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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.
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]
When the damned are in this pitiful state, surrounded with fears, with terrors, with torment and vengeance; one thing they shall have, which is this, they shall see the happy and blessed state of Gods Children: he seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his Bosom, which as I said before, is the happy state of the Saints, when this life is ended. This now shall be so far from being an ease unto them, that it shall most wonderfully aggravate or heighten their torment, as I said before. There shall be weeping, or cause of lamentation, when they shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the Kingdom of Heaven, and themselves thrust out.
When the damned are in this pittiful state, surrounded with fears, with terrours, with torment and vengeance; one thing they shall have, which is this, they shall see the happy and blessed state of Gods Children: he seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his Bosom, which as I said before, is the happy state of the Saints, when this life is ended. This now shall be so far from being an ease unto them, that it shall most wonderfully aggravate or heighten their torment, as I said before. There shall be weeping, or cause of lamentation, when they shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the Kingdom of Heaven, and themselves thrust out.