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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20158	A three-fold resolution, verie necessarie to saluation Describing earths vanitie. Hels horror. Heauens felicitie. By Iohn Denison Batchelour in Diuinitie.	Denison, John, d. 1629.	1608 (1608)	STC 6596; ESTC S109587	139,837	594

this final sentence vpon them Depart from me ye cursed For behold this curse shall bee a thousand times more grieuous then the cursed and bitter water to the suspected woman Num. 5.18.24 which caused her thigh to rot her belly to swell and made her to be detestable accursed among her people For hereby both belly and thigh head and heart yea bodie and soule shall all be filled with bitternesse become accursed and detestable in the sight of Almightie God and all the holy companie of heauen 2 This makes the sentence more dreadfull in that it cannot be reuoked by any meanes possible The sentence proceeding from the iudgement seate of mortall men may be reuoked or stopped by sundry meanes as by appellation by supplication by complaint or restoring the condemned to his former estate but all these hopes and helpes shall be fruitlesse when this sentence of condemnation shall come forth from the throne of the Lord whose iudgements are more resolute then the decrees of the Medes and Persians which might not be altered 1. There can be no appeale for it must bee to a higher Iudge but there is none such 1. Tim. 6.15 For he is the onely and blessed Prince the King of Kings and Lord of Lords hee hath the key of Dauid Reu. 3.7 when hee shutteth no man openeth the Father hath committed the iudgement vnto him Ioh. 5.27 2. There is no hope of helpe by supplication For Wisedome euen the diuine wisedome of the Father Christ Iesus saith Because he called to them and they would not heare therefore they shall call vpon him and hee will not heare Yea if Iob and Noah and Daniel stood vp to intreat for them it should be in vaine 3. Whither shall the damned go to complaine themselues what to the Lord whose spirit they haue grieued what to the Angels whose ministerie they haue abused what to the Saints whose righteous soules they haue vexed this were a fond conceipt and a fruitlesse course Iob saith well Iob. 9.33 There is no vmpire whē God and man are at oddes 4. There is no hope of restoring of the damned to whō the Lords wordes shall bee such as he saith to Ieremie I will put my wordes into thy mouth like a fire Jer. 5.14 and this people shall be as wood and it shall deuoure them Psal 2. He will bruse them with a rod of iron and breake them in peeces like a potters vessell so that there shall not be left a shard to fetch fire with When Esau came to Isaac his father for a blessing which was passed before to Iacob Gen. 27.33 his father said I haue blessed him and he shall be blessed and he poore soule could not get the blessing though hee sought it with teares Heb. 11. So resolute shell the Lords sentence be at the day of iudgement I haue cursed them they shall be cursed and no teares or weeping shall bee able to reuoke it for the Lord hauing spoken it hee will not repent nor alter the words that are gone out of his lippes Loe this is a time of punishment and not of pardon Men that are on the sea seeing some mightie tempest arise are much affraid when it beates vpon the shippe it maketh them amazed but when they begin to sinke Insequitur clamorque virûm stridorque rudentum ●irg Aene. lib. 1. oh what crying and scriching may there be heard amongst thē So when wicked men foresee the daunger of future iudgement it makes them affraid when they are brought before the tribunall they shall be mightily astonied but when they beginne once to sinke into the pit of euerlasting perdition oh Lord what howling and scriches will they send forth Well seeing this sentence of condemnation is so intolerable and irreuocable why alas haue men no more care to auoide it Many yea the most defer their repentance in this life as though there were hope of pardon in the day of punishment but our Sauiour teacheth vs better Mat. 5.25 Agree with thine aduersarie quickely whilest thou art in the way with him lest thine aduersarie deliuer thee to the Iudge and the Iudge deliuer thee to the sergeant and thou be cast in prison Let euery one that hath the feare of condemnation before his eyes seeke reconciliation at the hands of God by true and vnfained repentance and that quickly whilest he is in the way of this life lest hee bee