John Trapp on Mark 9:44-48

Verse 44. Where their worme] As out of the corruption of our bodies wormes breed, which consume the flesh, so out of the corruption of our soules this never-dying worme. This worme (say Divines) is only a continuall remorse and furious reflection of the soule upon its own wilfull folly, and now wofull misery. Oh consider this before thy friends be scrambling for thy goods, worms for thy body, devils for thy soule. Goe not dancing to hell in thy bolts, rejoyce not in thy bondage, as many doe; to whom the preaching of hell is but as the painting of a toad, which men can look on and handle, without affrightment. Never dyeth, and the fire is not quenched] O quam diuturna & Manlii loc. com pag. 33. immensa est [illegible: 1 word] as! said the devill once. A child with a spoon may sooner empty the sea, then the damned accomplish their misery. A [illegible: 1 word] of brimstone is not consumed by burning.