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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

keep it out He that sees heaven lost Paradise vanished the Earth accursed Hell enriched the World corrupted all Man-kind defaced will have small cause to laugh Man fell by affectation of joy he must rise again by the affection of sorrow That part of the world that shall be cast into the bottomless lake spend the days in laughter that part which shall rejoyce for ever must be first drowned in tears For my own part I am none of those that desire to go merrily to hell I had rather have Gods Vinegar then Anonymus his Oyl Gods Wormwood then his Manna Gods Justice then his mercy Sorrow and mourning here then misery and torment for ever hereafter For a conscience troubled in it self is Odor quietis as Noahs sacrifice was a favour of rest with God I but saith he this opinion for he will not allow it any other term provoketh to despair I confess to despair of the mercy of God is a sinne of a very high nature but for ought I see not so frequent as is by some imagined I have read of whole sects whole bodies of Hereticks that denyed the communion of Gods grace to others The Cathari denyed that any man had it but themselves The Novatians denyed that any man could have it again having once lost it by some deadly sin committed after Baptism But I never read of any sect that denyed it to themselves no sect of despairing men We have some somewhere sprinkled one in the old Testament Cain and one in the New Testament Judas and one in the Ecclesiastical story Julian but no body no sect of despairing men Therefore he that abandons himself to this sin of desperation sins with the least reason of any for he prepares his sin above Gods mercy and he sinnes with the fewest examples of any for God hath diffused this light with an evidence to all that all sins excepting that sin which is not without a great deal of difficulty and some incertainty defined the sin against the Holy Ghost may be forgiven unto men yea unto all men without exception But we must take heed least in magnifying the mercy of God we decry his justice while we seek to keep some few poor souls from dashing themselves to pieces on the rock of despair we give not occasion to thousands to engulf themselves on the quick sands of presumption And so we cast out one Devil with another and the latter prove the greater Presumption is a sin to which we are naturally prone and therefore the more dangerous Soon is a man invited to make much of himself to approve and applaude his own endeavours to look big upon his own performances hardly won to his own affliction or brought about to his own disestimation Despair is a thing grievous to trembling nature Not often doth that Archer of Hell head his Arrows with such displeasing assaults Besides this hath often turned invito diabolo to a hearty contrition for sinne and a holy conversion from sinne like a violent Fever that hath boyl'd up all the choller and corruption of sin so that a man becomes the better after it But to presume is so sweet a sin to flesh and blood that it once foiled Innocence it self Satan hath not a more tryed shaft in all his quiver then to perswade men while they are sinning to bear themselves boldly upon the favour of God Therefore as the wise Man eats moderately of the dish which he best likes because he knows there is more danger of surfeit in that then in all the rest So it becometh us to be most shie and heedful of that sinne which we know will soonest take us and take God from us We may say of them both Despair and Presumption as the Israelitish woman did of Saul and David in their harmony after the slaughter of Goliah Saul hath slain his thousands and David his ten thousands so where despair hath hurried away some with a great deal of noise and clamour presumption hath engulfed more many more without any noise at all Together with this sin of despair in his Linsey woolsey discourse he links the performance of holy duties I know the Devil and his instruments are profest Enemies thereunto but after that way which they deny so will we worship the God of our Fathers The Tree is known by the fruits It is not well said but well done thou faithful servant that by the mercies of God in the merits of Jesus will gain acceptance and admittance Hath not God promised to reward every man according to his works Hath not Christ our Saviour confirmed us by the same promise and will this fellow make them lyers Doth not the Apostle enjoyn his Corinthians 1.9.24 So to run that they may obtain Did not Jacob wrestle with Christ the Angel of the Covenant for a blessing and prevail And how did he wrestle but by prayer and supplication As the Prophet excellently expresseth it Hos 12.3 4. What is this but with Diogenes to trample upon Platoes pride with more pride to condemn our presumption as he judges it with greater presumption For by his new Divinity or rather old fustian he presumes to cross even the Lord Jesus Christ himself who wills us Mat. 7.7 to ask that we may have And S. James 4.2 tels us the reason why we have not even because we ask not Methinks they should be ashamed to print and publish to the world that which is so apparently cross and contrary to the word of God thereby seeking to bring men into a cursed condition even to neglect contemn the performance of those duties which we are enjoyned for to do in the name of the Lord Jesus What will he what can he say to that of the Apostle Phil. 2.12 Work out your salvation with fear and trembling And that of the 1 Cor. 15.58 Be stedfast unmoveable alwaies abounding in the work of the Lord knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord 1 Tim. 6.17 18 19. Charge them that are rich in this world c. laying up for themselves a good foundation Rev. 22.12 Behold I come quickly saith Christ and my reward is with me to give to every one according to his works Therefore it is evident notwithstanding his negation that we may escape Hell and do our selves much good though not for yet by our good works Surely after we have prayed for hallowing Gods name the coming of his Kingdom c. We may pray not onely for daily bread but pardon of and power against sinne and not lose our labour We are commanded to hear Isai 55.3 that our souls may live For though God hath promised and Christ hath purchased all good things for believers yet we cannot not so soon at least expect them unless wee seek for them by those means which are appointed See what the Prophet saith to this purpose Ezek. 36.37 God hath an intention of good towards his people Yet saith he I will be enquired of by

