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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67085	The key of saving knovvledge, opening out of the holy Scriptures, the right way, and straight passage to eternall life, or, A dialogue wherein the chiefe principles of the Christian religion are unfolded for the enabling of Christian people, to understand the Word of God ... composed by Geo. Walker ...	Walker, George, 1581?-1651.	1641 (1641)	Wing W360; ESTC R39413	43,048	124

reprobates who were never chosen nor called to be of this number Answ. Their bodies also shall be raised up to everlasting shame and joyned with their cursed soules that as they have sinned in both so they may in both be punished Dan. 12. 2. They shall also be gathered together like a flock of ill savouring goates by themselves and brought before the judgement seat of Christ full sore against their will with horror howling and trembling And tumbling and groveling on the earth as if they would creep into the ground intermingled among the Devils and wishing that the rocks and mountaines might fall on them and the hils cover them but all in vaine Luke 23. 30. they shall receive an heavy doome For the Iudge sitting above in the aire attended with all his glorious Angels with all his elect Saints caught up to meet him in their glorious bodies and to sit with him in judgement shall with a dreadfull voice passe this woful sentence against them Math. 25. 41. Depart from me ye● cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devill and his angels And then shal they go into everlasting destruction and be punished in unquenchahle fire from the presence of God and from the glory of his power where a gnawing worme which never dyeth shall torment them world without end 2 Thes. 1. 9. Isa. 66. 24. Mark 9. 44. Quest What may wee conceive of the punishment and torment of the wicked after this judgement Answ. It far surpasseth all conceipt of mortall man being such as all the tongues of men and Angels are not able to expresse But this is plaine by Scripture that whatsoever can be conceived or is named among men as a cause of extreme torment or a meanes to increase it beyond all measure that shall be in their damnation punishment First the Lord Christ whom they have skorned provoked and perfecuted both in himselfe and in his members shall be their Iudge and shall give the sentence against them And all his Saints whom they have mocked misused proudly insulted over despightfully handled and evill intreated and put to death shall sit as assessors with Christ in judgement and with their voyces shall approve and applaud the sentence of condemnation as the Scriptures testifie Mat. 22. 28. 1 Cor. 6. 2. and shall judge the evill angels v. 3. Now for malicious proud skorners full of envy to be judged and condemned by those who they have most of all others hated skorned and abused with despight is worse than a thousand deaths as experience teacheth Secondly their torment unto which they shall bee adjudged is said to be in everlasting fire in that Lake of hell burning with fire and brimstone Mat. 25 41. which of all torments that men by sense can discerne or reason conceive is the greatest and most intollerable Rev. 19. 22. And yet as if that were not enough our Saviour saith that they shall have a worm inwardly gnawing them which shall never dye even the worme of Devillish malice rancour and envy which shall make them fret and rage against the Lord Christ and against his Saints gnawing their tongues for griefe For the sight of their glory shall be to them inwardly as great a torment as the torture of fire and brimstone are outwardly unto them Thirdly they shall have no light of comfort or refreshing from God but shall be imprisoned in the dungeon of everlasting darknesse for the blacknesse of darknes is reserved for them for ever Iude v. 13 which is a thing most horrid to the eyes Also the sound of horror and a dolefull noyse shall fill their eares even weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth Matth. 13. 42. 25. 30. Luk. 16. 24. And all the world shall not yeeld them a drop of water to coole their tongues when they are tormented in that flame Fourthly their misery and torment shall bee endlesse easelesse and remedilesse when they have endured it many thousands and millions of yeares and ages more in number then the stars of Heaven and drops of water in the Sea and sands by the sea shore they shall bee as far from any end as they were at the first beginning Now we know that when men suffer any paine or misery without hope of any end thereof it is made by this meanes most grievous and intollerable though in it selfe it be not so great And therefore the extremity of torment to them who are cut off from all hope of ease or end must needs exceed all conceipt and utterance and bee more than can by tongue bee expressed Quest How can their sins committed in the short time of their life deserve such an endlesse torment in so great extremity Answ. Very well For first their sinnes being committed against an infinite Majesty and having offended the infinite God and provoked his infinite wrath do by the rule of reason and justice deserve an infinite punishment Secondly as the elect Saints shall in the last Resurrection be all filled up to the full with holinesse and with the image of Christ and shall every one have as much as his vessell can conteine so that hee can desire no more Even so wicked reprobates after the last judgement shall be transformed into the image of the Devill and filled up with malice and rage against God to the brimme insomuch that they shall blaspheme and curse God for tying them in everlasting chaines that they can doe no more mischiefe and gnash their teeth with anger against themselves because they have no more provoked the Lord by transcendent wickednesse so far shall they be from relenting and from remorse and repentance for their sins And therefore the more and the longer they suffer the torments of hell the more they deserve to suffer them for ever with increase if it were possible That they are past all hope and possibility of repentance may easily bee proved by that which the Scriptures testifie of Apostatas and such as sinne against the holy Ghost to wit that it is impossible to renew them by repentance Heb. 6. 6. and it is a vaine thing to pray for them 1 Iohn 5. 16. for their hearts are hardned to commit all iniquity with greedinesse And therefore much more the damned in hell being turned into the image of the Devill are past hope of repentance and must needs be hardened in eternall malice and impenitency to the utmost Quest Is there no difference of glory among the Saints in Heaven and of torment among the damned in hell Answ. The Apostle saith that as one Star differeth from another in glory so it is in the resurrection of the Saints to glory 1 Cor. 15. 41. But though some of the Saints are capable of more glory then others because they have beene more excellent members of Christ in the state of Grace and instruments of great good to the Church as appeares Dan. 12. 3. and Mat. 19. 28. And some reprobates are more capacious vessels of wrath as they