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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.
2. Consider, what pains Christ Jesus took for the Ransoming of thy Soul from all the Curses, Thunder-claps, and Tempests of the Law; from all the intolerable flames of Hell; from that Soul-sinking appearance of thy person (on the left hand) before the Judgment-Seat of Christ Jesus, from everlasting fellowship, with innumerable Companies of yelling, and Soul-amazing Devils. I say, consider what pains the Lord Jesus Christ took, in bringing in Redemption for sinners, from these Things.
2. Consider, what pains Christ Jesus took for the Ransoming of thy Soul from all the Curses, Thunder-claps, and Tempests of the Law; from all the intollerable flames of Hell; from that Soulsinking appearance of thy person (on the left hand) before the Judgment-Seat of Christ Jesus, from everlasting fellowship, with innumerable Companies of yelling, and Soul-amazing Devils. I say, consider what pains the Lord Jesus Christ took, in bringing in Redemption for sinners, from these Things.
1. In that, Though he were rich, yet he became poor, that thou, through his poverty, might be made rich, 2 Cor. 8, 9. He laid aside his glory, Joh. 17. and became a servant, Phil. 2. He left the company of Angels, and encountered with the Devil, Luk. 4. Mat. 4. He left Heavens ease for a time, to lie upon hard Mountains, Joh. 8. In a word, he became poorer, than they that go with flail and rake; yea, then the very Birds or Foxes, and all to do thee good. Besides, consider a little of these unspeakable and intolerable slightings, and rejections, and the manifold abuses that came from Man upon him. How he was falsely accused, being a sweet, harmless, and undefiled Lamb. How he was undervalued, so that a Murderer was counted less worthy of condemnation than he. Besides, how they mocked him, spa on him, beat him over the