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A61853	The worm that dyeth not, or Hell torments in the certainty and eternity of them plainly discovered in several sermons preached on Mark, chap. the 9th and the 48. v. / by that painful and laborious minister of the gospel, William Strong ; and now published by his own notes, as a means to deter from sin and to stir up to mortification.	Strong, William, d. 1654.	1672 (1672)	Wing S6014; ESTC R32735	120,570	318

dost hate him as Christ said of the Pharisees which of you can accuse me of sin I heve done many good works amongst you for which of them do you stone me so the people of God may say you cannot accuse them but for the good that they have done you for wheresoever they are they are as dew upon the Grass thou shalt be a blessing only men hate the image of God in them as it 's said of Panther animal hominibus inimicissimum it doth so hate a man that it will fly at the picture of a man so it is but a little relemblance of God that is in the best of the Saints here in this life and yet men hate God so that they cannot endure his image in any man Tert. Bonus vir Caius seius sed ideo malus quia Christianus This shews that thou art an unregenerate man a child of the Devil and not new born unto God Now thou art a child of wrath and for thee is this eternal fire prepared Secondly Mark 3.7 I would exhort you all to flee from the wrath to come it is the greatest evil that can befall a soul and therefore that which above all things else a man should fly from Fuga is conversant only about that which is evil and that which a man apprehends to be so Now the greater the evil is the more hasty is the flight Now There is no evil like to that of the wrath to come therefore let the whole soul be put out in this to fly from it as the most dreadful destruction that can befall a soul First Consider there is a possibility to escape it truly it is in vain to exhort a man to fly from that which he cannot scape as it is a vain thing for men to think to fly from death or judgment that they cannot escape it will overtake them and so for them to think to fly from any threatening in the word of God if they do continue in their sins it will certainly overtake them Did not my word overtake your Fathers says the Lord But this wrath a man may so fly from as to escape for Christ wins souls from the kingdom of Satan every day he translates them out of the kingdome of Satan which is the kingdom of darkness into the kingdome of his dear Son and it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is a metaphor taken from translating a man from his native soil translating a man as you do Colonies and so many are translated dayly and they pass from death to life Oh! That the Lord would perswade you knowing the terrour of the Lord to fly from the wrath to come Christs is a kingly conquest and he has not a subject in his kingdome but he has won him from the kingdome of Satan and all that number that are called and chosen and faithful that are with the Lamb were all once in Satans kingdome and all the Saints that are or shall be in glory they were all of them children of wrath as well as thou even Abraham the Father of the faithful who together with his Father Terah and Nachor and his brother Lot Josh 24.23 all served other Gods beyond the River only God called this righteous man to his foot Isa 41.2 And therefore there is as great a possibility for thee to escape this wrath as there is for any man in the World therefore fly from it Satan never wins again any one Soul out of the kingdome of Christ for the Father that gave them to Christ is stronger then all and no man can pluck them out of his hands and he doth now win ground of the kingdome of Satan and gains souls from him every day indeed after this life Heaven and Hell sha divide the World and there is a gulph set there is no changing places if a man would come from Hell to Heaven he cannot for a mans eternal state is cast and there is no change of it unto eternity and therefore the judgment passed upon a man at the last day is called eternal judgment Heb. 6.2 because the doom and sentence that shall be passed upon a man there is for eternity and therefore make hast fly from the wrath to come delay not the time for that hastens for if death should overtake thee before thou hast made this escape thou wilt be a child of wrath and lye under wrath for ever but here there is no gulf set but there may be a translation out of darkness Secondly Consider that after this Life you shall have to do with God immediately you shall fall into the hands of the living God immediately and Gods workings by the creatures shall have an end Now we find what fearful effects of wrath have been brought forth if God do but arme the creatures against a man if the Lord do but cause Lice to seise upon Herod they devour him immediately and he gives up the ghost and if the Lord give a man up into the power of Satan to torment him at his pleasure and we see how many thousand miseries he would bring upon him as we see in his dealing with Job when yet the Lord gives him only a power over the body and estate not over his soul and his life and yet How did he lay a load upon him That his life was a burden to him and he chused to dye rather Now if God can shew forth so much wrath by a creature how much more by his own immediate hand And if God in the creatures now do chastise with Rods by his own hand he will then do it with Scorpions His little finger will be heavier than the creatures loins for as a man cannot know Love by all that is before him because all the creatures cannot convey the Love of God unto the soul as it is so a man cannot know hatred by all that is before him for all the creatures together cannot dispence unto a man the whole displeasure of God that is Gods own work therefore fly from it if we should fly from it in the stream much more in the fountain Thirdly It is done by way of revenge and therefore it must needs be dreadful for Deut. 32.31.41 He has said vengeance is mine and I will repay there shall be a just recompence of reward to every sinner Heb. 2.1.3 Now if we consider what a wrong sin is it is such an infinite evil that all the created comforts and good things of this life cannot make satisfaction for they being only created good things but sin is an act committed against an infinite and an uncreated Good and between created and uncreated finite and infinite is no proportion Rom. 7.13 Sin is out of measure sinful and therefore the wrath of God is out of measure dreadful for it must be a just revenge a full recompence Isa 27.6.7 He will punish his people in measure but he will punish his enemies without measure because it is done in justice

