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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.
Consider how terrible this will be, yea more terrible, then if thou shouldest have ten of the biggest Pieces of Ordnance in England, to be discharged against thy body; thunder, thunder, one after another. Nay, this would not be comparable to the reports that the law (for the breach thereof) will give against thy soul: For those can but kill the body; but these will kill both body ⟨p. 116⟩and soul; and that, not for an hour, a day, a month, or a year, but they will condemn thee for ever.
Mark, it is for ever, for ever. It is into everlasting damnation, eternal destruction, eternal wrath and displeasure from God, eternal gnawings of conscience, eternal continuance with devils.
O consider, it may be the thought of seeing the devil doth now make thine hair to stand right up on thy head. O but this to be damned, to be among all the devils, and that not only for a time, as I said before, but for ever to all eternity.
This is wonderfully miserable, ever miserable; that no tongue of man, no nor of Angels, is able to express it.