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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.
Against this danger therefore in reading and receiving the testimony of Scripture, learn to distinguish between the Law and the Gospel, and to keep them clear asunder, as to the salvation of thy soul, and that thou mayest so do: In the first place, beg of God, that he would show thee the nature of the Gospel, and set it home effectually with life and power upon thy soul by Faith. Which is this, That God would show thee, that as thou being man, hast sinned against God; so ⟨p. 197⟩Christ being God Man, hath ••ought thee again, and with his most precious blood set thee free from the bondage thou wast fallen into by thy sins; and that not upon condition, that thou wilt do thus and thus, this and the other good work; but rather, that thou being first justified freely by mere grace, through the blood of Jesus, shouldest also receive thy strength from him who hath bought thee, to walk before him in all well pleasing, being enabled thereto by virtue of his Spirit, which hath revealed to thy soul, that thou art delivered already from wrath to come, by the obedience, not of thee, but of another man, (viz.) Jesus Christ.
Against this danger therefore in reading and receiving the testimony of Scripture, learn to distinguish between the Law and the Gospel, and to keep them clear asunder, as to the salvation of thy soul, and that thou mayest so do: In the first place, beg of God, that he would shew thee the nature of the Gospel, and set it home effectually with life and power upon thy soul by Faith. Which is this, That God would shew thee, that as thou being man, hast sinned against God; so ⟨p. 197⟩Christ being God Man, hath ••ought thee again, and with his most pretious bloud set thee free from the bondage thou wast fallen into by thy sins; and that not upon condition, that thou wilt do thus and thus, this and the other good work; but rather, that thou being first justified freely by meer grace, through the bloud of Jesus, shouldest also receive thy strength from him who hath bought thee, to walk before him in all well pleasing, being inabled thereto by vertue of his Spirit, which hath revealed to thy soul, that thou art delivered already from wrath to come, by the obedience, not of thee, but of another man, (viz.) Jesus Christ.