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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30150	The greatness of the soul and unspeakableness of the loss thereof with the causes of the losing it : first preached at Pinners-Hall, and now enlarged and published for good / by John Bunyan.	Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.	1691 (1691)	Wing B5531; ESTC R26566	95,284	145

prosundity to dive into the mysterious depths of Hell Hell is a place and state utterly unknown to any in this visible World excepting the Souls of Men nor shall any for ever be capable of understanding the Miseries thereof save Souls and fallen Angels Now I think as the Joys of Heaven stand not only in speculation or in beholding of Glory but in a sensible Enjoyment and unspeakable Pleasure which these Glories will yield to the Soul So the Torments of Hell will not stand in the present lashes and stroaks which by the Flames of eternal Fire God will scourge the Ungodly with but the Torments of Hell stand much if not in the greatest part of them in those deep thoughts and apprehensions which Souls in the next World will have of the Nature and Occasions of Sin of God and of separation from him of the Eternity of those Miseries and of the utter Impossibility of their help ease or deliverance for ever O damned Souls will have thoughts that will clash with Glory clash with Justice clash with Law clash with it self clash with Hell and with the everlastingness of Misery but the Point the Edge and the Poison of all these thoughts will still be gauling and dropping and spuing out their stings into the Sore grieved wounded and fretted place which is the Conscience though not the Conscience only For I may say of the Souls in Hell that they all over are but one wound one sore Miseries as well as mercies sharpen and make quick the Apprehensions of the Soul Behold Spira in his Book Cain in his Guilt and Saul with the Witch of Endor and you shall see Men ripened Men inlarged and greatned in their fancies imaginations and apprehensions though not about God and Heaven and Glory yet about their Loss their Misery and their Woe and their Hells 10. Nor doth their ability to bear if it be proper to say they bear those dolors which there for ever they shall endure a little demonstrate their greatness Everlasting burning devouring fire perpetual pains gnawing worms utter darkness and the ireful words face and strokes of divine and infinite Justice will not cannot make this Soul extinct as I said before I think it is not so proper to say the Soul that is damned for Sin doth bear these things as to say it doth ever sink under them and therefore their place of torment is called the bottomless Pit because they are ever sinking and shall never come there where they will find any stay Yet they live under wrath but yet only so as to be sensible of it as to smart and be in perpetual anguish by reason of the intollerableness of their burthen But doth not their thus living abiding and retaining a Being or what you will call it demonstrate the greatness and might of the Soul Alas Heaven and Earth are short of this greatness for these though under less judgment by far do fade and wax old like a Moth-eaten Garment and in their time will vanish away to nothing Also we see how quickly the Body when the Soul is under a fear of the rebukes of Justice How soon I say it wastes molders away and crimbleth into the Grave but the Soul is yet strong and abides sensible to be dealt withal for Sin by everlasting burnings 11. The Soul by God's Ordinance while this world lasts has a time appointed it to forsake and leave the Body to be turned again to the Dust as it was and this separation is made by death Therefore the Body must cease for a time to have sense or life or motion and a little thing brings it now into this state But in the next World the wicked shall partake of none of this for the Body and the Soul being at the Resurrection rejoyned this death that once did rend them asunder is for ever overcome and extinct so that these two which lived in Sin must for ever be yoked together in Hell Now there the Soul being joyned to the Body and death which before did separate them being utterly taken away the Soul retains not only its own being but also continueth the Body to be and to suffer sensibly the Pains of Hell without those decays that it uses to sustain And the Reason why this death shall then be taken away is because Justice in its bestowing its rewards for transgressions may not be interrupted but that Body and Soul as they lived and acted in sin together might be destroyed for sin in Hell together Destroyed I say but with such a Destruction which though it is everlasting will not put a Period to their sensible suffering the vengeance of eternal Fire This death therefore though that also be the Wages of Sin would now were it suffered to continue be an hindrance to the making known of the Wrath of God and also of the created Power and Might of the Soul 1. It would hinder the making known of the Wrath of God for it would take the Body out of the way and make it uncapable of sensible suffering for sin and so removing one of the Objects of Vengeance the Power of God's Wrath would be so far undiscovered 2. It would also hinder the Manifestation of the Power and Might of the Soul which is discovered much by its abiding to re●in its own being while the Wrath of God is grap●ng with it and more by its continuing to the Body 〈◊〉 sensible being with it self Death therefore must now be removed that the ●oul may be made the Object of Wrath without ●olestation or interruption That the Soul did I ●y yea that Soul and Body both might be so Death ●ould now be a Favour though once the Fruit of ●in and also the Wages thereof might it now be ●uffered to continue because it would case the Soul ●f some of its burthen For a tormented Body can●ot but be a burthen to a Spirit and so the wise Man ●nsmuates when he says The Spirit of a Man will ●stain his infirmity that is bear up under it but ●et so as that it feels it a Burthen We see that ●ecause of the Sympathy that is between Body and ●oul how one is burthened if the other be grieved A sick Body is a Burthen to the Soul and a wounded Spirit is a Burthen to the Body A wounded Spirit who ●an bear but death must not remove this burthen but the Soul must have the Body for a Burthen and the Body must have the Soul for a Burthen and both must have the Wrath of God for a Burthen O therefore here will be burthen upon burthen and all upon the Soul for the Soul will be the chief Seat of this burthen But thus much to shew you the Greatness of the Soul I shall now come to the second Thing which was propounded to be spoken to and that is to shew you what we are to understand by losing of the Soul or what the Loss of the Soul is What

