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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02192	Tormenting Tophet: or A terrible description of Hel able to breake the hardest heart, and cause it quake and tremble. Preached at Paules Crosse the 14. of Iune 1614. By Henry Greenvvood, Master of Arts, and preacher of the word of God.	Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5.	1615 (1615)	STC 12336; ESTC S120478	32,344	94

rich as the poore the father as the child the master as the seruant the king as the beggar as the Prophet Dauid sayeth With righteousnesse shal he iudge the world and the people with equity Though wickednesse among men bee in the place of iudgement yet the Lord our God will deale iustly Though among men there is respect of persons to bee had without which a confusion would and this is necessary to be vrged for men are full of contempt and too sawcy with them of superiour place and authority yet when all shal be summoned before the tribunall of God the Lord will indifferently procéed to Iudgement without any respect of persons And this should not onely pull down the haughty minds of the noble who thinke for their greatnesse here it will be easier for them hereafter than others but also this should be an vnalterable president to all Iudges of the world As they sit in Gods place so they should imitate the Lord in iudgement this should make them obey the counsell of the Lord deliuered by the Prophet Dauid Bee learned yee that are Iudges of the earth O the care that Iehosaphat tooke for iust and righteous iudgement after he had made Iudges and set them in euery City of Iudah hee gaue them this charge Take heed what yee doe for yee execute not the iudgements of man but the iudgements of the Lord and the Lord will bee with you to preserue you if you doe iustly but to confound you if you doe vniustly wherefore now let the feare of the Lord bee vpon you take heed and doe it for there is no iniquity with our God nor respect of persons nor receyuing of rewards O that this gracious counsell were intertayned of the Iudges of this land then we should not heare of so many complaints in our land as wee doe then we should not haue cause to complayne with the Prophet That iudgement is turned backeward and iustice standeth afarre off that trueth is gone and equity no where to be found then wee should not haue so many beggard by the Law as dayly are Law was neuer made to vndoe men but to compell men to doe well it was made to curbe the vnruely but not to beggar the innocent it is grown to this saying now a dayes I had rather loose it being my right than goe to law for it why what is the cause O because of rackt fees close bribes and the perpetuity of attendance Iudicate secundum iustitiam Iudge iudge O yee sonnes of men according to righteousnesse let your iudgement be in veritate in trueth iudicio in iudgement iustitia in righteousnes I pray God it may neuer bee sayde of our Iudges of England as once was sayd of the Iudges of Israel The Lord looked for iudgement but behold oppression for righteousnesse but behold a crying Let not there be found in a land where the Gospell dwelleth such Iudges as were those that killed innocent Naboth Let none be like the sonnes of Samuel That turned aside after lucre and took rewards and peruerted the iudgement The duety of Iudges is notably set down in the 23. of Ex. Thou shalt not receyue a false tale Thou shalt not ouerthrow the truth for the multitudes sake Thou shalt not ouerthrow the right of the poore in his suite Thou shalt keepe thee from a false matter Thou shalt take no gift for the gift blindeth the wise and peruerteth the words of the righteous And this charge is continued in Leuiticus Yee shall not doe vniustly in iudgement Thou shalt not fauour the person of the poore nor honour the person of the mighty but thou shalt iudge thy neighbour iustly A Iudge must be Scientia potens and Virtute valens that is Able in learning and zealous in liuing by the one he shall discernere inter allegata Discerne betwixt cases propounded by the other disrumpere iniquitatem without hinderance punish and confound all manner of iniquity In all your Iudgements let these be aymed at the glory of God the righting of wrong the suppression of euill and the maintenance of truth Be zealous for the glory of our God and let the good lawes that are bee duly and impartially executed It was a great commendation that was giuen to Seleucus Gouernour of the Locretians who hauing made this Law against whoredome That whosoeuer committed the act should loose both his eyes his sonne being taken in