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A29689	A golden key to open hidden treasures, or, Several great points that refer to the saints present blessedness and their future happiness, with the resolution of several important questions here you have also the active and passive obedience of Christ vindicated and improved ... : you have farther eleven serious singular pleas, that all sincere Christians may safely and groundedly make to those ten Scriptures in the Old and New Testament, that speak of the general judgment, and of that particular judgment, that must certainly pass upon them all immediately after death ... / by Tho. Brooks ...	Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680.; Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680. Golden key to open hidden treasures. Part 2.	1675 (1675)	Wing B4942; ESTC R20167	340,648	428

all the men which have been from Adams time till this day and which shall be to the end of the world and all the piles of grass in the world were turned into so many men to augment the number and that puntshment inflicted in Hell upon any one were to be divided amongst all these so as to every one might befall an equal part of that punishment yet that which would be the portion of one man would be far more grievous than all the cruel deaths and exquisite tortures which have been inflicted upon men ever since the world began A Heathen Poet speaking of the multitude of the pains and torments of the wicked in Hell affirmed That although he had a hundred mouths and as many tongues with a voyce as strong as Iron yet were they not able to express the names of them But this Poet spoke more like a Prophet than a Poet. The Poets tell you of a place called Tartarum or Hell where the impious shall be eternally tormented This Tartarum the Poets did set forth with many fictions to affright people from vicious practises such as of the four Lakes of Acheron Styx Phlegethon and Cocytus over which Charon in his Boat did wast over the departed souls of the three Judges Aecus Minos and Rhadamanthus who were to call the Souls to an account and judg them to their state of the three Furies Tisophone Megaera Alecto who lashed guilty souls to extort confession from them of Cerberus the Dog of Hell with three heads which would let none come out when once they were in and of several sorts of punishments inflicted as iron chains horrid Purchas his Pilgrim 3d. 〈◊〉 pag. 407. 408. stripes gnawing of Vultures Wheels rowling great stones and the like In the Chappel of Ticam the China Pluto the pains of Hell were so desciphered that could not but strike terrour into the beholders some rosted in Iron beds some fryed in scalding Oyle some cut in pieces or divided in the middle or torne of Doggs c. In another part of the Chappel were painted the Dungeons of Hell with horrible Serpents Flames Devils c. In Hell saith Mahomet there is the floore of Brimstone Alchoran c. smoakie pitchy with stinking flames deep pits of scalding pitch and sulphurous flames wherein the damned are punished daily There the Wicked shall be fed with the Tree Ezecum which shall burn in their Bellies like fire there they shall drink fire and be holden in Chains of seventy Cubits In the midst of Hell they say is a Tree full of fruit every Apple being like to the head of a Devil which groweth green in the mid'st of all those flames called Zoaccum Agacci or the Tree of bitterness and the souls that shall eat thereof thinking to refresh themselves shall so find them and by them and their pains in Hell they shall grow mad and the Devils shall bind them with chains of fire and shall drag them up and down in Hell with much more which I am not free to transcribe Now although most of those things which you may find among many Poets Heathens and Turks concerning the torments of Hell are fictions of their own brains Yet that there is such a place as Hell and that there are diversity of torments there the very light of nature doth witness and hath forced many to confess c. And as there are diversity of torments in Hell so the torments of Hell are everlasting Mark every thing that is conducible to the torments of the damned is eternal 1. God himself that damns them is Eternal Deut. 33. 27. 1 Tim. 1. 17. 2. The fire that torments them is Eternal Isa 30. 33. cap. 66. 24. Jud. 7. 3. The Prison and Chains that holds them are Eternal Jude 6. 7 13. 2 Pet. 2. 17. Melancthon calls it a Hellish fery 4. The Worm that gnaws them is Eternal Mark 9. 44. 5. The sentence that shall be passed upon them shall be Eternal● Math. 25. 