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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.
O thou that dost spend whole nights in carding and dicing, in rioting and wantonness, thou that countest it a brave thing to swear as fast as the bravest, to spend with the greatest spend-thrift in the Country: thou that lovest to sin in a corner when no body sees thee! O thou that for by-ends dost carry on an hypocrites profession, because thou wouldest be counted some body among the children of God, but art an enemy to the things of Christ in thine heart; thou that dost satisfy thy self, either with sins, or a bare profession of godliness; thy soul will fall into extreme torment, and anguish, so soon as ever thou dost depart this ⟨p. 80⟩world, and there thou shalt be weeping and gnawing thy teeth. Matth. 8. 11, 12. And besides all this, thou art like never to have any ease or remedy, never look for any deliverance, thou shal• dye in thy sins, and be tormented as many years as there are stars in the firmament, or sands on the sea-shore; and besides all this, thou must abide it for ever.
O thou that dost spend whole nights in carding and dicing, in rio•ing and wantonness, thou that countest it a brave thing to swear as fast as the bravest, to spend with the greatest spend-thrift in the Countrey: thou that lovest to sin in a corner when no body sees thee! O thou that for by-ends dost carry on an hypocrites profession, because thou wouldest be counted some body among the children of God, but art an enemy to the things of Christ in thine heart; thou that dost satisfy thy self, either with sins, or a bare profession of godliness; thy soul will fall into extream torment, and anguish, so soon as ever thou dost depart this ⟨p. 80⟩world, and there thou shalt be weeping and gnawing thy teeth. Matth. 8. 11, 12. And besides all this, thou art like never to have any ease or remedy, never look for any deliverance, thou shal• dye in thy sins, and be tormented as many years as there are stars in the firmament, or sands on the sea-shore; and besides all this, thou must abide it for ever.