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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 24
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These words do not only hold forth the lamentable condition of the damned, and their lamentable howling and crying out under their anguish of spirit, but also they do signify to us (as I said before) their too late repentance; and also that they would very willingly if they might, be set at liberty from that everlasting misery, that by their sins they have plunged themselves into. I say, these words do hold forth a desire that the damned have to be delivered from those torments that they now are in: O Father Abraham, saith he, have mercy upon me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame. These words, Father Abraham, may have some difficulty in them. It is possible, that some may think them to be meant of Abraham, and those; or him that crieth out here, to be the Jews. ⟨p. 62⟩Or it may be some may understand it to be God, or Jesus Christ his Son, which I rather suppose it may be, that is here cried out unto, because you find the same cry to him, as it were uttered by the ungodly in other places of the Scripture, as in Luke 13. verse 25, 26. Then shall they say, Lord, Lord, we have eat and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets. Nay more, In thy Name have we cast out devils, and in thy Name done many wonderful works. This was just at their rejection. And again in Mat. 25.11. They cry again to him, even to Jesus. Lord, Lord, open to us. And he there again gives them a repulse, as also in this Parable. But however, or whosoever Abraham is, yet these truths may be observed from the words.
These words do not onely hold forth the lamentable condition of the damned, and their lamentable howling and crying out under their anguish of spirit, but also they do signifie to us (as I said before) their too late repentance; and also that they would very willingly if they might, be set at liberty from that everlasting misery, that by their sins they have plunged themselves into. I say, these words do hold forth a desire that the damned have to be delivered from those torments that they now are in: O Father Abraham, saith he, have mercy upon me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame. These words, Father Abraham, may have some difficulty in them. It is possible, that some may think them to be meant of Abraham, and those; or him that crieth out here, to be the Jews.