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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.
They that regard not the Holy Scriptures, to turn to God, finding them to restifie of his goodness and mercy, there is but little hopes of their Salvation; For they will not, mark, they will not be persuaded, though one should rise from the Dead. This Truth is confirmed by Jesus Christ himself: If you read Joh. 5. where the Lord is speaking of himself, that he is the very Christ; he brings in four or five Witnesses to back what he said. First, John Baptist. 2. The Works that his Father gave him to do. 3. His Father speaking from Heaven. 4. The Testimony of the Scriptures; when all this was done, seeing yet they would not believe, he lays the fault upon one of these two Things.
They that regard not the Holy Scriptures, to turn to God, finding them to restifie of his goodness and mercy, there is but little hopes of their Salvation; For they will not, mark, they will not be perswaded, though one should rise from the Dead. This Truth is confirmed by Jesus Christ himself: If you read Joh. 5. where the Lord is speaking of himself, that he is the very Christ; he brings in four or five Witnesses to back what he said. First, John Baptist. 2. The Works that his Father gave him to do. 3. His Father speaking from Heaven. 4. The Testimony of the Scriptures; when all this was done, seeing yet they would not believe, he layes the fault upon one of these two Things.
1. Their regarding an esteem among Men.
2. Their not believing of the Prophets Writings, even Moses and the rest. For had ye believed Moses (saith he) ye would have believed me? For he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his Writings how can ye believe my Words. Now, I say, he that shall slight the Scriptures, and the Testimony of the Prophets in them concerning Jesus Christ, must