41. Depart from me ye Cursed into everlasting fire You know that fire is the most tormenting Of this fire see more in my Londons Lamentation on the late fiery dispensation part 2 page 105. to page 131. Element Oh the most dreadful impression that it makes upon the flesh Everlasting fire There is the vengance and continuance of it You shall go into fire into everlasting fire that shall never consume it self nor consume you Eternity of Eternity is the Hell of Hell The fire in Hell is like that stone in Arcadia which being once kindled could never be quenched If all the fires that ever were or shall be in the world were contracted into one fire how terrible would it be Yet such a fire would be but as a painted fire upon the wall to the fire of Hell For to be tormented without end this is that which goes beyond all the bounds of desperation Grievous is the torment of the damned for the bitterness of the punishments but it Dionys in 18. Apocalyps fol. 301. is more grievous for the diversity of the punishments but most grievous for the eternity of the punishments If after so many millions of years as there be drops in the Ocean there might be a deliverance out of Hell this would yield a little ease a little comfort to the damned O but this word Eternity Eternity Eternity this word Everlasting Everlasting Everlasting this word for Ever for Ever for Ever will even break the hearts of the Damned in ten thousand pieces O that word Never said a poor despairing Creature on his Death-bed breaks my heart The Reprobate shall have punishment without pity Drexel misery without mercy sorrow without succour crying without compassion mischief without measure and torment without end Plato could say That whoever are not expiated but prophane shall go into Hell to be tormented for their wickedness with the greatest the most bitter and terrible punishments for ever in that Prison of Hell And Trismegistus could say that souls going out of the body defiled were tost too and fro with eternal punishments Yea the very Turks speaking of the House of Perdition do affirm That they who have turned Gods grace into Wantonness shall A●●wan Mah●m c. 14. p. 160. c. c 20. p. 198 c. abide eternally in the fire of Hell and there be eternally tormented A certain Religious man going to visit Olympius who lived Cloistered up in a dark Cell which he thought uninhabitable by reason of heat and swarms of Gnats and Flyes and asking him how he could endure to live in such a place he answered All this is but a light matter that I may escape eternal torments I can endure the stinging of Gnats that I might not endure the stinging of Conscience and the gnawing of that Worm that never dyes this heat thou thinkest grievous I can easily endure when I think of the eternal fire of Hell these sufferings are but short but the

dyed If the Glutton in that Historical parable being in Hell only in part to wit in Luk 16. 22 23 24. soul yet cryed out That he was horribly tormented in that flame what think we shall that torment be when body and soul come to be united for torture It being just with God that as they have been like Simcon and Levi Brethren Gen 49. 5. in Iniquity and have sinned together desperately and impenitently so they should suffer together joyntly eternally The Hebrew Doctors have a pretty Parable to this purpose A man planted an Orchard and going from home was careful to leave such Watch-men as both might keep it from Strangers and not deceive him themselves therefore he appointed one blind but strong of his Limbs and the other seeing but a Cripple these two in their Masters absence conspired together and the Blind took the Lame on his Shoulders and so gathered the fruit their Master returning and finding out this subtlety punished them both together So shall it be with those two sinful Yoke-fellows the soul and the body in the great day They have sinned together and they 2 Cor. 5. 10 11. shall suffer at last together But now in this world the greatest number of Transgressors do commonly escape all sorts of punishments and therefore we may safely conclude that there is another World wherein the Righteous God will revenge upon the bodies and souls of Sinners the high dishonours that have been done to his Name by them But Seventhly In all things natural and supernatural there is an opposition and contrariety There is good and there is evil there is light and darkness joy and sorrow Now as there are two several ways so there are two distinct ends Heaven a place of admirable and inexpressible happiness whether the good Angels convoy the souls of the Saints who have by a holy conversation Luk. 16. 