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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.
Verse 28. For I have five Brethren, that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
Verse 28. For I have five Brethren, that he may testifie unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
These words are [if I may so say] a reason given by those in hell, why they are so restless, and do cry so loud, it is that their companions might be delivered from those intolerable torments, which they must and shall undergo, if they fall short of everlasting life by Jesus Christ. ⟨p. 91⟩Send him to my Fathers house, for I have five brethren, &c. Though while they lived among them in the world, they were not so sensible of their ruin, yet now they are passed out of the world, and do partake of that which before they were warned of, they can I say, then cry out, now I find that to be true indeed, which was once and again told, and declared to me, that it would certainly come to pass.
THese words are [if I may so say] a reason given by those in hell, why they are so restless, and do cry so loud, it is that their companions might be delivered from those intolerable torments, which they must and shall undergo, if they fall short of everlasting life by Jesus Christ. ⟨p. 91⟩Send him to my Fathers house, for I have five brethren, &c. Though while they lived among them in the world, they were not so sensible of their ruine, yet now they are passed out of the world, and do partake of that which before they were warned of, they can I say, then cry out, now I find that to be true indeed, which was once and again told, and declared to me, that it would certainly come to pass.