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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.
Hast thou valued sin at a higher rate than thy soul? than God, Christ, Angels, Saints, and Communion with them in Eternal Blessedness and Glory? Wast thou not told of Hell-fire, those intolerable flames? Didst thou never hear of the intolerable Roarings of the Damned Ones that are therein? Didst thou never hear or read that doleful saying in the 16. of Luke, how the sinful man cries out among the flames, One drop of water ⟨p. 121⟩to cool my tongue. Thus I say may the very Devils, being ready to go with thee into the Burning Furnace of Fire and Brimstone, though not for sins of so high a nature as thine, trembling say, Oh that Christ had died for Devils, as he died for Man! And, Oh that the Gospel had bin preached to us, as it hath bin to thee! How would we have laboured to have closed in with it? But woe be to us, for we might never have it proffered: no, nor in the least, though we would have been glad of it. But you, you have had it proffered, preached, and proclaimed unto you, Prov. 8. 4. Besides, you have been entreated, and beseeched to accept of it, but you would not. O simple Fools! that might have escaped Wrath, Vengeance, Hell-fire, and that to all Eternity, and had no heart at all to do it.
Hast thou valued sin at a higher rate than thy soul? than God, Christ, Angels, Saints, and Communion with them in Eternal Blessedness and Glory? Wast thou not told of Hell-fire, those intollerable flames? Didst thou never hear of the intollerable Roarings of the Damned Ones that are therein? Didst thou never hear or read that •oleful saying in the 16. of Luke, how the sinful man cries out among the flames, One drop of water ⟨p. 121⟩to cool my tongue. Thus I say may the very Devils, being ready to go with thee into the Burning Furnace of Fire and Brimstone, though not for sins of so high a nature as thine, trembling say, Oh that Christ had died for Devils, as he died for Man! And, Oh that the Gospel had bin preached to us, as it hath bin to thee! How would we have laboured to have closed in with it? But woe be to us, for we might never have it proffered: no, nor in the least, though we would have been glad of it. But you, you have had it proffered, preached, and proclaimed unto you,