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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.
Here, men while they live, can willingly walk together in the way of sin, and when they are parted by death, they that are living, seldom or never consider of the sad condition, that they that are dead are descended into.
But ye ungodly fathers, how are your ungodly children, roaring now in hell? and you ungodly children, how are your ungodly parents that lived and died ungodly, now in the pains of hell also; and one drunkard is singing on the Alebench, ⟨p. 87⟩and another roaring under the wrath of God, saying, O that I was with him, how would I rebuke him, and persuade him by all means, to leave off these evil courses. O that they did but consider what I now suffer for pride, covetousness, drunkenness, lying, swearing, stealing, wh•••ng, and the like. Oh! did they but feel the tho•••ndth part thereof, it would make them look about them, and not buy sin at so dear a rate as I have done; even with the loss of my precious soul.
But ye ungodly fathers, how are your ungodly children, roaring now in hell? and you ungodly children, how are your ungodly parents that lived and died ungodly, now in the pains of hell also; and one drunkard is singing on the Alebench, ⟨p. 87⟩and another roaring under the wrath of God, saying, O that I was with him, how would I rebuke him, and perswade him by all means, to leave off these evil courses. O that they did but consider what I now suffer for pride, covetousness, drunkenness, lying, swearing, stealing, wh•••ng, and the like. Oh! did they but feel the tho•••ndth part thereof, it would make them look about them, and not buy sin at so dear a rate as I have done; even with the loss of my precious soul.