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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.
Thirdly, It cannot be the Grave, for then it must follow, that the Soul was buried there with the Body, which cannot stand with such a dead state as is here mentioned; for he saith, The rich man died; that is, his soul was separated from his body. And in Hell he lift up his eyes.
If it be again objected, that there is no Hell but in this life, that I do also deny, as I said before; after he was dead and buried, In Hell he lift up his eyes. And let me tell thee, O soul, whoever thou art, that if thou close not in savingly with the Lord Jesus Christ, and lay hold on what he hath done, and is doing in his own person for sinners, thou wilt find such an hell after this life is ended, that thou wilt not get out of again for ever and ⟨p. 29⟩ever. And thou that art wanton, and dost make but a mock at the Servants of the Lord, when they tell thee of the torments of hell, thou wilt find, that when thou departest out of this life, that Hell, even the hell which is after this life, will meet thee in thy Journey thither, and will with its hellish crew give thee such a sad salutation, that thou wilt not forget it to all eternity, when that Scripture comes to be fulfilled on thy soul, in Isa. 14. 9. Hell from beneath is moved for thee, to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth: it hath raised from their Thrones all the Kings of the Nations. All they, that is, that are in hell shall say, Art thou become weak as we? Art thou become like unto us? O sometimes when I have had but thoughts of going to hell, and considered the everlastingness of their ruin that fall in thither; it hath stirred me up rather to seek to the Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver me from thence, than to slight it, and make a mock at it.
If it be again objected, that there is no Hell but in this life, that I do also deny, as I said before; after he was dead and buried, In Hell he lift up his eyes. And let me tell thee, O soul, whoever thou art, that if thou close not in savingly with the Lord Jesus Christ, and lay hold on what he hath done, and is doing in his own person for sinners, thou wilt find such an hell after this life is ended, that thou wilt not get out of again for ever and