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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
A FEW Sighs from Hell: OR, The Groans of a damned Soul: OR, An Expo… › Verse 28
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.
Ver. 28. For I have five brethren, that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
Ver. 28. For I have five brethren, that he may testifie unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
These words are [if I may so say] a reason given by those in hell, why they are so restless, and do cry so loud, it is that their companions might be delivered from those intolerable torments which they must and shall undergo if they fall short of everlasting life by Jesus Christ. Send him to my fathers house, for I have five brethren, &c. Though while they lived among them in the world they were not so sensible of their ruin, yet now they are passed out of the world and do partake of that which before they were warned of, they can I say, then cry out, now I find that to be true indeed which was once and again told and declared to me that it would certainly come to pass.
THese words are [if I may so say] a reason given by those in hell, why they are so restless, and do cry so loud, it is that their companions might be delivered from those intollerable torments which they must and shall undergo if they fall short of everlasting life by Jesus Christ. Send him to my fathers house, for I have five brethren, &c. Though while they lived among them in the world they were not so sensible of their ruine, yet now they are passed out of the world and do partake of that which before they were warned of, they can I say, then cry out, now I find that to be true indeed which was once and again told and declared to me that it would certainly come to pass.