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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.
So here let me tell thee, that if thou shouldest be such an one, as by thy conversation and practices, shalt be a trap and a stumbling-block, to cause thy neighbour to fall into eternal ruin, though he be damned for his own sin; yet God may, nay, he will charge thee, as being guilty of his blood, in that thou didst not content thy self to keep from Heaven thy self, but didst also by thy filthy conversation, keep away others, and cause them to fall with thee. O therefore, will not this aggravate thy torment? Yea, if thou shouldest die, and go to Hell before thy neighbour, or companions, besides the guilt of thine own sins, thou wouldest be so •oaden with the fear of the damnation of others to be laid to thy charge, that thou wouldest cry cut; O send one from the dead, to this companion, and that companion, with whom I had society in my life-time, for I see my cursed carriage will be one cause of his condemnation, if he fall short of glory.
So here let me tell thee, that if thou shouldest be such an one, as by thy conversation and practices, shalt be a trap and a stumbling-block, to cause thy neighbour to fall into eternal ruine, though he be damned for his own sin; yet God may, nay, he will charge thee, as being guiltie of his blood, in that thou didst not content thy self to keep from Heaven thy self, but didst also by thy filthy conversation, keep away others, and cause them to fall with thee. O therefore, will not this aggravate thy torment? Yea, if thou shouldest die, and go to Hell before thy neighbour, or companions, besides the guilt of thine own sins, thou wouldest be so •oaden with the fear of the damnation of others to be laid to thy charge, that thou wouldest cry cut; O send one from the dead, to this companion, and that companion, with whom I had society in my life-time, for I see my cursed carriage will be one cause of his condemnation, if he fall short of glory.
I left him living in foul and heinous offences: But I was one of the first instruments to bring him to them. Oh, I shall be guilty both of mine own, and his damnation too! O that he might be kept out hence, lest my torment be aggravated by his coming ither.