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

Here then before we go any further, you may see, that it is not without good ground, that these words are here spoken by our Lord, That when any of the ungodly do depart into Hell, they will cry. Cry, why so?

1. They will cry to think, that they should be cut off from the Land of the Living, never more to have any footing therein. 2. They will cry to think, that the Gospel of Christ should be so often proffered them, and yet they are not profited by it. 3. They will cry to think, that now, though ⟨p. 49⟩they would never so willingly repent and be saved, yet they are past all Recovery. 4. They will cry to think, that they should be so foolish as to follow their pleasures, when others were following of Christ, Luke 13. 28. 5. They will cry to think, that they must be separated from God, Christ, and the Kingdom of Heaven, and that for ever. 6. To think, that their crying will now do them no good. 7. To think, that at the Day of Judgment, they must stand at the left hand of Christ, among an innumerable Company of the Damned Ones. 8. They will cry to think, that Lazarus, whom once they slighted, must be of them that must sit with Christ to judge, or together with Christ, to pass a Sentence of Condemnation on their Souls for ever and ever, 1 Cor. 6. 2, 3. 9. Cry to think, that when the Judgment is over, and others are taken into the everlasting Kingdom of Glory, then thou must depart back again into that Dungeon of Darkness, from whence thou camest out, (•o appear before that terrible Tribunal) where thou shalt be tormented so long as Eternity lasts, without the least intermission or ease.