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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.
THE form•• Verse speaks only of the departure of the ungodly out of this life, together, with the glorious conduct that the godly have into the Kingdom of their Father. Now our Lord doth show in this Verses partly, what doth, and shall befall to the Reprobate after this life is ended, ⟨p. 27⟩where he saith, And in Hell he lift up his eyes.] That is, the ungodly after they depart this life, do lift up their eyes in Hell. From these words, may be observed these things.
THE form•• Verse speaks onely of the departure of the ungodly out of this life, together, with the glorious conduct that the godly have into the Kingdom of their Father. Now our Lord doth shew in this Verses partly, what doth, and shall befall to the Reprobate after this life is ended, ⟨p. 27⟩where he saith, And in Hell he lift up his eyes.] That is, the ungodly after they depart this life, do lift up their eyes in Hell. From these words, may be observed these things.
1. That there is an Hell for Souls to be tormented in, when this life is ended. Mark, after he was dead and buried. In Hell he lift up his eyes. 2. That all that are ungodly, and do live and die in their sins, so soon as ever they die, they go into Hell: he died, and was buried. And in Hell he lift up his eyes. 3. That some are so fast asleep, and secure in their sins, that they scarce know well where they are, till they come into Hell, and that I gather from these words, In Hell he lift up his eyes. He was asleep before, but Hell makes him lift up his eyes.
As I said before, it is evident, that there is an Hell for Souls; yea, and Bodies too, to be tormented in after they depart this life, as is clear. First, because the Lord Jesus Christ that cannot lie, did say, that after the sinner was dead and buried, In Hell he lift up his eyes.