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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.
Again, as the Law killeth those that believe it, even so the promises contained in the Gospel, do, through faith, administer comfort to those that believe i• a•ig•t. My words (saith Christ) my words, they are spirit, and they are life. Joh. 6. 63. As if he had said, the words contained in the law as a Covenant of works, they wound, they kill, they strike dead those that are under them. But as for me, the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. That is, whosoever doth receive them believingly, shall find them full of operation to comfort, quicken, and revive their soul. For as I did not come into the world to destroy mens lives, so the words that I speak, (as I am sent to preach the Gospel) they have no such tendency unto those that believe them. The promises that are in the Gospel, Oh, how do they comfort them? such a promise, and such a promise, O how sweet is it? how comfortable to those that believe them? Alas, there are many poor souls that think they believe the Scriptures, to be the word of God, and yet they never enjoyed any thing of the life and promises; they come in upon the heart to quicken, to revive thee, to raise th•e from the sentence of death that is passed […] thee by the Law. And through the faith that is ⟨p. 183⟩wrought in thy soul, by the operation of Gods holy Spirit (though once killed by the Law or Letter) thou art made alive in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is presented to thy soul in the promises.
Again, as the Law killeth those that believe it, even so the promises contained in the Gospel, do, through faith, administer comfort to those that believe i• a•ig•t. My words (saith Christ) my words, they are spirit, and they are life. Joh. 6. 63. As if he had said, the words contained in the law as a Covenant of works, they wound, they kill, they strike dead those that are under them. But as for me, the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. That is, whosoever doth receive them believingly, shall find them full of operation to comfort, quicken, and revive their soul. For as I did not come into the world to destroy mens lives, so the words that I speak, (as I am sent to preach the Gospel) they have no such tendency unto those that believe them. The promises that are in the Gospel, Oh, how do they comfort them? such a promise, and such a promise, O how sweet is it? how comfortable to those that believe them? Alas, there are many poor souls that think they believe the Scriptures, to be the word of God, and yet they never enjoyed any thing of the life and promises; they come in upon the heart to quicken, to revive thee, to raise the from the sentence of death that is passed thee by the Law. And through the faith that is