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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 besides the Conversation of almost all men doth bear witness to the same, both Religious, and profane persons; in that they daily neglect, reject, and turn their backs upon the plain testimony of the Scriptures.
As, 1. Take the threatenings laid down in holy Writ, and how are they disregarded; there are but a few places in the Bible, but there are threatenings against one sinner or other; against drunkards, swearers, liars, proud persons, strumpets, whoremongers, covetous railers, extortioners, thieves, lazy persons; In a word, all manner of sins are reproved, and without Faith in the Lord Jesus, there is a •ore punishment to be executed on the committers of them; and all this made mention of in the Scriptures.
As, 1. Take the threatnings laid down in holy Writ, and how are they disregarded; there are but a few places in the Bible, but there are threatnings against one sinner or other; against drunkards, swearers, lyars, proud persons, strumpets, whoremongers, covetous railers, extortioners, thieves, lazy persons; In a word, all manner of sins are reproved, and without Faith in the Lord Jesus, there is a •ore punishment to be executed on the committers of them; and all this made mention of in the Scriptures.
But for all this, how thick, and by heaps, do these wretches walk up and down our streets? Do but go into the Ale-houses, and you shall see almost every room besprinkled with them, so foaming out their own shame, that it is enough to make the heart of a Saint to tremble, insomuch that they would not be bound to have society with them any long while for all the world. For as the ways of the godly are not liked of by the wicked, even so the ways of the wicked are an abomination to the just,