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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.
First, one part of thy torments will be this, thou shalt have a full fight of all thy ill spent life from first to last, though here thou canst sin to day, and forget it by to morrow; yet there thou shalt be made to remember how thou didst sin against God at such a time, and in such a place, for such a thing, and with such an one, which will be an hell unto thee. Psal. 50. 21. God will set them in order before thine eyes.
2. Thou shalt have the guilt of them all lye heavy on thy soul, not only the guilt of one or two, but the guilt of them altogether, and there they shall lye in thy soul, as if thy belly were full of pitch, and set on a light fire. Here men can sometimes think on their sins with delight, but there with unspeakable torment; for that I understand to be the fire that Christ speaketh of, ⟨p. 38⟩which shall never be quenched, Mark 8. 43, 44, 45, 46. While men live here, O how doth the guilt of one sin sometimes crush the soul, it makes a man in such plight, that he is weary of his life, so that he can neither rest at home nor abroad, neither up nor in bed. Nay, I do know, that they have been so tormented with the guilt of one sinful thought, that they have been even at their wits end, and have hanged themselves. But now when thou comest into hell, and hast not only one or two, or an hundred sins with the guilt of them all on thy soul and body; but all the sins that ever thou didst commit since thou camest into the world, altogether clapped on thy conscience at one time, as one should clap a red hot iron to thy breasts, and there to continue to all eternity, this is miserable.
2. Thou shalt have the guilt of them all lye heavy on thy soul, not only the guilt of one or two, but the guilt of them altogether, and there they shall lye in thy soul, as if thy belly were full of pitch, and set on a light fire. Here men can sometimes think on their sins with delight, but there with unspeakable torment; for that I understand to be the fire that Christ speaketh of, ⟨p. 38⟩