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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.
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 ⟨p. 62⟩avail thee nothing at all, This is not the acceptable time. 2 Cor. 6. 2. This is not a time to answer the desires of damned Reprobates; If thou hadst cried out in good earnest while grace was offered, much might have been, but then thou wert careless, and didst turn the forbearance and goodness of God into wantonness: wert thou not told, that these who would not hear the Lord when he did call, should not be heard (if they turned away from him) when they did call, Prov. 1. 24. to 28. But contrariwise he would laugh at their calamity, and mock when their fear did come.
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