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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
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showeth, where speaking of the watchman that should give the people warning, if he did not, though the man did die in his sins, yet his blood should be required at the watchman's hand, Ezek. 33. So here let me tell thee, that if thou shouldest be such an one, as by thy conversation and practices, shalt be a trap and a stumbling-block to cause thy neighbour to fall into eternal ruin, though he be damned for his own sin; yet God may, nay, he will charge thee as being guilty of his blood, in that thou didst not content thy self to keep from heaven thy self, but didst also by thy filthy conversation keep away others also, & cause them to fall with thee. O therefore, will not this aggravate thy torment. Yea, if thou shouldest die, and go to hell before thy neighbour or companions, besides the guilt of thine own sins, thou wouldest be so loaden with the fear of the damnation of others to be laid to thy charge, that thou wouldest cry out; O send one from the dead to this companion, and that companion, with whom I had society in my life time, for I see my cursed carriage will be one cause of ⟨p. 115⟩his condemnation, if he fall short of glory. It is true, I left him living in foul and heinous offences: But I was one of the first instruments to bring him to them. Oh, I shall be guilty both of mine own and his damnation too! that he might be kept out hence lest my torment be aggravated by his coming hither.
sheweth, where speaking of the watchman that should give the people warning, if he did not, though the man did die in his sins, yet his blood should be required at the watchmans hand, Ezek. 33. So here let me tell thee, that if thou shouldest be such an one, as by thy conversation and practices, shalt be a trap and a stumbling-block to cause thy neighbour to fall into eternal ruine, though he be damned for his own sin; yet God may, nay, he will charge thee as being guilty of his blood, in that thou didst not content thy self to keep from heaven thy self, but didst also by thy filthy conversation keep away others also, & cause them to fall with thee. O therefore, will not this aggravate thy torment. Yea, if thou shouldest die, and go to hell before thy neighbour or companions, besides the guilt of thine own sins, thou wouldest be so loaden with the fear of the damnation of others to be laid to thy charge, that thou wouldest cry out; O send one from the dead to this companion, and that companion, with whom I had society in my life time, for I see my cursed carriage will be one cause of