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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08812	Meditations of death wherein a Christian is taught how to remember and prepare for his latter end: by the late able & faithfull minister of the Gospel, Iohn Paget.	Paget, John, d. 1640.; Paget, Robert.	1639 (1639)	STC 19099; ESTC S113906	110,470	273

of their consciences and to hang them as in a map before their eyes upon the wall of their memory for an everlasting confusion and torment unto them The name of God that is fearfull Deut. 28.58 shall in the end be fearfull to them that have taken it in vaine by swearing blaspheming or light usage of it Though in their desperate torment before all by their evill words actions the fruits of their envy And if the sight of so small good either outward or inward as is to be seene in this life doe yet stirre up such a painefull envy what then shall be the paine of that envy in the wicked when they shall behold the eternall glory good things enjoyed by others in heaven Looke how much the heavenly prosperity exceeds the earthly so much shall the paine of the hellish envy exceed al that ever hath bene on earth When the godly are exalted their enimies shall see it Rev. 11.12 the world shall know how God loves them Ioh. 17.23 the wicked shall see greeve gnash with their teeth pine away Psal 112.10 they shall be mad for the sight of their eyes Deut. 28.34 yea their eyes shall consume in their holes their tongue in their mouth Zac. 14.12 thē shall be weeping gnashing of teeth when they see others in the kingdome of God themselves thrust out Luk. 13.28 There is a bitter end threatned unto them that follow harlots Prov. 5.3.4.5 their dolefull song at last shall be Hovv have I hated instruction my heart despised reproofe c. vers 12. c. and the like wofull ditty is for them that follow wine or strong drink whereby they are inflamed unto more sin Esa 5.11.22 their unlawfull pleasure in the midst of their ungodly company shall at last bite like a serpent sting like a cockatrice Prov. 23.32 Then shall be woe to the mighty oppressours that oppresse a man and his heritage whereby they spoile themselves of their inheritance with God they joyne house to house on earth till they leave no place for the poore on earth nor any place for themselves in heaven Mic. 2.1.2 Esa 5.8 and the like woe is due to the unmercifull rich men who as they would not give a crumme so they shall not obtaine one drop of water from the tip of any finger to refresh them being tormented in the flame Luk. 16.24.25 The false witnesse shall not then goe unpunished Prov. 19.5.9 the railers and slanderers shall then be excluded out of the kingdome of God 1. Cor. 6.10 the lips of the flatterers backbiters shal be cut off Psa 12.3 their owne words shal be a snare for their soule Prov. 18.7 they shall then reape that which they have sowne they have CHAP. VIII Of the visible signes memorials of Hell whereby God calleth men to remember the end of the ungodly The vaine curiosity of thē that desire to be informed of Hell-torments otherwise then by the word and works of God which compared together afford us sundry Memorials of Hell a In each of the foure Elements Fire Aire Water Earth b In the country of Eden c In the land of Canaan both in the foure borders of it d within the land on both sides of the river Iordan e In the Iewes themselves in the state of their rejection f In the country of Italy g In the Torrid or hote Zone of the world the condition actions of the inhabitants h In the frozen Zones the extremity of cold other occurrences in those parts i In the temperate Zones in the publick state of Antichristian Romish religion with the appurtenances thereof k In private houses haunted with evill spirits inhabited by witches disordered innes tavernes l In particular persons possessed excommunicate terrifyed in conscience m In particular sinnes in thoughts words actions IT may be some will say or thinke in themselves we heare many fearfull things touching Hell-torments if we might see the same take a view thereof it would doe us more good To such I answer they know not what they desire When the bottomlesse pit was once at a certaine time in especiall manner opened very wide there arose such a smoak out of the pit as had almost choaked the whole world the Sunne the aire were darkened therewith poysonous locusts came out of that smoak and tormented men that they were weary of their lives and sought death that fled from them Rev. 9.1.2.3 c. It were not safe for curious men to looke with their carnall eyes into that bottomlesse pit nor to wish that hell destruction were naked open unto them for their warning neither should it be for their edification so much as the due remembrance and spirituall meditation thereof by help of the Scriptures They that will not beleeve Moses the Prophets would not be perswaded though one rose from the dead Luk. 16.30.31 If Abraham or Noah the ancient preachers of righteousnes should come againe into this world clothed with angelicall glory with a heavenly voyce should call men to repentance or if Angels should come and preach the kingdome of God yet could we not world doe every one of them containe a vast gulfe of destruction within them insomuch that each of them hath seemed unto some to lay clayme unto Hell as having that prison within their bounds The Fire by which Hell is so often described is of a consuming devouring nature this operation of it is often compared to eating the fewell put unto it is the meat thereof Esa 9.19 the more it hath the more hungrily it eateth by burning more fiercely it hath an insatiable belly never saith It is enough Prov. 30.15.16 And so it is like unto Hell which enlargeth herselfe openeth her mouth wide without measure to devoure the wicked Esa 5.14 Whether we conceive it as the highest greatest element encompassing the aire on every side as in the proper place that is commonly assigned unto it or whether we looke upon it in the dayly effects thereof on the earth in those few sparkles coales thereof scattered among us here below for our use it carries in it both wayes a resemblance of Hell to make us remember the end of the wicked in the sight of it The Aire is noted as the seat or station of wicked spirits where they soare over our heads as the ravenous foules over the chickens still ready to seaze upon us Therefore is the Devill called the prince of the power of the aire Eph. 2.2 his angels are spirituall wickednesses in high places Eph. 6.12 Satan is sayd to fall downe like lightning from heaven when his works are loosed Luk. 10.18 So often as we looke out into the aire so oft doe we passe by the gates of Hell by the Castles Towers of the enimy from whence he shootes his fiery darts from whence he watcheth his advantage to oppugne us to

