St. Augustine, Of the citie of God vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues. Englished by I.H.

How the Saints shall goe forth to see the paines of the wicked. CHAP. 22.

BVt how shall the good goe forth to see the bad plagued? Shall they leaue their blessed habitations, and goe corporally to hell, to see them face to face? God forbid: no, they shall goe in knowledge. For this implieth that the damned shalbe without, and for this cause the Lord calleth their place, vtter darkenesse, opposite vnto that ingresse allowed the good seruāt in these words, Enter into thy Maisters ioye: and least the wicked should be thought to goe in to bee seene, ra∣ther then the good should goe out by knowledge to see them, being to know that which is without: for the tormented shall neuer know what is done in the Lords Ioye: but they that are in that Ioye, shall know what is done in the vtter darke∣nesse: Therefore saith the Prophet, they shall goe forth; in that they shall know what is without, for if the Prophets through that small part of diuine inspiration

could know these things before they came to passe: how then shall not these im∣mortalls know them being passed, seeing that in them the Lord is al in all? Thus shall the Saints bee blessed both in seed, and name. In seed, as Saint Iohn saith, And his seed remaineth in him. In name, as Isaias saith, So shall your name continue; from moneth to moneth, and from Sabbath to Sabbath shall they haue rest vpon rest: passing thus from old and temporall types to new and euerlasting truthes. But the paines of the wicked, that eternall worme, and that neuer dying fire, is diuersly expounded, either in reference to the bodie onelie, or to the soule onely, or the fire to belong to the bodie reallie, and the worme to the soule figuratiuely, and this last is the likeliest of the three. But heere is no place to discusse peculiars. Wee must end this volume, as wee promised, with the iudge∣ment, the seperation of good from badde, and the rewards and punishments ac∣cordingly distributed.