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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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Thus shall the souls that abide in their sins cry out in the bitterness of their spirits with wonderful anguish & torment of conscience, without intermission; that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue. That he, namely, the man who before I scorned should eat with the dogs of my flock, that before I slighted and had no regard of, that I shut out of door, send him, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue. Now these words, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, &c. do hold forth the least friendship, or favour; as much as if he should have said, Father now I would be glad of the least mercy, now I would be glad of the l••st comfort, though it be but one drop of cold water on the tip of his finger. One would have thought that this had been a small request, a small courtesy, one drop of water, what is that? Take a pail full of it, if that will do the any good. But mark, he is not permitted to have so much as one drop, not so much as a man may hold upon the tip ⟨p. 69⟩of his finger. This signifies thus much, that they that fall short of Christ, shall be night and day tormented from years end, to years end, as I may say, even as long as eternity lasteth, and shall not have so much as the least ease, no not so long as while a man may turn himself round, not so much leave as to swallow his spittle, not a drop of cold water.
Thus shall the souls that abide in their sins cry out in the bitterness of their spirits with wonderful anguish & torment of conscience, without intermission; that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue. That he, namely, the man who before I scorned should eat with the dogs of my flock, that before I slighted and had no regard of, that I shut out of door, send him, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue. Now these words, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, &c. do hold forth the least friendship, or favour; as much as if he should have said, Father now I would be glad of the least mercie, now I would be glad of the l••st comfort, though it be but one drop of cold water on the tip of his finger. One would have thought that this had been a small request, a small courtesie, one drop of water, what is that? Take a pail full of it, if that will do the any good. But mark, he is not permitted to have so much as one drop, not so much as a man may hold upon the tip