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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
O miserable state! Thou will then be in a sad condition indeed, when thou shalt see that thou hast had thy good things, thy best things, thy pleasant things, for that is clearly signified by these words, Remember that thou in thy life time hadst thy good things, or all the good things thou art like to have. From whence take notice of another truth, (though it be a dreadful one to them ⟨p. 83⟩that fall under the sentence of it) which is this; there are many poor creatures, who have all their good, sweet, and comfortable things in this life, or while they are alive in this world: remember, saith he, that in thy life time thou hadst thy good things, Psal. 17.14.
O miserable state! Thou will then be in a sad condition indeed, when thou shalt see that thou hast had thy good things, thy best things, thy pleasent things, for that is clearly signified by these words, Remember that thou in thy life time hadst thy good things, or all the good things thou art like to have. From whence take notice of another truth, (though it be a dreadful one to them ⟨p. 83⟩that fall under the sentence of it) which is this; there are many poor creatures, who have all their good, sweet, and comfortable things in this life, or while they are alive in this world: remember, saith he, that in thy life time thou hadst thy good thi•gs, Psal. 17.14.
2. Observe, That the wickeds good things will shortly have an end: they will last no longer with them then this life, or their life time. That Scripture was not written in vain, It is like the crackling of thorns under a pot make a little blaze for a sudden, a little heat for a while, but come and consider them by and by, and instead of a comfortable heat, you will find nothing but a few dead ashes; and instead of a flaming fire, nothing but a smell of smoke.