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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
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A FEW Sighs from Hell: OR, The Groans of a damned Soul: OR, An Expo… › Verse 28
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.
For as I said before, where ungodly people do dwell together, they being a snare and stumbling-block one to another by their practices, they must needs be a torment one to another, and an aggravation of each others damnation. O cursed be thy face, saith one, that ever I set mine eyes on thee: It was long of thee; I may thank thee; it was thee that did entice me, and ensnare me; it was your filthy conversation that was as a stumbling-block to me, it was your covetousness, it was your pride, your haunting the Alehouse, your gaming and whoring, it was long o• you that I fell short of life, if you had set me a good example as you did set me an ill one, it may be I might have done better then now I do: But I learned of you, I followed your steps, I took counsel of you. O that I had never seen thy face! ⟨p. 116⟩O that thou hadst never been born! to do my soul this wrong as you have done: O saith the other, And I may as much blame you, for do not you remember how at such a time, and at such a time, you drew me out, and drew me away, and asked me if I would go with you, when I was going about other business, about my calling; but you called me away, you sent for me, you are as much in the fault as I, though I were covetous, you were proud; and if you learned covetousness of me,* I learned pride and drunkenness of you; though I learned you to cheat, you learned me to whore, to lye, to scoff at goodness. Though I base wretch did stumble you in some things, yet you did as much stumble me in others. I can blame you as you blame me; and if I have to answer for some of your most filthy actions, you have to answer for some of mine. I would you had not come hither, the very looks of you doth wound my soul, by bringing my sins afresh into my mind, the time when, the manner how, the place where, the persons with whom: it was with you, you! grief to my soul! since I could not shun thy ⟨p. 117⟩company there. Oh! that I had been without thy company here.
For as I said before, where ungodly people do dwell together, they being a snare and stumbling-block one to another by their practices, they must needs be a torment one to another, and an aggravation of each others damnation. O cursed be thy face, saith one, that ever I set mine eyes on thee: It was long of thee; I may thank the; it was thee that did intice me, and ensnare me; it was your filthy conversation that was as a stumbling-block to me, it was your covetousness, it was your pride, your haunting the Alehouse, your gaming and whoring, it was long o you that I fell short of life, if you had set me a good example as you did set me an ill one, it may be I might have done better then now I do: But I learned of you, I followed your steps, I took counsel of you. O that I had never seen thy face!