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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.
O if they that are in Hell might but now again have one such invitation as this, how would they leap for joy. I have thought sometimes, should God send but one of his Ministers to the damned in Hell, and give him Commission to preach the free love of God in Christ extended to them, and held out to them, if now while it is proffered to them they will accept of his kindness; O how welcome would they make this news, and close in with it on any terms!
O if they that are in Hell might but now again have one such invitation as this, how would they leap for joy. I have thought sometimes, should God send but one of his Ministers to the damned in Hell, and give him Commission to preach the free love of God in Christ extended to them, and held out to them, if now while it is profered to them they will accept of his kindness; O how welcome would they make this news, and close in with it on any tearms!
Certainly they would say, we will accept of grace on any terms in the World, and thank you too, though it cost life and limbs to boot, we will spare no cost, nor charge, if mercy may be had. But poor souls, while they live here they will not part from sin, with hell-bred, devilish sin: No, they will rather lose their souls, then lose their filthy sins.
Certainly they would say, we will accept of grace on any tearms in the World, and thank you too, though it cost life and limbs to boot, we will spare no cost, nor charge, if mercy may be had. But poor souls, while they live here they will not part from sin, with hell-bred, devilish sin: No, they will rather lose their souls, then lose their filthy sins.
But friend, thou wilt change thy note before it be long, and cry, O simple wretch that I am that I should damn my soul by sin!