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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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2. Because they do not indeed see themselves by nature heirs of that exceeding ⟨p. 178⟩wrath and vengeance that the Scriptures testify of. For did they but consider what God intends to do with those that live and die in a natural state, it would either sink them into despair, or make them fly for refuge to the hope that is set before them.1 But if there be never such sins committed, and never so great wrath denounced, and the time of execution be never so near; yet if the party that is guilty be senseless and altogether ignorant thereof, he will be careless and regard it nothing at all. And that man by nature is in this condition it is evident. For take the same man that is senseless and ignorant of that misery he is in by nature, I say, take him at another time, when he is a little awakened, and then you shall hear him roar, & cry out so long as trouble is upon him, and a sense of the wrath of God hanging over his head: Good sirs, what must I do to be saved? Though the same man at another time (when his conscience is fallen a sleep, and grown hard) will lie like the Smiths dog at the foot of the anvil though the fire-sparks fly in in his face. But as I said before, when any one is a little awakened, O! what work will one verse, one line, nay one ⟨p. 179⟩word of holy Scriptures make in his heart, so that he cannot eat, sleep, work, keep company with his former companions; and all because he is afraid that the damnation spoken of in Scripture will fall to his share, Like Balaam, who said, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord, so long as he had something of the word of the Lord with authority, severity, and power on his heart: but at another time he could teach Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the children of Israel. Rev. 2.14.
2. Because they do not indeed see themselves by nature heirs of that exceeding ⟨p. 178⟩wrath and vengeance that the Scriptures testifie of. For did they but consider what God intends to do with those that live and die in a natural state, it would either sink them into despair, or make them fly for refuge to the hope that is set before them.