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[ 1245] Hell-torments, the Eternity of them to be considered.

IT is reported of a Voluptuous young Man, that could not endure to be craossed in his wayes; and of all things he could not bear it, to be kept awake in the dark: but it so happened, that being sick, he was kept awake in the night, and could not sleep at all; Whereupon he had these thoughts; What, is it so tedious then to be kept from 〈…〉〈…〉 and to lye a few hours in the 〈◊〉〈◊〉? Oh, what is it then to be in torments and everlasting darknesse!* 1.1 I am here in my own house upon a so••t bed in the dark, kept from 〈◊〉〈◊〉 but one night; but to lie in flames and endlesse mise∣ry, How dreadfull must that needs be? These and such like Meditations were the happy means of that young Mans Conversion;* 1.2 and by the bl••ssing of God may be the like unto divers others, when they shall consider the Eternity of Hell-tor∣ments, that they are everlasting, for ever and ever, (a fatall Soul-wounding ex∣pression)

when there shall be a suffering of as many years as there be sands on the Sea shore, and Stars in the Firmament for their number, yet no comfort at all: Oh this Eternity of torments is the Hell of Hell. In the curse of Adam there was a donec reverteris, In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread, untill thou return, &c. there's no donec, no time limited, no bounds set to the Torments of the damned in Hell, they are for evermore.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Hieron, Drex∣el consid. de aeternitate.
• * 1.2

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