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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.
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.
Send him to my Fathers house.] Not to my Father, but to my Fathers House. It may be, there's ungodly children, there's ungodly servants, wallowing in their ungodliness, send him therefore to my Fathers house. It is like, they are still the same that I left them; I left them wicked, and they are wicked still, I left them slighters of the Gospel, Saints, and ways of God, and they do it still; send him to my Fathers house, it is like there is but a little between them and the place where I am; send him to day, before tomorrow, lest they come into the same place of torment. I pray thee that thou wouldst send him.] I beg it on my bended knee, with crying and with tears, in the Agony of my soul. It may be, they will not consider, if thou do not send him; I left them sottish enough, hardened as well as I, they have the same Devil to tempt them, the same lusts and world to