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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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5. Another reason why the blind world do slight the authority of Scripture, is, because they give ear to the devil, who through his subtlety casteth false evasions, and corrupt interpretations on them, rendering them not so point blank the mind of God, and a rule for direction to poor souls, persuading them, that they must give ear and way to something else besides, and beyond that: or else he labours to render it vile and contemptible, by persuading them that it is a dead letter, when indeed they know not what they say nor whereof they affirm. For the Scripture is not so dead, but that the knowledge of it is able to make any man wise unto salvation through faith and love which is in Christ Jesus, 2 Tim. 3.15. And is profitable for instruction, reproof, and correction in righteousness; that the man of God may be throughly furnished to all good works, ver. 17.
5. Another reason why the blind world do slight the authority of Scripture, is, because they give ear to the devil, who through his subtilty casteth false evasions, and corrupt interpretations on them, rendring them not so point blank the minde of God, and a rule for direction to poor souls, perswading them, that they must give ear and way to something else besides, and beyond that: or else he labours to render it vile and contemptible, by perswading them that it is a dead letter, when indeed they know not what they say nor whereof they affirme. For the Scripture is not so dead, but that the knowledge of it is able to make any man wise unto salvation through faith and love which is in Christ Jesus, 2 Tim. 3.15. And is profitable for instruction, reproof, and correction in righteousness; that the man of God may be throughly furnished to all good works, ver. 17.
And where it is said the letter killeth, he meaneth the law, as it is the ministration ⟨p. 182⟩of damnation, or a covenant of works, and so indeed it doth kill, and must do so, because it is just: forasmuch as the party that is under the same, is not able to yield to it a complete and continual obedience. But otherwise I will call Paul and Peter to witness, that the Scriptures are of a very glorious concernment, in as much as in them is held forth to us the way of life; and also, in that they do administer good ground of hope to us,