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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.
If so, then I shall not only say to the blind guides, look you to your selves, ⟨p. 124⟩and shut out others: no, but this doth reach in all those that do not only keep souls from heaven by preaching, and the like, but this doth also speak forth the doom of those that shall any ways be instrumental to hinder others for closing in with Jesus Christ. O what red lines will those be against all these rich ungodly Landlords, that so keep under their poor Tenants, that they dare not go out to hear the word, for fear their Rent should be raised, or they turned out of their houses. What sayest thou, Landlord, will it not cut thy soul, when thou shalt see that thou couldest not be content to miss of heaven thy self, but thou must labour to hinder others also? Will it not give thee an eternal wound in thy heart, both at death and judgement, to be accused of the ruin of thy neighbours soul, thy servants soul, thy wives soul, together with the ruin of thy own. Think on this you drunken proud, rich, and scornful Landlords, think on this you mad-brained blasphemous Husbands, that are against the godly and chaste conversation of your Wives; also you that hold your Servants so hard to it, that you will not spare ⟨p. 125⟩them time to hear the word, unless it be where, and when your lusts will let you. O if you love your own souls your Tenants souls: your Wives souls, your Servants souls, your Children souls: if you would not cry, if you would not howl, if you would not bear the burden of the ruin of others for ever; then I beseech you to consider this doleful story, and labour to avoid the soul-killing torment that this poor wretch groaneth under, when he saith, I pray thee therefore that thou wouldest send him to my fathers house.
If so, then I shall not onely say to the blind guides, look you to your selves, ⟨p. 124⟩and shut out others: no, but this doth reach in all those that do not onely keep souls from heaven by preaching, and the like, but this doth also speak forth the doom of those that shall any wayes be instrumental to hinder others for closing in with Jesus Christ. O what red lines will those be against all these rich ungodly Landlords, that so keep under their poor Tenants, that they dare not go out to hear the word, for fear their Rent should be raised, or they turned out of their houses. What sayest thou, Landlord, will it not cut thy soul, when thou shalt see that thou couldest not be content to miss of heaven thy self, but thou must labour to hinder others also? Will it not give thee an eternal wound in thy heart, both at death and judgement, to be accused of the ruine of thy neighbours soul, thy servants soul, thy wives soul, together with the ruine of thy own. Think on this you drunken proud, rich, and scornful Landlords, think on this you mad-brain'd blasphemous Husbands, that are against the godly and chaste conversation of your Wives; also you that hold your Servants so hard to it, that you will not spare