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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.
Before they had so much time (they thought) that they could not tell how to spend it, unless it ⟨p. 48⟩were in Hunting, and Whoring, in dancing and playing, and spending whole hours; yea, days, nay weeks, in the Lusts of the Flesh, but when they depart into another place, and begin to lift up their Eyes in Hell, and consider their miserable, and irrecoverable condition, they will cry.
O what a condition wilt thou fall into, when thou dost depart this World, if thou depart unconverted, and not born again, thou hadst better have been smothered the first hour thou wast born; thou hadst better have been plucked one Limb from another; thou hadst better have been made a Dog, a To•d, a Serpent; nay, any other Creature in the visible World, than to die unconverted; and this thou wilt find to be true, when in Hell thou dost life up thine Eyes, and dost cry.
O what a condition wilt thou fall into, when thou dost depart this World, if thou depart unconverted, and not born again, thou hadst better have been smother'd the first hour thou wast born; thou hadst better have been plucked one Limb from another; thou hadst better have been made a Dog, a To•d, a Serpent; nay, any other Creature in the visible World, than to die unconverted; and this thou wilt find to be true, when in Hell thou dost life up thine Eyes, and dost cry.
Here then before we go any further, you may see, that it is not without good ground, that these words are here spoken by our Lord, That when any of the ungodly do depart into Hell, they will cry. Cry, why so?