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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 25
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.
The answer signifies thus much, that in stead of having any relief or ease, they are hereby the more tormented, and that by fresh recollections, or by bringing afresh their former ill spent life, while in the world, into their remembrance: Son, Remember, thou hadst good things in thy life time, as much as ⟨p. 75⟩if he had said,1 thou art now sensible what it is to lose thy soul, thou art now sensible what it is to put off repentance; thou art now sensible that thou hast befooled thy self in that thou didst spend that time in seeking after outward, momentary, earthly things, which thou shouldest have spent in seeking to make Jesus Christ sure to thy soul; and now through thy anguish of spirit, in the pains of hell thou wouldest enjoy that which in former time thou didst make light of, but alas thou art here beguiled and altogether disappointed, thy crying will now avail thee nothing at all. This is not the acceptable time. 2 Cor. 6.2. This is not a time to answer the desires of damned reprobates; If thou hadst cried out in good earnest while grace was offered, much might have been, but then thou wert careless, and didst turn the forbearance and goodness of God into wantonness: wert thou not told that these who would not hear the Lord when he did call, should not be heard (if they turned away from him) when they did call, Prov. 1.24. to 28. But contrariwise he would laugh at their calamity and mock when their fear did ⟨p. 76⟩come. Now therefore instead of expecting the least drop of mercy and favour, call into thy mind how thou didst spend those days which God did permit thee to live, I say, remember that in thy life time thou didst behave thy self rebelliously against the Lord in that thou wert careless of his word and ordinances, yea, and of the welfare of thine own soul also; therefore, now I say, in stead of expecting or hoping for any relief thou must be forced to call to remembrance thy filthy ways and feed upon them to thine everlasting astonishment and confusion.
The answer signifies thus much, that in stead of having any relief or ease, they are hereby the more tormented, and that by fresh recollections, or by bringing afresh their former ill spent life, while in the world, into their remembrance: Son, Remember, thou hadst good things in thy life time, as much as