(seq. 108)

Mark 9.44
Where their worme dieth not, & the fire is not
quenched.
We have heard somthing of the miseryes belonging to sinning
man, those fruits & dismal effects of sin, both negative & po-
sitive, you may remember where we last left him, viz.
in hell, under the unsufferable & unspeakable impressions of
divine furye, tormented & [wrecked?] in soule & body, ye place
whither his soule enters at death, & both soule & body at
the last day: The blackest & saddest line of all remains yet to
be handed, & that is the duration of their miserye, or the
time of their continuance under it, which is now to be lookt
into, & is deciphered to us in the words read: [illegible] Savior Christ
warning his hearers of sin & [di???ing] to repentance,
sets it home upon them with this consideration, viz. that
without it they were lyable to descend into hell, which war-
ning (that it might leave the more aw upon their [spirits?])
he illustrates by this adjunct in the text:
Their worme dies not [?] i.e. their racking tormenting
conscience, shall alwayes (like a worme) gnaw upon them,
& eat out all their comforts.
The fire is not quenched [?] i.e. the punishment of Gods wrath,
which is like a devouring fire, shall never cease: In the words {?]
held out to us the eternity of the damned sinners suffering in
hell, & that is the matter we are now to improve: hence.
The damned sinner in hell shall suffer unspeakable
torments to all eternity. his worme That never dye, etc.
this is held forth in other Scriptures. Isa. 66.24 Psal.
92.7. Math. 25.41; 46. Isa. 33.14. the sinner shall
not only suffer those torments which we heard of hereto-
fore, but the misery of his miserye is, hee shall suffer
them forever.
In the explication consider. 1. What is that eternity.
2. How God shall enable the sinner to undergoe eternal
torments. 3. The Reasons.
What is that Eternity?
Eternity is considered, as it is in Scripture Attributed, either
to God, or to the creature.
Eternity as it is attributed to God, is that [wherby? = whereby] hee is with-
out beginning, succession, or end of time: enjoying himslefe,
& looking upon all things in an eternal now, in which