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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.
Art thou troubled with a cunning devil, with unbelief, yea, let it be what it will, thou shalt take thy farewell of them all (if thou be a believer) after thy life time is ended. O excellent! O sweet! that there should be an end put to all our troubles after this life is ended: this privilege have all the Saints. But ⟨p. 89⟩now on the contrary, if thou be not a right and sound believer, if thou be no• indeed effectual converted to the Lord Jesus Christ, then though thou shouldst live a thousand years in this world, and meet with sore afflictions every day, yet these afflictions be they never so great and grievous, they are nothing to that torment that will come upon thee both in soul & in body after this life is ended.
Art thou troubled with a cunning devil, with unbelief, yea, let it be what it will, thou shalt take thy farewel of them all (if thou be a believer) after thy life time is ended. O excellent! O sweet! that there should be an end put to all our troubles after this life is ended: this priviledge have all the Saints. But ⟨p. 89⟩now on the contrary, if thou be not a right and sound believer, if thou be no• indeed effectual converted to the Lord Jesus Christ, then though thou shouldst live a thousand years in this world, and meet with sore afflictions every day, yet these afflictions be they never so great and grievous, they are nothing to that torment that will come upon thee both in soul & in body after this life is ended.
I say, be what thou wilt, if thou be found in unbelief, or under the first covenant thou art sure to smart for it at the time when thou dost depart this world? But the thing to be lamented is this: For all this is so sad a condition to be fallen into, yet poor souls are for the most part senseless of it, yea, so senseless at sometimes, as though there was no such misery to come hereafter. Because the Lord doth not immediately strike with his sword, but doth bear long with his creature, waiting that he might be gracious, therefore I say the hearts of some of the sons of men, are wholly set upon it to do mischief: