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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93110	Of the foure last and greatest things: death, iudgement, heaven and hell. The description of the happinesse of heaven, and misery of hell, by way of antithesis. With the way or means to passe through death, and judgement, into heaven, and to avoid hell. / By VVilliam Shepheard, Esquire.	Sheppard, William, d. 1675?	1649 (1649)	Wing S3196; Thomason E551_7; ESTC R205687	96,747	120

OF THE FOURE LAST AND GREATEST THINGS Death Iudgement Heaven and Hell The Description of the Happinesse of Heaven and misery of Hell by way of Antithesis WITH The way or means to passe through Death and Judgement into Heaven and to avoid Hell By VVILLIAM SHEPHEARD Esquire Revel 21. 7 8. Hee that overcometh shall inherite all things And I will be his God And he shall be my Sonne But the fearfull and unbelieving and abhominable Murderers Whoremongers Sorcerers Idolaters and all Lyars shall have their part in the Lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death LONDON Printed by G. Dawson for Thomas Brewster and are to be sold at his Shop a little within Creed-lane neare the West end of Pauls at the signe of the three Bibles 1649. To the Right Honourable the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons House of PARLIAMENT Worthy Gentlemen WHen the World was shaken by Adams sin God secured it by the promise of his Son When Canaan was distressed by the Gen. 3. 15. Judg. 6. Midianites he sent his servant Gideon a Saviour to it Now England is distracted and her foundations out of course he hath raised you up the unwearied Worthies of our Nation to repair the breaches and settle the foundations thereof A work albeit very honourable yet as your selves have very well experimented very hardly accomplished For wha● from the rage of professed adversaries the inconstancy ingratitude ignorance and wilfulnes of seeming friends blinded with their own unruly passions whereby they have foolishly mistaken the men and their meaning Your selves have been somtimes by the mutinous distempers of the common multitude brought into great perill of destruction those whom you have saved who for your safety ought to have sacrificed themselves being willing to have you destroyed and sac●●ficed But unsearchable providence hitherto your Sanctuary amidst these perils hath wheeled and driven on though in somwhat a dubious method your great Counsels through your adversaries attempts And it s often appearing for you and your Armies as from under a Cloud doth assure my self the many thousands that love and honour you that a work carryed on with so many hands and hea●ts so much prayer life and spirit so much faith and patience cannot by the rage of man which in all times hitherto hath praised Psal 76. 10. God be disappointed of its end And now Right honourable sith this providence hath given you in appearance some hope of a little breathing time I crave leave humbly to present you with this smal Treatise of the ●o●re last things Death Iudgement Hell and Heaven wherein are plainly but profitably handled things of highest concernment and therefore well becomming men of choisest imployments I know your wisdoms and piety need not be minded in whose presence you stand whose part in the managing of the weighty affairs of the Math. 12 16. Kingdom you act to what strength you are engaged for all your glorious and never to be forgotten deliverances Rom. 2. 6 and to whom ere long for the work you have done words you have spoken and ends you have had therein you must give an account You n●●d not be minded that for every word you speak an account must be given by you who by speaking one word may make or mar a Kingdom● Wee need not tell you that it is a double crime which is committed under the sacred name of authority and greatnes that the sins of great ones in the pollitique are as dangerous as pestilent Feavers to the natural body Ps 82. 8. Shall we minde you Gods amongst men that you shall ●h●r●v die like men and that impartiall Death knoweth no faces that Heaven is the reward of the righteous Tophet is prepared of old for Kings That you and we must all appear before ●he highest bar where all your judgments shall be rejudged your secrets discovered and your selves rendered responsable not onely for all the good you have not done but for the evill you have not hindred have we need to comfort you under your matchlesse labours and to tell you of Beds and rest at hand you know how to Esa 57. 2 arm your selves against Reproaches Censures and Slanders with the meditation of the day of Revelation when the Lord shall bring to light the hidden things of darknes Rom. 2. 5 1 Cor. 4. 5. Math. 10 ●●●●6 and then shall every man that deserves it have praise of God And that there is nothing ●●d● but shall bee then made know● These generall truths and such like as these largely discu●●ed in this Treati●e albeit you do very well know already and are established in them● yet since the best of men to so easily forget them and are at some time or other to seek in them shall I beg leave in these few lines to become your remembrancer thereof The Lord hath many times Right Honourable remembred you in your low estate his people from all places are mindfull of you you have the blessing of many thousand prayers upon you you are engaged in as acceptable a service to God and good men as ever any Assembly was as great expectation there is from you as ever was from any Parliament of England and as likely you are to have opportunity to render your names renowned to succeeding generations as ever any Parliament of ours had There are still those amongst us that would again cast us into the Fire and Water Marke 9. 22. And we say to you our Masters help us save or else we perish If you can do any thing have compassion on this almost expired Kingdome the Lord grant you may keep back nothing from us that may do us good and that your own wayes ends wils and interests may be s●●allowed up in that work you are called unto and that therein your motion may be like that of the Heavens intrinsical and from within swift with the primum mobile but slow with your own And if herein you may have any furtherance by these plain meditations it can be no dishonour to you but will be much honour and comfort to me who begging pardon for my boldnes and plainnes Pray that the God of Heaven will give you all such a spirit as is fearlesse of danger faithfull to your trust and succesfull in your great work Which will be the daily Prayer of Your most humble Servant WILLIAM SHEPHEARD To the Reader Christian Reader THou hast here presented to thy view a plain but profitable Treatise of the foure last things Death Judgement Hell and Heaven And these if they having respect to Saints or S●nners wereever needfull and usefull then in this evil and pe●ilous time wherein albeit the foundations of the world seem to shake and Heaven Luke ●● ●●● 26. and Earth to bee passing away and al●eit there bee trouble ●mongst the Nations with perplexity the Sea and Waters roar insomuch as mens yea godly mens hearts faile for fear and

