A30203:158
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.
If Sinners might have their choice, they would not have their sins and transgressions so much in remembrance; as is evident by their carriages here in this Would: for they will not endure to entertain a serious thought of their filthy life, they put far away the evil day, Amos 6. 3. Ezek. 12. 27. but will labour by all means to put the thought of it out of their mind: but there they shall be made to remember to purpose, and to think continually of their ungodly deeds. And therefore it is said, that when our Lord Jesus comes to Judgment, it will be to convince the ungodly world of their wicked and ungodly deeds. Mark, To convince them, Jude 14, 15. They will not willingly take notice of them now: But then they shall hereafter in spite of their teeth. And also between this and then, these that die out of Christ shall be made to see, acknowledge, and confess, do what they can, when they lift up their eyes in hell, and remember their transgressions. God will be a swift witness against them, ⟨p. 67⟩Mal. 3. 5. and will say, Remember what thou didst in thy life-time, how thou didst live in thy life time. Ha Friend! If thou dost not in these days of light remember the days of darkness, Eccles. 11. 8. (the days of Death, Hell, and Judgment) thou shalt be made in the days of Darkness, Death, Hell, and at the Judgment too, to remember the days of the Gospel, and how thou didst disregard them too, to thy own destruction, and everlasting misery. This is intimated in that 25. of Matthew.
If Sinners might have their choice, they would not have their sins and transgressions so much in remembrance; as is evident by their carriages here in this Would: for they will not endure to entertain a serious thought of their filthy life, they put far away the evil day, Amos 6. 3. Ezek. 12. 27