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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.
Again, If there be one given to drunkenness, others of the Town through his means, •un the ⟨p. 93⟩more into that sin with him, and do accustom themselves the more unto it, because of his enticing them, and also by setting such an ill example before them. And so if there be any addicted to pride, and must needs be in all the newest fashions, how do their example provoke others to love and follow the same vanity; spending that upon their lusts, which should relieve their own and others wants. Also if there be any given to jesting, scoffing, lying, whoring, backbiting, junketing, wantonness, or any other sin; they that are most expert in these things, do oft-times entangle others, that peradventure would not have been so vile as now they are, had they not had such an example, and hence they are called corruptors. Isa. 1. 4.
Again, If there be one given to drunkenness, others of the Town through his means, •un the ⟨p. 93⟩more into that sin with him, and do accustom themselves the more unto it, because of his inticing them, and also by setting such an ill example before them. And so if there be any addicted to pride, and must needs be in all the newest fashions, how do their example provoke others to love and follow the same vanitie; spending that upon their lusts, which should relieve their own and others wants. Also if there be any given to jesting, scoffing, lying, whoring, backbiting, junketting, wantonness, or any other sin; they that are most expert in these things, do oft-times intangle others, that peradventure would not have been so vile as now they are, had they not had such an example, and hence they are called corruptors. Isa. 1. 4.
Now these will by their doings, exceedingly aggravate the condemnation of one another. He that did set his Neighbour an ill example, and thereby caused him to walk in sin: He will be found one cause of his friends destruction, insomuch, that he will have to answer for his own sins, and for a great part of his Neighbours too, which will still add to his destruction: as that Scripture in Ezekiel, showeth, where speaking of the watchman, that should give the people warning, if he did not, though the man did die in his sins, yet his blood should be required at the Watchman's hand, Ezek 33.