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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.
2. Take notice, that the Afflictions or Evils, that accompany the Saints, may continue with them their Life-time, so long as they live in this Vale of Tears; Yea, and they may be divers, that is, of several sorts; some outward, some inward, and that as long as they shall continue here below, as hath been the Experience of all Saints in all Ages; and this might be proved at large, but I ⟨p. 71⟩only hint in these Things, although I might enlarge much upon them.
2. Take notice, that the Afflictions or Evils, that accompany the Saints, may continue with them their Life-time, so long as they live in this Vale of Tears; Yea, and they may be divers, that is, of several sorts; some outward, some inward, and that as long as they shall continue here below, as hath been the Experience of all Saints in all Ages; and this might be proved at large, but I ⟨p. 71⟩onely hint in these Things, although I might enlarge much upon them.
3. The Evils that do accompany the Saints will continue with them no longer than their Lifetime: and here indeed lies the comfort of Believers, the Lazarus's, the Saints, they must have all their bitter Cup wrung out to them in their Lifetime: Here must be all their Trouble, here must be all their Grief. Behold, saith Christ the World shall rejoice, but you shall lament; but your mourning shall, mark, it shall be turned into joy, Joh. 16. 2. You shall lament, you shall be sorrowful, you shall weep in your Life-time, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy, and your joy no man (let him be what he will, no man) shall take away from you. Now if you think, when I say the Saints have all their Evil Things in their Life-time, that, I mean, they have nothing else but Trouble in this their Life-time, this is your mistake: For let me test you, That though the Saints have all their Evil Things in their Life-time, yet even in their Life-time they have also joy unspeakable, and full of glory, while they look not at the things that are seen, but at the things which are not seen. The joy that the Saints have sometimes in their hearts, by a believing consideration of the good Things to come when this Life is ended, doth fill them fuller of joy, than all the Crosses, Troubles, Temptations, and Evils,