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

Again, tell others that there are many in Hell, that have lived and dyed in their conditions, and so are they like to be if they convert not to Jesus Christ, and be found in him; or that there are ⟨p. 105⟩others that are more civil and sober men, who, (although we know that their civility will not save them) if we do but tell them plainly of the emptiness, and unprofitableness of that, as to the saving of their souls, and that God will not accept them, nor love them, notwithstanding these things, and that if they intend to be saved, they must be better provided than with such a righteousness as this; they will either fling away, and come to hear no more, or else if they do come, they will bring such prejudice with them in their hearts, That the Word Preached shall not profit them, it being mixed, not with Faith, but with prejudice in them that hear it, Heb. 4. 1, 2. Nay, they will some of them be so full of anger, that they will break out and call, even those that speak the truth, Heretics; yea, and kill them, Luke 4. 25, 26, 27, 28, 29. And why so? Because they tell them, That if they live in their sins, that will damn them, yet if they turn and live a righteous life, according to the holy and just, and good Law of God, that will not save them. Yea, because we tell them plainly, that unless they leave their sins and righteousness too, and close in with a naked Jesus Christ, his blood and merits, and what he hath done, and is now doing for sinners, they cannot be saved; and unless they do eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his Blood, they have no life abiding in them: they gravel presently, ⟨p. 106⟩and are offended at it (as the Jews were with Christ for speaking of the same thing to them, Joh. 6. 53, 60.) and fling away themselves, their souls and all, by quarrelling against the doctrine of the Son of God, as indeed they do, though they will not believe they do; and therefore he that is a Preacher of the Wo••, had need, not only tell them, but testify to them, again, and again, that their sins, if they continue in them, will damn them, and damn them again. And tell them again, their living honestly according to the Law, their paying every one their own, their living quietly with their neighbours, their giving to the poor, their notion of the Gospel, and saying, they do believe in Christ, will do them no good at the general day of Judgment. Ha friends!