Hell

But what would be the effect on your soul, if you knew you must lie there enduring that torment to the full for twenty-four hours! And how much greater would be the effect, if you knew you must endure

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Thus you see it among young and old. Multitudes of youth lead a careless life, taking little care about their salvation. So you may see it among persons of middle age; and with many advanced in years,

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1. The torment and misery, of which natural men are in danger, are exceedingly great in themselves. They are great beyond any of our words or thoughts. When we speak of them, our words are swallowed u

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2. Here the souls of wicked men shall suffer extreme and amazing misery in a separate state, until the resurrection. This misery is not indeed their full punishment; nor is the happiness of the saints

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The fire into which men are to be cast is called a furnace of fire. Furnaces are contrived for an extreme degree of heat, this being necessary for the purposes for which they are designed, as the runn

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4. When the day of judgment comes they shall rise to the resurrection of damnation.’ When that day comes, all mankind that have died from off the face of the earth shall arise; not only the righteous,

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3. Fearfulness will surprise them at the last judgment. “When Christ shall appear in the clouds of heaven, and the last trumpet shall sound, then will the hearts of wicked men be surprised with fearfu

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12. Moreover, as language cannot describe the severity of the divine vengeance on the reprobate, their pains and torments are figured to us by corporeal things, such as darkness, wailing and gnashing

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Chapter 28.—The End of the Wicked. But, on the other hand, they who do not belong to this city of God shall inherit eternal misery, which is also called the second death, because the soul shall then

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Chapter 23.—Against Those Who are of Opinion that the Punishment Neither of the Devil Nor of Wicked Men Shall Be Eternal. First of all, it behoves us to inquire and to recognize why the Church has no

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Chapter 9.—Of Hell, and the Nature of Eternal Punishments. So then what God by His prophet has said of the everlasting punishment of the damned shall come to pass—shall without fail come to pass,—“th

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Chapter 17.—Of Those Who Fancy that No Men Shall Be Punished Eternally. I must now, I see, enter the lists of amicable controversy with those tender-hearted Christians who decline to believe that any

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Chapter 1.—Of the Order of the Discussion, Which Requires that We First Speak of the Eternal Punishment of the Lost in Company with the Devil, and Then of the Eternal Happiness of the Saints. I Propo

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Chapter 26.—What It is to Have Christ for a Foundation, and Who They are to Whom Salvation as by Fire is Promised. But, say they, the catholic Christians have Christ for a foundation, and they have n

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Chapter 3.—Whether Bodily Suffering Necessarily Terminates in the Destruction of the Flesh. But, say they, there is no body which can suffer and cannot also die. How do we know this? For who can say

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Chapter 2.—Whether It is Possible for Bodies to Last for Ever in Burning Fire. What, then, can I adduce to convince those who refuse to believe that human bodies, animated and living, can not only su

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Some, who cover their sin with their specious show, who put on a face of religion, and a demure countenance and behaviour, yet have this spirit secretly reigning in their breasts. Notwithstanding all

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God saith in the text, “and will do it;” which leaves no room to doubt of the actual fulfilment of the threatening in its utmost extent. Some have flattered themselves, that although God hath threaten

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5. Nor will they ever be able to find any thing to relieve them in hell. They will never find any resting place there; any secret corner, which will be cooler than the rest, where they may have a litt

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LUKE xvii. 32. Remember Lot’s wife. THE doctrine from these words was, That we ought not to look back when we are fleeing out of Sodom.—Having confirmed this doctrine by several reasons, we came to

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