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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02186	Greenvvoods vvorkes contayned in fiue seueral tractates. 1. Of the day of iudgement. 2. Of the Lords Prayer. 3. Of the race to saluation. 4. Of the torment of Tophet. 5. Of the baptisme of Christ.	Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5.; Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5. Treatise of the great and generall daye of judgement. aut; Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5. Race celestiall. aut; Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5. Tormenting Tophet. aut; Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5. Joyfull tractate of the most blessed baptisme. aut	1620 (1620)	STC 12329; ESTC S115797	129,145	422

it would make them liue so precisely as though it were the last moment they had to liue it would make them cry out in the terrours of their soules with the Iaylor O what Act. 16. must I doe to be saued from the damnation of Tophet The third thing obseruable for the certainty of this place of torment is the antiquity of the same Of olde Of old Non casu aut fortuna parara erat Tophet sed certo iudic●o omnipotentis definita that is Tophet was not casually prepared but in the determined counsell and decreed purpose of God not lately sounded but from the foundations of the earth before man or Angell was created For Hels antiquity I referre you to the second of Peter Chap. 2. vers 4. 2. Pet. 2. 4. where it is sayd If GOD spared not the Angels that fell but cast them downe to hell Now they could not be cast into that which was not therefore Hell was ordained before the fall of Angels for the Lord who beholdeth all things past present and to come vno actu vno ictu simul semel at one and the selfe-same present foreseeing what would become of Angels and Men preordained answerable places for those whom he hath elected in Christ Heauen hee hath treated of old and for those whom he hath left to glorifie his Iustice Tophet is prepared of old Where we plainely s●● that the Note Lord ha●● 〈…〉 ocabl● d●●reed of the state of Ang●●● and men before all worlds for Heauen and for Hell a● there are but two wayes so there are but two ends Saluation and Damnation Heauen and Hell Idle is the opinion of Rome concerning Error Romae their intermedia loca middle places twixt Heauen and Hell The peruerting Papist hath added to Tophet three subterrestriall places more Purgatory Lymbus Infantum Lymbus Patrum Purgatorie for those that dye in Purgatory their deniall sinnes and light transgressions and for those which haue Bell. l. 2. de Purgatorio cap. 1. their sinnes remitted but not satisfied for the punishment And they place this next to Tophet where there is both poena damni an● poena sensus punishment of losse a 〈…〉 punishment of feeling this lasteth 〈…〉 euer but for a time for it sh 〈…〉 dissolued at the comming of C 〈…〉 iudgement Lymbus Infantum wh●●●●hildren Lymbus Infantum remaine dying without Baptisme And this they place next to Purgatory where there is poena damni but not sensus the punishment of losse but not of feeling and this lasteth for euerlasting Lymbus Patrum where the Fathers Lymbus Patrum were before Christs comming And this they place vppermost where there was poena damni but not sensus the punishment of losse but not of féeling but this was dissolued long agoe by Christs descension into hell Thus you sée how the pope by these his lyes and fopperies thorowly proueth himselfe the most deare child of the diuell the Author founder of all Ioh. 8. 44. lies But let euery Christian take this for an inalterable truth that there is but Election and Reprobation grace and sin the narrow gate and the broad way but two ends Heauen and Hell to one of these must all flesh goe Athanasius speaking to this point Atha●●s●de 〈…〉 Christ sayth Impius in duas partes discerpitur vt ad duo loca discedat condemnatur that is A wicked man is distracted in two parts condemned to two places his body to the Graue and his Soule to HADES that is to Hell Seeing then that the Lord hath prepared Tophet of old and the Decree of God is gone out vpon all flesh either for heauen or for hell this should hasten vs carefully to worke out our saluation with feare and trembling and to make sure our Election For what if we haue all the world and be cast into Tophet what shall become of vs it had been better for vs neuer to haue been borne Obserue I beseech you the carriage of the Apostles in the Gospell when they heard that one of them should betray their Lord and Master CHRIST and woe worth that party that should doe that cursed act it had been good for that party neuer to haue been borne they were all amazed and astonied and could not be at quiet till they knew who should do that damnable deed they came therefore to our Sauiour saying Numquid ego Domine Mar. 14. 19 Is it I Lord Another Is it I Lord So we hearing that Hell is prepared of old and the greatest part of mankinde as shall bee shewne hereafter shall bee swallowed vp of her Oh this should make vs carefull first and aboue all things to seeke the Kingdome Mat. 6. of God and the righteousnesse thereof that wee may see our selues in the number of those l●w whose names are written in the booke of Election and not in the number of those that shall be tormented in Tophet Let vs resolue with the Psalmist Psal 132. 3. not to suffer our eyes to sléepe nor our eye-lids to slumber nor the temples of our head to take any rest till wee haue found the saluation of our God our soules sealed to the day of redemption and freed from the damnation of Tophet But where is this religious care and godly resolution O the dissolute and desperate course of this our sinfull age men put their saluation to a hazzard with Ludouike Si Ludouic saluabor saluabor Si damnabor damnabor that is If I be saued I be saued If I be damned I bee damned there is the care that I take In the feare of God I earnestly beseech you aboue all things to make sure your Election and that by your Rom. 8. Vocation your Vocation by your Iustification your Iustification by your Sanctification the reward wherof will be eternall Glorification Ioyne vertue with your Faith ● Pet. 1. 5. with vertue knowledge with knowledge temperance with temperance patience with patience godlinesse with godlinesse brotherly kindnesse and with brotherly kindnesse loue Labour hereby to make your Calling and Election sure for if yee doe these things ye shall neuer fall into the vengeance of Tophet The second part of this Text are The second part the parties for whom Tophet is prepared and that is for all vngodly people of the world of what estate or condition soeuer they be It is euen prepared It is euen prepared for the King 2. Re. 18. 30. for the King These words in particular haue reference to blasphemous Senacherib who was flaine of his two sonnes in a Temple of Nineueh worshipping his god Nisrosh and in generall it extendeth to all idolatrous Kings Emperors and Superiors whatsoeuer Here then first we see that no person Obseru 1. in what dignity soeuer he be by his eminent place is exempted from Hell Diues a great personage yet tormented Luke 10. in those flames Quid profuit Wisd sibi