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

Nay Father Abraham, but if one should rise from the dead, they would repent. Though they have Moses and the Prophets, (the Scriptures) they will not repent and close in with Jesus Christ, though the Scriptures do witness against them. If therefore there be any good done to them, they must have it another way. I think, saith he, it would work much on them, if one should rise from the dead. And this truth indeed is so evident, that ungodly ones have a light esteem of the Scriptures, that it needs not many strong Arguments to prove it, being so evidently manifested by their every days practice, both in words and actions, almost in all ⟨p. 149⟩things they say and do. Yet for the satisfaction to he Reader, I shall show you by a Scripture o• two, (though I might show many) that this was, and is true with the generality of the world. See the words of Nehemiah in his 9th Chapter, concerning the Children of Israel, who though the Lord afforded them mercy upon mercy, as it is from ver. 19▪ to ver. 25. yet ver. 26. saith he, Nevertheless they were disobedient for all thy goodness towards them, and rebelled against thee, (but how?) and cast thy Law behind their back: Slew the Prophets which testified against them, to turn them to thee; and they wrought great provocations. Observe, 1. They sinned against mercy. And then 2. They slighted the Law, or Word of God. 3. They slew the Prophets that declared it unto them. 4. The Lord counts it a great provocation. See Heb. 3. from ver. 10. ver. 19. And see Zach. 7. 11, 12. But they refused to hearken, (saith he there of the Wicked) and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear the Law. Yea, they made their hearts hard as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the Law, and the words which the Lord of Hosts sent unto them by his Spirit in the former Prophets, &c. Mark I pray you, her is also, First, a refusing to hearken to the word of the Prophets.

Nay Father Abraham, but if one should rise from the dead, they would repent. Though they have Moses and the Prophets, (the Scriptures) they will not repent and close in with Jesus Christ, though the Scriptures do witness against them. If therefore there be any good done to them, they must have it another way. I think, saith he, it would work much on them, if one should rise from the dead. And this truth indeed is so evident, that ungodly ones have a light esteem of the Scriptures, that it needs not many strong Arguments to prove it, being so evidently manifested by their every dayes practice, both in words and actions, almost in all