22. glorified God and adorned their Profession And Hell a place of horror and confusion whither the evil Angels do hurry the souls of wicked incorrigible and impenitent wretches when they are once separated from their bodies The Rich man also dyed and was buryed and in ver 22 23. Hell he lifted up his eyes being in torments and these shall go away into everlasting punishment and the Righteous into life Eternal In these words we have described the different Estate of the Wicked and the Righteous Math. 25. 46. after Judgment They shall go away into everlasting punishment but these into life eternal After the sentence is past the Wicked go into everlasting punishment and the Righteous into life eternal Everlasting punishment the end thereof is not known its duration is undetermind Hell is a bottomless pit and therefore shall never be fathomed It is an unquenchable fire and therefore the smoak of their torments doth ascend for ever and Rev. 14. 11. ever Hell is a Prison from whence is no freedom because there is no Ransom to be paid no price will be accepted for one in that Estate And as there is no end of the punishments of Hell into which the wicked must enter so there is no end of the joys of Heaven into which the Saints must enter In thy presence is fulness of joy and at thy right Psal 16. 11. hand there are pleasures for evermore Here is as much said as can be said for quality there is in Heaven joy and pleasures for quantity a fulness a torrent for constancy it is at Gods right hand and for perpetuity it is for evermore The joys of Heaven are without measure mixture or end Thus you see that there are two distinct ends two distinct places to which the wicked and the righteous go And indeed if this were not so then Nero would be as good a man as Paul and Esau as happy a man as Jacob and Cain as blessed a man as Abel Then as Believers say If in this life only we have hope in Christ we are of 1 Cor. 15 19. all men most miserable Because none out of Hell ever suffered more if so much as the Saints have done So might the wicked say If in this life only we were miserable Job 21. we were then of all men most happy But 8thly and lastly You know that all the Princes of the World for their greater Grandure and State as they have their Royal Palaces for themselves their Nobles and Attendants so they have their Goals Prisons and dark Dungeons for Rogues and Robbers for Malefactors and Traytors And shall not He who is the King of Kings Rev. 19. 16. Rev. 1 5. Dan. 2. 21. and Lord of Lords He who is the Prince of the Kings of the Earth He who removeth Kings and setteth up Kings shall not He have his Royal Palace a glorious Heaven where He and all his Noble Attendants Angels and Saints shall live for ever Shall not the great King have his Royal and Magnificent Court in that upper World as poor petty Princes have theirs in this lower Ephe. 2. 3. John 14. 1 2 3 4. Luk. 12. 32. Neh. 9. 6 1 King 8. 27. Heb 8. 1. Rev. 3. 21. world Surely he shall as you may see by comparing the Scriptures in the Margent together And shall not the same great King have his Hell his Prison his Dungeon to secure and punish impenitent Sinners in surely yes and doubtless the least glimpse of this Hell of this place of torment would strike the proudest and the stoutest Sinners dead with horror O Sirs they that have seen the flames and heard the roarings of Aetna the flushing of Vosuvius the thundering and burning flakes evaporating from those Marine Rocks have not yet seen no not so much as the very glimmering of Hell A painted fire is a better shadow of these than these can be of Hell-torments and the miseries of the Damned therein Now these 8 Arguments are sufficient to demonstrate that there is a Hell a place of torment to which the wicked shall be sent at last Now certainly Socinians Atheists and all others that are men of corrupt minds and that believe that there is no Hell but what they carry about with them in their own Consciences these are worse than those poor Indians that hold that there are thirteen Hells According Purchass his Pilgrimage 5 Vel. p 491. to the differing demerits of mens sins yea they are worse than Devils for they believe and tremble Jam. 2. 19. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This Greek word signifies to Roar as the Sea from thence saith Eustatius it is translated to the hideous clashing of Armour in the battel The original word seemeth to imply an extream fear which causeth not only tremblings but also a roaring shriking out Ma●k 6. 49. Act. 16. 29. Their hearts ake and quake within them they quiver and shake as men do when their teeth chatter in their heads in extream cold weather The Devils acknowledg four Articles of our Faith Math.

