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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 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.
5. Consider much with thy self, not only my sins against the law will be laid to my charge; but also the sins I have committed in slighting the Gospel, the glorious Gospel: these also must come with a voice against me. As thus, Nay, he is worthy to be damned, for he rejected the Gospel, he slighted the free grace of God tendered in the Gospel. How many times wast thou (damned wretch) invited, entreated, beseeched to come to Christ, to accept of mercy, that thou mightest have Heaven, thy sins pardoned, thy soul saved, and body and soul glorified, and all this for nothing but the acceptance, and through faith forsaking ⟨p. 117⟩those imps of Satan, which by their embracements have drawn thee downward toward the gulf of Gods eternal displeasure?
5. Consider much with thy self, not onely my sins against the law will be laid to my charge; but also the sins I have committed in slighting the Gospel, the glorious Gospel: these also must come with a voyce against me. As thus, Nay, he is worthy to be damned, for he rejected the Gospel, he slighted the free grace of God tendered in the Gospel. How many times wast thou (damned wretch) invited, intreated, beseeched to come to Christ, to accept of mercy, that thou mightest have Heaven, thy sins pardoned, thy soul saved, and body and soul glorified, and all this for nothing but the acceptance, and through faith forsaking ⟨p. 117⟩