing can awake vs. Phila. Now as you haue shewed vs the terror and end of Christs comming so also declare the manner of it Theol. The manner of it is this that the whole world shal be cited to appeare personally at the generall Assises before the great Iudge No man shal be admitted to appeare by his atturney but all must appeare personally None shall be suffered to put in sureties but all must come in their owne persons without baile or maine prize as it is written We must all appeare high and lowe rich and poore king and begger one and other as it is plainly set down in the 20. Chapter of the Reuelation where the spirit saith I sawche dead both great and small stand before God and the sea gaue vp the dead which were in her and death and hell deliuered vp the dead which were in them So then it is cléere that all without exception shall make their appearance at the great and dreadfull Assises Oh what a great day will that be when as the whole world shall appeare together at once If a king marry his sonne and dif other Kings Emperours Dukes Nobles to the marriage with all their pompe traine we vse to say Oh what a mariage what a méeting what a doe what a great day will there be but when the vniuersal world shal be assembled together not only al Monarks Kings and Princes but all other that euer haue béen from the beginning of the world al that are and shal be what a day will that be No maruel therefore though the Scriptures call it the day of God and the great day of the Lord. Now then when all flesh is come together to make their personall appearance then shall the son of God aseend vnto his tribunall seat with great Maiestie and glory For a fiery streame shall issue and come foorth before him thousand thousand Angels shall accompany him and minister vnto him and ten thousand thousand shall stand before him the iudgement shall be set and the books opened All the Saints also and true worshippers of God shall attend him and accompany him vnto his iudgement seat And not onely so but they shall sit vpon the Bench and Throne with him as it is written The Saints shall
iudge the world they shall iudge the Angels that is the diuels the Angels of darknesse Our Lord Jesus himselfe doth auouch the same thing when he said to his Disciples and in them to all true Christians Verily I say vnto you that when the sonne of man shall sit in the throne of his Maiesty yee which followed me in the regeneration shall sit vpon twelue thrones and iudge the twelue Tribes of Israel That is the Saints of God shall beare witnesse that the iudgement of Christ and sentence of condemnatien which he passeth against all vnbeléeuers is according to iustice and equity Thus then we sée how Christ shall be accompanied to his throne and with what glorie and Maiestie hée shall ascend vnto it Experience teacheth that when mortall Iudges hold their Sessions and generall Assises they are brought vnto the Bench iudgement seat with pompe and terrour For the Shiriffe of the Shire and Holbard-men with many Justices of peace and traines of others doe accompany them vnto the Bench. Then with how much more glory and maiesty shall the Sonne of God be brought vnto his royall Throne Thus then Christ being set vpon his iudgement seat all the vngodly shall bée conuented before him and he shall stand ouer them with a naked sword in his hand The diuell shall stand by them on the one side to accuse them and their owne conscience on the other side and the gaping gulfe of hell vnderneath them ready to deucure them Then shall the bookes be opened not any bookes of paper and parchment but the books of mens consciences For euery mans sinnes are written and recorded in his conscience as it were in a Register booke Then will God bring euery worke to iudgement with euery secret thought and set them in order before all the Reprobates Then will God lighten the things that are hid in darknesse and make the counsels of the heart manifest Then shall all the vngodly bée arraigned conuicted and hold vp their hands at the barre of Christs tribunall leat and shall cry guilty Then shall that most dreadfull sentence of death condemnation be pronounced against them by the most righteous Judge Go ye cursed into euerlasting fire which is prepared for the diuell and his Angels Oh dole full sentence Oh heauy hearing Whose heart doth not tremble at these things whose haire doth not stand vpon his head For then shall thousands which in this world haue florished as the cedars of Libanus be cast downe for euermore and shall drinke as a iust recompence for their iniquity of the bitter Cup of Gods eternall wrath indignation in the kingdome of darkenesse and in the fearefull presence of Sathan and all the rursed enemies of Gods grace Phil. Well now as you haue declared vnto vs the terror the suddennes the end the manner of Christs comming to iudgement so lastly shew vnto vs the right vse of all these things Theol. S. Peter telleth and teacheth vs the right vse of all for saith he Seeing all these things must be dissolued what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conuersation godlines As if he should say Sith the heauens shall passe away with a noise the Elements shal melt with heat the earth with the works that are therein shall be burnt vp sith also the cōming of Christ shall be with great terror to a feareful end in fearefull maner O how ought we to excell in goodnes So then S. Peter telleth vs that the true vse of all is this that hereby we be brought néerer vnto God euen to be more obedient to his will to walk in all his commandements making conscience of all our waies and studying to please God in all things and to be fruitfull in all good works liuing soberly iustly holily in this present euill world and shewing foorth the vertues of him which hath called vs out of darkenesse to this maruellous light so that we may be prepared against the day of his appearing that it may not take vs tardy For our life ought to be a continuall meditation of death We should alwaies liue as if wée should die or that our bed should bée our graue we must liue continually as if Christ should come to iudgement presently As it is reported of a godly man in the Primitue church that whether he eat or dranke or whatsoeuer he did hée thought alwaies hée heard the trumpet of the Lord with these words Arise yee dead and come vnto iudgement Put case it were certainly knowne that Christ wold come to iudgement the next Midsommer-day Oh what an alteration wold it make in the world how would men change their minds affections who would care for this world who would set his heart vnto riches Who would regard braue apparel Who durst deceiue or oppresse who durst be drunke Who durst sweare lie and commit adultery Nay would not all men giue vp themselues to the obedience of God would not all serue him diligently would not all men and women flocke to Sermons would they not giue themselues to praier and reading would they not repent them of their sinnes would they not cry for mercy and forgiuenesse Sée then what the knowledge of a certaine day approaching would effect And ought we not to doe all these things with as great care zeale séeing the day is vncertaine For who knoweth whether Christ will come this moneth or the next this yeere or next He himselfe saith Be ready watch for in the houre that ye thinke not of will the son of man come We thinke he wil not come this yéere nor next yeere nor this hundred yéere It may be therefore that he will come suddenly vpon vs we know not how soone For in an houre that we little thinke of will he come Therfore our Sauiour saith in the 13. Chapter of Mark. Take heed watch and pray for you know not when the time is And in the Gospell of S. Luke he saith Take heed that your hearts be not ouercome with surfetting and drunkennesse and the cares of this life and so that day come vpon you vnawares For as a snare shall it come vpon all them that dwell vpon the face of the earth We heare therefore how many watch words and caueats our Sauiour giueth vs when he saith Be in readinesse awake take héed watch and pray and looke about you lest that day come suddenly vpon you and take you napping It standeth vs all therfore vpon to be at an houres warning vpon paine of death and as we will answer it at our vttermost perill Phil. Proceed to speak of the torments of hel Theol. Concerning the torments of hell I do note thrée things which I will briefly speake of and they be these The extremity perpetuity and remedilesnesse thereof First touching the extremity thereof it standeth specially in these thrée things First that it is a separation from all ioy and comfort of the