Old Age to Covetousness and Frowardness Common experience tells us that many times Wantonness is the Sinners darling in the time of his youth and Worldliness his darling in the time of his age and without controversie Christians distinct and peculiar Ages may more strongly incline them to this or that Sin rather than any other or 5thly It may arise from that distinct and particular way of Breeding and Education which he has had Now to arm such Christians against their special Sins their peculiar sins whose Sins are advantaged against them either by their constitutions and complexion or else by their particular Calling or else by their outward state and condition or else by their distinct and peculiar ages or else by their particular way of Breeding and Education is my present work and business for though the raigning power of this or that special peculiar Sin be broken in a mans Conversion yet the remaining life and strength that is still left in those corruptions will by Satan be improved against the growth peace comfort and assurance of the soul Satan will strive to enter in at the same door and by the same Dalilah by which he hath betrayed and wounded the soul he will do all he can to do the soul a further mischief Satan will be still a reminding of the soul of those former sweets pleasures profits delights and contents that have come in upon the old score so that it will be a hard thing even for a Godly man to keep himself from his Iniquity from his special or peculiar Sin which the Fathers commonly call though not truly peccatum in delitiis a mans special darlin and beloved Sin Well Christians remember this once for all viz. That sound Conversion includes a noble and serious revenge upon that Sin which was once a mans beloved bosom darling Sin 2 Cor. 7. 11. Yea what clearing of your selves yea what Indignation yea what fear yea what vchement desire yea what zeal yea what revenge You see this in Cranmer who when he had subscribed with his right hand to that which was against his Conscience he afterwards as a holy revenge put that right hand into the flames so Mary Magdalen takes that hair of hers Of all Sins saith the sound Convert I am resolved to be avenged on my once beloved bosom darling Sins by which I have most dishonoured God and wronged my own precious and immortal soul and by which I have most endangered my everlasting Estate Having thus cleared up my way I shall now endeavour to lay before you some special remedies means or helps against cherishing or keeping up of any special or peculiar Sin either in heart or life against the Lord or against the light and conviction of a mans own Conscience First Cherrishing or keeping up of any special or peculiar Sin either in heart or life against the Lord or against the light and conviction of a mans own Conscience will hinder assurance these several ways First It will abate the degrees of our Graces and so make them more undiscernable Now grace rather in its degrees than in its sincerity or simple being only is that which gives the clearest evidence of a gracious estate or of a mans interest in Christ Sin lived in is like a Vermin to the Tree which destroys the fruit Grace cannot thrive in a sinful heart In some soyl Plants will not grow The cherrishing of Sin is the withering of Grace The casting of a favourable eye on any one special Sin hinders the growth of Grace If a man has a choyce Plant or Flower in his Garden and it withers and shrevils and is dying he opens the ground and looks at the root and there finds a Worm gnawing the root and this is the cause of the Flowers fading the Application is easie Secondly The cherrishing of any special peculiar Sin or the keeping up of any known transgression against the Lord and against the light of a mans own Conscience will hinder the lively actings and exercise of grace it will keep Grace at an under so that it will hardly be seen to stir or act yea it will keep Grace so down that it will hardly be heard to speak When a special or peculiar Sin is entertained it will exceedingly mar the vigorous exercises of those graces which are the evidences of a lively Faith and of a gracious state and of a mans Interest in Christ Grace is never apparent and sensible to the soul but while it is in action therefore want of action must needs cause want of assurance Habits are not felt immediately but by the freeness and facility of their acts of the very being of the soul it self nothing is felt or perceived but only its acts The fire that ly●th still in the flint is neither seen nor felt but when you smite it and force it into act it is easily discernable For the most part so long as a Christian hath his graces in lively action so long he is assured of them He that would be assured that this sacred fire of grace is in his heart he must blow it up and get it into a flame But Thirdly The cherrishing of any special Sin or the