Punishments of the Wicked in this life nothing in comparison of those in Hell hereafter. [ 1984]
IT is said of Christ that going up to Ierusalem,* 1.1 and finding in the Temple those that sold Oxen and sheep, and Doves, and the changers of Money, sitting; he made a scourge of small cords, quasi flagellum, as it were a scourge (saith the vul∣gar translation) made up of small cords, such as he gathered up from amongst the People in the binding of their Sacrifices, bearing the likenesse and form of a Scourge, and with this he drove them out of the Temple: And so it is that the sorrows, troubles, vexations and punishments that befall the Wicked in this life, they are but quasi tales, as it were such; they are but the type, the Figure, the similitude of such, the meer beginnings of sorrows, but flea-bitings in compari∣son of what shall befall them hereafter; For when Christ shall come to Judg∣ment, he will make a whip indeed, such an one that by the stripes thereof the Wicked shall be whipped into Hell and all such as forget God.