of the earth on every side to tremble at this judgment to awake out of the snares of the devill to seeke a redeemer by whom the workes of the devill may be loosed they delivered from the tyranny of these wicked spirits in the everlasting Hell If in this life there be such torments for sinners then what is that woefull distresse anguish which in the world to come waites for them In this Torrid Zone though their miseries be great yet have they many comforts for the body they have sweet springs of water to refresh them goodly rivers to bath in great pleasant trees for shade fruitfull trees that yeeld both meat drinke they have spices sugar-canes the cordiall joyce of limons to quench their thirst the coolest fruits in the hottest countries and for their soules their case is not desperate while there is a time of repentance afforded yea seas they have huge mountaines of yce which dashing together make a fearfull noyse like the roaring of an hell to the astonishment of strangers that heare the same As the black Zone aboundeth with serpents so these snow-white regions doe abound with horrible fierce white beares that roare about the country for their prey and for a shield against the cold the inhabitants covering their skins with the beare-skinnes muffled with other furres doe appeare as if they were all Beares The Sunne every yeare hideth it selfe from them for divers moneths together then have they no day but continuall night their land is like that which Iob speakes of a land of darknes of the shadow of death a land of darknes as darknes it selfe Iob 10 21.2● But that which darkens it most of all makes it to be a more lively image of Hell is the great rudenes ignorance of God that is among them in speciall their familiarity with the Devils abundance of witches wizards that by generall testimony are sayd to be among them Oh that those which are frozen in the dregges of their sin Zeph. 1.12 could duely consider the unsearchable judgments of God in this frozen Zone Extremity of cold doth sometimes rotte off the flesh outer parts of the body extinguish the sparkle of naturall life as well as fire As in Island the mount Hecla Helga are at the same time oft covered with frost snow on the outside yet burne within casting out cynders flames of fire many miles from the place or as in the same Ague God sometimes afflicteth men both with a cold fit that crusheth the bones maketh the teeth to gnash that first makes the body to quake shiver then kindles a burning heat therein that first makes the lips the fingers ends to be blew with cold afterwards red with an hote inflammation so God can as well torment sinners with an intollerable cold with a freezing Hell as with a hote frying Hell It is no more wonder to see men live a painefull life being frozen in the midst of an yce then to see men live ever in the midst of a flaming fire If Hell be described by the gnashing of teeth Matt. 13.42.50 then this frozen climate where there is such continuall cause of the teeth hacking in the head for cold may well serve for remembrāce of the latter end of reprobates Devils the cup of Devils 1. Cor. 10.21 seeing every habitation of the Devill is a kinde of Hell it follows that their Churches Temples are mere Helles houses of Devils As it is with the places of their worship so is it with the places of their jurisdiction governement the spirituall courts of their Popes Cardinals Bishops Deanes Chancellours Commissaries Officials with their Doctours Proctours being so many swarmes of locusts that oppresse persecute vexe sting men to make them weary of their lives Rev. 9.3.5.6 And when the power of the seduced civill Magistrate is assumed unto them like Pilate joyned with Cajaphas then their authority becomes as the Throne of Satan Rev. 2.13 who by these instruments casteth mē into prison killeth them vers 10. Hereby the Harlot becomes druncken with the blood of the Saints with the blood of the Martyrs of Iesus Rev. 17.6 thus their glorious Cathedrall Churches and holy places Courts Consistories are made Hellish Slaughter-houses of Satan Babylon becomes the habitation of Devils the hold of every foule spirit a cage of every uncleane hatefull bird Rev. 18.2 so are to be esteemed of all that passe by looke upon them Thus also are all the assemblies meeting-houses of Mahometists Arrians Anabaptists other Heretickes to be accounted of in respect of their pernicious errours that by the verdict of Christ himselfe who pronounceth such to be the Synagogue of Satan Rev. 2.9 Hence may we conceive how many thousand intemperate Helles are to be found in this our Temperate Zone k After these more publick Helles if we search into private houses we may there finde many habitations of Devils Some houses as experience shewes and rhe Lord hath threatned are haunted with evill spirits that affright those that dwell therein Ohim Zijm doe lodge there the Satyres or devils doe dance there Esa 13.21.22 with Lev. 17.7 orig Hereby God calles men to thinke of the future Hell of the terrours that shall come upon the wicked in their end Another worse Hell then this is to be observed in the houses of witches wisards which have familiar spirits doe willingly entertayne them call for them make a covenant with them Levit. 20.27 1. Sam. 28.7 c. for whereas the other were haunted with them against their will to their great greef these voluntarily eagerly seeke them keepe them so their houses become like the Oracles of the Devill that men sought unto in old time 2. Kin. 1.2.4 Such houses were and are wheresoever they be like so many porches portalles of Hell or mouthes of the infernall pit which how abominable soever they be yet doe they serve for a conviction of atheists desperate wretches which either thinke or live as if they did thinke there were no Devill no Hell With these devilish houses are to be joyned the disordered Innes Tavernes that are the nurseries of all impietie wickednes the very staires trappes by which men descend into Hell For though there be a lawfull use of Innes for the commodity of strangers passengers for the necessity of some others yet the disordered Harbours inordinate ordinaries which are the ordinary Rendevouz of drunkards of blasphemers swearers receptacles of skorners mockers of gamesters of riotours of wantons of idle persons unthrifts of theevish robbers of their owne families the like of these is verifyed the common saying that Ale-houses are Hell-houses There haunt the clamorous Ohim Zijm there doe the lascivious Satyres daunce together thither