Sighs from hell, or, The groans of a damned soul discovering from the 16th…

From these words, And he cried, we may observe, first, What a change the ungodly will have, when they come into Hell. He cried; it is like he was laughing, jesting, jeering, drinking, mocking, swearing, cursing, prating, persecuting of the godly in his prosperity, among his filthy companions; but now the case is otherwise, now he is in another frame, now his proud, flout, currish carriage is come down. And he cried. The laughter of the ungodly will not last always, but will be sure to end in a cry, The triumphing of the wicked is short, Job 20 5. Consider, you must have a change, either here or in Hell. If you be not new creatures, regenerate persons, new-born Babes in this World before you go hence, your note will be changed, your conditions will be changed▪ for if you come into Hell, you must cry. O did but the singing drunkards, when they are making merry on the Ale-bench, think on this, it would make them change their note, and cry, What shall I do? whither shall I go when I die? But as I said before, the Devil, as he labours to get poor souls to follow their sins, so he labours also to keep the thoughts of eternal damnation out of their minds; and indeed▪ these two things are so nearly linked together, that the Devil cannot well get the Soul to go on in sin with delight, unless ⟨p. 47⟩he can keep the Thoughts of that terrible after-clap out of their minds.

From these words, And he cryed, we may observe, first, What a change the ungodly will have, when they come into Hell. He cried; it is like he was laughing, jesting, jearing, drinking, mocking, swearing, cursing, prating, pers•cuting of the godly in his prosperity, among his filthy companions; but now the case is otherwise, now he is in another frame, now his proud, flout, currish carriage is come down. And he cryed. The laughter of the ungodly will not last alwayes, but will be sure to end in a cry, The tryumphing of the wicked is short, Job 20 5. Consider, you must have a change, either here or in Hell. If you be not new creatures, regenerate persons, new-born Babes in this World before you go hence, your note will be changed, your conditions will be changed for if you come into Hell, you must cry. O did but the singing drunkards, when they are making merrie on the Ale-bench, think on this, it would make them change their note, and cry, What shall I do? whither shall I go when I die? But as I said before, the Devil, as he labours to get poor souls to follow their sins, so he labours also to keep the thoughts of eternal damnation out of their mindes; and indeed these two things are so nearly linked together, that the Devil cannot well get the Soul to go on in sin with delight, unless