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

And thirdly, on this account, O how excellent are the Scriptures to thy soul! O how much virtue dost thou •ee in such a Promise, in such an invitation! they are so large, as to say Christ will in no wise cast me •ut▪ My crimson sins shall be white as Snow. I •ell thee friend, there are some Promises that the Lord hath helped me to lay hold of Jesus Christ th••ugh, and by, that I would not have out of the Bible, for as much Gold and Silver as can ⟨p. 189⟩lye between York and London piled up to the stars; because through them, Christ is pleased by his Spirit, to convey comfort to my soul! I say, when the Law curses, when the devil temps, when hellfire flames in my Conscience, my sins with the guilt of them tearing of me, then is Christ revealed so sweetly to my poor soul through the Promises; that all is forced to fly and leave off to accuse my soul. So also, when the World frowns, when the Enemies rage and threaten to kill me, then also the precious, the exceeding great and precious Promises, do weight down all, and comfort the soul against all. This is the effect of believing the Scriptures savingly; for they that do so, have by, and through the Scriptures good comfort, and also ground of hope, Rom. 15. 4. believing those things to be its own which the Scriptures hold forth.

And thirdly, on this account, O how excellent are the Scriptures to thy soul! O how much vertue dost thou •ee in such a Promise, in such an invitation! they are so large, as to say Christ will in no wise cast me •ut▪ My crimson sins shall be white as Snow. I •ell thee friend, there are some Promises that the Lord hath helped me to lay hold of Jesus Christ th••ugh, and by, that I would not have out of the Bible, for as much Gold and Silver as can ⟨p. 189⟩