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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, they that regard not the holy Scriptures to turn to God, finding them to testify of his goodness and mercy, there is but little hopes of their salvation; for they will not, Mark, They will not be persuaded though one should rise from the dead. This truth is confirmed by Jesus Christ himself. If you read Joh. 5. where the Lord is speaking of himself, that he is the very Christ: he brings in four or five witnesses to back what he said. First, John Baptist. 2 The works that his Father gave him to do. 3. His Father speaking from heaven. 4. The testimony of the Scriptures; when all this was done, seeing yet they would not believe, he lays the fault upon one of these two things. 1. Their regarding an esteem among men. 2. Their not believing of the Prophets writings, even ⟨p. 190⟩Moses and the rest. For had ye believed Moses (saith he,) ye would have believed me; why? For he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how can ye believe my words. Now I say, he that shall slight the Scriptures, and the testimony of the prophets in them concerning Jesus Christ, must needs be in great danger of losing his soul if he abide in this condition; because he that slights the testimony, doth also slight the thing that is testified of, let him say what he will, and say the contrary never so often. For as Jesus Christ hath here laid down the reason of mens not receiving him, so the Apostle in another place lays down the reason again with an high and mighty aggravation. 1 Joh. 5.10. saying, He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the Record. Mark, the Record that God gave of his Son. The record, you will say, what is that? Even the testimony that God gave of him by the mouth of all the holy Prophets since the world began, Acts 3.20. That is, God sending his holy Spirit into the hearts of his servants the Prophets and ⟨p. 191⟩Apostles, he by his Spirit in them did bear witness, or record, to the truth of salvation by his Son Jesus, both before, and after his coming. And thus is that place also to be understood which saith, There are three that bear record in earth, the Spirit and the Water, and the Blood. That is, the Spirit in the Apostles which preached him to the world, as is clear if you read seriously,