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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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From whence observe; That it is not an easy matter to persuade them who are in their sins alive in this world, that they must and shall be damned if they turn not, and be converted to God. Let him testify to them, let him speak confidently, though they frown upon ⟨p. 127⟩him, or dislike his way of speaking to them. And how is this truth verified and cleared by the carriages of almost all men now in the world, toward them that do preach the Gospel; and show their own miserable state plainly to them if they close not with it. If a man do but indeed labour to convince sinners of their sins, and lost condition by nature, though they must be damned if they live and die in that condition; Oh how angry are they at it. Look how he judges, say they; hark how he condemns us; he tells us we must be damned if we live and die in this state; we are offended at him, we cannot abide to hear him, or any such as he; we will believe none of them all, but go on in the way we are a going.
From whence observe; That it is not an easie matter to perswade them who are in their sins alive in this world, that they must and shall be damned if they turne not, and be converted to God. Let him testifie to them, let him speak confidently, though they frown upon ⟨p. 127⟩him, or dislike his way of speaking to them. And how is this truth verified and cleared by the carriages of almost all men now in the world, toward them that do preach the Gospel; and shew their own miserable state plainly to them if they close not with it. If a man do but indeed labour to convince sinners of their sins, and lost condition by nature, though they must be damned if they live and die in that condition; Oh how angry are they at it. Look how he judges, say they; hark how he condemns us; he tells us we must be damned if we live and die in this state; we are offended at him, we cannot abide to hear him, or any such as he; we will believe none of them all, but go on in the way we are a going.
I say, tell the drunkard he must be damned if he leave not his drunkenness, the swearer, liar, cheater, thief, covetous, railers, or any ungodly persons, they must and shall lie in hell for it, if they die in this condition, they will not believe you, nor credit you. Again, tell others that there are many in hell that have lived and died in their conditions, and so are they like to be if they convert