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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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6. He that believes the Scriptures to be the word of God, if he do but suppose that any one place of the Scripture doth exclude him, and shut him out of, and from a share in the promises contained in them: O it will trouble him, grieve him, perplex him, yea he will not ⟨p. 204⟩be satisfied until he be resolved, and th• contrary sealed to his soul, for he know• that the Scriptures are the word o• God, all truth; and therefore he know• that if any one sentence doth exclude• or bar out him, for want of this or the other qualification; he knows also that not the word alone shuts him out, but he that speaks it, even God himself; and therefore he cannot, will not, dare not be contented until he find his soul and Scripture together (with the things contained therein) to embrace each other, and a sweet correspondency and agreement be between them. For you must know, that to him that believes the Scriptures aright, the promises, or threatenings are of more power to comfort or cast down, then all the promises or threatenings of all the men in the world. And this was the cause why the Martyrs of Jesus, did so slight both the promises of their adversaries, when they would have overcome them with proffering the great things of this world unto them, and also their threatenings, when they told them they would rack them, hang them, burn them; none of these things could prevail upon them, or against them, because they did ⟨p. 205⟩most really believe the Scriptures, & the things contained in them; as is clearly found, and to be seen in Heb. 11. and also in Mr. Fox, his records of their brethren.
6. He that believes the Scriptures to be the word of God, if he do but suppose that any one place of the Scripture doth exclude him, and shut him out of, and from a share in the promises contained in them: O it will trouble him, grieve him, perplex him, yea he will not ⟨p. 204⟩