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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
A FEW Sighs from Hell: OR, The Groans of a damned Soul: OR, An Expo… › Verse 31
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I my self sent the prophets they did not run of their own heads: I gave them commission: I thrust them out, and told them what they should say. In a word, they have told the world what my mind is to do both to sinners and to saints. They have Moses and the Prophets let them hear them. Therefore he that shall reject and turn his back either upon the threatenings, counsels, admonitions, invitations, promises, or whatsoever else I have commanded them to speak, as to salvation and life, and to directions therein, shall be sure to have a share in the many curses, that they have spoken, and the destruction that is pronounced by them.
I my self sent the prophets they did not run of their own heads: I gave them commission: I thrust them out, and told them what they should say. In a word, they have told the world what my mind is to do both to sinners and to saints. They have Moses and the Prophets let them hear them. Therefore he that shall reject and turn his back either upon the threatnings, counsels, admonitions, invitations, promises, or whatsoever else I have commanded them to speak, as to salvation and life, and to directions therein, shall be sure to have a share in the many curses, that they have spoken, and the destruction that is pronounced by them.
Again if they hear not Moses and the Prophets, &c. As if he had said, thou wouldest have me send one from the dead unto them, what needs that? They have my mind already, I have declared unto them what I intend to stand to, both for saving them that believe, and damning them that do not. That therefore which I have said I will make good, whether they hear, or forbear. And as for this desire of yours, you had as ⟨p. 187⟩good desire me to make a new Bible, and so to revoke my first sayings by the mouth of my prophets. But I am God, and not man, and my word is immutable, unchangeable, and shall stand as fast as my decrees can make it; Heaven and earth shall pass away, but one jot or tittle of my word shall not pass. If thou hadst ten thousand brethren, and every one in danger of losing his soul, if they did not close in with what is contained and recorded in the Scriptures of truth, they must even every one of them perish and be for ever damned in hell: for the Scriptures cannot be broken. I did not send them so unadvisedly to recall it again by another consideration. No, for I speak it righteousness and judgement,