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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
A FEW Sighs from Hell: OR, The Groans of a damned Soul: OR, An Expo… › Verse 24
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.
You know I told you the 22. verse is a discovery of the departure of the godly and the ungodly out of this life; where he saith, The beggar died, and the rich man also died. The 23. verse is a discovery of the proper places, both of the godly, and the ungodly after death; one being in Abraham's bosom, or in glory, the other in hell. Now this 24. verse is a discovery of part of the too late repentance of the ungodly, when they are dropped down into hell. And he cried, and said, Father Abraham, have mercy upon me.]
YOu know I told you the 22. verse is a discovery of the departure of the godly and the ungodly out of this life; where he saith, The beggar died, and the rich man also died. The 23. verse is a discovery of the proper places, both of the godly, and the ungodly after death; one being in Abrahams bosome, or in glory, the other in hell. Now this 24. verse is a discovery of part of the too late repentance of the ungodly, when they are dropt down into hell. And he cried, and said, Father Abraham, have mercy upon me.]
From these words, and he cried, we may observe, first, what a change the ungodly will have, when they come into hell. Where he saith, he cried; it is like he was laughing, jesting, jeering, drinking, mocking, swearing, cursing, prating, persecuting of the godly in his prosperity, among his filthy companions; ⟨p. 56⟩but now the case is otherwise; now he is in another frame; now his proud, stout, currish carriage is come down, as is clearly signified by these words, And he cried. Therefore by these words you may secondly observe, that the laughter of the ungodly will not last always, but will be sure to end in a cry. O no my friends, consider, you must have a change either here or in hell. If you be not new creatures, regenerate persons, new born babes in this world before you go hence, your note will be changed, you. conditions will be changed: for if you come into hell, you must cry. O did but the singing drunkards, when they are making merry on the Alebench think on this, that if they drop into hell they must cry, it would make them change their note, and cry, What shall I do, whither shall I go when I die? But as I said before, the devil, as he labours to get poor souls to follow their sins, so he labours also to keep the thoughts of eternal damnation out of their minds; and indeed these two things are so nearly linked together, that the devil cannot well get the soul to go on in sin with delight, unless he can keep the thoughts