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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.
Where he saith, And it came to pass, that the Beggar died, and was carried into Abraham's Bosom▪ and the rich man died also.] The Beggar dyed, that represents the godly: and the rich man died, that represents the ungodly: From whence observe; Neither godly nor ungodly must live ⟨p. 17⟩always without a change either by Death or Judgment; the good man died, and the bad man died; That Scripture doth also back this Truth, that good and bad must die, marvellous well, where it is said, And it is appointed to men once to die, and after that the Judgment, Heb. 9. 27.
Where he saith, And it came to pass, that the Beggar died, and was carryed into Abraham's Bosome▪ and the rich man died also.] The Beggar dyed, that represents the godly: and the rich man died, that represents the ungodly: From whence observe; Neither godly nor ungodly must live ⟨p. 17⟩always without a change either by Death or Judgment; the good man died, and the bad man died; That Scripture doth also back this Truth, that good and bad must die, marvellous well, where it is said, And it is appointed to men once to die, and after that the Judgment, Heb. 9. 27.
Mark, he doth not say it is so, that men by chance may die, which might beget in the hearts of the ungodly, especially some hope to scape the bitterness of it: But he saith, It is a thing most certain, it is appointed. Mark, it is appointed for men once to die, and after that the Judgment. God hath decreed it, that since men have fallen from that happy estate that God at the first did set them in, they shall die, Rom. 6. 23. Now when it is said the Beggar died, and the rich man died; part of the meaning is, they ceased to be any more in this World; I say partly the meaning, but not altogether. Though it be altogether the meaning when some of the Creatures die, yet it is but in part the meaning, when it is said, that Men, Women, or Children die; for there is to them something else to be said more than barely a going out of the World: For if when unregenerate men and women die, there were an end of them, not only in this World, but also in the World to come, they would be happy over they will be now; for when ungodly men & women die, there is that to come after death, that will be very terrible to them;