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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.
6. He that believes the Scriptures to be the word of God, if he do but suppose that any one place of Scripture doth exclude him, and shut him out of, and from a share in the promises contained in them: O it will trouble him, grieve him, perplex him, yea he will not be satisfied until he be resolved, and the contrary sealed to his soul, for he knows that the Scriptures are the word of God, all truth; and therefore he knows, that if any one sentence doth exclude, or bar out him, for want of this, or the other qualification; he knows also, that not the word alone shuts him out, but he that speaks it, even God himself; and ••herefore he cannot, will not, dare not be contented until he find his soul and Scripture together (with the things contained therein) to embrace each other, and a sweet correspondency and agreement between them. For you must know, that to him that believes the Scriptures aright, the promises, or threatenings, are of more power to ⟨p. 186⟩comfort or cast down, then all the promises or threatenings of all the men in the world. And this was the cause why the Martyrs of Jesus, did so slight both the promises of their adversaries, when they would have overcome them with pr•fering the great things of this world unto them, and also their […] them they would rack them, ha•g them […] Acts 20. 24. No•• of these things c••l• prevail upon them or against them; because they did most really believe the Scriptures, and the things contained in them; as is clearly found and to be seen in Heb. 11. and also in Mr. Fox's Records of their Brethren.
6. He that believes the Scriptures to be the word of God, if he do but suppose that any one place of Scripture doth exclude him, and shut him out of, and from a share in the promises contained in them: O it will trouble him, grieve him, perplex him, yea he will not be satisfied untill he be resolved, and the contrary sealed to his soul, for he knows that the Scriptures are the word of God, all truth; and therefore he knows, that if any one sentence doth exclude, or bar out him, for want of this, or the other qualification; he knows also, that not the word alone shuts him out, but he that speaks it, even God himself; and herefore he cannot, will not, dare not be conented until he find his soul and Scripture together (with the things contained therein) to embrace each other, and a sweet correspondency and agreement between them. For you must know, that to him that believes the Scriptures aright, the promises, or threatnings, are of more power to