“One stroke of his almighty rod
Shall send young sinners quick to hell.”
Isaac Watts (1674–1748) English hymnwriter, theologian and logician
Song 13: "The Danger of Delay".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
“In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience.”
The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650), "The People Who Receive the Saints' Rest"
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Stanza 9
An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)
“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.”
John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer
Francis de Sales book Introduction to the Devout Life
Pt. 2, ch. 15
Introduction to the Devout Life (1609)
Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Mephistopheles, Act II, scene i, line 120. In the first line, Marlowe references Isaiah in Isaiah 24:19 and 34:4; in the second line, he references Daniel in Daniel 12:10.
Doctor Faustus (c. 1603)
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Source: 1920s, Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 1: The Value of Scepticism
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 10.