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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.
5. Another Reason why the blind world do slight the authority of Scripture, is, because they give •ar to the Devil, who through his subtlety casteth false evasions, and corrupt interpretations on them, •end•ing them not so point blank the mind of God, and a rule for direction to poor souls, persuading them, that they must give ear and way to something else besides, and beyond that: or else he labours to render it vile and contemptible, by persuading them that it is a dead letter, when indeed they know not what they say, nor whereof they affirm. For the Scripture is not so dead, but that the knowledge of it is able to make any man wise unto salvation through faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 2 Tim. 3. 15. And is profitable for instruction, reproof, and correction in righteousness; that the man of God may be throughly furnished to all good works, verse 17.
5. Another Reason why the blind world do slight the authority of Scripture, is, because they give •ar to the Devil, who through his subtilty casteth false evasions, and corrupt interpretations on them, •end•ing them not so point blank the mind of God, and a rule for direction to poor souls, perswading them, that they must give ear and way to something else besides, and beyond that: or else he labours to render it vile and contemptible, by perswading them that it is a dead letter, when indeed they know not what they say, nor whereof they affirm. For the Scripture is not so dead, but that the knowledge of it is able to make any man wise unto salvation through faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 2 Tim. 3. 15. And is profitable for instruction, reproof, and correction in righteousness; that the man of God may be throughly furnished to all good works, verse 17.