John Trapp on Matthew 25:41

Verse 41. Then shall he say also, &c.] Then: Judgement as it begins here at Gods [illegible: 1 word], so shall it at the last day. The elect shall be crowned, and then the reprobates doomed and damned. Depart from [illegible: 1 word] ye cursed, &c.] A sentence that breaths out nothing but fire and brimstone, stings and horrours, woe and alas, [illegible: 1 word] without end, and past imagination. Mercy, Lord, saith the [illegible: 1 word] miser. No, saith Christ, [illegible: 1 word], be packing. Yet blesse me before I go.Ob. Depart ye cursed. Sol. To some good place then.Ob. To hell-fire, not materiall fire, but worse in many respects.Sol. But let me then come out again.Ob. It is everlasting fire, eternity of extremity. This is the hell ofSol. hell: this puts the damned to their [non-Latin text not transcribed], as much as if they should say, [non-Latin text not transcribed], Not ever, Lord, torment us thus. But they have a will to sin ever; and, being worthlesse, they cannot satisfie Gods justice in any time: therefore is their [illegible: 1 word] everlasting. But let me have some good company in my [illegible: 1 word].Ob. The devil and his Angels. Sol. But who appointed me this hard condition?Ob. It was prepared of old. The all-powerfull wisdom did, as itSol. [illegible: 1 word], set down and devise most [illegible: 4 words] that most formidable fire. And here it is hard to say, whether [illegible: 3 words], Depart from me ye cursed, or that which followeth, Into [illegible: 1 word] fire; Pain of losse, or pain of sense. Sure it is, that the [illegible: 1 word] of hell are not sufficient to be wail the losse of heaven; the [illegible: 1 word] of grief gna [illegible: 2 words] painfull, as the [illegible: 1 word] burns. If those good souls, Act. 20. wept because they should see [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word] no more, how deplorable is the eternall deprivation of the beatificall vision?