tha● follow There are also two parts of Hell as there are of Heaven 2 Thess 1. 9. 1. The pain of losse or an exemption from all good 2. The pain of sense or the enduring of all evill Matth. 8. 29. The damned in Hell are deprived of all good and means and hope of good Their Consciences shall have no more peace they can do nothing else but sin their bodies shall have no more ease nor rest but torments day and night 〈◊〉 14. 10. They shall hunger and have nothing to eat thirst and have nothing to drink be cold and have nothing to heat them hot and have nothing to cool them weary and cannot rest sick and dying and yet cannot be well nor yet dye And no marvell that they are deprived of all other good for they shall be deprived and for ever separated from that summ●on bonum the chiefest good and well spring of all good they shall be for ever driven out of and excluded from the blessed sweet and comfortable presence of the most glorious God blessed for ever the Lord Iesus Christ the blessed Spirit and all the blessed ones and those that were their dearest friends who shall then justly abandon them with all loathing and scorn and forgetting all neernes and bonds of nature shall rejoyce in the justice of God in their everlasting condemnation So that no eye of God or man shall then pity them no prayers promises or means be then heard or prevail in their behalf or any one in heaven or earth be heard to speak for them The serious thinking of this losse will then more afflict the understanding Soul then all the extream sufferings of Sense to be shut out everlastingly and unrecoverabl●ly and to be for ever banished of the blessed sight of God which had they ever had but a a taste of they would know to be an incomparable l●sse and greater then the l●osse of ten thousand worlds this renting of the Soule from God and the horrible sense of Gods forsaking and casting it of is incomparably more grievous then the renting of Soul and Body asunder And then withall they shall think of their shamefull negligence and wilfull folly in the neglect and refusall of the means of salvation how near they were to it how easily they might have had it how much they are deceived how these men are exalted that they thought fools and they proved fooles that thought themselves wise And in those and such like thoughts what then will be the gnawings of the never dying Worm what rage of their guilty Consciences what furious despair what horrour of minde what distractions and fears what bitter looking back upon their mispent time in this world what cursing of the day of their birth their Brethren in iniquity and even blaspheaming of God himself what tearing of the haire gnashing the teeth wayling and wringing the hands no tongue can tell no heart can think The second part of Hel is the pain of Sense or enduring of evill which though it doth comprehend many particulars yet perhaps also may be all intended and comprehended in the terms of Shame and Conte●pt in Dan. 12. 2 and th●● implyed in Esay 57. 31. in opposition to that Glory Honour and Peace by which the felicity of Heaven is set forth The unhappines of the wicked in Hell we must needs conceive to be in the contrary 1 that there shall be an uglines and lothsomnes in them and in their bodies and souls both for they shall have nothing in or upon them nor shall they come near to any thing that may make them glori●u● they are separated from God and all good●●●s as farr as Hel from Heaven they shall then be perfectly wicked and therefore perfectly fil●hy and unclean Rev. 10. 11. their fellowships is with unclean spirits Matt. 12. 43. and they 〈◊〉 like unto them Those therefore that are to be cast into the Lake of fire and brimstone amongst the rest are said to be abominable Rev. 21. 8. And in Esay 66. ●4 They shall be an abhorring to all flesh Their bodies shall be immortall also but this shall be their death that they cannot die they shall be ever dying but never dye It is called therefore an everlasting destruction so that they shall be an everlasting abhorring they shall be alwayes corrupting but not corrupted alwayes decaying but not decayed Their bodies shall be powerfull also but alas for this power there shall be an addition of suffering-strength for God will make them able to endure what else were intollerable and he will give them strength to bear that burthen which otherwise were insupportable for they shall be able to live so as alwayes a dying but so shall dye as that they shall alwayes live they who torment shall never be weary they who are tormented shall never be killed They may have also more power to sin for they shall be given up thereunto without restraint there shall be no grace nor means of grace thre the naturall ability or capacity of receiving or doing good shall be lost And if the light in them be darknes how great is the darknes Their vile bodies shall be yet more vile and as vile as sin and misery together can make them And because the body hath sinned therefore is the body to be vexed with corporall pains The damned body shall be more spirituall also but wo worth this spiritualnes for it shall be now immortall like the soul but happy were it for it if it could die Their bodyes also will be then much more deformed and ug●y if sin or misery the fellowship of Devils in a smoackie filthy Dungeon can make a man filthy and ignominious the persons of the damned must needs be so Gods Spirit hath forsaken them and Satan hath filled their heart 2. The understanding and memory of the damned soul shall also then without doubt be much greater and shall be so far forth enlarged and confirmed as it may thereby be made more capable of miserie for as grace shall be perfect in heaven so shall per●●bation in hell the mindes of those damned wretches shall be tormented with anger fury madnesse sorrow fear outcries and the like 1. With the sense of their sin which now they shall see in order before them Psal ●0 21. in quantity and in qualitie as it is in Gods eye and his words censure all which they shall now see and remember at once exactly 2. In the sense of the happinesse they have lost by the losse of Gods favour and presence the society of good Angels and men of the happinesse of which then they shall be doubtlesse far enlightened to see the extent for there shall be nothing wanting to make them perfectly miserable But they shall neither see nor remember any thing at all that may conduce to their ease or release the● of their mise●ie here they shall envy the happinesse of the Saints despair of help and mercie and be utterly destitute of all