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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.
Oh how wilt thou sigh and groan! How willingly wouldst thou hide thy self, and run away from Justice: But alas! as it is with them that are on the Ladder ready to be executed, so it will be with thee: They would fain run away, but there are many Halberd-men to stay them: And so the Angels of God will beset thee round, I say, round on every side; so that thou mayst indeed look, but run thou canst not: Thou mayst wish thy self under some great Rock or Mountain, Rev. 6. 15, 16. but how to get under, thou knowest not.
Oh how wilt thou sigh and groan! How willingly would'st thou hide thy self, and run away from Justice: But alas! as it is with them that are on the Ladder ready to be executed, so it will be with thee: They would fain run away, but there are many Halberd-men to stay them: And so the Angels of God will beset thee round, I say, round on every side; so that thou may'st indeed look, but run thou canst not: Thou mayst wish thy self under some great Rock or Mountain, Rev. 6. 15, 16. but how to get under, thou know'st not.
Oh how unwilling wilt thou be, to let thy Father go to Heaven without thee, thy Mother or Friends, &c. go to Heaven without thee? How willingly wouldst thou hang on them, and not let them go? O Father, cannot you help me? Mother, cannot you do me some good? O how loath am I to burn and fry in Hell, while you are singing in Heaven! But alas, the Father, Mother, or Friends reject them, slights them, and turn their Backs upon them, saying, You would have none of Heaven in your life-time, therefore you shall have none of it now: You slighted our Counsels then, and we slight your tears, cries, and condition now. What sayest thou sinner, will not this persuade thine heart, nor make thee bethink thy self? This is now before thou fall into that dreadful place, that fiery Furnace. But O consider how dreadful the place it self, the Devils themselves, the fire it self will be. And this at the end of all, here thou must lie for ever, here thou must fry for ever, and for ever. This will be more to thee, than any man with Tongue can express, or with Pen can write: There is none that can, I say, by the Ten Thousand part discover the state and condition of such a Soul.