A30203:116
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.
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, Luke 13. 28. 5. They will cry to think, that they must be separated from God, Christ, and the Kingdom of Heaven, and that for ever. 6. To think, that their crying will now do them no good. 7. To think, that at the Day of Judgment, they must stand at the left hand of Christ, among an innumerable Company of the Damned Ones. 8. They will cry to think, that Lazarus, whom once they slighted, must be of them that must sit with Christ to judge, or together with Christ, to pass a Sentence of Condemnation on their Souls for ever and ever, 1 Cor. 6. 2, 3. 9. Cry to think, that when the Judgment is over, and others are taken into the everlasting Kingdom of Glory, then thou must depart back again into that Dungeon of Darkness, from whence thou camest out, (•o appear before that terrible Tribunal) where thou shalt be tormented so long as Eternity lasts, without the least intermission or ease.
How sayest thou, O thou wanton proud, swearing, lying, ungodly Wretch, whether this be to be slighted, and made a mock at. And again, tell me ⟨p. 50⟩now, if it be not better to leave sin, and to close in with Christ Jesus, notwithstanding that Reproach thou shalt meet with for so doing, than to live a little while in this World in pleasures, and feeding thy Lu••s, in neglecting the welfare of thy Soul and refusing to be justified by Jesus, and in a moment to drop down to Hell, and to cry? O consider, I say consider betes, and put not off the Tenders of the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, lest you lift up your Eyes in Hell, and cry for anguish of Spirit.