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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.
Ver. 29. Abraham said unto him, they have Moses and the Prophets, let them hear them.
IN the Verses foregoing, you see there is a discovery of the lamentable state of the poor soul that dyes out of Christ, and the special favour of God. And also how little the glorious God of Heaven doth regard and take notice of their most miserable condition.
Now in this verse, he doth magnify the word which was spoken to the People by the Prophets and Apostles, They have Moses and the Prophets, let them hear them. As if he should say, thou askest me that I should send Lazarus back again into the World, to Preach to them that live there, that they might escape that doleful place that thou art in: what needs that? have they not Moses and the Prophets? have they not had my Ministers and Servants sent unto them, and coming as from me? I sent Enoch, and Noah, Moses, and Samuel. I sent David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, ⟨p. 134⟩Hosea, and the rest of the Prophets, together with Peter, Paul, John, Matthew, James, Jude, with the rest; Let them hear them. What they have spoken by Divine inspiration, I will own, whether it be for the damnation of those that reject, or the saving of them that receive their Doctrine: And therefore what need have they that one should be sent unto them in another way? They have Moses, and the Prophets, Let them hear them; let them receive their word, close in with the Doctrine declared by them. I shall not at this time speak any thing to that word (Abraham) having touched upon it already; but shall tell you what is to be understood by these words, They have Moses and the Prophets, let them hear them. The things that I shall observe from hence, are these, 1. That the Scriptures spoken by the Holy Men of God, are a sufficient rule to instruct to Salvation, them that do assuredly believe and close in with what they hold forth. They have Moses and the Prophets, let them hear them. That is, if they would escape that doleful place, and be saved indeed from the intolerable pains of Hell fire, as they desire, they have that which is sufficient to counsel them, They have Moses and the Prophets, let them be instructed by them, Let them hear them,