keeping up of any known transgression in heart or life against the Lord and against the light of a mans own Conscience so blears dimms and darkens the eye of the soul that it cannot see its own condition nor have any clear knowledge of its gracious state or of its interest in Christ c. Somtimes men in riding raise such a dust that they can neither see themselves nor their dearest Friends so as to distinguish one from another the Application is easie The Room somtimes is so full of smoak that a man cannot see the Jewels the Treasures that lyes before him so 't is here But Fourthly Cherrishing of any special or peculiar Sin or the keeping up of any known transgression against the Lord or against the light of a mans own Conscience provokes the Lord to withdraw himself his comforts and the gracious presence and assistance of his blessed Spirit without which presence and assistance the soul may search and seek long enough for assurance comfort and a sight of a mans interest in Christ before it will enjoy the one or see the other If by keeping up of any known transgression against the Lord you set the holy Spirit a mourning which alone can comfort you and assure you of your interest in Christ You may walk long en●ugh without comfort and assurance Lam. 1. 16. The Comforter that should relieve my Soul is far from me so in that 1 John 3. 21. It is supposed that a self-condemning heart makes void a mans Confidence before God The precious Jewel of Faith can be holden in no other place but in a pure Conscience that is the only Royal Palace wherein it must and will dwell 1 Tim. 1. 19. Holding Faith and a good Conscience Heb. 10. 22. Let us draw near with a

Lake And Hell with all her furies quake And Trismegistus affirms concerning the souls going out of the body defiled that 't is tost too and fro with eternal punishments nor was Virgil ignorant thereof when he said Dent ocyus omnes Quas mervere patisic stat sententia poenas They all shall pack Sentence once past to their deserved rack The horror of which place he acknowledgeth he could not express Non mihi si centum linguae sint oraque centum Omnia paenarum percurrere nomina possum No heart of man can think no tongue can tell The direful pains ordain'd and felt in Hell It was the common opinion among the poor Heathen that the wicked were held in chains by Pluto so they called Alcoran Mahom c. 14. p. 160. and c. 20 p. 198. the Prince of Devils in chains which cannot be loosed To conclude the very Turks speak of the House of Perdition and affirm that they who have turned the grace of God into impiety shall abide eternally in the fire of Hell and there be eternally tormented I might have spent much more time upon this head but that I don't Judge it expedient considering the persons for whose sakes and satisfaction I have sent this piece into the world But Fourthly The secret checks gripes stings and the amazing horrors and terrors of Conscience that do sometimes Suae quemque ex agitant fu●iae Every man is tormented with his own fury that is his Conscience saith the Philosopher Dan. 5. 5 6. astonish affright and even distract Sinful wretches do clearly and abundantly evidence that there is a Hell that there is a place of Torments prepared and appointed for ungodly Sinners Doubtless it was not meerly the dissolution of Nature but the sad consequent that so startled and terrified Belshazzar when he saw the hand-writing on the wall Guilty Man when Conscience is awakned fears an after-reckoning when he shall be paid the wages of his crying sins proportionable to his demerits Wolsius tells you of one John Hufmeister that fell Sick Wolf lect Memor Tom. 2. c. in his Inn as he was Travelling towards Auspurg in Germany and grew to that horror that they were fain to bind him in his Bed with Chains where he cryed out That he was for ever cast off from before the Face of God and should perish for ever he having greatly wounded his Conscience by Sin c. James Abyes who suffered Martyrdom for Christs sake and the Gospels as he was going along to Execution he gave all his Money and his Cloaths away to one and another to his Shirt upon which one of the Sheriffs Attendants scoffingly said That he was a mand man and a Heretick But as soon as the good man was Executed this Wretch was struck Mad and threw away his Cloaths and cryed out That James Abyes was a good man and gone to Heaven but he was a wicked man and was damn'd and thus he continued crying out until his death Dionysius was so troubled with fear and horrour of Conscience Cicero that not daring to trust his best Friends with a Razor he used to sindge his Beard with burning coals Bossus having slain his Father and being afterwards Plut. de sera vindict Banquetting with several Nobles arose from the Table and beat down a Swallows Nest which was in the Chimney saying They Lyed to say that he slew his Father for his guilty Conscience