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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.
We will serve you thus these 20. years together, and after that we will fill your mangled body full of scalding lead, or run you through with a red hot spit, would not this be lamentable? yet this is but a flea-biting to the sorrows of these that go to hell; for if a man were served so, there would ere it were long be an end of him. But he that goes to Hell shall suffer ten thousand times worse torments then these, and yet shall never be quite dead under them. There they shall be ever whining, pining, weeping, mourning, ever tormented without ease, and yet never dissolved into nothing; if the biggest devil in hell might pull thee all to pieces, and rend thee small as dust, and dissolve thee into nothing, thou wouldest count this a mercy. But here thou mayest lye and fry, ⟨p. 79⟩scorch and broil, and burn for ever. For ever, that is a long while, and yet it must be so long. Depart from me, saith Christ, into everlasting fire, into the fire that burns for ever, prepared for the devils and his Angels, Mat. 25. 41. Oh, thou that wert loath to foul thy foot if it were but dirty, or did but rain; thou that wert loath to come out of the Chimney corner if the wind did but blow a little cold; and wert loath to go half a mile, yea, half a furlong to hear the Word of God, if it were but a little dark; thou that wert loath to leave a few vain companions to edify thy Soul; thou shalt have fire enough, thou shalt have night enough, and evil company enough, thy belly full if thou miss of Jesus Christ; and besides all this, thou shalt have them for ever and for ever.
We will serve you thus these 20. years together, and after that we will fill your mangled body full of scalding lead, or run you through with a red hot spit, would not this be lamentable? yet this is but a flea-biting to the sorrows of these that go to hell; for if a man were served so, there would ere it were long be an end of him. But he that goes to Hell shall suffer ten thousand times worse torments then these, and yet shall never be quite dead under them. There they shall be ever whining, pining, weeping, mourning, ever tormented without ease, and yet never dissolved into nothing; if the biggest devil in hell might pull thee all to peices, and rend thee small as dust, and dissolve thee into nothing, thou wouldest count this a mercy. But here thou mayest lye and fry, ⟨p. 79⟩