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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.
Verse 25. But Abraham said, Son, remember, that thou in thy life-time hadst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things, now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
Verse 25. But Abraham said, Son, remember, that thou in thy life-time hadst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evill things, now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
These words are the answer to the request of the damned. The Verse before (as I told you) is a discovery of the desires they have after they depart this world. Here is the answer, Son, Remember, &c.
THese words are the answer to the request of the damned. The Verse before (as I told you) is a discovery of the desires they have after they depart this world. Here is the answer, Son, Remember, &c.
The answer signifies thus much, That instead of having any relief or ease, they are hereby the more tormented, and that by fresh recollections, or by bringing afresh their former ill-spent life, while in the world, into their remembrance: Son, Remember, thou hadst good things in thy lifetime; As much as if he had said, Thou art now sensible what it is to lose thy Soul, thou art now sensible what it is to put off repentance; thou art now sensible that thou hast befooled thy self in that thou didst spend that time in seeking after outward, momentary, earthly things, which thou shouldest have spent in seeking to make Jesus Christ sure to thy soul; and now through thy anguish of spirit, in the pains of hell thou wouldst enjoy that which in former time thou didst make light of; but alas, thou art here beguiled and altogether disappointed, thy crying will now