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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 26
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thou seest that neither God nor Christ takes any care to ease thee, or to speak any comfort unto thee. But besides all this, there thou art, and there thou art ⟨p. 95⟩like to lie, never think of any ease, never look for any comfort; repentance now will do thee no good, the time is past, and can never be called again; look what thou hast now thou must have for ever. 'Tis true I speak enough before to break thine heart asu der, But besides all this, there lie and swim in flame for ever: these words, Besides all this, are terrible words indeed. I will give you the scope of them in a similitude. Set case you should take a man, and tie him to a stake, and with red hot Pincers, pinch off his flesh by little pieces for two or three years together, and at last, when the poor man cries out for ease and help, the tormentors answer, Nay, but besides all this, you must be handled worse. We will serve you thus these 20. years together, and after that we will fill your mangled body full of scalding lead, and run you through with a red hot spit, would not this be lamentable? yet this is but a flea-biting to the sorrows of these that go to hell; for if a man were served so, there would ere it were long be an end of him. But he that goes to hell shall suffer ten thousand times worse torments then these, ⟨p. 96⟩and yet shall never be quite dead under them. There they shall be ever whining, pining, weeping, mourning, ever tormented without ease, and yet never dissolved into nothing; if the biggest devil in hell might pull thee all to pieces, and rend thee small as dust, and dissolve thee into nothing, thou wouldst count this a mercy. But here thou mayest lie and fry, scorch and broil, and burn for ever. For ever, that is, a long while, & yet it must be so long. Depart from me, saith Christ, into everlasting fire, or into the fire that burns for ever, prepared for the devil and his Angels, Mat. 25.41. Oh, thou that wert loath to foul thy foot if it were but dirty, or did but rain; thou that wert loath to come out of the chimney corner if the wind did but blow a little cold; and wert loath to go half a mile, yea half a furlong to hear the word of God, if it were but a little dark; thou that wert loath to leave a few vain companions to edify thy soul: thou shalt have fire enough, thou shalt have night enough, and evil company enough, thy belly full if thou miss of Jesus Christ;