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

But now, when didst thou feel the power of this first part of the Scripture, the Law, so mighty as to strike thee dead? If not, thou dost not so much as verily believe that part of Scripture that doth contain the Law in it, to be the truth of God. Yet if thou shouldest have felt something, I say something of the killing power of the Law of God in thine heart, this is not an Argument to prove, that thou believest all the Things contained in Scripture; for there is Gospel as well as Law, and therefore I shall speak to that also; that ⟨p. 181⟩is, whether thou hast felt the power of the Gospel, as well as something of the power of the Law.

2. Then, thou hast found the power of the Gospel, and so believed it; thou hast found it thus with thy soul.

1. Thou hast been showed by the word or truth of the Gospel, in the light of the Spirit of Christ, that by nature thou were without the true faith of the Son of God in thy soul: For when He, the Spirit is come, he shall show men that they believe not in me, saith Christ. Joh. 16. 9. Mark, though thou hast, as I said before, felt somewhat of the power of the Law, Letter, or ten Commandments, yet if thou hast not been brought to this, to see by the spirit in the Gospel, that thou art without faith by nature, thou hast not yet tasted, much less believed any part of the Gospel. For the Gospel and the Law are two distinct Covenants. And they that are under the Law, may be convinced by it, and so believe the Law or first Covenant, and yet in the mean time, to be a stranger to the Covenant of promise; that is, the Gospel, and so have no hope in them, (Ephes. 2. 12.) There is not any promise that can be savingly believed, until the soul be by the Gospel converted to Jesus Christ. For though men do think never so much that they believe the things, or the word of the Gospel of our salvation, yet