made him think that the Swallows when they chattered proclaimed his Parricide to the world Theodoricus the King having slain Boetius and Symmachus Sigonius de occid Imper. and being afterwards at Dinner began to change Countenance his guilty Conscience so blinding his eyes that he thought the head of a Fish which stood before him to have been the head of his Cozen Symmachus who bit his lip at him and threatned him the horrour whereof did so amaze him that he presently dyed Nero that Monster of Nature having once slain his Mother had never-more any peace within but was astonished with Horrours Fears Visions and Clamours which his guilty Conscience set before him and suggested unto him Imo latens in praedio familiares suspectos habuit Xiphil in Nerone c. vocem humanam horruit ad 〈…〉 latratum galli cantumi rami exvento motum terr●batur loqui non ausus ne audiretur He suspected his nearest and dearest Friends and Favourites he trembled at the barking of a Puppy and the crowing of a Cock yea the wagging of a Leaf and neither durst speak unto others nor could endure others to speak to him when he was retired into a private House lest the noise should be heard by some who lay in wait for his life Now were there not a Hell were there not a place of torment where God will certainly inflict unspeakable miseries and intollerable torments upon wicked and ungodly men Why should their Consciences thus amaze torture and torment them Yea the very Heathen had so much light in their natural Consciences as made such a discovery of that place of darkness that some of them have been terrified with their own inventions concerning it and distracted with the very sense of those very torments which their own persons have described As Pigmalion doted on his own picture so were they amazed with their own Comments The very flashes of hell-Hell-fire which Sinners do daily experience in their own Consciences in this world may be an argument sufficient to satisfie them that there is a Hell a place of torment provided for them in another world Fifthly Those matchless easeless and endless torments that God will certainly inflict upon the bodys and souls of all wicked and ungodly men after the Resurrection does sufficiently evidence that there is a Hell that there is a place of torment provided prepared and fitted by God Wherein he will pour forth all the Vials of his Wrath upon wicked and ungodly men Isa 30. 33. For Tophet is ordained of old yea for the King it is prepared he hath made it deep and large the pile thereof is fire and much wood the breath of the Lord like a stream of Brimstone doth kindle it This place that was so famous for Judgment and Vengeance is used to express the torments of Hell the place of the damned Tophet was a place in the Valley of Hinnom it was the place where the Angel of the Lord destroyed the Host of Sennacherib Isa 30. 31 33. King of Assyria and this was the place where the Idolatrous Jews were slain and massacred by the Babylonian Armies when their City was taken and their Carkasses Jer. 7. 31 32 33. and chap. 19. 4 5 6. left for want of room for Burial for meat to the Fowls of Heaven and Beasts of the Field according to the word of the Lord by the Prophet Jeremy And this was the place where the Children of Israel committed that abominable Idolatry in making their Children pass through the fire to

sufferings of Hell are eternal Certainly Infernal fire is neither tolerable nor terminable Impenitent Sinners in There is no Christian which doth doth not believe the fire of Hell to be everlasting Dr. Jackson on the Creed l. 11. c. 3. Hell shall have end without end death without death night without day mourning without mirth sorrow without solace and bondage without liberty the damned shall live as long in Hell as God Himself shall live in Heaven their imprisonment in that land of darkness in that bottomless pit is not an imprisonment during the Kings pleasure but an imprisonment during the everlasting displeasure of the King of Kings Suppose say some that the whole world were turned to a Mountain of Sand and that a little Wren should come every thousand year and carry away from that heap one grain of Sand what an infinite number of years not to be numbred by all finite beings would be spent and expired before this supposed Mountain could be fetcht away Now if a man should lye in everlasting burnings so long a time and then have an end of his Woe it would administer some ease refreshment and comfort to him but when that immortal Bird shall have carryed away this supposed Mountain a thousand times over and over alass alass sinful man shall be as far from the end of his anguish and torment as ever he was he shall be no neerer a coming out of Hell then he was the very first moment that he entred into Hell If the fire of Hell were terminable it might be tolerable but being endless it must needs be easeless Bellar de