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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.
And tell them again, their living honestly according to the law, their paying every one their own, their living quietly with their neighbours, their giving to the poor, their notion of the Gospel, and saying they do believe in Christ, will do them no good at the general day of Judgement, they are offended also. Ha friends! ⟨p. 130⟩how many of you are there at this very day, that have been told once and again, of your lost undone condition, because you want the right, real, and saving work of God upon our souls. I say, hath not this been told you, yea, testified unto you from time to time, that your state is miserable, that yet you are never the better, but do still stand where you did; some in an openly ungodly life, and some drowned in a self-conceited holiness of Christianity. Therefore for Gods sake if you love your souls, consider, and beg of God for Jesus Christs sake, that he would work such a work of grace in your hearts, and give you such a faith in his Son Jesus Christ, that you may not only have rest here, as you think, not only think your state safe while you live here; but that you may be safe indeed, not only here, but also when you are gone; lest you do cry in the anguish and perplexity of your souls, O send one to my companions that have been beguiled by Satan, as I have been; and so by going on, come into this place of torment, as I have done.
And tell them again, their living honestly according to the law, their paying every one their own, their living quietly with their neighbours, their giving to the poor, their notion of the Gospel, and saying they do believe in Christ, will do them no good at the general day of Judgement, they are offended also. Ha friends! ⟨p. 130⟩how many of you are there at this very day, that have been told once and again, of your lost undone condition, because you want the right, reall, and saving work of God upon our souls. I say, hath not this been told you, yea, testified unto you from time to time, that your state is miserable, that yet you are never the better, but do still stand where you did; some in an openly ungodly life, and some drowned in a self-conceited holiness of Christianity. Therefore for Gods sake if you love your souls, consider, and beg of God for Jesus Christs sake, that he would work such a work of grace in your hearts, and give you such a faith in his Sonne Jesus Christ, that you may not onely have rest here, as you think, not onely think your state safe while you live here; but that you may be safe indeed, not onely here, but also when you are gone; lest you do cry in the anguish and perplexity of your souls, O send one to my companions that have been beguiled by Satan, as I have been; and so by going on, come into this place of torment, as I have done.