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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
4. He hath also said,1 Seek first the kingdom of God and all other things shall be added. But let whoso will seek after the kingdom of heaven, in the first place, for them; For they will take time while time serves to get the things of this life for them and their seed, while it is to be had: And if it be so that they must needs seek after heaven, or else be damned in hell, they will stay till they have more leisure, till they can better attend to it; till they have other things handsome about them; till they are older; when they have little else to do; or when they come to be sick, and to die. Then Lord have mercy upon them; though it be ten thousand to one but they perish for ever.
For commonly the Lord hath this ⟨p. 170⟩way to deal with such sinners who put him off when he is striving with them, & tenders his Son & his Gospel to them, either to laugh at their calamity, and mock when their fear cometh, (Prov. 1, 26.27, 28.) or else send them to the gods they have served, which are the devils, Judg. 10.13, 14. (Go to the gods you have served, and let them deliver you, saith he,) compare this with Joh. 8.44.