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

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.

As first, this will show us that all your Drunkards, Whoremasters, Liars, Thieves, Swearers, Back-biters, Slanderers, Scoffers at goodness, &c. I say, we may see by this, that they tha• live in such things, have not the faith of these things contained in their hearts; seeing they delight to practise those things that are forbidden by, and in them. And so they continuing living and dying ⟨p. 193⟩in this state, we may conclude without fear, that these portions of holy Scripture belong unto them, and shall for certain be fulfilled upon them▪ He that believes not, shall be damned, Mark 16. 16. The unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God, 1 Co•. 6. 9, 10. But the abominable, the unbelieving, the whoremongers, and all liars shall have their part in the Lake that burneth with Fire and Brimstone, Rev. 21. 8. Depart ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the Devil and his Angels,