separated with Go your cursed and so the damned spirits the sergeants of hell carrie him to the place of euerlasting torments When men are perswaded by Preachers to paines cost or care in their saluation to abridge themselues of their profits pleasures vanities and iniquities so to enter into heauen by the streight gate they are readie to say with our Sauiours flinching followers Ioh. 6.60 This is a hard saying But would to God they did remember and consider this hard saying Go ye cursed into euerlasting fire and that would surely make them carefull with Abraham Gen. 21.11 to cast out wicked Ismael out of the houses of their soules though it bee grieuous in their eyes and euen with most painfull indeuours studie to make their election sure and to escape that fatall and finall sentence of condemnation Remember the Apostles exhortation To day if you will heare his voyce harden not your hearts Heb. 3.7 And this do lest at the day of iudgement you heare that voyce of terror that shooke the earth and will shake the hearts of all those that shall be goates separated on the left hand for they shall stand naked before the tribunall seate of Christ to heare with trembling harts the voyce of his condemnation 3 ern who haue shut their eares at the voyce of his exhortation CHAP. 3. SECT I. The first steppe of the wicked into hell after the last iudgement namely the losse of Gods presence and all heauenly cōforts Hest 7.8 WE reade in the storie of Hester that king Ahashuerosh hauing decreed the death of haughtie Haman as the word went out of the kings mouth the officers presently couered his face and caried him to the place of execution so when Christ hath pronounced the sentence of Condemnation vpon the wicked shame shall couer their faces and the infernall officers the damned spirits shall instantly carie them to hell there to be tormented for euer When the sentence of banishment was pronounced against Coriolanus Plutar. in vita Coriol he to mooue the Iudges to compassion pleaded for himselfe his valiant deedes and praised the souldiers that had serued with him in the wars but all to no purpose so the wicked to mooue Christ to commiseration shall say to him in that day Lord Lord Mat. 7.22 haue not we by thy name prophecied and by thy name cast out diuels and by thy name done many great workes but all to as little purpose for Christ will professe vnto them

heauen as he was there to enioy eternall consolation with the blessed Saints and Angels SECT 2. The second step of the wicked into hell after the last iudgement namely Societie with the Diuels the sense of hellish torments IS it a small matter that a man must be cast out of the presence of God and be depriued of the communion of Saints and Angels but he must be also subiect to the societie of Diuels and the paines of hell yet such is the condition of the wicked When Tully was banished Plu. in vitis Ciceron Demost though he were in Greece where many cities contended who should honour him most and the Soothsayers shewed that his exile should be short yet was he alwaies sad and could not be merrie casting his eyes often towards Italie Demosthenes likewise tooke his banishment so heauily that many times he would weep bitterly when he looked towards Athens though hee found much kindnesse euen at the handes of his enemies If the damned soules might meete with such comforts in their exile from heauen it would mitigate their griefe Scythie est quo mittitur inquam Roma relinquē da est Ouid. de Trist lib 1. Eleg 3. and extenuate the extremitie of their losse but when their case is like his that must leaue Rome and liue in Scythia lose the ioyes of heauen and meete with the paines of hell and that without reuocation oh how lamentable shall their estate condition be how full of teares and sadnesse Now to the end we may for our warning and safetie take a suruey of the dangers and miserable condition of the damned in hell let vs consider first the Agents then the Patients and lastly the effects proceeding from them both and this according to sobrietie resting onely vpon such infallible certaintie as the word of God doth yeeld and leauing those curious conceits which the school-men haue obtruded to the Church of God without any sound warrant of his word 1 The damned are vnder the wrath of God Mat. 3.7 O generation of Vipers who hath warned you to flie from the wrath to come If the wrath of a mortall Prince be as the roaring of a Lyon Pro. 19.12 how terrible is the wrath of the immortall