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

Again, one thing more is to be observed from these words, Let him testify to them, lest they come into this place of torment.

Mark, lest they come in, as if he had said, or else they will come into this place of torment, as sure as I am here. From whence observe, That though some Souls for sin do fall into the bottomless pit of Hell before their fellows, because they depart this World before them; yet the other abiding in the same course, are as sure to go to the same place as if they were there already. How so? Because they are all condemned together, they have all fallen under the same Law▪ and have all offended the same Justice; and must for certain, if they dye in that condition, drink as deep, if not deeper, of the same destruction. Mark, I pray you what the Scriptures say, He that believeth not, is condemned already, John 3. 18.

He is condemned as well as they, having broken the same Law with them: if so, then what ⟨p. 108⟩hinders, but they will partake of the same destruction with them? only the one hath not the Law yet so executed upon them, because they are here; the other have had the Law executed upon them, they are gone to drink that which they have been brewing, and thou art brewing that in this life, which thou must certainly drink. The same Law, I say, is in force against you both, only he is executed, and thou art not. Just as if there were a company of Prisoners at the Bar, and all condemned to dye; what, because they are not all executed in one day, therefore shall they not be executed at all? Yes, the same Law that executed its severity upon the parties now deceased, will for certain be executed on them that are alive, in its appointed time. Even so it is here, we are all condemned by nature, if we close not in with the Grace of God by Jesus Christ, we must and shall be destroyed with the same destruction; and therefore, send him (saith he) lest, Mark, lest they come into this place of torment.