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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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A FEW Sighs from Hell: OR, The Groans of a damned Soul: OR, An Expo… › Verse 31
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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, Isa. 63.1, 2, 3. and in much wisdom and counsel. It being therefore gone out of my mouth in this manner, it shall not return in vain until it hath accomplished the thing whereto I have sent it.
But again, thou supposest that miracles and wonders will work more on them, which makes thee say, send one from the dead. But herein thou art mistaken, for I have proved them with that once and again, by more then one, or two, or three ⟨p. 188⟩of my servants. How many miracles did my servant Moses work by commandment from me in the land of Egypt, at the red sea, and in the wilderness; yet they of that generation were never the sooner converted for that, but notwithstanding rebelled & lusted, and in their hearts turned back into Egypt, Acts 7. How many miracles did Samuel, David, Elijah, Elisha, Daniel, and the Prophets, together with my Son, who raised the dead, cast out devils, made them to see that were borne blind, gave and restored limbs, yet for all this (as I said before) they hated him, they crucified him. I raised him again from the dead, and he appeared to his disciples who were called, and chosen, and faithful, and he gave them commandment and commission to go and testify the truth of this to the world: and to confirm the same he enabled them to speak with divers tongues, and to work miracles most plentifully, yet there was great persecution raised against them, insomuch that but a few of them died in their beds. And therefore, though thou thinkest that a miracle will do so much with the world, yet I say, No. For if