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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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We use to count him a friend that ⟨image 22⟩will forewarn his neighbour of the danger, when he knoweth thereof, and doth also see, that the way that his his neighbour is walking in, doth lead right thereto; especially when we think that our neighbour may be either ignorant, or careless of his way. Why Friend it may be, nay twenty to one but thou hast been ever since thou didst come into the world, with thy back towards heaven, and thy face towards hell; and thou (it may be) either through ignorance, or carelessness (which is as bad, if not worse) hast been running full hastily that way ever since. Why Friend? I beseech thee put a little s•op to thy earnest race, and t•ke a view of what entertainment thou art like to have, if thou do indeed and in truth persist in this thy course. Friend, •hy way leads down to death, and thy steps take hold on hell. *It may be the path indeed is pleasant to the flesh, but the end thereof will be bitter to thy soul. Hark, dost thou hear the bitter cries of them that are ⟨image 22⟩but newly gone before? saying, Let him dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue, that is so tormented in this flame:* Dost thou not hear them say, Send one from the dead to prevent my father, my brother, and my fathers house from coming into this place of torment? Shall not then these mournful groans pierce thy flinty heart? Wilt thou stop thine ears, and shut thy eyes, and wilt thou not regard, take warning, and stop thy journey before it be too late? Wilt thou be like the silly fly, that is not quiet, unless she be either entangled in the spiders web, or burned in the candle? Wilt thou be like the bird that hasteth to the s•are of the Fowler? Wilt thou he like that simple one named in the 7. of Proverbs, That wilt be drawn to the slaughter by the cord of a silly lust? O sinner, sinner, there is better things then hell to be had, and at a cheaper rate by the thousand part then that! (O there is no comparison) there is heaven, the•e is God, there is Christ, there