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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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And if thou beest a Christian (to whom this may come) that hast ⟨image 15⟩not only had a price in thy hand, but wisdom given thee from above to make use of it, and art one who (whilst others are seeking to make this world and hell together sure to themselves) spendest thy time, and makest it thy only business to make sure of the one thing necessary, and heaven to thy soul, I shall lay two or three things before thy thoughts.
And if thou beest a Christian (to whom this may come) that hast ⟨image 15⟩not onely had a price in thy hand, but wisdom given thee from above to make use of it, and art one who (whilst others are seeking to make this world and hell together sure to themselves) spendest thy time, and makest it thy onely business to make sure of the one thing necessary, and heaven to thy soul, I shall lay two or three things before thy thoughts.
First, walk with a fixed eye upon the world to come, Look not at the things which are seen, that are temporal, but at the things which are not seen, that are eternal, 2 Cor. 4.18. A Christians eye should be upon his journeys end, as our Lord Jesus, who for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, Heb. 12.2. When the stones fled about Stephens ears, His eyes were lifted up to heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, Acts 7.55, 56. What though thou at present mayest lie ⟨image 16⟩at the rich mans gates, yet a few days will translate thee into Abraham's bosom. Though Israel had a sharp voyage through the wilderness, yet Caleb and Joshua men of excellent spirits, had their eye upon the good Land they were going to; though graceless souls are too dull sighted to see a far off,