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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.
5. Thou hast heard and read, That he that believes not, shall be damned, Mark 16. 16. And that all men have not Faith, 2 Thess. 3. 2. and yet thou ⟨p. 152⟩dost so much disregard these things, that it is like thou didst scarce ever so much as examine seriously whether thou wert in the faith or no; but dost content thy self with the Hypocrites hope, which at the last God will cut off, and count it no better then the spiders web, Job 8. 13, 14. or the house that is builded on the sands, Luke 6. 49. Nay, thou peradventure dost flatter thy self, and thinkest that thy Faith is as good as the best of them all, when alas poor soul, thou mayest have no saving faith at all; which thou hast not, if thou be not born again and made a new Creature, 2. Cor. 2▪ 17.
6. Thou hast heard, That he that neglects Gods great salvation, shall never escape his great damnation, Heb. 2. 3. compared with Luke 14. 24. and Rev. 14. 19, 20. And yet when thou art invited, entreated, and beseeched to come in, (Luke 14. 17, 18. 2 Cor. 5. 19, 20.