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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.
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, Prov. 29. 27. Psal. 120. 5, 6.
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 foming 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 wayes of the godly are not liked of by the wicked, even so the wayes of the wicked are an abomination to the just, Prov. 29. 27. Psal. 120. 5, 6.
The Scriptures say, Cursed is the man that trusteth in man, that maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord, Jer. 17. 5.
And yet how many poor souls are there in the world, that stand in so much awe, and dread of men, and do so highly esteem their favour, that they will rather venture their souls in the hands