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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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I say therefore for these that have sinned together, to go to hell together, it will very much perplex and torment them both. Therefore I judge this is one reason why they that are in hell do desire, that their friends, or companions do not come thither into the same place of torment that they are in. And therefore, where Christ saith, that these damned souls cry out, Send to our companions, that they may be warned and commanded to look to themselves. O send to my five brethren; it is because they would not have their own torments heightened by their company; and a sense, yea, a continual sense of their sins which they did cause them to commit, when they were in the world with them. For I do believe that the very looks of those that have been beguiled by their fellows, I say, their very looks will be a torment to them: for thereby will the remembrance of their own sins be kept (if possible) the fresher on their consciences, which they committed with them, and also they will wonderfully have the guilt of the others sins upon them, in ⟨p. 118⟩that they we•e partly the cause of his committing ••em, being instruments in the hands of the devil to draw them into them. And therefore lest this come to pass, I pray thee send him to my fathers house. For if they might not come hither, peradventure my torment might have some mitigation: that is, if they might be saved, then their sins will be pardoned, and not so heavily charged on my soul. But if they do fall into the same place where I am, the sins that I have caused them to commit will lie so heavy, not only on their souls but also on mine, that they will be enough to sink me into eternal misery deeper and deeper. O therefore, send him to my fathers house, to my five brethren, and let him testify to them lest they come into this place of torment.
I say therefore for these that have sinned together, to go to hell together, it will very much perplex and torment them both. Therefore I judge this is one reason why they that are in hell do desire, that their friends, or companions do not come thither into the same place of torment that they are in. And therefore, where Christ saith, that these damned souls cry out, Send to our companions, that they may be warned and commanded to look to themselves. O send to my five brethren; it is because they would not have their own torments heightned by their company; and a sense, yea, a continual sense of their sins which they did cause them to commit, when they were in the world with them. For I do believe that the very looks of those that have been beguiled by their fellows, I say, their very looks will be a torment to them: for thereby will the remembrance of their own sins be kept (if possible) the fresher on their consciences, which they committed with them, and also they will wonderfully have the guilt of the others sins upon them, in