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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.
Do but mark the words, All Scripture is profitable: All, take it where you will, and in what place you will; All is profitable, for what? That the man of God, or he that is bound for Heaven, and would instruct others in their progress thither.
It is profitable to instruct him, in case he be ignorant; to reprove him, in case he transgress; to correct him, if he hath need of it; to confirm him, if he be wavering. It is profitable for doctrine, and all this in a very righteous way, that the poor soul may not only be helped, but throughly furnished, nor only to some, but to all good works. And when Paul would counsel Timothy, to stick close to the things that are sound and sure, presently he puts him upon the Scriptures, saving, Thou hast from a Child known the Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto Salvation, through Faith which is in Christ Jesus. The Scripture holds forth Gods mind and will of his love and mercy towards man, and also the creatures carriage towards him from first to last: so if thou wouldest know the love of God in Christ to sinners, Then search the Scriptures, for they are they that testify of him.
Wouldst thou know what thou art, and what is in thy heart, then search the Scriptures, and see what's written in them, Rom. 3. from 9. 10 18. Rom. 1. 19. 30, 31, 32. Jer. 17. 9. Gen. 6. 5. ⟨p. 136⟩chap. 8. 21. Eph 4. 18. with many others. The Scriptures I say, they are able to give a man perfect instruction into any of the things of God necessary to Faith and Godliness, if he have but an honest heart, seriously to weigh and ponder the several things contained in them. As to instance in things more particular for the further clearing up of this; And first, if we come to the Creation of the World.