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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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When the damned are in this pitiful state, surrounded with fears, with terrors, with torment and vengeance; one thing they shall have, which is this, they shall see the happy and blessed state of Gods children: he seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom, which as I said before, is the happy state of the Saints, when this life is ended. This now shall be so far from being an ease unto them, that it shall most wonderfully aggravate or heighten their torment, as I said before. There shall be weeping, or cause of lamentation, when they shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, and themselves thrust out.
When the damned are in this pittiful state, surrounded with fears, with terrors, with torment and vengeance; one thing they shall have, which is this, they shall see the happy and blessed state of Gods children: he seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosome, which as I said before, is the happy state of the Saints, when this life is ended. This now shall be so far from being an ease unto them, that it shall most wonderfully aggravate or heighten their torment, as I said before. There shall be weeping, or cause of lamentation, when they shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, and themselves thrust out.
2. Observe, those that die in their sins are far from going to heaven. He seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his ⟨p. 52⟩bosom. And indeed it is just with God to deal with them that die in their sins, according to what they have done; and to make them who are far from righteousness now, to stand far from heaven to all eternity. Hearken to this ye stout hearted, that are far from righteousness, and that are resolved to go on in your sins; when you die, you will be far from heaven; you will see Lazarus, but it will be afar off. Again, he seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. These are some of the things that the damned do behold, so soon as they come into torment. Mark, And he seeth Lazarus in Abraham's bosom. Lazarus, who was he? Why, even he that was so slighted, so disregarded, so undervalued by this ungodly one while he was in the world; he seeth Lazarus in his bosom.