own punishment and a great part of the Bodies too forasmuch as so far as Apprehension goes the Soul will be quicker at that Work than the Body The Body will have its punishment to lye mostly in feeling but the Soul in feeling and apprehending both True the Body by the help of the Soul will see too but the Soul will see yet abundantly further And good reason that the Soul should bear part of the punishment of the Body because it was through its allurements that the Body yielded to help the Soul to Sin the Devil presented Sin the Soul took it by the Body and now Devil and Soul and Body and all must be lost cast away that is damned in Hell for Sin but the Soul must be the Burden-bearer Object But you may say doth not this give incouragement to Sinners to give way to the Body to be in al● its members loose and vain and wicked as Instruments to Sin Answer No Forasmuch as the Body shall also have his share in punishment for though I have said the Soul shall have more punishment than the Body yet I have not said That the Body shall at all be eased by that no the Body will have its due and for the better making out of my Answer further consider of these following particulars 1. The Body will be the Vessel to hold a tormented Soul in this will be something therefore Man damned Man is called a Vessel of Wrath a Vessel and that in both Body and Soul The Soul receiveth Wrath into its self and the Body holdeth that Soul that has thus received and is tormented with this Wrath of God Now the Body being a Vessel to hold this Soul that is thus possessed with the Wrath of God must needs it self be afflicted and tormented with that torment because of its union with the Body therefore the Holy Ghost saith His Flesh upon him shall have pain and his Soul within him shall mourn Both shall have their torment and misery for that both joyned hand in hand in sin the Soul to bring it to the Birth and the Body to midwife it into the World therefore it saith again with reference to the Body Let the Curse come into his Bowels like Water and like Oyl into his Bones Let it be to him as a Garment which covereth him and as a Girdle c. The Body then will be tormented as well as the Soul by being a Vessel to hold that Soul in that is now possessed and distressed with the unspeakable wrath and indignation of the Almighty God and this will be a great deal if you consider 2. That the Body as a Body will by reason of its union with the Soul be as sensible and so as capable in its kind to receive correction and torment as ever nay I think more for if the quickness of the Soul giveth quickness of sense to the Body as in some case at least I am apt to think it doth then forasmuch as the Soul will now be most quick most sharp in Apprehension so the Body by reason of union and sympathy with the Soul will be most quick and most sharp as to Sense Indeed if the Body should not receive and retain sense yea all its Senses by reason of its being a Vessel to hold the Soul the torment of the Soul could not as torment be ministred to the Body no more than the Fire tormented 〈◊〉 King of Babylon's furnace or than the King Moab's Lime-kiln was afflicted because the King Elom's Bones were burnt to Lime therein B●t 〈◊〉 the Body has received again its senses now there●●●●e it must yea it cannot chuse but must feel that ●rath of God that is let out yea poured out like ●ods of Water into the Soul Remember also that besides what the Body re●●●veth from the Soul by reason of its union and sym●●thy therewith there is a punishment and instru●ents of punishment though I will not pretend to 〈◊〉 you exactly what it is prepared for the Body ●r its joyning with the Soul in Sin therewith to be ●inished a Punishment I say that shall fall imme●ately upon the Body and that such an one as will ●ost fitly suit with the Nature of the Body as wrath ●nd guilt do most fitly suit the Nature of the Soul 3. Add to these the durable condition that the ●ody in this state is now in with the Soul Time ●as when the Soul dyed and the Body lived and ●hat the Soul was tormented while the Body slept ●nd rested in the Dust but now these things are past ●or at the Day of Judgment as I said these two shall 〈◊〉 ●e-united and that which once did separate them 〈◊〉 dstroyed then of necessity they must abide together ●nd as together abide the Punishment prepared for ●hem and this will greaten the Torment of the Body Death was once the Wages of Sin and a grievous Curse but might the Damned meet with it in Hell they would count it a Mercy because it would separate Soul and Body and not only so but take away all sense from the Body and make it incapable of suffering torment yea I will add and by that means give the Soul some ease for without doubt as the Torments of the Soul extend themselves to the 〈◊〉 so the Torments of the Body extend themselves the Soul nor can it be otherwise because of 〈◊〉 and sympathy But death natural death shall destroyed and there shall be no more natural dea●● no not in Hell And now it shall happen to Men it hath done in less and inferior Judgments 〈◊〉 shall seek death and desire to dye and death shall not found by them Thus therefore they must abide tog●●ther death that used to separate them asunder now slain 1. Because it was an enmy in keepi●● Christ's Body in the Grave And 2. because Friend to carnal Men in that though it was a Punis●●ment in it self yet while it lasted and had domini●● over the Body of the Wicked it hindred them 〈◊〉 that great and just judgment which for Sin was 〈◊〉 unto them and this is the third Discovery of th● manner and way of punishing of the Body But 4. There will then be such things to be seen an● heard which the Eye and the Ear to say no mor● than has been said of the sense of feeling will 〈◊〉 and hear that will greatly aggravate the Punish●ment of the Body in Hell For though the Eye 〈◊〉 the Window and the Ear a Door for the Soul to look out at and also to receive in by yet whatever go●eth in at the Ear or the Eye leaves influence upo● the Body whether it be that which the Soul delighteth in or that which the Soul abhorreth for as the Eye affecteth the Heart or Soul so the Eye and Ear by hearing and beholding both oft-times afflict the Body W●en I heard my b●●y trembled rottenness entred into my bones Now I say as the Body after