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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 27
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.
The verses before, I told you, were spoken partly to hold forth a desire that the damned have to be freed of their endless misery. Now this verse that I have read unto you still holds forth that the cries of those poor souls very vehement, they would very fain have something granted to them, but it will not be; as will more clearly appear afterward.
THe verses before, I told you, were spoken partly to hold forth a desire that the damned have to be freed of their endless misery. Now this verse that I have read unto you still holds forth that the cries of those poor souls very vehement, they would very fain have something granted to them, but it will not be; as will more clearly appear afterward.
Then he said I pray thee therefore Father, &c.] As if he should say, Seeing I have brought my self into such a miserable condition, that God will not regard me, that my exceeding loud and bitter cries will not be heard for my self, seeing I must not be admitted to have so much as one drop of cold water, nor the least help from the poorest Saint: And seeing besides all this, here my soul must lye to all eternity broiling and frying: Seeing I must whether I will or no, undergo the hand of eternal vengeance, and the rebukes of devouring fire, seeing my state is such, that I would not wish a dog in my condition; send him to my fathers house. It is worthy to be taken notice of, (again) who it is he desired ⟨p. 102⟩should be sent, namely Lazarus. O friend, see here how the stout hearts and stomachs of poor creatures will be humbled, (as I said before) they will be so brought down, that those things that they d sdained and made light of in this world, they would be glad of in the life to come: He who by this man was so slighted, as that he thought it a dishonour that he should eat with the dogs of his flock. What, shall I regard Lazarus? scrubbed, beggarly Lazarus? what shall I so far dishonour my fair sumptuous and g•y house, with such a scabbed creep-hedge as he; no, I scorn he should be entertained under my roof Thus in his life-time, while he was in his bravery: but now he is come into another world, now he is parted from his pleasures, now he sees his fine house, his dainty dishes, his rich neighbours and companions and he are parted asunder, now he finds instead of pleasures, torments; in ead of joy, heaviness; instead of heaven, hell; instead of the pleasures of sin, the horror and guilt of sin: O now send Lazarus..