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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	blood_n	body_n	precious_a	3,677	5	8.0318	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29219	To pyr to aiōnion, or, Everlasting fire no fancy being an answer to a late pestilent pamphlet, entituled (The foundations of hell-torments shaken and removed), wherein the author hath laboured to prove that there is no everlasting punishment for any man (though finally wicked and impenitent) after this life : his considerations considered, and his cavils, confuted : together with a practical improvement of the point, and the way to escape the damnation of Hell / by Jo. Brandon ...	J. B. (John Brandon)	1678 (1678)	Wing B4251; ESTC R20144	152,715	173

13. The blackness of darkness for ever 2. It is a fast Prison such as they that are once in shall never be able to get out of The Doors of it are shut upon them by the Justice Truth and Power of the Almighty 3. It is a tormenting Prison Other Prisons are places where the Malefactors are reserved for Punishment but may have some ease and comforts during their aboad therein But Hell-Prison is the place of Punishment where the wrath of God is executed continually upon his Enemies I say continually for they shall be punished with an everlasting and therefore an ever-continuing destruction 2 Thess 1.8 9. The Doctrines of the Holy God were grievous to them though they heard of them but now and then What intolerable grief may the displeasure of God cause in them when they lye under it continually And the more dreadful will this Prison be to the Slaves of Satan because it will be if I may so call it a convincing Prison unto them Therein they shall be made to see their deserts as well as to feel their Punishment Though they shall have no light of comfort there yet they shall have a light of conviction The Lord Jesus at the Day of Judgment shall come from Heaven to convince all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds And doubtless Jude 14.15 that conviction will remain upon them when they are in Hell They will then be able to know what it was that they are sent thither for and that they are so miserable not meerly for God's good pleasure but for their own evil doings for obeying the Devil more than God for chusing the ways of wickedness before his holy pleasant Paths for rejecting the counsels of his Word and refusing to return that they might live They will then be able enough to understand that it was their loving of Darkness or Ignorance better than Light that made Christ say unto them I know you not and to cast them into that blackness of Darkness eternally Their mischievous designs and spightful dealings that hath laid them under the Vengeance of God and the malice of the Devil their mocking at Religion and laughing at Reproofs that hath moved God to laugh at their Calamity and mock at all their Woes and Cries Their Heathenish liberty on God's Holy-day that hath made them to be bound in those Chains of Damnation The Pride and Profaneness and Unconscionableness of their Hearts the cruelty and injustice of their hands the Deceit Hypocrisie and Baseness of their Tongues with all their witty fine-mouth'd Railings that brought them to that place of Torment and made their Bloud and Bones so Hot in that everlasting fiery Prison I might add more of their Bodies misery but I shall pass to that which is greater the miseries of their Souls for as they were most in sin so they will be also most in Punishment If a Man were never so full of pain in his Body The misery of their Souls yet if his Soul have some rest and comfort he is very far from perfect misery But alas it will not be so with the damned in Hell their Souls will be as far from ease as their Bodies for they will be afflicted perpetually with all sorts of tormenting passions and that 1. By sorrow in the saddest sense our Blessed Lord 1. By sorrow when he stood in the place of sinners had great experience of sorrow he was a Man of sorrows Esay 53. and acquainted with griefs and said that his Soul was exceeding sorrowful Matth. 26.28 O what sorrows then may we think will fall upon the Souls of the wicked in Hell If the Soul of that Holy One were so afflicted when he stood in the room of others what will be the case of them that must bear their own sins and answer the demands of Justice themselves Psal 32.10 The Psalmist tells us that many sorrows shall be to the wicked and as it is sometimes verified here in this World so certainly it will be most eminently fulfilled in the World to come How merry soever they may be on Earth our Lord assures us that they will be weeping and wailing Matth. 8.12 when they come to Hell And how happy would they think themselves to be if they might come out of Punishment when they have wept as many Tears as there be Drops in the Ocean 2. By shame Secondly By shame The boldest sinner of them all will then be ashamed when his eyes are open to see his sins and God's Majesty against whom they were committed with all the shameful aggravating circumstances of them How will they be confounded to see the Judge of the World set them on his left hand in the sight of Men and Angels and assign them their Portion amongst unclean Spirits And surely their confusion in Hell will not be less than that confusion that they suffered before they were there That punishment to which they are judged cannot be less than that which they suffered while they were brought forth to be judged They that gloried in their shame and made their Boast of their sins in the Day of God's patience will not do so in the Day of his Wrath. 3. By rage Thirdly They will be afflicted in their Souls by fury and rage these passions they were often tormented with on Earth upon small occasions yea many times upon no just occasion at all If a Man did but speak against the sins that they love yea if he did but admonish them soberly in private and entreat them for the love of Jesus to forsake those ways which his Soul hateth presently what a rage are they in and how mightily do storms of wrath arise in their Breasts and if they could kill them with a wish or burn them in their Beds with a fierce and fiery word they were likely to live but a few Hours longer If they have lost but a little of their estates or but so much as missed of a good Bargain they are ready to fret beyond measure at it But what will it be to lose their Souls and Heaven and endure the pains of Hell for the love of their foolish Lusts on Earth what unspeakable vexation will this be unto them when they have nothing at all to make up the loss to asswage their pain or abate their misery in any respect And thus our Saviour assures us the wicked will have as weeping so gnashing of teeth too when they shall see Abraham Isaac Matth. 8.11 12. and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven and they themselves shut out Fourthly In Hell they will be tormented by Desperation 4. Despair This is a fearful thing indeed and almost the only thing that wicked Men are much afraid of When we labour to beat down their false hopes of salvation and tell them they cannot be saved without that holiness that they yet hate they have no more compendious way to make our Sermons odious than to report that

