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

3. Because the carnal Priests do tickle the ears of their hearers with vain Philosophy and deceit, and thereby harden their hearts against the simplicity of the Gospel, and word of God, which things, the Apostle admonished those that have a mind to close in with Christ, to avoid, Col. 2. 8. saying, Beware lest any man (be he what h• will) spoil you, through Philosophy and vain deceit, after the traditions of men, and rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. And you who muzzle up your people in ignorance with Aristotle, Plato▪ and the rest of the heathenish Philosophers, and ⟨p. 165⟩preach little, if any thing of Christ rightly. I say unto you, that you will find you have sinned against God, and beguiled your hearers, when God shall in the Judgement-day, lay the cause of the damnation of many thousands of souls to your charge, and say, He will require their blood a• your hands, Ezek. 33. 6.

4. Another reason why the carnal unbelieving world do so slight the Scriptures, and Word of God, is, because the judgement spoken of in the Scripture, is not presently executed on the transgressors. Because sentence against an evil act, is not speedily executed, therefore the hearts of the sons of men, are wholly set in the•• to do evil, Eccles. 8. 11. Because God doth not presently strike the poor wretch as soon as he sins, but waits, and forbears▪ and is patient: Therefore the world judging God to be unfaithful, go to it again, and again, and every time grow harder and harder, till at last, God is forced either to stretch out his mighty power to turn them, or else send death with the Devil and Hell to fetch them. Thou thoughtest (saith God) that I was altogether such an one as thy self, but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thy face. Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.