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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.
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?
1. They will cry to think, that they should be cut off from the Land of the Living, never more to have any footing therein. 2. They will cry to think, that the Gospel of Christ should be so often proffered them, and yet they are not profited by it. 3. They will cry to think, that now, though ⟨p. 49⟩they would never so willingly repent and be saved, yet they are past all Recovery. 4. They will cry to think, that they should be so foolish as to follow their pleasures, when others were following of Christ,