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 will ring, as the prophet Isaias saith: "Labia ejus repleta sunt indignatione, et Ihigua ejus quasi ignis devorans." "His lips are filled with indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire." For what flannes can be so ardent as those words: "Discedite a me maledicti in ignum esternum,qui paratiis est Diabolo et angelis ejus." " Go from me, O ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the Devil and his angels." Every word of which sentence, is full of bitter torment. For who is able to comprehend what this separation is, what curse, what fire, what society, and, finally, what eternity, to which the wicked are adjudged by force of this sentence?

This day thou shalt meditate upon the torments of bell, that duly pondering them, thou may est have more awe of Almighty God, and a greater hatred of sin. St. Bonaventure teacheth, that these torments are to be considered according to certain similitudes set down by holy men, concerning this matter. Wherefore, it will not be beside our purpose (as the same Doctor, in the same place saith,) to imagine hell a horrible confused chaos, a lake under the earth, a deep fiery dungeon; or as a spacious city, dark and terrible, burning with