seat and will exalt the humble and lowly Sixthly Keep a good Conscience towards enemies Job 3.129 30. it was a brave temper in Job If I rejoyced at the destruction of him that hated me or lift up my self when evil found him c. and our Saviour bids us Mat. 5.44 pray for them that despightfully use you and persecute you c. forgive them and be willing to do them good if thine enemy hunger feed him for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head be not overcome of evil but overcome evil with good if they be thy enemies without a cause or for telling them the truth they are more their own enemies then thine therefore pity them The accidental part or less principal part of the torments of Hell we have hear under the Metaphor of the never dying Worm And now I come unto the principal part and that which is essential to it and that is the fire that never can be quenched and here I must mind you of what Christ sayes Joh. 3.12 I have spoken to you Earthly things and you believe not Spiritual things under Earthly resemblances for our weak eyes need to have the species condensed by such spectacles as these are spiritualia capere non possumus nisi adumbrata c. How shall you believe if I tell you of Heavenly especially when the joys of Heaven and the pains of Hell are laid down in any measure before you this latter I am now to speak to the fire which cannot be quenched it 's a thing disputed amongst Divines and the fathers of old have differ'd in it and the Schoolmen after them whether the fire by which the damned in Hell shall be tormented be not Material and Corporeal fire but Metaphorical only some of them say that it is Corporeal and of the same nature with that fire we have here because it must torment the bodies of men and others say that it cannot be Corporeal for then it cannot work upon Spirits as the Devils and the Souls of men are and hence Durandus and others have found out a way that by the power of God he can elevate Corporeal agents in their operations so that they shall work upon Spiritual sub●●ances and as the Soul is affected here by its union with the body so it shall be hereafter c. But these things seem not at all to agree with the word of God nor the manner of the speaking of the Spirit of God therein who hath wholly expressed Heaven and Hell to us by Metaphors because in its proper Speech and if the Lord should speak of things as they are we could not understand them it 's questioned by some Divines by what names the estate and condition of the damned was expressed in the Old Testament and it is wholly resolved into certain Metaphors taken from some exemplary acts of vengeance upon sinners the first remarkable judgment that came upon the world was the Deluge now we read in Gen. 6. Of Giants that were in the Earth men of renown whose wickedness was so great upon the Earth that the Lord repented that he had made man and takes up a resolution in judgment to destroy them that he had created from the Earth and these being the first that did eminently and remarkably perish therefore Pro. 21.16 't is said The man that wanders out of the way of understarding shall remain in the Congregation of the dead the Hebrew word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the place receives its name from those wicked men who were in the eyes of all men remarkably the first inhabitants and this is conceived to be the first title that in Scripture is any where given to the place of the damned the next judgment was the destruction of Sodom God condemning them with an overthrow and turning it into a dead Sea a fiery and Sulphurious Lake where every thing dyes nor can any thing live in it and a smoak that continually ascends up and by that also in Scripture Hell is expressed the Lake that burns with fire and Brimstone for ever and it is Jude 7. suffering the vengeance of Eternal fire There is another expression of it that is very famous there was near Jerusalem a place that was called Tophet as Schal conceives from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tympano because of the several Musical Instruments that were used there when the Jews did sacrifice their children unto Molech and burnt them caused them to pass through the fire unto the Devil and to testifie that they did it from the heart though they were never so dear yet they must rejoyce in it and dance at the sacrifice it was the Valley of the sons of Himon this place was thus polluted by sin and with the blood of men poor inocent ones And this place of Idolatry Josiah did pollute and commanded all the dead bodies and all the unclean things of the City to be cast therein and for the consuming of those a continual fire was kept there and God did execute special vengeance in this place because in it the Lord destroyed 185000. of the Assyrian Camp and there the Jews were slain themselves when the Babylonish Army took the City and hence Isa 30. and last verse For Tophet is ordained of old yea for the King it is prepared he has made it deep and large the pile thereof is fire and much wood the breath of the Lord like a stream of Brimstone doth kindle it this place that was so famous for judgment and vengeance is used to express the torments of Hell the place of the damned it is called Tophet and hence also I conceive the Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hath its name from Himon for the greatness of the misery it is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the grave and destruction Pro. 15.11 There is nothing done in Hell and in the bottomless pit but it is open to the Lord he knows and orders all in it and therefore is the Devil called Abadon the destroyer for the terror and unquietness thereof it is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Pet. 2.4 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies to trouble vex and disquiet a man and it s called for the uncomfortableness and continual fear of it darkness by which all misery is expressed in the Scripture and to set forth the perfection of it it is called utter darkness Mat. 8.12 but the children of the Kingdom shall be cast out into utter darkness c. That is extra Ecclesiam regnum Christi for the Kingdom of God is an inheritance in light Col. 1.12 so all the miseries of men without Christ are called darkness and a darkness that is without even there where all the wicked of the world shall be so Cartwright and some think that it is Comparativum Superlativi loco and it signifies maximas profundismas and so Pareus c. And for the eternity of it its called the deep Luke 8.31 and Rev.

