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Show 24.2, Part. 3. 0 F A CHR ISTIA N Chap, 38, on the Kingdome of Man, as not to be determined , btit by them, that under God have the Soveraign Power. The place after As the Kingdome of God, and Eternall Life, f0 alfo Gods Ene- jm'gmma 9f mies, and their Torments after Judgment, appear by the Strip ture, to have their place on Earth. The name ofthe place , where trale who were never in the Kitrgdcme of all men remain till the Refurreé‘tion, that were either buryed, or Goa," having been in, are cafi out. fwallowed lip ofthe Earth, is ufually called in Scripture , by words that {ignifie undergo/tad, which the Latines read generally Iiifemas, and Iii/m, and the Greeks 053V"; that is to fay, a place where men cannot fee, and containeth as well the Grave , as any other deeper place. But for the place of the damned after the Refurrec‘tion , it is not determined, neither in the Old, nor New Teftament , by any Tatiana- part. 3.‘ Chap. 33. 00 M M 0 N-WE A L TH. their part in the Lake that haraeth with Fire, and Brim/Zane; "thug 55 rhefecand Death. So that it is mamfeltahat Hell F1re,whrch isherc exprelfed by Metaphor, from the teall Fire of Sodome , fignifieth not any certain kind,or place ofTorment; but 15 to be taken indefinitely,for Deltruétion, as it is in the 20. Chapter, at the 14. verfe; where it is faid, that Death and Hell were {ll/llfltl'v the Lake of Fire; that is to fay, were abolilhed,and defiroyed; as if after the day of Judgment, there lhall be no more Dying, nor no. more gomg into Hell; thatis, no more gomg to Hades (from which word perhaps our word Hell is derived, ) which is the fame with no more Dying. Fourthly, from the Plague of Darknell'einfliéted on the Egyp- 7/1!" Dt'iii note of lituation; but onely by the company : as that it iliall bee, where fuch wicked men were, as God in former times in extraordina- tians, of which it is written (Ema/.10. 23.) Theyfimz not one aria- nefle. ry, and miraculous manner, thcr, neither rofe any manfram hi}; placefor three day:; hut all the Children of I rael hadlightin their dwellingnthe place ofthe Wick- Earth: had dellroyed from offthe face of the As for example, that they are in Inferno,in Tatiana, or were ed after Judgment , is called Vttqparkmflz, or (as it is in the ori- fwallowed up alive into the earth. Nor that the Writers of the Scripture would have us beleeve, there could be in the globe of the ginall) Darkhcfj'e avithaiit.And f0 it is expreifed (Mat. 22. 13.) where the King commandeth his Servants, to him! hand and foot the man Earth, which is not only finite,but alfo (compared to the height of the Stars) of no confi derablc magnitude, a pit without a bottome-7 that is, a hole ofinfinite depth, fuch as the Greeks in their Damonolagie (that is to fay, in their doctrine concerning Damom,) and after them the that had not an hr}; Wedding garment , in the bottomelelfe pit.7 becaufe Cora/1, ‘Dathzm, and Ahirom, Romans called Tmama, of which Virgill fayes, Bi: patet in pracept,tantum tenditqae [iih anthrax, Quanta/a ad athereum mlifitfpec7m Olympam: for that isathing the proportion of Earth to Heaven cannot bear: but that wee fliould belcevc them there, indefinitely, whcre tholi men are , on whom God inflicted that Exemplary punnilhment. 7 he congregaAgain, hecaufe thofe mighty men of the Earth,tharlived in the tion ufGiantt. him out, dren to the Idol Moloch; and wherein alfo God had afflicted his enemies with molt grievous punifhments; and wherein Jofias had burnt the Priefls of Moloch upon their own Altars, as appeareth at large in the 2 of King: cha . 2 3. the place ferved afterwards, to receive the time ofNoah, before the florid, ( which the Greeks called Herringand filth, and garbage which was carried thither, ont of the City 3 and there ufcd to be tires made, from time to time , to purifie the airc, and take away the fienchof Carrion. Fromthis abominable place, the jews ufed ever after to call the place of the Damned, by the name life dcllroyed by the general] deluge, the place of the Damned , 1» therefore alfo fomctimes marked out, by the company ofthofe deceifcd Giants, as Proverbs 2 r. 16. The man: that mandrel/J our of 2 "re 1m ofoehnmamrliilley of'Hmnoh. And this Gehemta, is that word, afimderflahdva/hall remain in the congregation oft/1e Cimtr, and which is ufually now tranllated Ha I. L; and from the fires from time to time there burning,we have the notion of Bowler/ting , and Viz- Job 26.5.Behold the Giantsgmah under water, and they that div In n 1/; qumehahle Fire. them. Here the place of the Damned, is under the water. And 115m" Seeing now there is none, that f0 interprets the Scripture, as that Of the literal! after the day ofJudgment, the wicked are all Eternally to be punilh- lenfe of the 14.9. Halli; tratihlcd how to meet thee, ( that is,thc King or‘baiw‘nn and will diff/anti}: Gimufar thee : and here again tile place or Iii. Damned, (if the fenfe be literall,) is to be under water. Lake of liirrc. 4nd to eafl ii; 73 "279- W‘ éEt£Ttyt,Externall darkneffepr Dar/emjfe mithorttzwhich though tranllated er darkaefle, does not fignifie how great, but where that darknelfe is to be; namelygvr'thoat the hahitatwn of Gods Eleét. Lallly, whereas there was a place neer Jerufalem, called the Val- Gc'betmda ""4 lay of the Children of Hiflflflfi; in a part whereof, called Taphet,the Tophct. Jews had committed molt grievous Idolatry, facrificing their chil- the Scripture Gian", and both fay, were begotten, by copulation o: the children ofGod, with the children of men,) were for their \VlChtd 145‘ 14710707105735": andSareerers,and Idolatry, (had all hydra, jhall have Thirdly, becaufe the Cities ofSodom, and Gomorrah, by the t\~ traordinarywrath ofGod, were confirmed for theiru'icketl .e1,L v.23. lite and Brimllonc , and together with them the L(>L!i"t-.i'5_.' ' ' made a {linking bituminous Lake : the place ofthc Damned .‘ 1U times exprefl'ed by Firegnd a Fiery Lake: as in the flpaca we z. 3. Bat the timorow, ii"!€dtt/0Ilf,sliid ahamtaahlnahd Ain't/lent a. 1: v .. : ed inthe Vallcyrof Hinnon; or that they {hall f0 rife again , as to be Scripture cottever after under ground, or under water, or that after the Refur- cerning Hell. teetion, they lhall no more fee one another, nor ltir from one place to another, it followeth,me thinks, very necclfarily, that that which is thus faid concerning Hell Fire, is fpoken metaphorically, and that therefore there is a proper fenfe to bee enquired after, (for of all Mctaphors there is fomc reall ground, that may be exprelfcd in proper "'OYdSlboth ofthe Place of Hed, and the nature of Hellljh Torr/1mm, and Tormentm. I i ' And |