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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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Even so they that do see their state by nature, being such a sad condition, do also see themselves by that law to be dead men naturally.
But now, when didst thou feel the power of this first part of the Scripture, the law, so mighty as to strike thee dead? if not, thou dost not so much as verily believe that part of Scripture that doth contain the law in it, to be the truth of God. Yet if thou shouldest have felt something, I say something of the killing power of the law of God in thine heart, this is not an argument to prove that thou believest all the things contained in Scripture; for there is Gospel as well as Law, and therefore I shall speak to that also. That is, whether thou hast felt the power of the Gospel, as well as something of the power of the Law.
2. Then if, thou hast found the power of the Gospel, and so believed it; ⟨p. 199⟩thou hast found it thus with thy soul. 1. Thou hast been showed by the word or truth of the Gospel in the light of the Spirit of Christ, that by nature thou wert without the true faith of the Son of God in thy soul: For when He, the Spirit is come, he shall show men that they believe not in me, saith Christ, Joh. 16.9. For mark, though thou hast, as I said before, felt somewhat of the power of the Law, Letter, or ten Commandments, yet if thou hast not been brought to this, to see by the spirit in the Gospel, that thou art without faith by nature, thou hast not yet tasted, much less believed any part of the Gospel. For the Gospel and the Law are two distinct covenants (as I have before showed:) And they that are under the law maybe convinced by it, and so believe the law or first covenant, and yet in the mean time to be a stranger to the covenant of promise; that is, the Gospel, & so have no hope in them, (