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

Consider and regard these things, and lay them to thy heart before it be too late to recover thy self, by repenting of the one, and desiring to close in with the other. O I say, regard, regard, for hell is hot, Gods hand is up, the Law is resolved ⟨p. 192⟩to discharge against thy soul; the Judgment day is at hand; the graves are ready to fly open, the […] is nea• […] •ounding, the sentence will •re long be p•st, and then you and I cannot call •im• again.

Consider and regard these things, and lay them to thy heart before it be too late to recover thy self, by repen•ing of the one, and desiring to close in with the other. O I say, regard, regard, for hell is hot, Gods hand is up, the Law is resolved ⟨p. 192⟩to discharge against thy soul; the Judgment day is at hand; the graves are ready to fly open, the 〈…〉 is nea• 〈…〉 •ounding, the sentence will •re long be p•st, and then you and I cannot call •im• again.

But again, seeing they are so certain, so sure, so irre••••ble and firm; and seeing the saving faith of the thing contained therein is to reform the soul, and bring i over into the things of God, really conforming to the things contained therein, both to the point of Justification, and also an impractical walking, and giving up the soul and body to a conformity to all the commands, counsels, instructions, and exhortations contained therein. This then will learn us how to judg of those who give up themselves to walk in the imaginations of their own hearts, who slight and lay aside the Scriptures, counting them but empty and uncertain things, and will live every day in open contradiction to what is contained, commanded, and forbidden therein.