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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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3. Because the carnal Priests do tickle the ears of their hearers with vain Philosophy and deceit, and thereby harden their hearts against the simplicity of the Gospel, and word of God, which things the Apostle admonished those that have a mind to close in with Christ, to avoid, Col. 2.8. saying, Beware •est any man (be he what he will) spoil you, through Philosophy and vain deceit, after the traditions of men, and rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. And you who nuzzle up your people in ignorance with Aristotle, Plato, and the rest of the heathenish Philosophers, and preach little, if any thing of Christ rightly. I say unto you, ⟨p. 180⟩that you will find that you have sinned against God, and beguiled your hearers, when God shall in the judgement-day lay the cause of the damnation of many thousands of souls to your charge, and say, He will require their blood at your hands. Ezek. 33.6.
3. Because the carnal Priests do tickle the ears of their hearers with vain Philosophy and deceit, and thereby harden their hearts against the simplicity of the Gospel, and word of God, which things the Apostle admonished those that have a mind to close in with Christ, to avoid, Col. 2.8. saying, Bewar• •est any man (be he what he will) spoil you, through Philosophy and vain deceit, after the traditions of men, and rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. And you who nuzzle up your people in ignorance with Aristotle, Plato, and the rest of the heathenish Philosophers, and preach little, if any thing of Christ rightly. I say unto you, ⟨p. 180⟩that you will find that you have sinned against God, and beguiled your hearers, when God shall in the judgement-day lay the cause of the damnation of many thousands of souls to your charge, and say, He will require their blood at your hands.