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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.
Now therefore instead of expecting the least drop of mercy and favour, call into thy mind how thou didst spend those days which God did permit thee to live; I say, remember, that in thy life-time thou didst behave thy self rebelliously against the Lord, in that thou wert careless of his Word and Ordinances, yea, and of the welfare of thine own soul also: therefore, now I say, instead of expecting or hoping for any relief, thou must be forced to call to remembrance thy filthy ways, and feed upon them to thine everlasting astonishment and confusion.
Now therefore instead of expecting the least drop of mercy and favour, call into thy mind how thou didst spend those days which God did permit thee to live; I say, remember, that in thy life-time thou didst behave thy self rebelliously against the Lord, in that thou wert careless of his Word and Ordinances, yea, and of the welfare of thine own soul also: therefore, now I say, instead of expecting or hoping for any relief, thou must be forced to call to remembrance thy filthy waies, and feed upon them to thine everlasting astonishment and confusion.
From these words therefore which say, Remember that thou in thy life time hadst thy good things. There are these things to be taken notice of.
1. They that by putting off repentance, and living in their sins, lose their souls, shall instead of having the least measure of comfort, when they come into hell, have their ill-spent life always very fresh in their remembrance. While they live here, they can sin and forget it, but when they depart they shall have it before them, they shall have a remembrance, or their memory notably enlightened, and a clearer, and a continual sight of all their wicked practices, that they wrought and did while they were in the World. Son, remember, saith he, then you will be made to remember. 1. How you were born in sin, and brought up in the same.