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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.
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 bet••es, 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.
And he cried and said, Father Abraham have mercy upon me, and send Lazarus, &c.
And he cryed and said, Father Abraham have mercy upon me, and send Lazarus, &c.
These words do not o•••• •old forth the lamentable Condition of the Damned, and their lamentable howling and crying one under their anguish of spirit, but also they do signify to us (as I said before) their too late Repentance; and also, that they would very willingly, if they might, be set at liberty from that everlasting •••ery, that by their sins they have plunged themselves into. I say, these words do hold forth a desire that the Damned have, to be delivered from those Torments that they now are in: O Father Abraham, saith he, have mercy upon me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my Tongue, for I am torted in this flame. These words, Father Abraham may have some difficulty in them. It is possible, that some may think them