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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33236	A brief view and survey of the dangerous and pernicious errors to church and state, in Mr. Hobbes's book, entitled Leviathan by Edward Earl of Clarendon.	Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674.	1676 (1676)	Wing C4421; ESTC R12286	180,866	332

of the torments and tormentors methinks it should be thought a matter of that consequence as is more fit to be confuted by censure and chastisement then by refelling the Arguments of his presumtion In the mean time as he professes to find nothing in Scripture that makes it apparent to him that the soul is immortal and a living creature independent upon the body so he seems much pleased with the mortality of the whole human Nature which Iob complains of There is hope of a tree but man dieth and wasteth away yea man giveth up the ghost and where is he Man lieth down and rise●h not till the heavens be no more Job 14. 7 12. From whence he seems to conclude if his very wo●ds do not make it plain that the soul as well as the bod● is buried in the grave at least till the resurrection This monstrous liberty and license in forming a new Faith for himself without any Soveraign advice or approbation a Faith never before own'd or avowed by any Christian may make men wonder why he is so severe against Atheists whom he will not allow pag. 186. to be Subjects in the Kingdom of God nor they that believe not that God hath any care of the actions of man kind because they acknowledg no word for his nor have hope of his rewards or fear of his threatning They he saies that believe there is a God that governs the World and hath given precepts and propounded rewards and punishments to man-kind are Gods Subjects all the rest are to be understood as enemies whereas in truth there is very little difference between a man that understands no Precepts of his and him who believes those to be his Precepts or his Permissions which are contrary to his Commandments or between those who have no hope of his reward or fear of his threatnings and those who believe and perswade others to believe that the rewards which he hath propounded are of much less value then they are esteemed to be and the punishment which he threatens to be less terrible and of shorter duration then they are understood and take upon them to suspend the inflicting of any punishment at all upon the greatest sinner until the end of the World by the mortality of the Soul equal to that of the Body and so to undergo no farther trouble till they are again united in the Resurrection and even then not to be in so ill a condition as most men apprehend which is a consolation wicked men stand not in need of and which no Christian Casuist before Mr. Hobbes ever presum'd to administer And he may find for the support of his Atheists who should not be so churlishly abandon'd by him as many pregnant Arguments against Christianity and as rationally pressed and as many Texts of Scripture as well of the New as the Old Testament as appositely urg'd to maintain their Doctrine as any which are made use of by him for the propagation of his Opinions little less dangerous He is the first man since Virgil accompanied Aeneas thither that hath taken pains so accuratly to rescue and vindicate Hell from the prejudice that men might have to it from some expressions they find in Scripture relating to it which he endeavors by his Interpretations to make not altogether so severe as they are generally understood to be And least any apprehension of the bottomless pit should too much amuse men he do's assure them from his Art in which he would be thought to excel pag. 243. That in the Globe of the Earth which is not only finite but also compar'd to the heighth of the stars of no considerable magnitude a pit without a bottom that is a hole of infinite depth is a thing the proportion of Earth to Heaven cannot bear which perfection of Science enabled him to discover that if Adam had not eaten of the Apple he had bin immortal and had he never died of which he makes not the least question he should not then continually have procreated his kind pag. 239. for if immortals should have generated as man-kind doth now the Earth in a small time would not have bin able to afford them place to stand on Besides there being other places of Scripture which he cites to imply that the place of Hell is under water so besides the comfort that is in the uncertainty they need the less fear the bottomless pit and he doth at last free them from the waters too and the company that makes the waters the more unpleasant St. Iohn thought he had terrified some Classes of sinners to the purpose when he declar'd That they should have their part in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone Apoc. 21. 8. But for their comfort Mr. Hobbes assures them pag. 243. that all that is but a Metaphorical expression and signifies not any certain kind or place of torment and gives them another Text to raise their spirits That death and hell were cast into the lake of fire pag. 243. that is he saies abolish'd and destroied as if after the day of Iudgment there shall be no more dying nor no more going into Hell which must be very comfortable Doctrine to those whom he had before secur'd till that time by the not existence and nothingness of the Soul after its dissolution from the Body So that he had don well that there might some fear still have remain'd in them to have told them That it is the opinion of very Learned Men that the day of Judgment it self is to last one thousand years That the darkness which St. Matthew attributes to it and which makes the most beautiful place the less pleasant may not make them think Hell a worse place then in truth it is he tells them that tho the Translation hath rendered it into utter darkness the Original will not bear it pag. 243. and do's not signifie how great but where that darkness is to be namely without the habitation of Gods elect In the careful Inquisitions which he makes into the torments of Hell and into the Tormentors he finds the Devil hath wrong don him by not having his names of Satan Devil and Abaddon translated into English by which he conscientiously doubts that men imagining them to be proper names of Demons may be seduc'd to believe the Doctrine of Devils which was the Religion of the Gentiles whereas those hard words are not proper Names but Appellations which only set out the office and quality as Satan only signifies the Enemy Devil accuser Abaddon the Destroier So that Heaven being to be after the Resurrection upon the Earth which he saies he hath shew'd by Scripture that it is like to be pag. 244. Hell must likewise be upon the Earth too and so by Satan is meant any earthly Enemy of the Church and that the torments of Hell which are express'd in Scripture by weeping and gnashing of teeth by the worm of conscience fire where the worm dies not and the fire