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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 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.
For I have five brethren] Here you may see that there may be, and are, whole households in a damnable state & ⟨p. 111⟩condition, as our Lord Jesus doth by this signify. Send him to my fathers house, for they are all in one state, I left all my brethren in a pitiful case. People while they live here cannot endure to hear that they should be all in a miserable condition; but when they are under the wrath of God, they see it, they know it, and are very sure of it, for they themselves when they were in the world lived as they do, but they fell short of heaven, and therefore if they go on, so shall they. Oh therefore send him quickly to my fathers house, for all the house is in an undone condition, and must be damned if they continue so. The thing observable is this, namely, that those that are in hell, do not desire that their companions should come thither; nay rather saith he, send him to my fathers house, and let him testify to them that are therein, lest they also come, &c.
For I have five brethren] Here you may see that there may be, and are, whole housholds in a damnable state & ⟨p. 111⟩condition, as our Lord Jesus doth by this signifie. Send him to my fathers house, for they are all in one state, I left all my brethren in a pittiful case. People while they live here cannot indure to hear that they should be all in a miserable condition; but when they are under the wrath of God, they see it, they know it, and are very sure of it, for they themselves when they were in the world lived as they do, but they fell short of heaven, and therefore if they go on, so shall they. Oh therefore send him quickly to my fathers house, for all the house is in an undone condition, and must be damned if they continue so. The thing observable is this, namely, that those that are in hell, do not desire that their companions should come thither; nay rather saith he, send him to my fathers house, and let him testifie to them that are therein, lest they also come, &c.
Quest. But some may say, what should be the reason, that the damned should desire not to have there companions come into the same condition that they are fallen into, but rather that they might be kept from it, and escape that dreadful state.