Matthew Poole and continuators on Revelation 16:9

9 And men were scorched with great heat , and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues : and they repented not to give him glory .

What the damned do in Hell, where the Wrath of God is poured out upon Men to the utmost, that Reprobates do upon Earth, they are scorched with great Heat, the Vengeance of God cometh upon them, they are mad and inraged,

and speak evil of a just, and righteous God, who bringeth such Plagues on them;

But they have no sense of their Sins, nor any Thoughts of turning to God, confessing their Sins, and giving him Glory. This will be the Upshot of God's lesser Judgments upon the Papacy: They will be mad at them, and rage, and reproach God's Justice, but prove an hardned Generation, given over to Ruine, that will never be sensible that these Judgments come upon them for their Idolatries and Superstitions, and for their Persecutions, and the shedding the Blood of God's Holy Ones; not that all adhering to that Church will be so (many, probably, will convert, and be brought to acknowledge the Truth) but there will be a great Party of them, whom nothing but the Wrath of God come upon them in the bottomless Pit to the utmost, will ever make sensible that they have done amiss, being given up to strong Delusions, to a blind Mind, and an hard Heart, and a re[illegible: 1 letter]robate Iudgment.

Marginal references: Or, burned.; Vers. 11.1[illegible: 1 letter] ▪