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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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Thus therefore these words, (Nay Father Abraham, but if one should rise from the dead they would repent, are to be understood. That the world of ungodly men will not regard the Scriptures seriously. Though they have Moses and the Prophets, (the Scriptures) they will not repent or heartily close in with Jesus ⟨p. 158⟩Christ, though the Scriptures do witness against them. If therefore there be any good done to them, they must have it another way. I think, saith he, it would work much on them, if one should rise from the dead. And this truth indeed is so evident, that ungodly ones have a light esteem of the Scriptures, that it needs not many strong arguments to prove it, being so evidently manifested by their every days practice, both in words and actions, almost in all things they say and do. Yet for the satisfaction to the Reader, I shall show you by a Scripture or two, (though I might show many) that this was, and is true with th• generality of the world. See the words of Nehemiah in his 9. Chapter, concerning the children of Israel, who though the Lord afforded them mercy upon mercy, as it is from ver. 19. to ver. 25. yet ver. 26. saith he, Nevertheless they were disobedient for all thy goodness toward them, and rebelled against thee, (but how?) and cast thy law behind their back. And was that all? No, for they slew the Prophets which testified against them, to turn them to thee; and they wrought great provocations. Observe. ⟨p. 159⟩1. They sinned against mercy. And then. 2. they slighted the law, or word of God 3. They slew the Prophets that declared it unto them. 4. The Lord c•unts it a great provocation. See Heb. 3. from ver 10. to ver. 19. And see Zach. 7.11, 12. But they refused to hearken, (saith he there of the wicked) and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear the law: Yea, they made their hearts hard as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts sent unto them by his spirit in the former Prophets, &c. Mark I pray you, here is also, First, a refusing to hearken, namely to the words of the Prophets.