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A57245	A discourse of the torments of hell The foundation and pillars thereof discovered, searched, shaken and removed. With many infallible proofs, that there is not to be a punishment after this life for any to endure that shall never end. By S. Richardson.	Richardson, Samuel, fl. 1643-1658.	1660 (1660)	Wing R1405; ESTC R217994	49,345	207

a doctrine the story of Dives is no more a proof of a punishment after this life than Judg. 9. 8. is a proof that trees did walk and speak though it is said the trees went forth said c. The story of Dives is not to be understood according to the letter for these Reasons It saith there was a rich man in hell yet all confesse the body is in the grave 2. How could Dives see so far as Abrahams bosome is from hell Mr. Leigh saith the great Chaos between Abraham and Dives signifie an infinite distance which overthroweth their seeing and speaking to each other 3. It saith he saw Abraham yet they say hell is a place of utter darknesse how can any thing be seen in a place of utter darknesse 4. By what meanes can Dives know Abraham from another seeing as all confesse his body is in the grave untill the Resurrection Fifthly How could Dives speak to Abraham his body being in the grave can any speak without the organ of the body Sixthly How shall Dives hear Abraham at so great a gulf and distance as heaven is from hell Seventhly How comes Dives to have such charity in hell to his Five Brethren seeing he had none to them when on earth Eighthly Dives would have Abraham to send to them which cannot be because Abraham knoweth us not Isa. Ninthly How shall Abraham send seeing he hath no communion with us nor passage to us Tenthly To what purpose will it be to send if they will not hear Moses the Prophets neither wil they be perswaded if one rise from the dead ver. 31. it is therefore a parable the scope of it is as Doctor Fulk saith that those that will not heare Moses and the Prophets are not to expect to be called neither by vision nor aparition ver. 26. 30. this parable is not done but represented saith M. Ca●twright on Luke 16. 30. the story of Dives in Hel is one of their main pillars of hell-torments and by that which is said it is shaken and removed Of Tophet Esa. 30. 33. This place is no proof of hell torments themselves being judges they say hel is deep under ground and Tophet is a place above ground as hath been shewed Behold the days come saith the Lord that this place shall no more be called Tophet nor the valley of the son of Hinnom but the valley of slaughter for in this place will I cause to fall by the sword before their enemies by the hand of those that seek their Lives and their Carca●es will I give for meat for the fowles of the Heaven and they shall bury in Tophet till there be no place to bury in Jer. 9. 6. to 35. Jer. 7. 33. they confesse Tophet is the valley of the Son of Hinnom Tophet hebrew toph timpanum that is to say gehinnom greek gehinna signifieth a tabret or drum-head or any thing that maketh a noise ver. 32. Tophet is ordained of old hebrew yesterday prepared fitted for the King and those with him whom the Lord will there slay for their sins by their enemies it is deep and large fit for great Armies to meet and fight in Fire and much wood to consume the carcases slain there the breath of the Lord like a stream of brimstone doth kindle it not a stream of fire and brimstone but like it the destruction being from God was great and terrible or Fire and brimstone shall be sent from heaven to destroy them there as Eze. 38. 11. Dan. 7. 10. Genes 19. 24. Tophet is another of their chief proofs of the torments of hell and with that which is said it is shaken and removed Of Isa. 66. 24. They shall go forth and look upon the men that have transgrest against me for their worme shall not die neither shall their fire be quenched and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh This place is not to be understood of any punishment after this life because it saith their carcases shall lie to be seen and others shall look upon them in hell they will confess the carcases of the wicked are not now nor hereafter shall be for a carcase is without life therefore not capable of suffering if they ●ay at the end of the world soul and body sh●ll be united to suffer how is it then a carcase after the end of the world how shall they be an abhorring to all flesh for then there will be no flesh to go forth to look upon them the late annotation of the Bible on Isa. 66. 24. say the carcase are the forces of Gog and Magog which shall be slain neer Jerusalem Eze. 29. 4. to 10. and 37. 36. containeth is apparent for after the slaughter is made of them they shall lie along time unburied and seven moneths shall the children of Israel be a burying them that they may clense the Land Eze. 39. 11. 12. Also the judgment inflicted upon them shew it to be in this life as Pestilence overflosting Rain great haylstones fire and brimstone Eze. 38. 11. and the end why God punished them shew it to be in this life which was that God might be magnified and sanctified in the eyes of many nations after the end of the world he cannot be sanctified in the eyes of any much lesse many nations the worme hath reference to those that are bred and fed upon dead bodies as Act. 11. 29. especially such as lie long upon the ground untill they rot and become as dung and carrion Job 21. 26. Jer. 4. 11. 14. 20. the fire to the burning those bodies not fit to be stirred and removed but to be consumed by fire in the place where they lay Isa. 9. 5. Eze. 39. 6. That lie ro●ing upon the face of the earth untill they crawle all over with wormes and magets the sight of such is a lothsom spectacle therefore it is said they shall be abho●ring to all flesh the Greek renders it a sight or spectacle it hath relation to Tophet above said and the Hebrew Doctors say the same on this place they shall goe forth out of Ierusalem into the valley of Hinnom and there they shall see the carcases of those that rebelled against me So D. Kimchi and Ab. ezr. in loc. The Worme that shall not dye and the fire that shall not be quenched is in this life and not as they say in hell Mark 6. 43. 44. Rev. 14. 10. 11. Eze. 3. c. Eze. 38. 24. concerne the destruction of Gog and Magog as hath been shewed Concerning Luke 5. 2. they shall not come out thence till they have paid the utmost farthing This place Mr. Leigh doth alledge to prove hel torments and the Papists alledge it to prove their Purgatory and to as much purpose for vers. 25. 26. is Christs councel to avoid differences and to compose them that fall out between mā and man in this life to prevent sutes in Law and imprisonment so the text sh●ws and Chrisostom

