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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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8. You have heard that the day of judgement is near, in which you and I all of us mu•t appear before the tribunal of Jesus Christ, and there be made to give an account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead; even of all that ever we did, yea, of all our sins in thought, and word, and deed, and shall certainly be damned for them too, if we close not in with our Lord Jesus Christ, and what he hath done and suffered for eternal life, and that not notionally or contradictionally, but really & savingly in the power and by operation of the spirit, through faith (Eccles. 11.9, 12, 14. Heb. 9, 27. Acts 10.42. ⟨p. 167⟩Acts 17.30, 31. 2 Cor. 5.10. Rev, 20.12.) And I saw the dead, small and great stand before God, and the books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged out of those things that were written in the books. There is the book of the Creatures, the book of Conscience, the book of the Lords Remembrance, the book of the Law, the book of the Gospel. (Rom. 1.20. compare, with Rom. 2.12, 15. Rev. 16. ver. 19. Joh. 12.48.) Then shall he separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats, and shall set the sheep on his right hand, and the goats on his left. (Matth. 25.30, 31, 32.) And shall say to them on his right hand, Come ye blessed, ver. 34. But to the other go, or depart ye cursed, (ver. 41.) Yet notwithstanding the Scriptures do so plainly and plentifully speak of these things, alas! who is there that is so weaned from the world and from their sins and pleasures, as to fly from the wrath to come, (