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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.
Though now the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ may be preached to them freely, and for nothing; nay, they are now desired to hear and receive it. Though now they will not own, regard, or embrace these Christian proffers of the glorious truth of Jesus, because they come out of some of the basest earthen vessels, 1 Cor. 1. 26. yet the time is coming when they will both sigh and cry, Send him to my fathers house. I say, remember this, ye that despise the day of small things: the time is coming, when you would be glad, if you might enjoy from God, from Christ, or his Saints, one small drop of cold water: though now you are unwilling to receive the glorious distilling drops of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus.
Though now the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ may be preached to them freely, and for nothing; nay, they are now desired to hear and receive it. Though now they will not own, regard, or imbrace these Christian profers of the glorious truth of Jesus, because they come out of some of the basest earthen vessels, 1 Cor. 1. 26. yet the time is coming when they will both sigh and cry, Send him to my fathers house. I say, remember this, ye that despise the day of small things: the time is coming, when you would be glad, if you might enjoy from God, from Christ, or his Saints, one small drop of cold water: though now you are unwilling to receive the glorious distilling drops of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus.
Again, see here the lamentable state they are in, that go to hell from their Fathers, Mothers, ⟨p. 86⟩Sisters, Brothers, &c. While they are in this World, men delight to set their children ill examples; and also children love to follow the wicked steps of their ungodly parents, but when they depart this life, and drop down into hell, and find themselves in irrecoverable misery, then they cry, Send some body to my Fathers house, to my Brothers house. Tell them my state is miserable, tell them I am undone for ever; and tell them also, that if they will be walking in these ungodly steps wherein I left them, they will assuredly fall into this place of torments.