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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.
Though the same man at another time (when his conscience is fallen asleep, and grown hard) will lie like the Smiths Dog, at the foot of the Anvil, though the fire-sparks fly in his face. But as I said before, when any one is a little awakened, O• what work will one verse, one line, nay one word of holy Scriptures make in his heart, he cannot eat, sleep, work, keep company with his former companions; and all because he is afraid that the damnation spoken of in Scripture, will fall to his share, Like Balaam, who said, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord, Numb. 22. 18. so long as he had something of the word of the Lord with authority, severity, and power on his heart: but at another time he could teach Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the Children of Israel. Rev. 2. 14.
Though the same man at another time (when his conscience is fallen asleep, and grown hard) will lie like the Smiths Dog, at the foot of the Anvil, though the fire-sparks flie in his face. But as I said before, when any one is a little awakened, O• what work will one verse, one line, nay one word of holy Scriptures make in his heart, he cannot eat, sleep, work, keep company with his former companions; and all because he is afraid that the damnation spoken of in Scripture, will fall to his share, Like Balaam, who said, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord, Numb. 22. 18. so long as he had something of the word of the Lord with authority, severity, and power on his heart: but at another time he could teach Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the Children of Israel. Rev. 2. 14.
3. Because the carnal Priests do tickle the ears of their hearers with vain Philosophy and deceit, and thereby harden their hearts against the simplicity of the Gospel, and word of God, which things, the Apostle admonished those that have a mind to close in with Christ, to avoid,