the fact was not pardoned though the Citizens begged it earnestly but hee caused one of his sonnes eyes to bee pulled out and one of his owne eyes So hee shewed himselfe a mercifull Father and a iust Iudge O that we had the like laws against this and the like mostodious offences and that they were as strictly executed that many hereby may bee saued from Tophet The Lord guide that honourable assembly in Court of Parliament that they may all ioyne with one voyce and spirit for the banishing of Popery the reforming of iniquity and maintaining and countenancing of the word of trueth and painefull Preachers of the same And you my honourable Lord as you haue begun wel in reforming many foule abuses in this City so in the zeale of the Lord Prosper with your glory ride on with the word of truth meekenesse and righteousnesse and your right hand shall teach you terrible things Thus am I bolde to cast in among you the silly mite of my counsell meerely of Christian Charity tha● yée may neuer taste of the woefull damnation of Tophet The third part of the description of Tophet is set downe in these wordes He hath made it deepe Many from these words do goe about to proue the locall place of Hell concluding it to bee below as from the signification of Sheol also Sheol is taken for a Pit or Graue or Hell the state of the dead the place of the damned spirits In the Scriptures sometimes it is taken for the Graue and sometime for Hell so is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 also The Septuagint translating the Hebrew into Greeke and expressing there the sense of Sheol vsed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 both for the death of the body in the Graue and of the soule in Hell Mercer vpon Genesis sayth That the proper signification of Sheol is to signifie all places vnder the earth and not the pit or graue alone wherupon it is euery where opposed to heauen which is highest of all Hell is called by the name of Abyssus in the Scriptures which signifieth a déepe and vast gulfe vnder the earth a bottomlesse pit into which the deuils feare to bee sent and where they are chained and bound when it pleaseth God From which Abyssus there is an assent to the earth no descent lower Reuelat 9.2 and 11.7 and 17.8 and therefore hell suspected to bee beneath Because Tophet is here sayd to be profunda deepe Nicolaus de Lyra putat esse circa

TORMENTING TOPHET OR A terrible Description of HE●L able to breake the hardest heart and cause it quake and tremble Preached at Paules Crosse the 14. of Iune 1614. BY HENRY GREENVVOOD Master of Arts and Preacher of the Word of GOD. The second Edition corrected and amended Esay 30.33 Tophet is prepared of old it is euen prepared for the King he hath made it deepe and large the burning thereof is fire much wood the breath of the Lord like a Riuer of Brimstone doth kindle it LONDON Imprinted by George Purslowe for Henry Bell and are to be solde at his shop without Bishopsgate 1615. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVL AND my very deare friends Sir LESTRAVNGE MORDAVNT of Massingham Hall in the County of Norfolke Knight Baronet and Lady FRAVNCIS MORDAVNT Bed-fellow HENRY GREENVVOOD Wisheth all increase of Grace in this Life and Eternall Life in Life to come IT is and hath beene long since Right Worshipful the custome of the learned that when they commended to publike view therein ayming at cōmon good their Christian paines and diuine indeuours knowing that the truth hath and alwayes had many oppositions and detractions to present them to men of high place and well affected in Religion that so their works might passe with lesse feare and danger of disgrace and opprobrie I though vnlearned making bold to imitate their Christian policy herein haue presumed to present that doctrine to your Worships eies that lately in publike place was sounded in your eares both of which senses are great Instruments in the furtherance of our soules in the way of Gods Kingdome for as the eare conueieth grace to the affections of the soule so the eye bringeth much matter to the vnderstāding of the mind nay the eare cannot so often be an Auditor as the eye an Oratour to the conscience For which cause your Worships nothing more affecting than growth in Grace and Religion I haue attempted to commend to your often considerations Tormenting Tophet for as nothing allureth the heart to grace more than Gods mercies so nothing more preualent against sinne than his fearefull and terrible iudgements If therfore your gracious Worships shall vouchsafe to accept of these my poore presented paines it will giue content to mine own heart and doubtles answerable comfort to your owne soules And to conclude as the Lord hath abundantly blessed your Worships with graces internall and blessings external So to vse the words of the Apostle the very God of peace sanctifie you still throughout and I pray God that your whole spirits and soules and bodies may be kept blameles to the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ Amen From Hempsted in Essex Aprill 3. 