' ino 
HELL 
are fuid to admit thirteen hells, and twenty-feven paradifes ; 
where every perfon finds a place of recompence fuited to the 
ee of good or evil he has done. 
There are two great points of controverfy among writers 
hk, whether there really be any local 
That 
father, in his treatife Ie: Apyw:, interpreting the fcripture 
account metaphorically, makes hell to confift not in external 
punifhments, but in the confcience of 
The retainers of the contrary opinion, who are much the 
greatelt part of mankind, are divided as to the fituation and 
other circumitances of this horrible fcene. The Greeks 
after Homer, Hefiod, &c. conceive ell, tomrov tive vro THy 
ya peyar, Ke. a large and dark place under the earth. Lucian, 
e er 
y founded on the 
sy hell, Matt. xii. 40. 
following article Heri and Anes. 
Mr. Whitton has advanced a new opinion. According to 
him, the comets are to be conceived as fo many he ap- 
pointed in the courfe of their trajeétories or orbits, alter- 
~ nately to carry the 
to be feorched by his flames; and then to return them to 
farve in the cold, dreary, dark regions, beyond the orb of 
_ Mr. T. Swinden, in an exprefs enquiry into the Nature 
and Place of Hell, : : 
ble he was. 
: it is pro 
of fire, and that fphere in 
' ions fome of 
{chool, who placed the {phere of fire j 
called it Jupiter’s Prifon. De Cero, lib. ii. ats 
_.. Swinden’s arguménts for the fun’s being the local hell are, 
damned into the confines of the fun, there 
finners, the fenfe of — 
which fuits well with the great fubtilt 
es 
ody will deny the fun fpacious 
fire be wanting, if we 
Mr. Swinden’s argument againft Ariftotle, 
Pyre. 
nean mountains of fulphur, how many Atlantic oltlag of 
fealding bitumen, muft go to maintain fuch mighty flames as 
thofe of the fun; to which our A®tna and Vefuvius are mere 
glow-worms.”’ 
2. 
ts diftance yreum, which 
afar 
takes to be the folar vortex. 
he early and almoft univerfal dokary paid to the fun ; 
e. 
it may be obje@ted, that we mud 
hel hi 
peer or unknown world. 
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