Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
... 58 We are very curious to know where Hell is: But we are not so careful to learn how we may escape it. Our thoughts were better spent in meditating upon it.
59 When we sit down to eat and drink, and when we rise from table again, when we lie down to sleep, and when we rise up again: at all times, and in all places, it is very good to think upon Hell.
60 For, To think upon Hell preserves a man from falling into it. Chrysost, Hom. 44 in Matth.
61 Dost thou think to quench the flames of Hell by not speaking of it or, Dost thou think thou kindlest the flame thereof by speaking of it? Whether thou speakest of it or no, the flame is always there alike. Idem in Homil. 2. in 2. Thess.
For more, see Johann Gerhard on hell.
59 When we sit down to eat and drink, and when we rise from table again, when we lie down to sleep, and when we rise up again: at all times, and in all places, it is very good to think upon Hell.
60 For, To think upon Hell preserves a man from falling into it. Chrysost, Hom. 44 in Matth.
61 Dost thou think to quench the flames of Hell by not speaking of it or, Dost thou think thou kindlest the flame thereof by speaking of it? Whether thou speakest of it or no, the flame is always there alike. Idem in Homil. 2. in 2. Thess.
For more, see Johann Gerhard on hell.
