SAM. A place and state most blessed, because God dwelleth there.
PRUD. What is hell?
SAM. A place and state most woeful, because it is the dwelling-place of sin, the devil, and death.
PRUD. Why wouldest thou go to Heaven?
SAM. That I may see God, and serve Him without weariness; that I may see Christ, and love Him everlastingly; that I may have that fullness of the Holy Spirit in me that I can by no means here enjoy.
PRUD. A very good boy also, and one that has learned well. Then she addressed herself to the eldest, whose name was Matthew; and she said to him, Come, Matthew, shall I also catechise you?
MATTHEW. With a very good will.
PRUD. I ask, then, if there were ever anything that had a being antecedent to, or before God?
MATT. No; for God is eternal; nor is there anything excepting
Himself, that had a being until the beginning of the first day.
'For in six days the Lord made Heaven and earth, the sea, and all
that in them is.'
PRUD. What do you think of the Bible?