comes thither As little cause have we to wonder that they should have Hell for their end that make wickedness in some kind or other their common way and will not consent unfeignedly to turn into the Holy Path And that this is the case of the most among us is so sadly apparent that I may lawfully spare the pains of proving it 3. It is no disparagement to the goodness of a King or Judge to condemn common Robbers or Murderers nor to condemn many of them Yea Justice requires him so to do and their Multitude can be no reason at all to excuse them in their wickedness If these Men should meet with many to abuse them though it were only in words and one should say you need not take it ill seeing there are many that do so they would not think very well of his speech And must the just Judge of the whole World spare the wicked and impenitent because there are many of them If so how shall the Judge of the World do right for all the World knows that were not Righteousness nor any thing like it And if that any Man could prove that 't is unreasonable that many impenitent sinners should be sent to Hell he might as wisely prove that 't is so for any at All to be sent thither For if many Persons under the same guilt deserve not the same Punishment a few that are so do not deserve it neither The Number doth not alter the Case 4. It cannot be denied but the greatest part of Men by far is actually ungodly and unconscionable sensual and disobedient and it must needs be granted that such are fitter for Hell and punishment than for Heaven and happiness and the delightful fruition of the Holy God And it is not to be questioned but the most of the wicked continue such still Must a Man believe that the Enemies of God and holiness will be in love with God and holiness because they are the greatest Number If one Man that dyeth unconverted may go to Heaven we may as well suppose that another may and another again and so of others still So that either we must suppose that all that dye in their sins go to Hell or else none and which is most like to be true they that know the Scriptures may easily apprehend 5. If Mens judgments were not blinded by guilt and selfishness they would think it more wonderful that God should suffer such a Deluge of wickedness to go unpunished in this World than that he should punish it according to its desert in another World 6. What if God should send but one wicked Man of a Thousand to Hell and save all the rest would they not acknowledge and admire his Mercy and Beneficence Well though he will not do so yet we know not but there may be as great a communication of his goodness as that amounts to For as the Heaven of glory doth incomparably exceed the inferiour Heavens and Earth in bigness So it is judged by sober learned Men that there be ten thousand times more holy and blessed Spirits there than there be wicked Men in Earth or Hell and they were as wise * Gassendus and others as other Men that supposed the Planets and other Luminaries of Heaven to be inhabited by Spirits as the Earth is by Men and Beasts And when I observe that all places almost here below both in Air and Water as well as Earth are inhabited by Birds or Flies or Fishes or some other living Creatures I am very willing to imagine that the more glorious parts of God's handy-work which so dazle our eyes but a little to behold are not empty but possessed by such excellent Inhabitants as are suitable to their magnitude and glory Thou knowest not Reader how many Millions of Creatures are over thy head that are filled with their Maker's love and goodness and therefore entertain no hard thoughts of it nor murmur at the just Judgments of thy God upon the obstinate Enemies of his holy Laws how many soever they may be And thus I have answered the Objection aforesaid and may now fitly proceed to a farther improvement of the Doctrine pleaded for in a way of Exhortation and Caution to several sorts of Men of which with God's leave in the ensuing Paragraph CHAP. IV. SECT III. Containing a Use of Exhortation and Caution to the Gentry and others HAving proved the point so plainly before and cleared it now at large from the grand objection about its consistency with the Divine Goodness I shall urge it by God's permission upon several sorts of men amongst us And I may fitly urge it upon those in the first place that are first in place viz. The Gentry of our Land I need not doubt but some or other will think me a pragmatical person in the very worst sense and may be willing to ask me what I have to do with such Well if they have any great desire to do so let them do it by all means for why should they lose their longing But if they are reasonable men I may hope to prevent that query by giving them this following account in brief Namely that I am a debtor to all and am bound especially as I am a Minister to do good to all so far as I may and it is as much worth my pains to endeavour to prevent the damnation of these as to prevent the Damnation of meaner men for their Souls are as precious and their sins as dangerous as others And it is very proper to speak somewhat to such persons because they are most taken notice of and their Examples most powerful to lead others in the way to Salvation or destruction 1. To the Sensual Gentry There be two sorts of Gentry amongst us 1. Sensual careless ones 2. Serious and Conscientious First of the former and certainly I had need be careful how I speak to those men that have ruined so many that never durst to speak to them so plainly as I intend to do Who are such But before I go any further I must express my self clearly and shew whom I mean by Sensual Gentry even those that take more care how to please their senses and sensitive Appetites than their Consciences or their God that make more account of Gain than Godliness and regard not who or how many they ruine so they may but raise themselves by it that slight the Laws of the Eternal King and care no more for a plain sound Sermon than for a dish of stinking meat that grosly undervalue the glory of Heaven and think themselves as happy as need to be if they have but health and wealth and honour here c. Dr. Saundersons Serm. in 1 Cor. 7.24 or in the words of the Reverend Bishop Saunderson that spend half the day in sleeping half the night in Gaming and the rest of their precious time in other pleasures and vanities to as little purpose as they can devise as if