and omnipotent God The Scriptures do in sundry places compare the Lords wrath to fire because it is very fierce fearefull and mercilesse as that element is which causeth the king to pray Lord Psal 6.1 rebuke me not in thy wrath neither chasten me in thy heauie displeasure knowing that when the Lords wrath bursteth foorth like fire Ier. 4.4 it becomes vnquenchable 2 They haue an irksome habitation with the diuels M t. 25.41 and portion of torments with his Angels and therefore it is said Reu. 20.10 That the beast and the false Prophet were cast into the place of eternall torments with the Diuel And indeed this conclusion of the wicked doth agree well with their conuersation For as they haue in this world bene companions with the beast and the false Prophet in their slauerie to Sathan so they do iustly deserue to bee partakers with them of those torments in the world to come If Dauid cryed Psal 120 5 Wo is me that I remaine in Mesech and haue my habitation amongst the tents of Kedar how wofull shall their estate be who shall be constrained to dwell with Sathan and to haue their habitations for euer amongst the troupes of reprobates and the infernall spirits 3 They are subiect to the mercilesse fire of hell and this fire is a fornace of fire Mat. 13.42 Reu. 21.8 Heb. 10.27 Mat. 3.12 a lake of brimstone a deuouring fire an unquenchable fire The fornace wherein the three children were cast was exceeding fearefull being made seuen times hotter then it was wont to be Dan. 3. but how dreadfull shall this fornace of hell be whose fire is infinitely hotter then that was This fire doth differ as much as may bee from our fires in respect of the violence and durance of the operation and illumination In respect of the violence because it is vnspeakeable of the durance for it is vnquenchable of the operation for it cōsumes not what it burnes of illumination for though it burne violently to the vexation of the wicked Cremationē habet lumen non habet Gre. mor. lib. 9. cap 46. Esa 33.14 yet shall it not shine to their comfort So that I may iustly say thereof in the Prophets words Who is able to dwell in this deuouring fire or who shall be able to dwell in these euerlasting burnings 4 The place where they are is not any stately pallace 1. Pet. 3.19 but a filthie prison and this prison is a lothsome dungeon worse then that wherein Ieremie stucke Ier. 38. it is worse then the prison wherin Michaiah was cast which yeelded nothing but the bread and waters of affliction For behold the prisoners therein are scourged and afflicted by the hellish tormenters whose furie and malice to man is infinit Are not those threates fearefull which are denounced Deu. 28 and do wee not admire those plagues threatened Reu. 18 Chrysostom saith They are but la dicra vrsus ad haec suppl● cia vmbra ad haec tormenta Ad pop Aut. hom 49. Yet are those afflictions but flea-bitings to these torments but drops to these vials of wrath but sparks to these flames of indignation We reade of diuerse lamentable torments deuised by Tyrants agai●●● Gods Saints in the primitiue Church with commiseration but alas these exquisit cruelties are comforts in respect of the torments of hel If Dauid being offered the choice of three chastisemēts famine sword or pestilence said 2. Sam. 24.14 Let me not fall into the handes of men how much more should wee pray and beseech our God that wee may neuer fall into the hand and power of the diuell 5 It is a place of darkenesse and blacknesse and consequently of dread and horror Amos. Zeph. Joel Dauid in Psal For the Prophets when they are wont to describe any extreame dolour do call it darkenesse blackenesse and obscuritie So saith our Sauiour speaking of the paines and place of the damned Mat. 8.12.22.13 Take and cast them into the place of vtter darkenesse The darkenesse of Aegypt was wonderfull and fearfull wonderfull for it was so thicke that it might be felt Exod. 10.21 fearefull and therefore was reserued for the ninth of the tenne plagues inflicted vpon the Aegyptians as being most forceable to mollifie the heart of Pharaoh But this darkenesse of hell doth farre exceede that palpable darkenesse of Aegypt and therefore it is called the Blackenesse of darkenesse Iude. 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. Pet. 2 17. the Hebrew idiotisme tearmeth it a Darkenes of darknesse to vtter in it the vttermost extract of darkenesse And this punishment sorteth well with the merites of those who call darknes light Esa