arte mo●iendi l. 2. c. 3. and remediless we may well say of it as one doth O killing Life O immortal death Suppose say others that a man were to endure the torments of Hell as many years and no more as there be Sands on the Sea-shore drops of water in the Sea Stars in Heaven Leavs on Trees Piles of Grass on the ground Hairs on his head yea upon the heads of all the Sons of Adam that ever were or are or shall be in the world from the beginning of it to the end of it yet he would comfort himself with this poor thought Well there will come a day when my misery and torment shall certainly have an end But wo and alass this word Never Never Never will fill the hearts of the Damned with the greatest horror and terror wrath and rage amazement and astonishment Suppose say others that the torments of Hell were to end after a little Bird should have emptyed the Sea and only carry out her bill full once in a thousand years Suppose say others that the whole world from the lowest Earth to the highest Heavens were filled with grains of Sand and once in a thousand years an Angel should fetch away one grain and so continue till the whole heap were spent Suppose say others if one of the Damned in Hell should weep after this manner viz. That he should only let fall one tear in a thousand years and these should be kept together till such time as they should equal the drops of water in the Sea how many millions of Ages would pass before they could make up one River much more a whole and when that were done should he weep again after the same manner till he had filled a second a third and a fourth Sea if then there should be an end of their miseries there would be some hope some comfort that they would end at last but that they shall Never Never Never end This is that which sinks them under the most tormenting terrors and horrors You know that the extremity and eternity of Hellish torments is set forth by the Worm that never dyes and it is observable that Christ at the close of his Sermon makes a threefold repetition of this Worm Mark 9. 44. where their Worm dyeth not and again ver 48. where their Worm dyeth not and their fire goeth not out Certainly those punishments are beyond all conception and expression which our Lord Jesus doth so often inculcate within so small a pace Now if there be such a diversity extremity and eternity of Hellish pains and torments which the great God will certainly inflict upon the bodys and souls of all impenitent persons after the day of Judgment then there must certainly be some Hell some place of torment wherein the wrath of God shall be executed upon wicked and ungodly men But Sixthly The greatest part of wicked and ungodly men escape unpunished in this world the greatest number of men do spend their days in Pride ease pleasures and delights in Lust and Luxury in Voluptuousness Psal 73 3. to the 13. ver Job 21. 12. Amos 5. 6. and Wantonness They take the Timbrel and Harp and rejoyce at the sound of the Organ They chant to the sound of the Vial and invent themselves Instruments of Musick They drink Wine in bowls They lye upon beds of vers 3 Ivory and stretch themselves upon their Couches and eat the Lambs out of the Flock and the Calves out of the midst of the Stall and therefore there will be a time when these shall be punished in another world God doth not punish all here that he may make way Rom 2. 4 5. 2 Pet. 3 9. 15. vers for the displaying of his mercy and goodness his patience and forbearance Nor doth he forbear all here that he may manifest his Justice and Righteousness lest the World should turn Atheist and deny his Providence He spares that he may punish and he punisheth that he may spare God smites some Sinners in the very acting of their sins as he did Korah Dathan and Abi●am Num. 16. and others not till they have fill'd up the measure of their sins as you see in the men of the old World Gen. 6. 5 6 7. But the greatest number of sinners God reserves for the Math. 7. 13 great day of his Wrath. There is a sure punishment though not always a present punishment for every Sinner Eccles 8 12 13. Those wicked persons which God suffers to go uncorrected here He reserves to be punished for ever hereafter 2 Thes 1 7 8 9 10. Sinners know your Doom you must either smart for your sins in this world or in the world to come That Ancient hit the mark that said Many sins are punished in this World that the providence of God might be more Augustin Epist 54. apparent and many yea most reserved to be punished in the World to come that we might know that there is yet Judgment behind Sir James Hambleton having been Murdered by the Mr. Knox in his History of Scotland Scotish Kings means he appeared to the King in a Vision with a naked Sword drawn and strikes off both his arms with these words Take this before thou receivest a final payment for all thy impieties and within twenty-four hours two of the Kings Sons