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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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4. Another reason why the carnal unbelieving world do so slight the Scriptures, and word of God, is, because the judgement spoken of in the Scripture is not presently executed on the transgressors. Because sentence against an evil act is not speedily executed, therefore the hearts of the sons of men are wholly set in them to do evil. Eccles. 8.11. Because God doth not presently strike the poor wretch as soon as he sins, but waits, and forbears, and is patient; Therefore the world judging God to be unfaithful, go to it again and again, and every time grow harder and harder, till at last God is forced either to stretch out his mighty power to turn them, or else send death with the devil and hell to fetch them. Thou thoughtest (saith God) that I was altogether such an one as thy self, but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thy face. Now ⟨p. 181⟩consider this, ye that forget God lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver, Psal. 50.20, 21.
4. Another reason why the carnal unbelieving world do so slight the Scriptures, and word of God, is, because the judgement spoken of in the Scripture is not presently executed on the transgressors. Because sentence against an evil act is not speedily executed, therefore the hearts of the sons of men are wholly set in them to do evil. Eccles. 8.11. Because God doth not presently strike the poor wretch as soon as he sins, but waits, and forbears, and is patient; Therefore the world judging God to be unfaithful, go to it agai• and again, and every time grow harder and harder, till at last God is forced either to stretch out his mighty power to turne them, or else send death with the devil and hell to fetch them. Thou thoughtest (saith God) that I was altogether such an one as thy self, but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thy face. Now ⟨p. 181⟩consider this, ye that forget God lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver,