judgment-seat when all men, and angels, and demons shall stand,
they will send forth one voice, and say, Just Is Thy Judgment;
the rejoinder to which will bring a just sentence upon both
parties, by giving justly to those that have done well an
everlasting fruition; but allotting to the lovers of wicked works
eternal punishment. To these belong the unquenchable fire, and
that without end, and a certain fiery worm, never dying, and not
destroying the body, but continuing its eruption out of the body
with never-ceasing grief: neither will sleep give ease to these
men, nor will the night afford them comfort; death will not free
them from their punishment, nor will the interceding prayers of
their kindred profit them; for the just are no longer seen by
them, nor are they thought worthy of remembrance. But the just
shall remember only their righteous actions, whereby they have
attained the heavenly kingdom, in which there is no sleep, no
sorrow, no corruption, no care, no night, no day measured by
time, no sun driven in his course along the circle of heaven by
necessity, and measuring out the bounds and conversions of the
seasons, for the better illumination of the life of men; no moon
decreasing and increasing, or introducing a variety of seasons,
nor will she then moisten the earth; no burning sun, no Bear
turning round [the pole], no Orion to rise, no wandering of
innumerable stars. The earth will not then be difficult to be
passed over, nor will it he hard to find out the court of
paradise, nor will there be any fearful roaring of the sea,
forbidding the passengers to walk on it; even that will be made
easily passable to the just, though it will not be void of
moisture. Heaven will not then be uninhabitable by men, and it
will not be impossible to discover the way of ascending thither.
The earth will not be uncultivated, nor require too much labor of