again the Lord shall judge his people It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God He forbids private revenges and saith to his disciples if he smite thee on the one cheek turne the other c. As there are none avenge here below but Magistrates his Vicegerents to shew that it is the priviledg of none but himself hereafter Now if he has reserved it unto himself here surely he will take it to himself hereafter in the disposing of the eternal estates of the greater part of the World Angels and Men to give this honour unto the creature that they should take vengeance the Lord will never do it but it is and shall be an act of his own immediate wrath and here the three persons hath in Scripture their opera appropriata if the Father be provoked the Son is an advocate with the Father and the Holy Ghost strives with him but when all the persons shall joyn together the Son will plead no more and the spirit strive no more but all joyn in this great work of vengeance and the spirit of God as in Heaven he shall be a spirit of Adoption and Glory so in Hell a spirit of bondage and torment for ever Isa 30. last There are two things in it to be observed First Here is fire and brimstone that is unquenchable fire for brimstone is pertinasissimum ignis fomentum and there is not a little but a River of brimstone and what is this fire and brimstone It is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the spirit of the Lord burning in it his wrath is the fire and the brimstone also and his spirit for as the spirit is not onely fire but oil because his grace is upheld by the daily supplies of its own grace notwithstanding all mens unthankfulness so his wrath is not only fire but brimstone there is a continual supply of wrath to eternity that makes this fire of Tophet to be eternal and unquenchable fire Object But Satan is said to have the power of Death and is called Abaddon the destroyer and therefore it seems Satan is the instrument that God will use in tormenting them that as here they were commanded by him and subjected unto his temptations so they should be under him for ever tormenting them Answ First Satan is said to be the destroyer in respect unto sin which is the destruction of the creature and lays the foundation of a mans eternal destruction as he is called a murderer John 8. so he is called a destroyer because by him man was deceived and seduced and this is not spoken in refference to his inflicting of Death but in respect of drawing a man unto sin and so he is said to be the destroyer and in respect of many temporal punishments that the Lord by him doth bring in the destruction of persons and kingdomes and he is therefore called the destroyer because it his whole work to destroy and he intends nothing else in all that he doth but destruction and Satan is said to have the power of death it is not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which notes authority as well as power but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is strength and power only to do it so he doth inflict death upon men when God imploys him for Satan is used in such dishonourable services as to have the power of death as the executioner hath that puts men to death and torments them that the Judge doth give into his hand Secondly When a wicked man is put to death the devils attend and they take his soul and hurry it to the place of torment as the Angels do the souls of the Saints Luke 16. and therefore it is said thou Fool this night shall they require thy soul Luk. 12.20 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Devil is present and demands the soul and takes it and caries it into the place of torment that it is adjudged too even to its own place where Judas went so that the Devil inflicts upon men and carries them to Hell Thirdly At the last and general judgment Satan shall accuse them being condemned together with him he shall take them to Hell with him for this wrath is prepared for the Devil and his Angels But this kingdome of ●atan shall last no longer then the kingdome of the Angels and all rule and all authority shall be put down when Christ shall have given up the kingdome unto the Father and the Angels shall rule over the elect no more so the Devil shall rule over the reprobate no more but now God shall be all in all In Heaven he shall be all in all in mercy and in Hell he shall be all in all in wrath and there shall be no more any dominion of one Creature over another God will no more use one Creature to reward another or to punish another but himself shall be all in all Object But in Heaven there be many created comforts therefore in Hell there are many created miseries and therefore the wrath of God is not the only Executioner there as you affirm Answ It 's true there are many miseries there from the Creatures the place is a Dungeon of darkness it is the bottomless pit abissus the deep as there is a great deal of sweetness in the place in Heaven and Glory so there is much misery here from the place for there are Chambers of death Secondly From the Company the friends of a Soul and the enemies and all restraining grace and the Law of nature shall cease and sin shall be acted to the life as part of a mans punishment and they shall be set one against another for ever Dives had torment by the coming of his brethren the man shall be tormented by the coming of his wife and his children and his Companions here on earth c. Thirdly From the upbraidings of Satan for his malice shall never cease and therefore he will in this respect be shewing a man his folly and endeavour to torment him more and more Isa 21.14 and will deride him and there is nothing more bitter to a man then to be scorned in misery and derided and this men may look for in Hell at the hand of Satan he will mock at them for ever and never shew thee the least pity for thou art bound up amongst the Tares in the same bundle with the Devil and all his crew thus indeed there are some created miseries in Hell but yet it is the wrath of God that is the great torment that as in all created blessings here it is his love that is the root and the Fountain of them and they are all nothing unless that go before they all stand but for a Cypher so unless his wrath go before all these torments would be but Cyphers and the Soul would live there is no Creature that can kill the Soul they may indeed kill the body and a small Creature can do so if it be armed by