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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02904	Hels torments, and heavens glorie	Rowlands, Samuel, 1570?-1630?	1601 (1601)	STC 13048.5; ESTC S2725	31,181	186

driven to great necessitie the glutton shall rage with continuall hunger and thirst The letcherous shall burne in the very same flames which they themselves have enkindled And those that have all their life time hunted after their pleasures pastimes shall live therein continuall lamentation and sorrow But because examples are of very great force to moove our hearts I will bring only one for this purpose whereby somewhat of this matter may the better bee perceived It is written of a certaine holy man that he saw the paines in spirit of a licentious worldly man in this sort First hee saw how the devils that were present at the houre of his death when he yeelded up his ghost snatched away his soule with great rejoycing and made a present thereof to the prince of darkenesse who was then sitting in a chair of fire expecting the comming of this present Immediatly after that it was presented before him hee arose up out of his seat and said unto the damned soule that hee would give him the preheminence of that honourable seat because hee had been a man of honour and was alwaies very much affected to the same Inconti nently after that hee was placed therein crying and lamenting in that honourable torment there appeared before him two other most ougly devils and offered him a cup full of most bitter and stinking liquour and made him to drinke and carouse it up all perforce saying It is meet sithence thou hast beene a lover of precious wines bankets that thou shouldest likewise prove of this our wine whereof all we doe use to drink in these parts Immediately after this there came other two with two fierie trumpets and setting them at his eares began to blow into them flames of fire saying This melodie have wee reserved for thee understanding that in the world thou wast very much delighted with minstrelcie and wanton songs and suddainely hee espied other divels loaden with vipers and serpents the which they threw upon the breast and bellie of that miserable sinner saying unto him that forsomuch as he had been greatly delighted with the wanton embracings letcherous lusts of women hee should now sollace himselfe with these refreshings in stead of those licentious delights and pleasures which hee had enjoyed in the world After this sort as the Prophet Esay sayth in the 47 chapter when the sinner is punished there is given measure for measure to the end that in such a great varietie and proportion of punishments the order wisdome of Gods justice might the more manifestly appeare This vision hath almightie God shewed in spirit to this holy man for advertisement and instruction not that in hell these things are altogether so materially done but that by them wee might understand in some manner the varietie and multitude of the pains which be there appointed for the damned Whereof I know not how some of the Pagans have had a certaine knowledge for a Poet speaking of this multitude of paines affirmed That although hee had a hundred mouthes and as many tongues with a voice as strong as yron yet were they not able only to expresse the names of them A Poet hee was that spake this but truly therin he spake more like a Prophet or an Evangelist than a Poet. Now then if all this evill shall most assuredly come to passe what man is hee that seeing all this so certainely with the eyes of his faith will not turne over the leafe and begin to provide for himselfe against that time Where is the judgement of men nowe become Where be their wits yea Where is at the least their selfe-love which seeketh evermore for his own profite and is much afraid of any losse May it be thoght that men are become beasts that provide onely for the time present Or have they peradventure so dimmed their eye sight that they cannot looke before them Hearken sayth Esay Oyee deafe and yee blind open your eyes that you may see Who is blind but my servant And who is deafe but ye unto whom I have sent my messengers And who is blind but hee that suffereth himselfe to bee sold for a slave Thou that seest so many things wilt thou not suffer thy selfe to see this Thou that hast thine eares open wilt thou not give eare hereunto If thou beleeve not this how art thou then a Christian If thou beleeve it and doest not provide for it how canst thou bee thought a reasonable man Aristotle sayth That this is the difference between opinion and imagination that an imagination alone is not sufficient to cause a feare but an opinion is for if I doe imagine that a house may fall upon mee it is not enough to make me afraid unlesse I beleeve or have an opinion it will be so indeed for then it is sufficient to make mee afraid And hereof commeth the feare that murderers alwaies have by reason of the suspition they conceive that their enemies do lie in wait for them If then the opinion and only suspition of danger is able to cause the greatest courage to feare how is it that the certaintie and beleefe of so many so great terrible miseries which are farre more sure than anie opinion dooth not make thee to seare If thou perceivest that for these many yeares past thou hast lead a licentious and sinfull life and that at the last according to present justice thou art condemned to these horrible torments in hell if also there appeare by probable conjecture that there is no more likelyhood of thy amendment for ensuing years to come than there was in those alreadie past how happeneth it that running headlong into so manifest a daunger thou art not at all afraid Especially considering the sinfull state wherin thou livest and the horrible paines and torments which doe attend for thee the time which thou hast lost and the endlesse repentaunce which thou shalt have therefore in the most horrible torments of hell Assuredly it goeth beyond the compas of all common sence and conceit of humane reason to consider That there should bee such negligent wilfull grosse and carelesse blindnesse able to enter and take such deepe rooting in the soule of man WHo loves this life frō love his love doth erre And chusing drosse rich treasure doth denie Leaving the pearle Christs counsels to preferre With selling all we have the same to buy O happie soule that doth disburse a summe To gaine a kingdome in the life to come Such trafficke may be tearmed heav'nly thrift Such venter hath no hazard to dissuade Immortall purchase with a mortall gift The greatest gaine that ever merchant made To get a crowne where Saints and Angels sing For laying out a base and earthly thing To tast the ioyes no humane knowledge knowes To heare the tunes of the coelestiall quires T' attaine heau'●● sweet and mildest calme repose To se● Gods face the summ● of good desires Which by his glorious saints i● 〈◊〉 ●yde Yet sigh with

