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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.
9. Thou shalt remember that while others were met together in the fear of the Lord to seek him, thou wast met with a company of vain companions to sin against him; while the Saints were a praying thou wert a cursing; while they were speaking good of the name of God, thou wert speaking evil of the saints of God. O then thou shalt have a scalding hot remembrance of all thy sinful thoughts, words and actions, from the very first to the last of them that ⟨p. 79⟩ever thou didst commit in all thy life time: Then thou wilt find that Scripture to be a truth, (Deut. 28.65, 66, 67.) The Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind. And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee, and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life. In the morning thou shalt say, would God it were even: and at even thou shalt say, would God it were morning; for the fear of thine hear wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. Nay thou wilt find worse things to thy woe then this Scripture doth manifest. For indeed there is no tongue able to express the horror, terror, torment and eternal misery, that those poor souls shall undergo, without the least mitigation o• ease, and a very great part of it shall flow, or come from that quick, full, and continual remembrance that they shall have. And therefore there is much weight in these words. Son, remember that thou in thy life time hadst thy good things. That is, all thou art like to have.
9. Thou shalt remember that while others were met together in the fear of the Lord to seek him, thou wast met with a company of vain companions to sin against him; while the Saints were a praying thou wert a cursing; while they were speaking good of the name of God, thou wert speaking evil of the saints of God. O then thou shalt have a scalding hot remembrance of all thy sinful thoughts, words and actions, from the very first to the last of them that ⟨p. 79⟩ever thou didst commit in all thy life time: Then thou wilt find that Scripture to be a truth, (