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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.
From whence observe, That it is not an easy matter to persuade them who are in their sins alive in this world, that they must and shall be damned if they turn not, and be converted to ⟨p. 104⟩God. Let him testify to them, let him speak confidently, though they frown upon him, or dislike his way of speaking. And how is this truth verified and cleared by the carriages of almost all men now in the World, toward them that do Preach the Gospel; and show their own miserable state plainly to them if they close not with it. If a man do but indeed labour to convince sinners of their sins, and lost condition by nature, though they •ust be damned if they live and dye in that condition; Oh how angry are they at it. Look how he judges, say they; hark how he condemns us; he tells us we must be damned if we live and dye in this state; we are offended at him, we cannot abide to hear him, or any such as he; we will believe none of them all, but go on in the way we are a going; forbear, why shouldest thou be smitten, said the ungodly▪ King to the Prophet, when he told him of his sins, 2 Chron. 25. 15, 16.
From whence observe, That it is not an easy matter to perswade them who are in their sins alive in this world, that they must and shall be damned if they turn not, and be converted to ⟨p. 104⟩God. Let him testify to them, let him speak confidently, though they frown upon him, or dislike his way of speaking. And how is this truth verified and cleared by the carriages of almost all men now in the World, toward them that do Preach the Gospel; and shew their own miserable state plainly to them if they close not with it. If a man do but indeed labour to convince sinners of their sins, and lost condition by nature, though they •ust be damned if they live and dye in that condition; Oh how angry are they at it. Look how he judges, say they; hark how he condemns us; he tells us we must be damned if we live and dye in this state; we are offended at him, we cannot abide to hear him, or any such as he; we will believe none of them all, but go on in the way we are a going; forbear, why shouldest thou be smitten, said the ungodly King to the Prophet, when he told him of his sins,