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

7. And thou hast heard that, Whosoever will be a friend of the World, is the enemy of God, Jam. 4. 4. ⟨p. 153⟩But thou regardest not these things, but contrariwise, rather then thou wilt be out of the friendship and favour of this world, thou wilt sin against thine own Conscience, and get thy self in•o favour by fawning, and flattering of the world. Yea, rather then thou wilt go without it, thou wilt dissemble, lye, backbite thy Neighbour, and an hundred other tricks thou wilt have.

8. You have heard that the day of Judgement is near, in which you and I all of us must appear before the Tribunal of Jesus Christ, and there be made to give an account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead; even of all that ever we did, yea, of all our sins in thought, word, and deed, and shall certainly be damned for them too, if we close not in with our Lord Jesus Christ, and what he hath done and suffered for eternal life, and that not notionally or traditionally, but really and savingly, in the power, and by the operation of the spirit, through faith (Eccles. 11. 9. 12. 14. Heb. 9. 27. Acts 10. 42, Acts 17. 30, 31. 2 Cor. 5. 10. Rev. 20. 12.) And I saw the dead small and great, stand before God, and the Books were opened, and another Book was opened, which is the Book of Life; and the dead were judged out of those things that were written in the Books. There is the Book of the Creatures, the Book of Conscience, the Book of the Lords Remembrance the Book of the Law, the Book of the Gospel (