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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.
Think thus with thy self; What▪ shall I lose a long Heaven for short pleasure? shall I buy the pleasures of this world at so dear a rate, as to lose my soul for the obtaining of that? Shall I content my self with a Heaven, that will last no longer than my life▪time? What advantage will these be to me, when the Lord shall separate soul and body asunder, and send one to the grave, the other to hell, and at the Judgement-day, the final Sentence of eternal ruin must be past upon me?
Think thus with thy self; What▪ shall I lose a long Heaven for short pleasure? shall I buy the pleasures of this world at so dear a rate, as to lose my soul for the obtaining of that? Shall I content my self with a Heaven, that will last no longer than my life▪time? What advantage will these be to me, when the Lord shall separate soul and body asunder, and send one to the grave, the other to hell, and at the Judgement-day, the final Sentence of eternal ruine must be past upon me?
6. Consider, that the profits, pleasures, and vanities of this world, will not last ever, but the time is coming, yea just at the doors, when they will give thee the slip, and leave thee in the suds, and in the brambles of all that thou hast done.
And therefore to prevent this thy dismal state, think thus with thy self. ▪Tis true, I do love my sins, my lusts, and pleasures; but what good will they do me at the day of death, and of judgement? Will my sins do me good then? will they be able to help me when I come to fetch my last breath? What good will my profits do me? and what good will my vanities do, when death says he will have no nay? What good will all my companions, fellow jesters, jeerers, liars, drunkards,