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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 26
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.
and besides all this, thou shalt have them for ever and for ever.
O thou that dost spend whole nights in carding and dicing, in rioting and wantonness, thou that countest it a brave thing to swear as fast as the bravest, to spend with the greatest spend-thrift (as we call them) in the country: O thou that lovest to sin in a corner when no body sees thee! O thou that for by-ends dost carry on an hypocrites profession, because thou wouldest be counted some body among the children of God, but art an enemy to the things of Christ in thine heart: thou that dost satisfy thy self, either with sins, or a bare profession of godliness; thy soul will fall into extreme torment, and anguish so soon as ever thou dost depart this world, and there thou shalt be weeping and gnashing thy teeth. And besides all this, thou art like never to have any ease or remedy, never look for any deliverance, if thou die out of Christ; thou shalt die in thy sins; and be tormented as many years as there are stars in the firmament, or sands on the sea-shore; and besides all this, thou must abide it for ever.
O thou that dost spend whole nights in carding and dicing, in rioting and wantonness, thou that countest it a brave thing to swear as fast as the bravest, to spend with the greatest spend-thrift (as we call them) in the countrey: O thou that lovest to sin in a corner when no body sees thee! O thou that for by-ends dost carry on an hypocrites profession, because thou wouldest be counted some body among the children of God, but art an enemy to the things of Christ in thine heart: thou that dost satisfie thy self, either with sins, or a bare profession of godliness; thy soul will fall into extreme torment, and anguish so soon as ever thou dost depart this world, and there thou shalt be weeping and gnashing thy teeth. And besides all this, thou art like never to have any ease or remedy, never look for any deliverance, if thou die out of Christ; thou shalt die in thy sins; and be tormented as many years as there are stars in the firmament, or sands on the sea-shore; and besides all this, thou must abide it for ever.