A77813:424
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 31
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.
2. How unwillingly will thou set foot forward towards the lake of fire. Never did Malefactor so unwillingly turn off the ladder, when the halter was about his neck, as thou wilt turn from God to the devil, from heaven to hell, when the sentence is passed upon thy soul.
2. How unwillingly will thou set foot forward towards the lake of fire. Never did Malefactour so unwillingly turn off the ladder, when the halter was about his neck, as thou wilt turn from God to the devil, from heaven to hell, when the sentence is passed upon thy soul.
Oh how wilt thou sigh and groan! Oh how willingly wouldest thou hide thy self, and run away from Justice; but alas! as ⟨p. 229⟩it is with them that are on the ladder ready to be executed, so it will be with thee. Alas, they would fain run away, but there are many Halberd-men to stay them: And so the powers of God will beset thee round, I say, round on every side, so that thou mayest indeed look, but run thou canst not; thou mayest wish thy self under some great rock or mountain, but how to get under thou knowest not.
3 Oh how unwilling wilt thou be to let thy father go to heaven without thee, thy mother or friends, &c. go to heaven without thee? O how willingly wouldest thou hang on them, and not let them go! O Father, cannot you help me? O Mother, cannot you do me some good? O how loath am I to burn and fry in hell, while you are singing in Heaven! But alas, the father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, or friend rejects them, slights them, and turn their backs upon them, saying, ⟨p. 230⟩