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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 say, tell the drunkard he must be damned if he leaves not his drunkenness, the swearer, liar, cheater, thief, covetous, railers, or any ungodly persons, they must and shall lye in Hell for it, if they dye in this condition; they will not believe you, nor credit you.
I say, tell the drunkard he must be damned if he leaves not his drunkenness, the swearer, lyar, cheater, thief, covet•us, railers, or any ungodly persons, they must and shall lye in Hell for it, if they dye in this condition; they will not believe you, nor credit you.
Again, tell others that there are many in Hell, that have lived and dyed in their conditions, and so are they like to be if they convert not to Jesus Christ, and be found in him; or that there are ⟨p. 105⟩others that are more civil and sober men, who, (although we know that their civility will not save them) if we do but tell them plainly of the emptiness, and unprofitableness of that, as to the saving of their souls, and that God will not accept them, nor love them, notwithstanding these things, and that if they intend to be saved, they must be better provided than with such a righteousness as this; they will either fling away, and come to hear no more, or else if they do come, they will bring such prejudice with them in their hearts, That the Word Preached shall not profit them, it being mixed, not with Faith, but with prejudice in them that hear it, Heb. 4. 1, 2. Nay, they will some of them be so full of anger, that they will break out and call, even those that speak the truth, Heretics; yea, and kill them, Luke 4. 25, 26, 27, 28, 29. And why so? Because they tell them, That if they live in their sins, that will damn them, yet if they turn and live a righteous life, according to the holy and just, and good Law of God, that will not save them. Yea, because we tell them plainly, that unless they leave their sins and righteousness too, and close in with a naked Jesus Christ, his blood and merits, and what he hath done, and is now doing for sinners, they cannot be saved; and unless they do eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his Blood, they have no life abiding in them: they gravel presently,