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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
To the reader: The AUTHOR to the READER.To the reader: The AUTHOUR to the READER.
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.
O poor Soul, if God and Christ did wis• thee for thine harm, it would be another matter; then if thou didst refuse, thou mightest have some excuse to make▪ or fault to find, and ground to make delays: But this is for thy profit, for thy advantage; for the pardoning of thy si•s, the salvation of thy Soul, the delivering of thee from Hell fire, from the wrath to come, from everlasting burnings, into favour with God, Christ, and ⟨image 4⟩Communion with all happiness, (that is so indeed.)
But it may be thou wilt say, All that hath been spoken to in this discourse, is but a Parable, and Parables are no realities.
I could put thee off with this Answer, That though it be a Parable, yet it is a truth, and not a lie, and thou shalt find it so too, to thy cost, if thou shalt be found a slighter of God, Christ, and the salvation of thy own Soul.