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fire_n	evil_a	fruit_n	tree_n	3,899	5	10.3735	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93110	Of the foure last and greatest things: death, iudgement, heaven and hell. The description of the happinesse of heaven, and misery of hell, by way of antithesis. With the way or means to passe through death, and judgement, into heaven, and to avoid hell. / By VVilliam Shepheard, Esquire.	Sheppard, William, d. 1675?	1649 (1649)	Wing S3196; Thomason E551_7; ESTC R205687	96,747	120

servile fear they sin nothing the lesse but the more Rom. 3. 16 17 18. The feare of God is not before their eyes And therefore they love not God they are not humbled before God do not fear sin nor depart from it Jer. 5. 22. 11. In their Ignorance want of the true knowledge of God and heavenly things when either they have not and cannot or have means and will not know 2 Thess 1. 8 9. Ephes 4. 18 The Lord will come from heaven in flaming fire to render vengeance on them that know him not c. And then it is not true if there be any when it is confused partiall proud without experience or practise 12. In disobedience when a man refuseth to heare and do what God requireth 2 Thes 1. 8 9. He shall come in flaming fire to render vengeance c. and obey not the gospel 1 Pet. 3. v. 19 20. 13. In the want of true joy for their joy if any is 1. without faith 2. and did not follow godly sorrow 3 it is in carnall and earthly things Psal 4. 6. 4. it is a fruit of the flesh and not of the spirit 5. And it is not a solid lasting nor victorious joy Eccles 7. 8. 14. In impatiencie under the Crosse wherein men cannot submit to God and be quiet but fret and repine one of the sins that provoked God so much against the Jews and kept them out of the earthly Canaan Psal 106. 25 ●6 Dan. 12. 10. Psal 78. 41. 2 Kings 6. 33. For it makes God to increase the Plague still until at last he utterly destroy Levit. 26. 21. And they discover it in these things 1. They limit the holy one of Israel and neither can or will endure to wait upon him 2. They are troubled onely with the evill of punishment and not at all with the evill of sin as Pharoah 3. They are not the better but the worse for their crosses 2 Chron. 28. 22. This is King Ahaz who in the time of his affliction did trespasse yet more and more 15. In the absence of the Spirit of God which they have not Iude 1. 19. and the presence of Satan that evill Spirit wherewith they are filled Acts 5. 3. by the illusion whereof they prosume of salvation having no right to it nor reason for it And as this is of the flesh so it yeelds the fruits of the flesh as adultery and the like Gal. 5. 19. 16. In their spirituall fulnes that in their pride and high conceitednes of their own sufficiency feel no need of Christ that in their own sense think they have all things and want no spirituall good thing Luke 1. 53. Luke 8. 24 25. W● 〈◊〉 you that are full Rev. 3. 17. Luk. 18. 9 c. He filleth the hungry with good things but the rich be 〈◊〉 empty away 17. In their wicked joy and mirth that are so drowned in their present pleasures that they shun all pains crosses for godlines or Gods glory rejoyce in wickednesse and in earthly things at the best and mourn not at all for any spirituall thing Luke 6. 25. Wo unto 〈◊〉 that now laugh for yee shall waile and we●y Jam. 5. 1 2. 5. 18. In pride that haughtines of minde when a man is puft up with a conceit of his own excellency to the neglect of God and contempt of men that which brought Satan to Hell Prov 18. 12. Before destruction the heart of man is ●aughty Math. 23. 12. He that exaltech himself shall be brought low Ezech. 28. Obadia vers 3. The pride of thy heart hath deceived thee thou that dwellest in the clifts of the Rocks c. Though thou exalt thy self c. Yet I will bring thee down 19. In their cruelty and unmercifulnesse towards 〈◊〉 in misery that have not a heart to grieve nor a hand to help them Jam. 2. 13. Condemneation mercilesse shall bee to him that sheweth to mercy Jam. 5. 1. c. Weep and ●owl yee rich men for the misery that shall come upon you c. Behold the hire of the Labourers is of you kept buck and it cryeth in the ears of the Lord yee have condemned and killed the just Luke 16. 20 21. Dan. 4. 24. 20. In despair or want of hope or presumption a groundles vain hope that hath no foundation that brings to fruit Job 8. 