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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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shall come forth neither of rich kindred, nor attended with gallants, nor yet accoutred with the worlds glory, but in a low, mean, and abject condition, at whose birth a manger received him, and through his life, sorrows, wants, ⟨image 10⟩and sufferings did attend, and at the end a shameful death (in the worlds esteem) befalls him, and by all this he shows his contempt of the worldly mans darling. Cast not away thy soul then, O man, in seeking after, solacing thy self in, and contenting thy self with this present world; for though thou mayest make gold thy hope, and put thy confidence in thy wealth, yet when this thy hope shall fail, and thy confidence slip from thee, (as sure it will ere long) glad wouldest thou be of the least drop of the water of life, and the least filing of that precious gold, (that thou art now called upon to drink of, and to buy for thy self) but alas they shall not be had, then: O then what profit will thy treasures of wickedness yield thee! and whereto will thy thick clay that thou hast horded up, and thy carnal pleasures which thou hast drunk down, as the fish drinks down water: whereto ⟨image 10⟩I say will they serve, unless to weigh thee the deeper into hell, and increase the fire, when it shall be kindled upon thee.
shall come forth neither of rich kindred, nor attended with gallants, nor yet accoutred with the worlds glory, but in a low, mean, and abject condition, at whose birth a manger received him, and through his life, sorrows, wants, ⟨image 10⟩and sufferings did attend, and at the end a shameful death (in the worlds esteem) befals him, and by all this he shews his contempt of the worldly mans darling. Cast not away thy soul then, O man, in seeking after, solacing thy self in, and contenting thy self with this present world; for though thou mayest make gold thy hope, and put thy confidence in thy wealth, yet when this thy hope shall fail, and thy confidence slip from thee, (as sure it will ere long) glad wouldest thou be of the least drop of the water of life, and the least filing of that precious gold, (that thou art now called upon to drink of, and to buy for thy self) but alas they shall not be had, then: O then what profit will thy treasures of wickedness yield thee! and whereto will thy thick clay that thou hast hoorded up, and thy carnal pleasures which thou hast drunk down, as the fish drinks down water: whereto