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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.
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, ⟨p. 115⟩and all my wantons do me? will they help to ease the pains of hell? will these help to turn the hand of God from inflicting his fierce anger upon me? Nay, will not they rather cause God to show me no mercy, to give me no comfort; but rather to thrust me down into the hottest place of hell, where I may swim in fire and Brimstone.
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 sayes he will have no nay? What good will all my companions, fellow jesters, jeerers, lyars, drunkards, ⟨p. 115⟩and all my wantons do me? will they help to ease the pains of hell? will these help to turn the hand of God from inflicting his fierce anger upon me? Nay, will not they rather cause God to shew me no mercy, to give me no comfort; but rather to thrust me down into the hottest place of hell, where I may swim in fire and Brimstone.
3. Consider thus with thy self; Would I be glad to have all, every one of my sins to come in against me to inflame the justice of God against me? would I be glad to be bound up in them, as the three Children were bound in their clothes, and to be as really thrown into the fiery Furnace of the wrath of Almighty God, as they were into Nebuchadnezzars fiery Furnace.