Chapter 55. Of the State and Condition of the Reprobates When They are Dead.
WILLIAM PERKINS
Chapter 55. Of the State and Condition of the Reprobates When They are Dead.
The death of the Reprobate is a separation of the body and the soul: of the body, so that for a time it may lie dead in the earth; of the soul, so that it may feel the torments of hell, even until the time of the Last
Judgment — at which time the whole man shall be cast into the most terrible and fearful fire of hell. 1Pet 3.19,
By whom he also went and preached to the spirits that are in prison. Luk 8.2;
2Pet 2.4, For if God did not spare the Angels that sinned, but cast them down into hell,
and delivered them into chains of darkness to be kept unto damnation, etc.
The Reprobate, when they die, become without sense, and astonished like a stone; or else they are overwhelmed with a terrible horror of conscience; and despairing of their salvation, as it were, with a gulf of the sea overturning them. 1Sam 25.37-38, Then in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him those words; and his heart died within him, and he was like a stone. And about ten days after, the Lord struck Nabal, so that he died. Mat 27.5, And when
[Judas] had cast down the silver pieces in the temple, he departed, and went and hanged himself.