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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79466	Hell, with the everlasting torments thereof asserted. Shewing 1. Quod sit, that there is such a place. 2. Quid sit, what this place is. 3. Ubi sit, where it is. Being diametrically opposite to a late pamphlet, intituled, The foundation and pillars of Hell discovered, searched, shaken, and removed. For the glory of God, both in his mercy and justice, the comfort of all poor believing souls, and the terrour of all wicked and ungodly wretches. Semper meditare Gehennam. / By Nich. Chevvney, M.A.	Chewney, Nicholas, 1609 or 10-1685.	1660 (1660)	Wing C3805; Thomason E1802_2; ESTC R209913	50,666	128

nature which that infernal fire should work upon yet such is the powerful judgement of that Almighty Arbiter of the world justly willing their torment that he can make Spirits most sensible of those fiery tortures and such is the obedible submission of their created nature that they may be immediately wrought upon by those appointed pains And as this inspection cannot be with too much caution no more can the conclusion that is drawn there from be with too much heed for he that makes it spiritual fire onely goes about to make it no fire at all It is therefore by the consent of many of the Godly learned held to be a coporal fire which being granted there arise notwithstanding some exceptions against the same Object 1. If it be corporal how can it diversly torment divers Reprobates There is but one fire in Hell but yet that fire doth not excruciate and torment all the wicked which are therein after one manner and measure the more wicked men have been here the more wretched shall they be there The mighty shall be mightily tormented Res For Answer For the better understanding hereof we must know that this fire is the instrument of divine Justice now no instrument works onely by its own virtue and after its own manner and in its own measure but is regulated ordered and disposed according to the will and power of the first Mover The Fire in a Furnace is augmented or qualified according to the will of him that kindles it or hath to do with it so is this enflamed or mitigated by the power and will of God Isai 30.33 The breath of the Lord like a River of Brimstone doth kindle it One and the same fire doth otherwise burn Iron then Wood or Straw and that as one saith well Secundum duritiem vel durationem materiae According to the nature of the incensed matter is the rage and fury of the fire Gregory in the Fourth Book of his Dialogues hath a notable saying to this purpose Quod hic diversitas corporum illic agit diversitas peccatorum That which is wrought here by the diversity of bodies is wrought there by the diversity of sins one and the same fire may be common to all yet may it afford a several degree of pain to every one according to the pleasure of the great disposer Object 2. If it be corporal fire it must be maintained with fewel or else it will quickly languish and be extinguished But there is no fewel in Hell at least no such fewel as can maintain it to eternity for saith Anonymus the wicked are compared to chaffe and stubble and so are quickly consumed and come to nothing but will he say they are such because they are compared unto such would he be contented that any man should inferre because he as a man is compared to a beast that perisheth therefore he is a beast I suppose he would rather reply nullum simile est idem For that Similitude and Identity are different things as He that is like me is not my self Indeed man is compared unto such in respect of his fading condition in this life but this mortal shall after put on immortality These bodies shall be so rarified as they shall not admit of a diminution much less of an annihilation Ans We let him pass and answer that the bodies and souls of the damned shall be loco carbonum lignorum instead of fewel and because those materials as they are qualified are everlasting it follows that Hell fire must be everlasting also for it is against the nature of fire to cease so long as it hath any combustible matter to feed upon Obj. 3. If it be corporal fire then it is of the same species with our fire now we know what the nature of this fire is but not of that Answ In the bodies which are the matter of the fire there may be a difference as lignum igneum ferrum ignitum burning Wood and burning Iron differ still it is fire though diverse from ours in certain properties which are unknown to us and if it be the blessed will of God may we never know them But seeing it is substantial and corporeal fire it will not be amiss to take notice of some particulars wherein it differs from this elementary fire of ours which may be considered in these five respects 1. In regard of Heat our fire is hot nor is there any element in the extreamest fury more afflictive to the sense then fire but the fire of Hell is far more hot and more afflictive The fire in a Lantsckip which is ignis pictus a painted fire or that purgatory fire which is ignis fictus a feigned fire yet hath so warmed the Popes Kitchin is a better representation of elemental fire then elemental can be of that fire which is eternal That furnace whose heat was septupled Dan. 3.19 insomuch that the flames thereof licked up them for whom it was not meant was raging very raging and of great violence but not a glowing sparkle compared to the everlasting fire of Hell 2. In regard of Light our fire comforts in shining that is oppressed with horrible darkness Ardet noster lucet Our fire burns and in burning shines but this as divine Justice hath disposed it burns but shines not unless it be for the greater torment of those that are frying in it Vim comburendi retinet illuminandi amisit saith Basil It retains the property of burning it hath lost the property of shining Therefore it is called Hades Sine sole domus a House without light The Apostle Jude calls it the black darkness The darkness of Aegypt was strong and horrid so thick that it was palpable yet nothing to the darkness of Hell In Aegypt they had but an over-casting they enjoyed the glorious light of the Sun again in Hell Non videbunt lumen in aeternum They shall never see light more 3. Elemental fire burns the body onely Eternall the soul also The passion of the body is but the body of passion the soul of pain is the pain of the soul yet if a consumable body be not able to endure burning flames for a day how will an unconsumable soul and body be able to endure the scorching flames of Hell for ever 4. Elemental fire as it burns so it consumes Hell fire rageth more and wasteth less The reprobate shall have the punishment Uri to be burned but not the happiness Exuri to be burned out So Prosper when he saith Poennae gehennales puniunt non finiunt corpora Hell torments punish but do not finish the bodies In Hell there is no cessation of fire burning nor of matter burned The Poet Prudentius speaks thus sadly of it Vermibus flammis summis cruciatibus aevum Immortale dedit Senio ne flamma periret To Worm and Fire to Torments there No term he gave they cannot wear If this fire were terminable it might then be tolerable but being endless