I will not enter here into the Wisdom or Reasonableness of representing the Torments of Hell to be Fire, and that Fire to be a Commixture of _Flame_ and _Sulphur_; it has pleased God to let the Horror of those eternal Agonies about _a lost Heaven_, be laid before us by those Similitudes or Allegories, which are most moving to our Senses and to our Understandings; nor will I dispute the Possibility; much less will I doubt but that there is to be a Consummation of Misery to all the Objects of Misery when the _Devil_'s Kingdom in this World ending with the World it self, that Liberty he has now may be farther abridg'd; when he may be return'd to the same State he was in between the Time of his Fall and the Creation of the World; with perhaps some additional Vengeance on him, such as at present we cannot describe, for all that Treason and those high Crimes and Misdemeanours which he has been guilty of here, in his Conversation with Mankind. As his Infelicity will be then consummated and compleated, so the Infelicity of that Part of Mankind, who are condemn'd with him, may receive a considerable Addition from those Words in their Sentence, to be tormented _with the Devil and his Angels_; for as the Absence of the Supreme Good is a compleat Hell, so the hated Company of the Deceiver, who was the great Cause of his Ruine, must be a Subject of additional Horror, and he will be always saying, as a _Scots_ Gentleman, who died of his Excesses, said to the famous Dr. _P----_, who came to see him on his Death-bed, but had been too much his Companion in his Life, _O tu fundamenta jecisti------_ I would not treat the very Subject it self with any Indecency, nor do I think my Opinion of that _Hell_, which I say consists in the Absence of him, in whom is Heaven, one Jot less Solemn than theirs who believe it all _Fire_ and _Brimstone_; but I must own, that to me nothing can be more ridiculous than the Notions that we entertain and fill our Heads with about _Hell_, and about the _Devil_'s being there tormenting of Souls, broiling them upon Gridirons, hanging them up upon Hooks, carrying them upon their Backs, and the like, with the several Pictures of _Hell_, represented by a great Mouth with horrible Teeth, gaping like a Cave on the Sides of a Mountain; suppose that appropriated to _Satan_ in the _Peak_, which indeed is not much unlike it, with a Stream of Fire coming out of it, as there is of Water, and smaller Devils going and coming continually in and out, to fetch and carry Souls the Lord knows whither, and for the Lord knows what. These Things, however intended for Terror, are indeed so ridiculous, that the _Devil_ himself, to be sure, mocks at them, and a Man of Sense can hardly refrain doing the like, only I avoid it, because I would not give offence to weaker Heads.