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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.
And therefore let this, in the first place, cause thee cheerfully to exercise thy patience, under all the Calamities, Crosses, Troubles, and Afflictions, that may come upon thee: and by patient continuance in well-doing, to commit both thy self, and thine Affairs, and Actions, into the Hands of God, through Jesus Christ, as to a faithful Creator, who is true in his Word, and loveth to give unto thee, whatsoever he hath promised to thee.
And therefore let this, in the first place, cause thee chearfully to exercise thy patience, under all the Calamities, Crosses, Troubles, and Afflictions, that may come upon thee: and by patient continuance in well-doing, to commit both thy self, and thine Affairs, and Actions, into the Hands of God, through Jesus Christ, as to a faithful Creator, who is true in his Word, and loveth to give unto thee, whatsoever he hath promised to thee.
And therefore to encourage thee, while thou art here with comfort, to hold on for all thy Crosses in this thy Journey, be much in considering the place that thou must go into, so soon as dissolution comes.
And therefore to incourage thee, while thou art here with comfort, to hold on for all thy Crosses in this thy Journey, be much in considering the place that thou must go into, so soon as dissolution comes.
It must be into Heaven, to God the Judge of all, to an innumerable Company of Angels, to the Spirits of just men made perfect, to the General Assembly, and Church of the first-born, whose Names are written in Heaven, and to Jesus (too the Redeemer) who is the Mediator of the New Covenant, and to the Blood of sprinkling that speaks better Things for thee, than Abel's did for Cain, Heb. 12, 22, 23, 24