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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.
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.
I left him living in foul and hainous 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.
For where ungodly people do dwell together, they being a snare and stumbling Block one to another by their practices, they must needs be a Torment one to another, and an aggravation of each others damnation. O cursed be thy Face, saith one, that ever I set mine Eyes on thee: It was long of thee; I may thank thee: It was thee that did entice me and ensnare me: It was your filthy conversation that was as a stumbling-block to me: It was your Covetousness, it was your Pride, your haunting the Alehouse, your Gaming and Whoring: It was long of you, that I fell short of life; if you had set me a good Example, as you did set me an ill one, it may be I might have done better then now I do: But I learned of you, I followed your steps, I took counsel of you. O that I had never seen thy face! O that thou hadst never bin born, to do my Soul this wrong as you have done: O saith the other, And I may as much blame you; for do not you remember how at such a time, and at such a time, you drew me out, and drew me away, and asked me if I would go with you, when I was going about other business, about my Calling, but you called me away, you sent for me, you are as much in the fault as I; though I were covetous you were proud; and if you learned Covetousness of me, I learned Pride and Drunkenness of you: Though I learned you to cheat, you learned me to where to lye, to scoff at goodness. Though I base Wretch did stumble you in some things, yet you did as much stumble me in others. I can blame you, as ⟨p. 96⟩