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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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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.
5. He hath said, There is no man that forsaketh father, or mother, wife or children, or lands for his sake, and the Gospels, but shall have an hundred fold in this world, with persecution, and in the world to come, life everlasting. Mark 10.29, 30.
But men for the most part are so far off from believing the certainty of this, that the will scarce lose the earning of a penny to hear the word of God, the Gospel of salvation. Nay, they will neither go themselves nor suffer others to go, (if they can help it) without threatening to do them a mischief, if it lie in their way: Nay further, many are so far from parting from any worldly gain, for Christs sake and the Gospels, that they are still striving, by hook and by crook, as we say, by swearing, lying, cozening, ⟨p. 171⟩