breefely and most to the purpose bee spoken in this matter is this That like as the reward of the good is an universall good thing even so the punishment of the wicked is an universall evill which comprehendeth in it all the evils that are For the better understanding whereof it is to bee noted That all the evils of this life are particular evils and therefore doe not torment all our sences generally but only one or some of them As taking an example of the diseases of our bodie wee see that one hath a disease in his eyes another in his eares one is ficke in the heatr another in the stomacke some other in his head And so diverse men are diseased in diverse parts of the bodie howbeit in such wise that none of all these diseases be generally throghout all the members of the bodie but perticular to some one of them And yet for all this wee see what greefe onely one of these diseases may put us unto and how painefull a night the sicke man hath in any one of these infirmities yea although it bee nothing else but a little ach in one tooth Now let us put the case that there were some one man sicke of such an universall disease that hee had no part of his bodie neither any one joint or sence free from his proper pain but that at one time and instant hee suffered most exceeding sharpe torment in his head in his eyes and eares in his teeth and stomacke in his liver and heart and to bee short in all the rest of his members and joints of his bodie and that hee lay after this sort stretching himselfe in his bed beeing pained with these greefes and torments everie member of his bodie having his particular torment and greefe Hee I say that should lie thus pained and afflicted how great torment and greefe of mind and bodie thinke yee should hee sustaine Oh what thing could any man imagine more miserable and more woorthie of compassion Surely if thou shouldest see but a dogge to be so tormented and greeved in the street his verie paines would move thy heart to take pittie upon him Now this is that my deare Christian brother if any comparison may bee made betweene them which is suffered in that most cursed and horrible place of hell and not onely during for the space of one night but everlastingly for ever and ever For like as the wicked men have offended Almightie God with all their members and sences and have made armour of them all to serve sinne even so will hee ordaine that they shall bee there tormented everie one of them with his proper torment There shall the wanton unchast eyes bee tormented with the terrible sight of devils the eares with the confusion of such horrible cries and lamentations which shall there bee heard the nose with the intollerable stinke of that ougly filthie and loathsome place the tast with a most ravenous hunger and thirst the touching and all the members of the bodie with extreame burning fire The imagination shall bee tormented by the conceiving of greefes present the memorie by calling to mind the pleasures past the understanding by considering what benefites are lost and what endlesse miseries are to come This multitude of punishments the holy scripture signifieth unto us when it sayth Math. 15. Psalm 10. That in hell there shall bee hunger thirst weeping wail●ng gnashing of teeth swords double edged spirits created for revengement serpents worms scorpions hammers wormewood water of gall the spirit of tempest and other things of like sort Whereby are signified unto us as in a figure the multitude and dreadfull terrour of the most horrible torments and paines that be in that cursed place There shall bee likewise darkenesse inward and outward both of bodie and soule farre more obscure than the darkenesse of Aegypt which was to bee felt even with hands Exo. 20. There shall bee fire also not as this fire here that tormenteth a little and shortly endeth but such a fire as that place requireth which tormenteth exceedingly and shall never make an end of that tormenting This beeing true what greater wonder can there bee than that they which beleeve and confesse this for truth should live with such most straunge negligence and carelesnesse as they doe What travell and paines would not a man willingly take to escape even one onely day yea one houre the very least of these torments and wherefore doe they not then to escape the everlastingnesse of so great paines and horrible torments endure so little a travell as to follow the exercise of vertue Surely the consideration of this matter were able to make any sinfull soule to feare and tremble in case it were deepely regarded And if amongst so great number of paines there were any manner hope of end or release it would be some kind of comfort but alas it is not so for there the gates are fast shut up from all expectation of any maner of ease or hope In all kind of paines and calamities that bee in this world there is alwais some gap lying open whereby the patient may receive some kind of comfort sometimes reason sometimes the weather sometimes his friends sometimes the hearing that others are troubled with the very same disease sometimes at the least the hope of an end may cheare him somewhat onely in these most horrible pains miseries that be in hell all the wayes are shut up in such sort and all the havens of comfort so embarred that the miserable sinner cannot hope for remedie on any side neither of heaven nor of earth neither of the time past or present or of the time to come or of any other means The damned soules thinke that all men are shooting darts at them and that all creatures have conspired against them that even they themselves are cruell against themselves This is that distresse whereof the sinners doe lament by the Prophet saying The sorrowes of hell have compassed mee round about and the snares of death hath besieged me For on which side soever they looke or turne their eyes they doe continually behold occasions of sorrow and greefe and none at all of any ease or comfort The wise virgins sayth the Evangelist that stood readie prepared at the gate of the bridegroom entred in the gate was foorthwith locked fast O locking everlasting ô enclosure immortall ô gate of all goodnes which shall never any more bee opened againe As if hee had said more plainely the gate of pardon of mercie of comfort of grace of intercession of hope and of all other goodnesse is shut up for ever and ever Six dayes and no more was Manna to bee gathered but the seventh day which was the Sabboth day was there none to bee found and therefore shall hee fast forever that hath not in due time made his provision aforehand The sluggard sayth the wise man will not till his ground for feare of cold and therefore shall hee