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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Again, as the law killeth those that believe it, even so the promises contained in the Gospel, do through faith administer comfort to those that believe it aright. My words (saith Christ) my words, they are spirit, and they (Mark, and they) are life, Joh. 6.63. As if he had said, The words contained in in the law as a covenant of works, they wound, they kill, they strike dead those that are under them. But as for me, the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life. That is, whosoever doth receive them believingly, shall find them full of operation to comfort, quicken, and revive their soul. For as I did not come into the world to destroy mens lives, so the words that I speak, as I am sent to preach the Gospel, they have no such tendency unto those that believe them. The promises that are in the Gospel, Oh, how do they comfort them? such a promise, and such a promise, O how sweet is it? O how comfortable to those that believe them? ⟨p. 201⟩Alas, there are many poor souls that think they believe the Scriptures, that they believe the word of God, and yet poor souls that they are, they never enjoyed any thing of the life and power of the promises to comfort them, after they were killed by the law: For mark, If thy comfort be indeed by the promises they come in upon thy heart to quicken, to revive thee, to raise thee from the sentence of death that is passed on thee by the law. And through the faith that is wrought in thy soul by the operation of Gods holy Spirit (though once killed by the Law or Letter) thou art made alive in the Lord Jesus Christ, presented to thy soul in the promises.
Again, as the law killeth those that believe it, even so the promises contained in the Gospel, do through faith administer comfort to those that believe it aright. My words (saith Christ) my words, they are spirit, and they (Mark, and they) are life, Joh. 6.63. As if he had said, The words contained in in the law as a covenant of works, they wound, they kill, they strike dead those that are under them. But as for me, the words that I speake unto you, they are spirit and they are life. That is, whosoever doth receive them believingly, shall find them full of operation to comfort, quicken, and revive their soul. For as I did not come into the world to destroy mens lives, so the words that I speak, as I am sent to preach the Gospel, they have no such tendency unto those that believe them. The promises that are in the Gospel, Oh, how do they comfort them? such a promise, and such a promise, O how sweet is it? O how comfortable to those that believe them?