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A Diſcourſe
Book II.

Chap. XV.

That punishments after Death do await the wicked, and that for the most part they are not acquitted from External ones, is proved by examples.

Adde to these those Posthumous and External pains wihch we have learned from Divinity; and which without further discussion it will be sufficient only thus to mention. Adde to those also external punishments; which yet if they should be wanting, since the former are inflicted, who could reasonably blame the external Justice? But they are not wanting. Nor was it ever, at least very seldom, but that publick oppressours, and Men openly wicked; do undergo publick and open punishments; some sooner, others later; some in their own persons, and

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