it must needs be easless Lastly Our Fire may be quenched but the fire of Hell never goes out Our Fire is maintained with Wood and put out with Water but that as it hath nothing to maintain it so nothing to extinguish it All their weeping cannot mitigate the fierceness of those flames And if there be any tears they shall rather be like oyl to feed it then like water to quench it The sum then is this The Torments of Hell are comprised under fire because that is the most violent and vehement of all the elements whatsoever Water doth only kill Fire doth vex terrifie and torment in killing yea which is worse this fire doth never kill Let fools then solace themselves with a conceit that there is no such place they will one day find it and feel it to their misery Without doubt it is good for us Semper cogitare gehe●nam And as we desire to escape the fire of Hell let us avoid the fire of sin There are certain fiery sins that shall find fiery punishments S. Paul calls lust a burning sin It is better to marry then to burn who then would burn in lust here that fears to burn in Hell hereafter Rage and Malice are burning sinnes therefore anger is called Excandescentia a waxing hot They that nourish this fire within them are nourished for a worse fire without them Blasphemy is a burning sinne let those whose mouthes flame with Oathes and whose Tongues are set on fire of Hell venting nothing but cursed speeches fear these torturing and tormenting flames Drunkenness is a burning sin too much wine is the oyl of Hells own lamp They inflame the reckoning till they enflame their brains enflame their bloods enflame their bodies purchase as much sickness as comes to a burning fever and as much sin as serves to enflame their own Hell All the world is on fire with sin to make work for the fire of Hell And there is but one only way to put it out The water and blood that came out of the most precious side of the Lord Jesus only that water can quench the fire of sin in us here and that blood quench the fire of Hell against us for ever hereafter I might here enlarge my self with the consideration of the dire and dismal effects of these torments which are principally two to wit Weeping and gnashing of Teeth Mat. 8.12 Fletus de ardore stridor dentium de frigore saith Rabanus Weeping caused by the hear and gnashing of Teeth by reason of the cold This declares that there are these two extremitis in Hell intollerable Heat and incomparable Cold Greg. on Mat. 8. Called therefore Avernus absque vera temperatura where the freezing cold shall not mitigate the scorching heat nor the scorching heat qualifie the freezing cold It is observable that while we are here the expence of Tears outwardly mitigates and allayes the sorrow that lies hard and heavy within and gives an ease to the surcharged heart So the Poet est quaedam flere voluptas The burden of indigestible grief as it were venting and emptying it self at the eyes but Hell by eternal tears could never yet qualifie eternal pains Besides if we do admit of weeping here as the Text is plain for it it ariseth from the extream perturbation of the soul and the horrible anguish of the body and may be said to be rather a howling like Dragons then any true shedding of tears Yet seeing one effect of the horrors in Hell is weeping and such weeping as shall never be comforted Let us prevent our weeping there by weeping here where we may be comforted The time of living is the time of repenting if we die without repentance repentance is dead to us for ever Weep then here and the time will come when God will wipe away all these Tears from our eyes For God hath disposed Flentes ad risum ridentes ad fletum weepers to laughing and laughers to weeping Gnashing of Teeth This is another effect of these Tortures and ariseth from the sense of some sorrow mixed with indignation a just and fit punishment that they who once gnashed their Teeth at others should gnash their Teeth at their own Torments they shewed their teeth in derision They shall gnash their teeth in indignation O the dreadful horror and fearful terror of this sad and direful place where there is neither help nor hope No help God will not Saints or Angels cannot nor would the damned themselves help one another if they could for they rather wish all others damned with them then that any should be freed from them No hope Men say in extream passions if it were not for hope the heart would break there is no hope in Hell yet the heart must hold It is a misery to these damned souls that it cannot break ever in a dying condition yet without any hope of expiration Seeing then there is no help no hope of help in that place of torment Let us seek help while we may have it and make much of hope that we may be enriched by it The Apostle tells us Rom. 5.5 That hope maketh not ashamed because it is never disappointed for if it could be illuded it would be ashamed Now if we would hope wel we must do well He that tempts God does not hope in God that hoping thrusts all upon God and will out of a lazie devotion do nothing for himself Many stretch themselves upon their beds as Lepidus in the shade and cry out O utinam hoc esset salvari but you know who said it Take that unprofitable servant and cast him into outer darkness It is in vain for a man to hope to do well hereafter as most men do when he continues doing nothing but that which is evil here The means must be used where hope is nourished Hope is onely for the present it hath nothing in reversion the Saints in heaven have no hope for they are in full possession of joy the damned in Hell have no hope for they are in full possession of torment Onely the living have hope and in the living God is their hope which he encrease here that it may be comfortably consummated hereafter 3. The last question is Ubi sit Where the place of torment is I know that to rest within the bounds and limits of precedents is to over-active and to curiously inquisitive persons a thing very contemptible nothing is accounted wisdom with such but what is exalted above the reach and pitch of those that went before us To rest in positive divinity and Articles confessed by all the Churches to be content to know that there is a Hell wherein tortures and torments are provided for the damned and there is a Heaven too wherein salvation is prepared for the just and raise no estimation no emulation no opinion of singularity by the way onely to edifie and not to amaze onely to bring men to an assent and to a practise and not to an