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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.
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.
For I have five brethren] Here you may see, that there may be, and are, whole households in a damnable state and condition, as our Lord Jesus doth by this signify. Send him to my Fathers house, for they are all in one state, I left all my brethren in a pitiful case. People while they live here, cannot endure to hear that they should be all in a miserable condition; but when they are under the wrath of God, they see it, they know it, and are very sure of it; for they themselves, when they were in the world, lived as they do, but they fell short of Heaven, and therefore if they go on, so shall they. Oh therefore send him quickly to my Fathers house, for all the house is in an undone condition, and must be damned if they continue so.