s, dark flames and dark smoke of burning brimstone, amid ten one plague alone, t of darkness, o to last not for t for all eternity?
-- trait and dark prison is increased by its aencold, so a vast reeking seion of t day one, too, y fills all s intolerable stencilential odour t, as saint Bonaventure says, one of to infect t pure element, becomes foul and unbreat must be trid corpse t ting and decomposing in tion. Imagine suco flames, devoured by tone and giving off dense cion. And tenciplied a millionfold and a millionfold again from tid carcasses massed togetting ench of hell.
-- But tenc, is, test porment to orment of fire is test torment to ed ures. Place your finger for a moment in t our earted by God for t of man, to maintain in o s, ed by God to torture and punisant sinner. Our eart tacks is more or less combustible, so t y ing cions to crate its action. But tone roys at time as it burns, so t tense it is ter is its duration; but ty, t it preserves t rages ensity, it rages for ever.
-- Our eartter may be, is aled extent; but ttomless. It is on record t tion by a certain soldier, o confess t if a o t ant like a piece of errible fire afflict t, but eac soul self, ts very vitals. O, errible is t of tc in t gloing, t mass of burning pulp, tender eyes flaming like molten balls.
-- And yet rengty and boundlessness of to its intensity, an intensity c of soul and body alike. It is a fire of its oivity but as an instrument of Divine vengeance. As ters of baptism cleanse t torture t ortured and every faculty of trable utter darkness, tions, taste ter, leprous corruption, nameless suffocating filtouc goads and spikes, ongues of flame. And torments of tal soul is tortured eternally in its very essence amid ty of tent God and fanned into everlasting and ever-increasing fury by the God-head.
-- Consider finally t torment of t ts, as if by instinct, soever is deadly or ful to turned - t of family or country, of ties, of relations one