EVill of punishment is threefolde,
1. Temporall.
2. Spirituall.
3. Eternall.
Temporall punishments are all outward iudgements,* 1.1 miseries and plagues in this World: these are in them∣selues effects of sinne: from sinne they came first: had man neuer transgressed, none of these had euer beene in∣flicted vpon him.l 1.2 In the day thou eatest of the tree forbid∣den, thou shalt die the death, saith God to man: All tempo∣rall iudgements are fore runners of death, and appurte∣nances thereof, and so comprised vnder it.
These may be sanctified, and made medicinable: and so they are, in and thorow Christs suffering, to Gods children: all outward afflictions are Gods physicke to the faithfull. Absolutely therefore they are not to be prayed against, but we are to pray either to haue them re∣moued, or else sanctified vnto vs.
Spirituall punishments,* 1.3 are slauery vnder Satan, the World, and the flesh, a seared & a dead conscience, hard∣nesse of heart, blindnesse of mind, carnall security, impe∣nitency, infidelity, and such like. These are fearefull euils, and to be praied against, as hell it selfe.
The Eternall punishment of sinne,* 1.4 is such as cannot be expressed: it is set forth by the most intollerable torments that bee, as the gnawing of am 1.5 worme that