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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.
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.
For I have five brethren] Here you may see, that there may be, and are, whole housholds in a damnable state and condition, as our Lord Jesus doth by this signifie. Send him to my Fathers house, for they are all in one state, I left all my brethren in a pittiful case. People while they live here, cannot indure 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.
The thing observable is this, namely, that those that are in hell, do not desire that their companions should come thither; nay, rather saith he, send him to my Fathers house, and let him testify to them that are therein, lest they also come, &c
The thing observable is this, namely, that those that are in hell, do not desire that their companions should come thither; nay, rather saith he, send him to my Fathers house, and let him testifie to them that are therein, lest they also come, &c