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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.
From these words you see this is to be observed, that the ungodly shall remember, or have in remembrance the misspending their lives, Remember that in thy life time thou hadst thy good things. You may take these words good things either simply, for the things of this world, which in themselves are called, and may be called good things, or else with these words, namely, (the things of this life) all the pleasures, delights, profits, and vanities, which the ignorant people of the world do count their good things, and do very much cheer themselves therewith. Soul, soul, eat, drink and be merry▪ for thou hast much goods laid up for many ⟨p. 66⟩years, Luke 12. 20. Now I say, God, according to his glorious Power and Wisdom, will make poor Creatures have always in their minds a fresh and clear remembrance of their ill-spent life; he will say unto them, Remember, remember, that in thy life-time, it was thus and thus with thee, and in thy life-time thy carriage was so and so.
From these words you see this is to be observed, that the ungodly shall remember, or have in remembrance the mispending their lives, Remember that in thy life time thou hadst thy good things. You may take these words good things either simply, for the things of this world, which in themselves are called, and may be called good things, or else with these words, namely, (the things of this life) all the pleasures, delights, profits, and vanities, which the ignorant people of the world do count their good things, and do very much cheer themselves therewith. Soul, soul, eat, drink and be merry▪ for thou hast much goods laid up for many ⟨p. 66⟩years, Luke 12. 20. Now I say, God, according to his glorious Power and Wisdome, will make poor Creatures have alwayes in their minds a fresh and clear remembrance of their ill-spent life; he will say unto them, Remember, remember, that in thy life-time, it was thus and thus with thee, and in thy life-time thy carriage was so and so.