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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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Then again, you may see that though God be willing to save sinners at some time, yet this time doth not always last: No, he that can find in his heart to turn his back upon Jesus Christ now, shall have the back turned upon him hereafter, when he may cry and pray for mercy, and yet go without it. God will have a time to meet with them that now do seek after him: they shall have a time, yea, time enough hereafter to repent their folly, and to befool themselves for turning their backs upon the Lord Jesus Christ.
Then again, you may see that though God be willing to save sinners at some time, yet this time doth not alwayes last: No, he that can finde in his heart to turn his back upon Jesus Christ now, shall have the back turned upon him hereafter, when he may cry and pray for mercy, and yet go without it. God will have a time to meet with them that now do seek after him: they shall have a time, yea, time enough hereafter to repent their folly, and to befool themselves for turning their backs upon the Lord Jesus Christ.
Again, this should admonish us to take time while it is proffered, lest we repent us of our unbelief and rebellion, when we are deprived of it. Ah friends! time is precious, an hours time to hear a sermon is precious; I have sometimes thought thus with my self. Set the case the Lord should send two or three of his servants the Ministers of the Gospel to hell among the damned ⟨p. 65⟩with this Commission; Go ye to Hell and preach my grace to those that are there: let your Sermon be an hour long, and hold forth the merits of my Sons birth, righteousness, death, resurrection, ascension, and intercession with all my love in him, and proffer it to them, telling them that now once more, and but once, do I proffer the means of reconciliation to them. They who are now roaring, being past hope would then leap at the least proffer of mercy: Oh they that could spend whole days, weeks, nay years, in rejecting the Son of God, would now be glad of one tender of that mercy. Father saith he, have mercy on me.
Again, this should admonish us to take time while it is profered, lest we repent us of our unbelief and rebellion, when we are deprived of it. Ah friends! time is precious, an hours time to hear a sermon is precious; I have sometimes thought thus with my self. Set the case the Lord should send two or three of his servants the Ministers of the Gospel to hell among the damned