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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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Turn you at my reproof, and behold, I will pour out my Spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. I say, hear this voice, O silly one, and turn and live thou sinful soul, lest he make thee hear that other saying: But, because I have called, and you have refused, I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded, I also will laugh at your calamity, and mock when your fear cometh.
O poor soul, if God and Christ did wish thee for thine harm, it would be another matter: then if thou didst refuse, thou mightest have some excuse to make, some fault to find, and some ground to make delays. O but this is ⟨image 23⟩for thy profit, for thy advantage, for the pardoning of thy sins, the salvation of thy soul, the delivering of thee from hell fire, from the wrath to come, from everlasting burnings, into favour with God, Christ, and communion with all happiness, (that is so indeed.)
O poor soul, if God and Christ did wish thee for thine harm, it would be another matter: then if thou didst refuse, thou mightest have some excuse to make, some fault to finde, and some ground to make delayes. O but this is ⟨image 23⟩for thy profit, for thy advantage, for the pardoning of thy sins, the salvation of thy soul, the delivering of thee from hell fire, from the wrath to come, from everlasting burnings, into favor with God, Christ, and communion with all happiness, (that is so indeed.)
But it may be thou wilt say, all that hath been spoken to in this discourse, is but a Parable, and Parables are no realities.