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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.
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 ⟨p. 128⟩not to Jesus Christ and be found in him. Again, there are others that are more civil and sober men, who, (although we know that their civility will not save them) if we do but tell them plainly of the emptiness, and unprofitableness of that, as to the saving of their souls, and that God will not accept them, nor love them, notwithstanding these things, and that if they intend to be saved, they must be better provided than with such a righteousness as this; they will either fling away and come to hear no more, or else if they do come, they will bring such prejudice with them in their hearts, that the word preached shall not profit them, it being mixed, not with faith but with prejudice in them that hear it. Nay, they will some of them be so full of anger, that they will break out and call even those that speak the truth Heretics; and say they would deceive them. And why so? Because they tell them, that if they live in their sins that will damn them, yet if the turn and live a righteous life, according to the holy and just and good law of God, that will not save them. Yea, because we tell them ⟨p. 129⟩plainly, that unless they leave their sins and righteousness too and close in with a naked Jesus Christ, his blood and merits, and what he hath done, and is now doing for sinners, they cannot be saved. And unless they do eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, they have no life abiding in them: they gravel presently, and are offended at it (as the Jews were with Christ for speaking of the same thing to them, Joh. 6.53, 60.) and fling away themselves, the souls and all, by quarrelling against the doctrine of the Son of God, as indeed they do, though they will not believe they do; and therefore he that is a Preacher of the word, had need, not only tell them, but testify to them again, and again, that their sins, if they continue in them, will damn them, and damn them again.