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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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But alas we need not be so earnest in quoting the Scriptures so plentifully, seeing any one or two places are enough. And besides, the conversation of almost all men doth bear witness to the same, both religious, and profane persons: in that they daily neglect, reject, and turn their backs upon the plain testimony of the Scriptures.
As 1. Take the threatenings laid down in holy writ, and how are they disregarded; there are but a few places in the Bible, but there are threatenings against one sinner or other; against drunkards, swearers, liars, proud persons, strumpets, whoremonger, covetous railers, extortioners, thieves, lazy persons; In a word, all manner of sins are reproved, and without faith in the Lord Jesus, there is a sore punishment to be executed on the committers of them: and all this made mention of in the Scriptures.
As 1. Take the threatnings laid down in holy writ, and how are they disregarded; there are but a few places in the Bible, but there are threatnings against one sinner or other; against drunkards, swearers, liars, proud persons, strumpets, whoremonger, covetous railers, extortioners, theeves, lazy persons; In a word, all manner of sins are reproved, and without faith in the Lord Jesus, there is a sore punishment to be executed on the committers of them: and all this made mention of in the Scriptures.
But for all this, how thick, and by heaps, do these wretches walk up and down our streets? Do but go into the Alehouses & you shall see almost every room besprinkled with them, so foaming out their own shame, that it is enough to make the heart of a Saint to tremble, in so much that they would not be bound to have society with them any long while for all the world. For as the ways of the godly are not liked of by the wicked, even so the ways of the wicked are an abomination to the just,