endlesse woe in Brimstone and Fire which thou mightest so often and easily escape which overthrows the Doctrine of Election also they say the sense of losse in hell is greater then the sence of pain So they make the sensible want of the presence of God the greatest torment in hell and that is in this life I am cast out of thy sight Psal. 31. 2. it followeth by their doctrine that the greatest torment of hell is in this life Mr. Leigh saith in his Body of Divinity the sense of Gods wrath rage of Conscience guilt fear dispair the soul cannot melt with greater torment if so then this is not a worse torment in hell then is in this life Water is so scarce in hell that Greenwood saith the damned prize a drop of water above ten Thousand worlds and yet they affirm those in hell shall continually weeg c. therefore their own sayings agree not The first Author of the opinion of the torments of hell never to end was Marcion the Heretick that held that Christ was not a man but in semblance and that there was two beginnings two Gods one good one bad that there was torments for some in hell was first invented by him he determined the reward of the creature either in torment or refreshment to be laid up for them in hell he was the first author thereof by Tertullians confession as ●aith Dr. Fulk in his Defence pag. 83 84. see and behold the Originall of your opinion of the ●orments of hell an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil Luke 6. 45. The seven pillars of Hell shaken and removed The Greek Fathers were the first pillars of Hell-torments this came to pass by reason of the ignorance of the Fathers in the Hebrew tongue their not understanding the word Sheol deceived them so saith Dr. Fulk in his Defence P. 77. The second pillar of Hell-torments were the writers of the Hebrew and Greek Copies of the Bible their defect hath put us to a great losse the original copy the Apostles wrote is not onely unknown to us but to the learned we do not heare of any alive in England that can produce the New Testament the Apostles wrote it s not enough that they say that we have books in Hebrew and Greek unlesse wee could certainly know that these copies as they call them agree word for word with those that were wrote by the Prophers and Apostles many boast of Gods preserving the Hebrew and Greek Bible amidst so many enemies as God hath beene pleased to deliver up Christ and his people so also the Scriptures into the hands of sinners to be used at their pleasure it is wonderfull to consider what adding and altering the Scriptures have been subject unto one Pope publisheth what he please for scriptures as Pope Urban the 5. and within 2 yeares after Pope Clement that succeeded him calls them in and burneth them and puts out what he pleaseth and calls it the holy scriptures if ye will believe the Testimony of the learned and godly Protestant Writers who have not been esteemed Blasphemers nor Hereticks as Dr. Fulk M Beza M. William ●erkins Dr. Amis and others Dr. Fulk saith that some Greek copies are altered it is not unlike in his answer to the Remist to the Reader pag. 43. And which is more he saith corruption hath happened to all copies this day extant in his answer to preface page 11. 15. 16. whole verses omitted in some copies as 1 Joh. 5. 7. is not in some copies nor in the Syriack which is ancient as Apostles read not this verse at all but is extant in others and that there is at least sixteen various Greek copies of the New Testament Jus Divinum pag. 66. Dr. Lightfoot saith Mr. Beza was a man that alwayes questioned the Text to see so many differing Copies would put any one to a stand which to believe Master Perkins saith it must not seem strange that words in the Margin have crept into the Text Doctour Amis saith Helps governments in the first of the Corinths 12. 8. are not in the Original he supposeth it to be done by the Prelates in favour of their Government the Preachers who call themselves Divines have assumed and challenged Divine Authority to frame all Copies and Translations and to expound all Texts according to their own mindes to maintaine their own Doctrine and Practises to uphold their Power and standing hence it is that each differing parties Translation agree not that party that would have the Magistrate punish Idolatry c. h●ve made a Text for it Job 31. 28. to be punished by the Judges but these words are not in the Hebrew but are an addition of their own as appears by the Bible printed in LONDON by the Assignes of John Bill in the yeare 1640. and the Geneva Bible differs from this and from the translation printed by the Stationers LONDON the English Translation hath variety of differences not without evident contr●dicton among divers places that might be instanced see verse 9. 18. of the seventh of Daniel in the Geneva Translation verse 9. is I beheld till the thrones were set up and in the Kings Translation printed by the Company of Stationers LONDON the same verse is I beheld till the thrones were cast downe and ver. 18. it is But Saints of the most High shall take the Kingdome and in the Geneva Translation the same verse is And they shall take the Kingdome of the Saints both cannot be true which of these is an English man to believe some say Luther added the word onely to the text being asked why he did it said he did it to make the Apostle say more plainly Faith onely justifieth Dr. Fulk defence English Translation page 80. saith we follow in our Translation as neer as we can the holy Scripture in such sense if any thing be doubtfull as the proper circumstance of the place will lead us unto that we may attain to the meaning of the holy Ghost so then it seemes if the Translator do think the holy Ghost meaneth this or that he may translate it so is not this a large liberty the Jews take no such liberty The Ministers of Lincolne Diocess in the abridgement of their grievances delivered to King James pag. 11 13 14. say that the English Translation of the Bible is a Translation that takes away from the Text and ads to the Text and that sometimes to the changeing and obscuring of the holy Ghost and Mr. Broughton the great Linguist in his Adverisement of Corruption tells the Bishops that the publick Translation of the Scriptures in the English is such as that it perverts the Text of the Old Testament in eight hundred fourty and eight places and that it causeth millions to reject the Old Testament and Dr. Fea●ly D. of divinity in his Dipper dipt pag. 1. saith no translation is simply authenticall or the undoubted word of God in