13. The hope of such shall perish and be cut off and their trust shall be as the Spiders web and then they shall be ashamed of their hope Psal 25. 3. 21. In a hard and stony hears when the heart is disobdient and unyeelding which men get by custom in sin Gods judgment and Satans malice Rom. 2. 5. Thou after thine hardnes and as a treasure wrath againist the day of wrath and declaration of the just judgment of God Rom. 9. 18. He sheweth mercy on whom he will and whom he will be hardeneth so then those that are hardened are such on whom he sheweth no mercy therefore such are to perish 22. In their unclean hearts that have hearts spiritually defiled with Sin that are either a generation cleansed in their own eyes and not indeed and have an outward cleansing or are openly and pr●●●ssedly filthy and abominable Esay 64. 3. Ephes 5. 5. Rev. 21. 27. 23 In their hatred and variance when being of contrary desires and opinions they fall out amongst themselves Matth. 5. 22. Rom. 1. 29. 24 In their hypocrisie when men cloak in fidelity and sin with the appearance and shew of faith and repentance Woe to you hypocrites Matth. 23. 1● 28. You shall receive the greater damnation c. ver 14. 2 Tim. 4. 1. 25 In doing evil in every state of life Rom. 2. 9. Tribulation and anguish shall be upon every soul that doth evil c. Gallat 6. 7. He that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap Corruption Esay 3. 11. Wo to the wicked the reward of his works shall be given him 26 Especially they that be fruitfull in evill doing Heb. 6. 8. For if every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be hewen down and cast into the fire Matth. 7. 19. Much more the trees that bring forth evil and much evil fruit and especially if they glorie in it Phil. 3. 1● Their end is damnation they glorie in their shame 27 In hanging loose from God in not using or misimployment of our talents Matth. 25. 30. Cast that unprofitable servant into utter darknesse there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth All such as suffer Satan to carry them captive to their own destruction 28 In drawing otoers by their councell and example to sin with them Matth. 23. 13. 15. woe ●e unto you c. For you compasse Sea dn Land to make one of your profession and when he is made ye make him two fold more the childe of hell then yourselves 29. In hindering the growth of goodnesse like tares amongst corn Matth. 13. 30. Matth. 23. 10. Acts 13.

extremity rest and remain upon them for besides the lesse of Gods blessed and joyfull presence and favour getter then life and an eternall separation from those everlasting joys and delights above ther● is the pain of feeling the torment of an everlasting red hot scorching fire without any possibility of dying or being ever consumed All that can be said of it cannot come near it all that can be felt here is nothing to it If the fire of Hell be a true fire as some suppose it doth as far exceed our hottest fire as ours doth exceed the painting on the wall And it must needs be so for the one was created for comfort the other purposely to torment the one is made by the hand of man the other is tempered by the angry arm of almighty God with all terrible and tormenting ingredients to make it most fierce and raging It is said to be prepared Matth. 25. 41. as if Gods wisdom and power were set on work deliberately to devise it And when God shall take upon him to do a thing for the uttermost declaration in a certain sort of his power wisdome and justice what a thing will it be be will not the work belike the workman who knoweth the power of his wrath Psal 90. vers 11. And the thunder of his power who call understand Iob 26. 1● Consider the making of Angels and men and the making of this transitory world and then imagine what God can doe Moreover this fire is blown by the airy breath the other by the angry breath of the great God which doth burn far hotter then ten thousand rivers of Brimstone The pile thereof saith the Prophet is fire and much wood ●he breath of the Lord like a stream of brimstone doth kindle it ●say 30. 