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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
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From whence observe. 1. That the life of the Saints so long as they are in this world, is attended with many evils or afflictions, which may be discovered to be of divers natures, as saith the Scripture. Many are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of all.
2. Take notice, that the afflictions, or evils, that accompany the Saints, may continue with them their life time, so long as they live in this vale of tears; yea, and they may be divers, that is, of several sorts; some outward, some inward, and that as long as they shall continue here below, as hath been the experience of all Saints in all ages, and this might be proved at large, but I only hint in these things, although I might enlarge much upon them.
2. Take notice, that the afflictions, or evils, that accompany the Saints, may continue with them their life time, so long as they live in this vale of tears; yea, and they may be divers, that is, of several sorts; some outward, some inward, and that as long as they shall continue here below, as hath been the experience of all Saints in all ages, and this might be proved at large, but I onely hint in these things, although I might enlarge much upon them.
3. The evils that do accompany the Saints will continue with them no longer then their life time; and here indeed lies the comfort of Believers, the Lazarus's, the Saints, they must have all ⟨p. 87⟩their bitter cup wrung out to them in their life time: here must be all their trouble, here must be all their grief. Behold, saith Christ, the world shall rejoice, but you shall lament; but your mourning shall, mark, it shall be turned into joy; you shall lament, you shall be sorrowful, you shall weep in you life time, but your sorrow shall be tur-turned into joy, and your joy no man (let him be what he will, no man) shall take away from you. Now if you think, when I say the Saints have all their evil things in their life time, that I mean they have nothing else but trouble in this their life time, this is your mistake: for let me tell you, that though the Saints have all their evil things in their life time, yet even in their life time they have also joy unspeakable and full of glory,