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Sighs from hell, or, The groans of a damned soul discovering from the 16th…
Sighs from hell, or, The groans of a damned soul discovering from the 16th of Luke the lamentable state of the damned : and may fitly serve as a warning-word to sinners, both old and young, by faith in Jesus Christ, to avoid the same place of torment : with a discovery of the usefulness of the Scriptures as our safe conduct for avoiding the torments of hell / by John Bunyan.
London: printed for F. Smith, 1666
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
7. Again, in this condition thou must be for ever, and that is as sad as all the rest. For if a man were to have all his sins laid to his charge, and communion with the devils, and as much wrath as the great God of heaven can inflict upon them. I say, if it were but for a time, even ten thousand years, and so end, there would be ground of comfort, and hopes of deliverance; but here is thy misery, this is thy state for ever, here thou must be for ever: when thou lookest about thee, and seest what an innumerable company of howling devils thou art amongst, thou shalt think this again, this is my portion for ever. When thou h•st been in hell so many thousand years as there are ⟨p. 42⟩stars in the firmament, or drops in the Sea, or sands on the sea-shore, yet thou hast to lye there for ever. O this one word ever, how will it torment thy Soul.
Friends, I have only given a very short touch of the torments of Hell. O! I am set, I am set, and am not able to u•ter what my mind conceives of the torments of Hell. Yet this let me say to thee▪ accept of Gods mercy through our Lord Jesus Christ, lest thou feel that with thy Conscience, which I cannot express with my Tongue, and say, I am sorely tormented in this flame.
And seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his Bosom]
And seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his Bosome]