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A few sighs from hell, or, The groans of a damned soul. Or, An…
A few sighs from hell, or, The groans of a damned soul. Or, An exposition of those words in the sixteenth of Luke, concerning the rich man and the beggar : wherein is discovered the lamentable state of the damned : their cries, their desires in their distresses, with the determination of God upon them. A good warning word to sinners, both old and young, to take into consideration betimes, and to seek by faith in Jesus Christ to avoid, lest they come into the same place of torment. Also a brief discourse touching the profitableness of the Scriptures for our instruction in the way of righteousness, according to the tendency of the said parable. / By that poor and contemptible servant of Jesus Christ, John Bunyan.A few sighs from hell, or, The groans of a damned soul. Or, An exposition of those words in the sixteenth of Luke, concerning the rich man and the beggar : wherein is discovered the lamentable state of the damned : their cries, their desires in their distresses, with the determination of God upon them. A good warning word to sinners, both old and young, to take into consideration betimes, and to seek by faith in Jesus Christ to avoid, lest they come into the same place of torment. Also a brief discourse touching the profitableness of the Scriptures for our instruction in the way of righteousness, according to the tendancy of the said parable. / By that poor and contemptible servant of Jesus Christ, John Bunyan.
London: printed by Ralph Wood for M. Wright, 1658
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A FEW Sighs from Hell: OR, The Groans of a damned Soul: OR, An Expo… › Verse 23
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2. Thou shalt have the guilt of them all lie heavy on thy soul, not only the guilt of one or two, but the guilt of them all together, and there they shall lie in thy soul, as if thy belly were full of pitch, and set on a light fire. Now here men can sometimes think on their sins with delight, but there with unspeakable torment; for that I understand to be the fire that Christ speaketh of, which shall never be quenched. Mark, while men live here, O how doth the guilt of one sin sometimes crush the soul, it makes a man in such plight, that he is weary of his life, so that he can neither rest at home nor abroad, neither up nor in bed. Nay, I do know, that they have been so tormented with the guilt of one sinful thought, that they have been even at their wits end. But now when thou ⟨p. 46⟩comest into hell, and hast not only one or two, or an hundred sins with the guilt of them all on thy soul and body; but all the sins that ever thou didst commit since thou camest into the world, all together clapped on thy conscience at one time, as one should clap a red hot iron to thy breasts, and there to continue to all eternity, this is miserable.
2. Thou shalt have the guilt of them all lie heavy on thy soul, not onely the guilt of one or two, but the guilt of them all together, and there they shall lie in thy soul, as if thy belly were full of pitch, and set on a light fire. Now here men can sometimes think on their sins with delight, but there with unspeakable torment; for that I understand to be the fire that Christ speaketh of, which shall never be quenched. Mark, while men live here, O how doth the guilt of one sin sometimes crush the soul, it makes a man in such plight, that he is weary of his life, so that he can neither rest at home nor abroad, neither up nor in bed. Nay, I do know, that they have been so tormented with the guilt of one sinful thought, that they have been even at their wits end. But now when thou ⟨p. 46⟩comest into hell, and hast not onely one or two, or an hundred sins with the guilt of them all on thy soul and body; but all the sins that ever thou didst commit since thou camest into the world, all together clapt on thy conscience at one time, as one should clap a red hot iron to thy breasts, and there to continue to all eternity, this is miserable.