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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. Examine again Dost thou labour after those qualifications that the Scriptures do describe a child of God by? that is saith, yea the right faith, the most holy faith, the faith of the operation of God. And also dost thou examine whether there is a real growth of Grace in thy soul, as love, zeal, self-denial, and a seeking by all means to attain (if possible) to the Resurrection of the dead; that is, not to satisfy thy self, until thou be dissolved and rid of this body of death, and be transformed ⟨p. 191⟩into that glory that the Saints shall be in after the Resurrection day; and in the mean time dost labour, and take all opportunities to walk as near as may be to the pitch, though thou know thou canst not attain it perfectly, yet I say, thou dost aim at it, seek after it, press towards it, and to hold on in thy race, thou shunnest that which may any way hinder thee, and also close in with what may any way further the same; knowing, that that must be, or desiring that it should be thine eternal frame, and therefore out of love and liking to it, thou dost desire and long after it, as being the thing that doth most please thy soul.
5. Examine again Dost thou labour after those qualifications that the Scriptures do describe a child of God by? that is saith, yea the right faith, the most holy faith, the faith of the operation of God. And also dost thou examine whether there is a real growth of Grace in thy soul, as love, zeal, self-denial, and a seeking by all means to attain (if possible) to the Resurrection of the dead; that is, not to satisfy thy self, until thou be dissolved and rid of this body of death, and be transformed ⟨p. 191⟩into that glory that the Saints shall be in after the Resurrection day; and in the mean time dost labour, and take all opportunities to walk as near as may be to the pitch, though thou know thou canst not attain it perfectly, yet I say, thou dost aim at it, seek after it, press towards it, and to hold on in thy race, thou •hunnest that which may any way hinder thee, and also close in with what may any way further the same; knowing, that that must be, or desiring that it should be thine eternal frame, and therefore out of love and liking to it, thou dost desire and long after it, as being the thing that doth most please thy soul.