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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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On the other hand here thou shalt see a poor, but a gracious man, with a pinched belly, naked back, and running soars, begging at the rich mans gate for a morsel to feed his belly, a sad state, yet but short: for look again, and behold this beggar gloriously carried (as in a Chariot of triumph by the Angels into Abraham's bosom, shining in glory, clothed with beautiful garments, and his soul sat down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, in the kingdom of the Father; his rags are gone, his soars healed, and his soul filled with joy unspeakable, and full of glory; the ⟨image 5⟩one carried not his costly fare, and his gorgeous apparel with him into hell, nor the other his course diet, mouldy bread, filthy rags, and ulcerous body into heaven; but the happiness of the one, and the misery of the other took their leaves at the grave; the worldly mans portion was but for his life, and the godly mans afflictions lasted no longer, For mark the perfect, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace, but the end of the wicked shall be cut off, Psal. 37.37, 38. His present comforts, his future hopes, and his cursed soul together; yea, though he lives many days, and rejoices in them all, yet the days of darkness will overtake him, and his eye shall see no more good; in his life time he enjoyed his good things, and at the hour of death legions of devils will beset him, innumerable evils will befall him: and then shall he pay full dear for all the pleasures of sin, that ⟨image 6⟩have carried away his heart from closing with, and following the Lord in the day of his prosperity. Ungodly men, because they feel no changes now, they fear none hereafter, but flatter themselves with dying as the godly, though their life is consumed in wickedness, and their strength in providing for, and satisfying the lusts of the flesh, but as it fared with wicked Balaam, so shall it fare with these, and their vain hopes will prove a feeding upon ashes through their deceived heart, that hath turned them aside, Isaiah 44.20. For they that sow to the flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption, Galat. 6.8. And they that plough iniquity, and sow wickedness, shall reap the same,