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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 29
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Reader, here might I spend many sheets of paper, yea, I might upon this subject write a very great book, but I shall now forbear, desiring thee to be very conversant in the Scriptures, for they are they that will testify of Jesus Christ, Joh. 5.39. The Bereans were counted noble upon this account; These were more noble then those of Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, &c. But here let me give thee one caution, that is, have a care that thou do not satisfy thy self with a bare search of them, without a real application of him whom ⟨p. 149⟩they testify of, to thy soul, lest instead of faring the better for thy doing this work, thou dost fare a great deal the worse; and thy condemnation be very much heightened in that, though thou didst read so often the sad state of those that die in sin, and the glorious estate of them that close in with Christ, thou thy self shouldst be such a fool as to lose Jesus Christ, notwithstanding thy hearing and reading so plentifully of him.
Reader, here might I spend many sheets of paper, yea, I might upon this subject write a very great book, but I shall now forbear, desiring thee to be very conversant in the Scriptures, for they are they that will testifie of Jesus Christ, Joh. 5.39. The Bereans were counted noble upon this account; These were more noble then those of Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, &c. But here let me give thee one caution, that is, have a care that thou do not satisfie thy self with a bare search of them, without a real application of him whom