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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.
Reader, here might I spend many sheets of paper, yea, I might upon this subject, write a very great Book, but I shall now forbear, desiring thee ⟨p. 142⟩to be very conversant in the Scriptures, for they are they that will testify of Jesus Christ, Joh. 5. 39. The Bereans were counted noble upon this account; These were more noble then those of Thessalonica in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, &c. Acts 17. 11. But here let me give thee one caution, that is, have a care that thou do not satisfy thy self with a bare search of them, without a real application of him whom they testify of, to thy soul, lest instead of faring the better for thy doing this work, thou dost fare a great deal the worse & thy condemnation be very much heightened, in that, though thou didst read so often the sad state of those that die in sin, and the glorious estate of them that close in with Christ, yet thou thy self shouldst be such a fool as to lose Jesus Christ, notwithstanding thy hearing, and reading so plentifully of him.
Reader, here might I spend many sheets of paper, yea, I might upon this subject, write a very great Book, but I shall now forhear, desiring thee ⟨p. 142⟩to be very conversant in the Scriptures, for they are they that will testifie of Jesus Christ, Joh. 5. 39. The Bereans were counted noble upon this account; These were more noble then those of Thessalonica in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, &c. Acts 17. 11. But here let me give thee one caution, that is, have a care that thou do not satisfie thy self with a bare search of them, without a real application of him whom they testifie of, to thy soul, lest instead of faring the better for thy doing this work, thou dost fare a great deal the worse & thy condemnation be very much heightned, in that, though thou didst read so often the sad state of those that die in sin, and the glorious estate of them that close in with Christ, yet thou thy self shouldst be such a fool as to lose Jesus Christ, notwithstanding thy hearing, and reading so plentifully of him.