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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.
O miserable Society! here comes death and hell unto thee. Death goeth into thy body, and separates body and soul asunder; hell stands without (as I may say) to embrace, or rather to crush thy soul between its everlasting grinders. Then thy mirth, thy joy, thy sinful delights will be eased when this comes to pass; so, it will come. Blessed are all those, that through Christ Jesus his merits, by saith, do escape these soul-murdering companions. And in hell he lift up his eyes.
O miserable Society! here comes death and hell unto thee. Death goeth into thy body, and separates body and soul asunder; hell stands without (as I may say) to embrace, or rather to crush thy soul between its everlasting grinders. Then thy mirth, thy joy, thy sinful delights will be eased when this comes to pass; so, it will come. Blessed are all those, that through Christ Jesus his merits, by saith, do escape these soul-murthering companions. And in hell he lift up his eyes.
The third thing you know that we did observe from these words, was this, That some are so fast asleep, and secure in their sins, that they scarce know where they are, until they come into hell. And that I told you I gather by these words, In hell he life ⟨p. 32⟩up his eyes. Mark, it was in hell that he lift up his eyes. Now some do understand by these words, that he came to himself, or began to consider with himself▪ or to think with himself in what an estate he was▪ and what he was deprived of; which is still a confirmation of the thing laid down by me. There it is that they come to themselves, that is, there they are sensible where they are indeed; Thus it fares with some men, that they scarce know where they are, till they lift up their eyes in hell. It is with these people, as with those that fall down in a swoon; you know if a man do fall down in a swoon in one room though you take him up, and carry him into another, yet he is not sensible where he is, till he cometh unto himself, and lifteth up his eyes.