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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.
David had the comfort of this, and speaks it forth for the comfort of his Brethren. Psal 34. 7. saying, The Angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. Mark, the Angel of the Lord encampeth round about his Children, to deliver them. From what? From ⟨p. 24⟩their enemies, of which the Devil is not the least. This is an excellent comfort at any time, to have the holy Angels of God to attend a poor man, or woman; but especially, it is comfortable in the time of distress▪ at the time of death, when the Devils beset the Soul with all the power that Hell can afford them. But now it may be, that the glorious Angels of God do not appear at the first, to the view of the Soul; nay, rather Hell stands before it, and the Devils ready, as if they would carry it thither. But this is the comfort, the Angels •o always appear at the last, and will not fa•l the Soul, but will carry it safe into Abraham's Bosom. Ah Friend• ▪ consider, here is an ungodly man upon his death-bed, and he hath none to speak for him, none to speak comfort unto him; but it is not so with the Children of God, for they have the Spirit to comfort them. Here is the ungodly, and they have no Christ to pray for their safe conduct to glory, but the Saints have an Intercessor. John 17. 9. Here is the World, when they die, they have none of the Angels of God to attend upon them; but the Saints have their company. In a word, the unconverted person when he dieth, he sinks into the bottomless pit. But the Saints, when they die, do ascend with, and by the Angels, into Abraham's Bosom, or into unto unspeakable glory. Luke 23. 43.
David had the comfort of this, and speaks it forth for the comfort of his Brethren. Psal 34. 7. saying, The Angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. Mark, the Angel of the Lord encampeth round about his Children, to deliver them. From what? From ⟨p. 24⟩