33. Our fire must be fed continually else it goeth out that burneth alwayes without feeding ours giveth light that giveth none ours consumeth and dispatcheth the matter laid in it that tormenteth but consument not our fire may be qu●●●fied or put out but that hath neither abatement nor possibillity of putting out if the severall pains of all the deseases incident to our nature as the Stone Gou● Coll●●k broken Bones Toothache and th● rest and with all the most exquisite tortu●os which have been or may be inflicted upon man by any Tyrant and with all also all the griefs horrours and despaires that over rent in pieces any heavy heart and vexed conscience as Iudas Spira c. if all these together and at once were upon one man yet would they come infinitely short of the pain and anguish that shall torment the soule and body of the wicked in hell But by these corporall things we may the better attain to ●he view of those spirituall matters The evill conscience here a ●●ame of this in●ernall fire is compared to a Lion a Serpent a Sword and Fir● Iob 20. Eccles 2● 2. to broken Legs a Bone crushed to pieces Psal 〈◊〉 It i● compared to darknes shame and contempt to death and the like things mans nature do most of all abhor Suppose we a man that for a long time hath enjoyed a Kingdom and all the glory that the world can afford that he is now to be banished into a strange Country and there to be for ever kept in a filthy s●inking Dungeon amongst Snakes and the like Or a man that hath been long wedded to a wi●e he loves dearly and with whom he hath lived sweetly and he is now to be divorced from her and made to marry a loathsome filthy creature and with her to spend all his dayes in all the misery besides that such a life is capable of What torment and misery will the torment and misery of such a man be But alas this cannot come near to that torment we speak of Think we of a man much more in debt then he hath to pay to a furious and implacable creditor apprehended by fierce S●rjeants in Prison under a fierce and cruel Jaylor having no friend to succour him that looks for no other but to spend his dayes in th●● miserable estate Or of a Traytor that hath uncensed his Prince who hath sent out his fierce officers and apprehended and cast him into Prison under a mercilesse Keeper to be judged before a dreadfull Judge who is sure to be condemned and to suffer most exquisite torments Or think we of what we can and we can think of nothing that can give us a taste or discover a glimpse of it unto us The wicked indeed have their Kingdome and their glory here their portion is in this life Psal 17. 14. Luke 16. v. 25. And they are w●dded to this world which they make their God but they shall be suddenly taken from it and cast into Hell they spend their daies in wealth and suddenly go down to Hell Iob 21. 15. And wo wo unto them for the misery that shall come upon them Iames 4. 3. Phil. 3. 19. They mu●● with the Devil and his Angels to everlasting fire Matth. 25. 41. there to lye untill they have paid the uttermost fa●thing which will never be Matth. 5. 26. and what else can be expected for they have provoked to the uttermost the wrath of the King of Kings against them And if the wrath of an earthly King be as messengers of death Prov. 16. 14. and as the roaring of a Lyon Prov. 19. 12. how terrible will the wrath of the King of the Kings of the earth be Heb. 12. 29. 10 31. If we would know reasons why this condition shall be so importable they may be these among others 1. because they shall look upon the angry countenance of God and apprehend t● the uttermost his irefull indignation and that so unmeasurably fearfull and terrible sustain it Rev. 6. 16. 2. The guilt of sinne shall still be to the uttermost upon the heart to feel and as an hideous object in the ●ye to see and this alwayes before them and continually on them No debt though of millions and to the cruellest creditor in the world so dreadfull as sin no Writ so frightfull as the curses of Gods Law No Arrest so irksome as he biting accusation of the conscience 3. The continuance of their misery that they shall be ever dying and never able to dye ever destroying and never destroyed doth mightily dismay them and add to the weight of their misery 4. God hath made this estate of purpose so miserable and will make the creature able everlastingly to undergo it 5. The knowledge that the creature shall then have to the uttermost of Gods wrath it s own misery c. for Sapiens miser magic quam stultus miser It is called Death which is bitter and who doth not shun it it is called a Prison who will not labour to keep out of it it is called darknes who doth not abhor it it iscalled shame and contempt who doth not labour to avoid it But this shall yet farther appear in the things