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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.
2. That they who look upon their outward enjoyments to be tokens of Gods special grace unto them, are also deceived, Rev. 3. 17. For as it is here in the Parable, a man of wealth, and a child of the Devil may make but one person; or a man may have abundance of outward enjoyments, and yet be carried by the devils into eternal burnings, Luke 12. 20. But this is the trap in which the Devil hath caught many thousands of poor souls, namely, by getting them to judg according to outward appearance, or according to Gods outward blessings.
2. That they who look upon their outward enjoyments to be tokens of Gods special grace unto them, are also deceived, Rev. 3. 17. For as it is here in the Parable, a man of wealth, and a child of the Devil may make but one person; or a man may have abundance of outward enjoyments, and yet be carryed by the devils into eternal burnings, Luke 12. 20. But this is the trap in which the Devil hath caught many thousands of poor souls, namely, by getting them to judg according to outward appearance, or according to Gods outward blessings.
Do but ask a poor carnal covetous wretch, how we should know a man to be in a happy estate; and he will answer, Those that God blesseth, and giveth abundance of this world unto; when for the most part they are they that are the cursed men. Alas, poor men! they are so ignorant, as to think, that because a man is increased in outward things, and that by a small stock, therefore God doth love that man with a special love, or else he would never do so much for him, never bless him so, and prosper the work of his hands. Ah poor soul! it is the rich man that goes to hell. And the rich man dyed, and in hell, mark, in hell, he lift up his eyes, &c.