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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. Then, thou hast found the power of the Gospel, and so believed it; thou hast found it thus with thy soul.
1. Thou hast been showed by the word or truth of the Gospel, in the light of the Spirit of Christ, that by nature thou were without the true faith of the Son of God in thy soul: For when He, the Spirit is come, he shall show men that they believe not in me, saith Christ. Joh. 16. 9. Mark, though thou hast, as I said before, felt somewhat of the power of the Law, Letter, or ten Commandments, yet if thou hast not been brought to this, to see by the spirit in the Gospel, that thou art without faith by nature, thou hast not yet tasted, much less believed any part of the Gospel. For the Gospel and the Law are two distinct Covenants. And they that are under the Law, may be convinced by it, and so believe the Law or first Covenant, and yet in the mean time, to be a stranger to the Covenant of promise; that is, the Gospel, and so have no hope in them, (Ephes. 2. 12.) There is not any promise that can be savingly believed, until the soul be by the Gospel converted to Jesus Christ. For though men do think never so much that they believe the things, or the word of the Gospel of our salvation, yet▪ ⟨p. 182⟩unless they have the work of grace in their souls, they do no• cannot rightly believe the things contained in the Scriptures.
1. Thou hast been shewed by the word or truth of the Gospel, in the light of the Spirit of Christ, that by nature thou were without the true faith of the Son of God in thy soul: For when He, the Spirit is come, he shall shew men that they believe not in me, saith Christ. Joh. 16. 9. Mark, though thou hast, as I said before, felt somewhat of the power of the Law, Letter, or ten Commandments, yet if thou hast not been brought to this, to see by the spirit in the Gospel, that thou art without faith by nature, thou hast not yet tasted, much less believed any part of the Gospel. For the Gospel and the Law are two distinct Covenants. And they that are under the Law, may be convinced by it, and so believe the Law or first Covenant, and yet in the mean time, to be a stranger to the Covenant of promise; that is, the Gospel, and so have no hope in them, (