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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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But you will say, this seems strange to me. Answ. And it seems as true to me, and I doubt not but to make it manifest, and plainly to appear, that there are but few, yea, very few, that do effectually (for that I aim at) believe the Scriptures, and the truths contained in, and spoken of by them. But to make this appear, and that to purpose (if God will) I shall lay you down the several operations that the Scriptures have on them who do effectually believe the things contained in them.
1. He that doth effectually believe the Scriptures, hath in the first place been killed, I say killed by the authority of the holy Scriptures; struck stark dead in a spiritual sense by the holy Scripture, being set home by that spirit which gave them forth upon the soul. The letter killeth; the letter strikes men dead, 2 Cor. 3.6. and this Paul witnessed and found before he could say, I believe all that the prophets have spoken. Where he saith, I was alive without the Law once; That is, in my natural state, before the Law was set on my heart with power: But when the commandment came, sin revived and I died, Rom. 7.9. and that law that was ordained to life I found to be unto death: For sin taking occasion by the commandment deceived me, and thereby stew me. v. 10. Now that which is called the Letter in Cor. is called the Law in Rom. 7. which by its power and operation, as it is wielded by the Spirit of God, doth in the first place kill and slay all those that are enabled to believe the Scriptures. I kill saith God; That is, with my law. I pierce, I wound, I prick men into the very heart by showing them their sins against ⟨p. 196⟩my law, Acts 2.36, 37. And he that is ignorant of this, is also ignorant of, and doth not really and effectually believe the Scripture.