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

I say therefore, for these that have sinned together, to go to Hell together, it will very much perplex and torment them both. Therefore I judge this is one Reason, why they that are in Hell do desire, that their Friends, or Companions, do not come thither into the same place of Torment that they are in. And therefore, where Christ saith, that these Damned Souls cry out, Send to our Companions, that they may be warned and commanded to look to themselves. O send to my five Brethren: It is because they would not have their own Torments heightened by their Company; and a sense, yea, a continual sense of their sins, which they did cause them to commit, when they were in the World with them. For I do believe, that the very looks of those that have been beguiled by their Fellows, I say, their very looks will be a Torment to them: For thereby will the Remembrance of their own sins be kept (if possible) the fresher on their Consciences, which they committed with ⟨p. 97⟩them; and also they will wonderfully have the guilt of the others sins upon them, in that they were partly the cause of his committing them, being Instruments in the Hands of the Devil to draw them into. And therefore, lest this come to pass, I pray thee send him to my Fathers house. For if they might not come hither, peradventure my Torment might have some mitigation; that is, If they might be saved, then their sins will be pardoned, and not so heavily charged on my Soul. But if they do fall into the same place where I am, the sins that I have caused them to commit will lie so heavy, not only on their Souls, but also on mine, that they will sink me into Eternal Misery, deeper and deeper. O therefore send him to my Fathers house, to my five Brethren, and let him testify to them, lest they come into this place of torment.

I say therefore, for these that have sinned together, to go to Hell together, it will very much perplex and torment them both. Therefore I judge this is one Reason, why they that are in Hell do desire, that their Friends, or Companions, do not come thither into the same place of Torment that they are in. And therefore, where Christ saith, that these Damned Souls cry out, Send to our Companions, that they may be warned and commanded to look to themselves. O send to my five Brethren: It is because they would not have their own Torments heigh•ned by their Company; and a sense, yea, a continual sense of their sins, which they did cause them to commit, when they were in the World with them. For I do believe, that the very looks of those that have been beguiled by their Fellows, I say, their very looks will be a Torment to them: For thereby will the Remembrance of their own sins be kept (if possible) the fresher on their Consciences, which they committed with