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

Of this sort are they spoken of in Psalm 73. where he saith. There are no bonds in their death but their strength is firm. They are not troubled as other folk neither are they plagued like other men. And ⟨p. 33⟩again, they spend their days in wealth, and in a moment, mark, in a moment, before they are aware, they go down to the grave, Job 21. 17.

Of this sort are they spoken of in Psalm 73. where he saith. There are no bonds in their death but their strength is firm. They are not troubled as other folk neither are they plagued like other men. And ⟨p. 33⟩again, they spend their dayes in wealth, and in a moment, mark, in a moment, before they are aware, they go down to the grave, Job 21. 17.

Indeed this is too much known by woeful and daily experience, sometimes when we go to visit them that are sick in the Towns and places where we live, Oh how senseless, how feared in their Consciences are they? they are neither sensible of heaven, not of hell▪ of sin, nor a Saviour: speak to them of their condition, and the state of their souls, and you shall find them as ignorant as if they had no souls to regard. Others, though they lye ready to dye, yet they are busying themselves about their outward affairs, as though they should certainly live here, even to live and enjoy the same for ever. Again, come to others, speak to them about the state of their souls, though they have no more experience of the new birth then a beast, yet will they speak as confidently of their eternal state, and the welfare of their souls, as if they had the most excellent experience of any man or woman in the world, saying, I shall have Peace,