The end of the wicked. CHAP. 28.
BVt on the other side, they that are not of this society, are desteined to eternall misery, called the second death, because there, euen the soule, being depriued of GOD, seemeth not to liue, much lesse the body, bound in euerlasting tor∣ments. And therefore, this second death shalbe so much the more cruell, in that it shall neuer haue end. But seeing warre is the contrary of peace, as misery is vnto blisse, and death to life, it is a question what kinde of warre shall reigne as then amongst the wicked, to answere and oppose the peace of the Godly. But marke only the hurt of war, & it is plainly apparant to be nothing but the aduerse dispose, and contentious conflict of things betweene themselues. What then can be worse then that, where the will is such a foe to the passion, & the passion to the will, that they are for euer in-suppressible, and ir-reconcileable? and where na∣ture, and paine shall hold an eternall conflict, and yet the one neuer maister the other? In our conflicts here on earth, either the paine is victor, and so death expelleth sence of it, or nature conquers, and expells the paine. But there, paine shall afflict eternally, and nature shall suffer eternally, both enduring to the con∣tinuance of the inflicted punishment. But seeing that the good, and the badde, are in that great iudgement to passe vnto those ends, the one to bee sought for, and the other to bee fled from: by Gods permission and assistance I will in the next booke following, haue a little discourse of that last day, and that terrible i•…•…gement.