A77813:139
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.
2. That they will pray (if I may so call it) earnestly for deliverance from their miserable estate. These two things are clear from the words. For mark, He not only said, Father Abraham have ⟨p. 63⟩mercy upon me. But he cried and said, Father Abraham have mercy on me. From whence take a third observation, and that is, There is a time coming, wherein though men shall both cry and pray, yet they are like to have no mercy at the hands of God; for so was this man served, as I shall further show by and by when I come to it.
2. That they will pray (if I may so call it) earnestly for deliverance from their miserable estate. These two things are clear from the words. For mark, He not onely said, Father Abraham have ⟨p. 63⟩mercy upon me. But he cried and said, Father Abraham have mercy on me. From whence take a third observation, and that is, There is a time comming, wherein though men shall both cry and pray, yet they are like to have no mercy at the hands of God; for so was this man served, as I shall further shew by and by when I come to it.
Some people are so deluded by the devil, as to think that God is so merciful, as to own or regard any thing for prayer; they think any thing will go for currant and good satisfaction, while they are here in this world, through ignorance of the true nature of the mercy of God, and the knowledge in what way God is satisfied for sinners. Now I say, through ignorance they think, that if they do but mutter over some form of prayers, though they know not what they say, nor what they request, yet God is satisfied, yea, very well satisfied with their doings; when alas! there is nothing less. O friends, I beseech you to look about you, and seek in good earnest for the Spirit of Christ, so to help you now, to strive and pray, and to enable you to lay hold of Christ, that your ⟨p. 64⟩