CHAP. 55. Of the state and condition of the Reprobates when they are dead. (Book 55)
THe death of the Reprobate, is a separation of the bodie and the soule: of the bodie, that for a time it may lie dead in the earth: of the soule, that it may feele the torments of hell, euen vntill the time of the last iudgement: at which time the whole man shall be cast into the most terrible and feareful fire of hell. 1. Pet. 3.19. By the which he also went and preached vnto the spirits that are in prison. Luk. 8. 2. Pet. 2.4. For if God spared not the Angels that sinned, but cast them downe into hell, and deliuered them into chaines of darknes to be kept vnto damnation, &c.
The reprobate when they die, doe become without sense and astonished, like vnto a stone: or els they are ouerwhelmed with a terrible horrour of con∣science, and despairing of their saluation, as it were, with a gulfe of the sea o∣uer turning them. 1. Sam. 25.37. Then in the morning when the wine was gone out of Nabal, his wife told him those wordes, and his heart died within him, and he was like a stone. 38. And about ten daies after the Lord smote Nabal that he died. Mat. 27.5. And when he had cast downe the siluer pieces in the temple, he departed, and went and hanged himselfe.