1615. Your Worships alwayes ready to bee commaunded in the Lord HEN. GREENVVOOD TO THE CHRISTIAN READER CHristian Reader I commend to thy charitable view this terrible and lamentable description of Hell a Subiect most necessary in these dayes wherin Iniquity hath gotten the vpper hād the greatest part of mankind laboreth of this dangerous disease namely hardnes of hart and contempt of all grace I therefore for the remouing of this damnable euil haue prepared this Tormenting Corrasiue Blame mee not if I be too bitter in denouncing GODS Iudgements against sinne the presumption of the time compels me this onely is the ayme of my intention herein that many may bee saued from the damnation hereof Let not the Quotations of Latine and other tongues offend thee but know this they are but as country Stiles stepping ouer them thou losest not the way by them for their Expositions follow them Thus commending this Tractate to thy christian consideration and thy self to Gods most blessed protection I rest Thine euerlouing and vvelvvilling brother in the Lord HEN. GREENWOOD ¶ TORMENTING TOPHET OR A terrible description of Hell able to breake the hardest heart and cause it quake and tremble Esay 30.33 Tophet is prepared of old it is euen prepared for the King he hath made it deepe and large the burning thereof is fire much wood the breath of the Lord like a Riuer of Brimstone doth kindle it ALbeit the Lord in the beginning created man in glorious manner omninō ad imaginem sui ratione sapientem vita innocentem dominio potentem altogether after his own most glorious image in purity and in perfection of holinesse both in soule and body yet withall he gaue him naturam flexibilem a mutable and changeable nature creating him inpotestate standi seuposse cadendi in power of standing and in possibilitie of falling power of standing that he had from God his creatour possibility of falling that he had from himselfe being a creature A reason whereof S. Augustine giueth in his booke of Confessions Because the Lord created man ex nihilo of nothing therefore hee left in man possibility to returne in nihilum into nothing if he obey'd not the will of his Maker And as Basil sayth Si Deus dedisset Adae naturam immutabilem deos potius quàm homines condidisset id est If God had giuen Adam an immutable and vnchangeable nature hee had created a God not a man for this is a mayne trueth in Diuinity immutabiliter esse bonum proprium soliusest Dei id est to be immutably and vnchangeablie good onely proper to God Adam therefore being thus created that hee might eyther stand or fall by the Diuels subtill suggestion and by the abuse of his owne free will receyued a double downefall the fall of sinne by disobedience and the fall of death by sinne the last fall being the wages of the first fall as ye may reade in the last verse of the sixt to the Romanes The wages of sinne is death The Lord therefore hauing pitty vpon this his miserable estate vouchsafed in his Sonne to shew mercy vpon some by election to saluation as to shew iustice vpon other some by reprobation to damnation According to which irreuocable decree the Lord hath prepared euen from the foundations of the earth answerable places a glorious habitation for the one and a terrible dungeon for the other Which generall truth is confirmed in the words of my Text hauing particular reference to the reprobat Assyrians For as the Lord in his mercy doth promise in this Chapter to his people repenting them of their sinnes manifold blessings spirituall and corporall temporall and eternall so doth he threaten in his iustice terrible vengeance to their enemies the idolatrous Babylonians and Assyrians not onely temporall but also eternall not to the meane subiect alone but to the King himselfe saying Tophet is prepared of old it is euen prepared for the King c. Not to insist therefore too long vpon introductions lest it should be sayde to mee as once a flowting Cynicke sayde to the Citizens of Myndus a little City with great Gates Shut your Gates lest your City runne out I come to the Text it selfe which containeth in it a terrible and lamentable description of Hell prepared of olde for