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A few sighs from hell, or, The groans of a damned soul. Or, An…
A few sighs from hell, or, The groans of a damned soul. Or, An exposition of those words in the sixteenth of Luke, concerning the rich man and the beggar : wherein is discovered the lamentable state of the damned : their cries, their desires in their distresses, with the determination of God upon them. A good warning word to sinners, both old and young, to take into consideration betimes, and to seek by faith in Jesus Christ to avoid, lest they come into the same place of torment. Also a brief discourse touching the profitableness of the Scriptures for our instruction in the way of righteousness, according to the tendency of the said parable. / By that poor and contemptible servant of Jesus Christ, John Bunyan.A few sighs from hell, or, The groans of a damned soul. Or, An exposition of those words in the sixteenth of Luke, concerning the rich man and the beggar : wherein is discovered the lamentable state of the damned : their cries, their desires in their distresses, with the determination of God upon them. A good warning word to sinners, both old and young, to take into consideration betimes, and to seek by faith in Jesus Christ to avoid, lest they come into the same place of torment. Also a brief discourse touching the profitableness of the Scriptures for our instruction in the way of righteousness, according to the tendancy of the said parable. / By that poor and contemptible servant of Jesus Christ, John Bunyan.
London: printed by Ralph Wood for M. Wright, 1658
Title page typeset from the transcription.
A FEW Sighs from Hell: OR, The Groans of a damned Soul: OR, An Expo… › Verse 24
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.
It may be last year they heard some good sermons, was invited to receive heaven, was told their sins should be pardoned, if they closed in with Jesus; but refusing his ⟨p. 58⟩proffers, and slighting the grace that was once tendered, they are now in hell, and do cry.
It may be last year they heard some good sermons, was invited to receive heaven, was told their sins should be pardoned, if they closed in with Jesus; but refusing his ⟨p. 58⟩profers, and slighting the grace that was once tendered, they are now in hell, and do cry.
Before they had so much time (they thought) that they could not tell how to spend it, unless it were in hunting, and whoring, in dancing and playing, and spending whole hours; yea, days, nay weeks in the lusts of the flesh, but when they depart into another place, and begin to lift up their eyes in hell, and consider their miserable, and irrecoverable condition they will cry.
Before they had so much time (they thought) that they could not tell how to spend it, unless it were in hunting, and whoring, in dancing and playing, and spending whole hours; yea, dayes, nay weeks in the lusts of the flesh, but when they depart into another place, and begin to lift up their eyes in hell, and consider their miserable, and irrecoverable condition they will cry.
O what a condition wilt thou fall into, when thou dost depart this world, if thou depart unconverted, and not born again, thou hadst better have been smothered the first hour thou wast born; thou hadst better have been plucked one limb from another; thou hadst better have been made a dog, a toad, a serpent; nay, any other creature in the visible world, then to die unconverted, and this thou wilt find to be true, when in hell thou dost lif up thine eyes, and dost cry.