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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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Again, did not Moses write of the Saviour that was to come afterwards into the world. Deut. 18.18. Nay have not all the Prophets from Samuel, with all those that follow after, prophesied and foretold these things, therefore what need •ave they that I should work such a miracle, as to send one from the dead unto them? They have Moses and the Prophets, let them hear them.
Ag•in, did not Moses write of the Saviour that was to come afterwards into the world. Deut. 18.18. Nay have not all the Prophets from Samuel, with all those that follow after, prophesied and foretold these things, therefore what need •ave they that I should work such a miracle, as to send one from the dead unto them? They have Moses and the Prophets, let them hear them.
From whence observe again? That God doth honour the writings of Moses and the Prophets, as much, nay more, then if one should rise from the dead: Should not a people seek unto their God? what, seek for, seek for the living among the dead? To the Law and to the testimonies, (saith •od) if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Isa. 8, 19, 20. And let me tell you ⟨p. 151⟩plainly, I do believe that the devil knows this full well, which makes him labour to beget in the hearts of his disciples and followers light thoughts of them; and doth persuade them that even a motion from their own beguiled conscience, or from his own wicked Spirit, is to be observed, and obeyed before them: when the very Apostle of Jesus Christ, though he heard a voice from the excellent glory saying, This is my beloved Son, &c. Yet writing to the Churches, and telling them he heard such a voice he commends the writings of the Prophets before it, saying, We have also a more sure word of the Prophets, unto which ye do well to take heed, &c.