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

And he said] That is, and God made answer to the words spoken in the verse before, And he said unto him If they hear not Moses, &c. As if he had said, Moses was a man of great Renown, a man of worthy note, a man that talked with God face to face, as a man speaketh to his Friend: The words that Moses spake, were such as I commanded him to speak: Let who will question them, I will own them, credit them, bless them that close in with them, and curse those that reject them.

ANd he said] That is, and God made answer to the words spoken in the verse before, And he said unto him If they hear not Moses, &c. As if he had said, Moses was a man of great Renown, a man of worthy note, a man that talked with God face to face, as a man speaketh to his Friend: The words that Moses spake, were such as I commanded him to speak: Let who will question them, I will own them, credit them, bless them that close in with them, and curse those that reject them.

I my self sent the Prophets, they did not run of their own heads; I gave them Commission; I thrust them our, and told them what they should say. In a word, They have told the World what my mind is to do, both to Sinners and to Saints. They have Moses and the Prophets, let them hear them. Therefore, he that shall reject and turn his back either upon the Threatenings, Counsels, Admonitions, Invita ions, Promises, or whatsoever else I have commanded them to speak, as to Salvation and Life, and to Directions therein, shall be sure to have a share in the many Curses, that they have spoken, and the Destruction that is pronounced ⟨p. 171⟩by them. Again, If they hear not Moses, and the Prophets, &c. As if he had said, Thou wouldst have me send one from the Dead unto them, what needs that? They have my Mind already, I have declared unto them what I intend to stand to, both for saving them that believe, and damning them that do not. That therefore which I have said, I will make good, whether they hear, or forbear. And as for this desire of yours, you had as good desire me to make a new Bible, and so to revoke my first Sayings, by the Mouth of my Prophets. But I am God, and not Man, and my Word is immutable, unchangeable, and shall stand as fast as my Decrees can make it; Heaven and Earth shall pass away, but one jot or tittle of my Word shall not pass. If thou hadst Ten Thousand Brethren, and every one in danger of losing his Soul, if they did not close in with what is contained and recorded in the Scriptures of Truth, they must even every one of them perish, and be for ever damned in Hell; for the Scriptures cannot be broken. I did not send them so unadvisedly, to recall it again by another consideration. No, For I speak in Righteousness and Judgment,