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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 30
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Now this verse is an answer to the former, and such an one as hath in it a kind of rejection of the former answer. Nay Father Abraham. Nay saith he, do not say so, do not put them off with this; send one from the dead, and then there vvill be some hopes. 'Tis true; ⟨p. 155⟩thou speakest of the Scriptures of Moses and the Prophets, and sayest, let them hear them, but these things are not so well as I could wish, I had rather thou wouldst send one from the dead. In these words therefore, Nay, Father Abraham, there is a repulse given. Nay, let it not be so. Nay I do not like of that answer; Hear Moses and the Prophets? nay. The same expression is used by Christ, Luk. 13.2, 3. Think you that they upon whom the tower of Silo fell, were sinners above others? I tell you nay, for except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. So here, Nay, Father Abraham, &c. By this word nay, therefore is signified a rejecting the first answer. Now observe, I pray you, the reason why he says nay, is, because God doth put over all those that vvill be saved to observe and receive the truth contained in Scripture, and believe that. To have high esteem of them, and to love and search them, as Christ saith, Search the Scriptures,—for they are they which testify of me. Joh. 5.39. But the damned say, Nay; as if he had said, It is true, the Scriptures are truth, and every curse contained in, and held forth by them, shall be fulfilled, and have its time ⟨p. 156⟩to be executed on them who live and die in unbelief; as now I feel by woeful experience, for I swim now in the curses and wrath which once they told me I should partake of. But this is the thing to be short, my brethren are unbelievers, and do not regard the word of God, I know it by my self, for when I was in the world it was so with me. 'Tis true, many a good Sermon did I hear, many a time was I admonished, desired, entreated, beseeched, threatened, forewarned of what I now suffer: But alas, I was ignorant, self-conceited, surly, obstinate and rebellious. 'Tis true, many a time the preacher told me, hell would be my portion, the devil would wreck his malice on me, God would pour on me his sore displeasure, but he had as good have preached to the stock, to the post, to the stones I trod on. 'Tis true, his words rang in mine ears, but I kept them from my heart. I remember he alleged many a Scripture, but those I valued not;