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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.
6. May not the Messengers of Jesus Christ also come in with a shrill and terrible Note against thy Soul, when thou standest at the Bar of God's Justice, saying, Nay, Thou ungodly one, how often hast thou been forewarned of this day? Did we not found an Alarm in thine Ears, by the Trumpet of God's Word day after day? How often didst thou hear us tell thee of these Things? Did we not tell thee sin would damn thy Soul? Did we not tell thee, that without Conversion, there was no Salvation? Did we not tell thee, that they who loved their sins, should be damned at this ⟨p. 122⟩dark and gloomy day, (as thou art like to be.) Yet did we not tell thee, that God, out of his love to sinners, sent Christ to die for them, that they might (by coming to him) be saved? Did we not tell thee of these Things? Did we not run, ride, labour, and strive abundantly (if it might have been) for the good of thy Soul, (though now a damned Soul? Did we not venture our Goods, our Names, our Lives? Yea, did we not even kill our selves, with our earnest entreatings of thee to consider of thine Estate, and by Christ to escape this dreadful day? O sad doom! when thou shalt be forced full sore against thy will, to fall under the Truth of this Judgment, saying, O how have I hated Instruction, and how hath my heart despised Reproof? (for indeed) I have not obeyed the voice of my Teachers, nor inclined mine Ear to them that instructed me, Prov 5. 11, 12, 13.
6. May not the Messengers of Jesus Christ also come in with a shrill and terrible Note against thy Soul, when thou standest at the Bar of God's Justice, saying, Nay, Thou ungodly one, how often hast thou been forewarned of this day? Did we not found an Alarum in thine Ears, by the Trumpet of God's Word day after day? How often didst thou hear us tell thee of these Things? Did we not tell thee sin would damn thy Soul? Did we not tell thee, that without Conversion, there was no Salvation? Did we not tell thee, that they who loved their sinnes, should be damned at this ⟨p. 122⟩dark and gloomy day, (as thou art like to be.) Yet did we not tell thee, that God, out of his love to sinners, sent Christ to die for them, that they might (by coming to him) be saved? Did we not tell thee of these Things? Did we not run, ride, labour, and strive abundantly (if it might have been) for the good of thy Soul, (though now a damned Soul? Did we not venture our Goods, our Names, our Lives? Yea, did we not even kill our selves, with our earnest intreatings of thee to consider of thine Estate, and by Christ to escape this dreadful day? O sad doom! when thou shalt be forced full sore against thy will, to fall under the Truth of this Judgment, saying, O how have I hated Instruction, and how hath my heart despised Reproof? (for indeed) I have not obeyed the voice of my Teachers, nor inclined mine Ear to them that instructed me, Prov 5. 11, 12, 13.