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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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7. He that believeth the Scriptures to be the word of God; believeth that men must be borne again, and have that faith which is of the operation of God, or else they cannot be saved. And he that believeth this, believeth also, that if he be not borne again, and also be partakers of that faith which is of the operation of God, (according as he hath read and believed,) he must and shall be damned. And he that believeth this aright, will not be contented until (according as it is written,) he do partake of, and enjoy the new birth, and until he do find through grace that faith, that is wrought by the operation of God, in his soul. For this is the cause why men do satisfy themselves with so slender a conceited hope that their state is good, (when it is nothing so) namely, because, they do not credit the Scripture; for did they, they would look into their own hearts, and examine seriously whether that faith, that hope, that grace which they think they have, be of that nature, ⟨p. 206⟩and wrought by that spirit and power, that the Scripture speaketh of. I speak this of an effectual believing, without which all other is nothing unto salvation. Now then because I would not be too tedious, I shall at this time lay down no more discoveries of such an one as doth savingly believe the Scriptures, and the things contained in them, but shall speak a few words of examination containing the things already mentioned. As,
7. He that believeth the Scriptures to be the word of God; believeth that men must be borne again, and have that faith which is of the operation of God, or else they cannot be saved. And he that believeth this, believeth also, that if he be not borne again, and also be partakers of that faith which is of the operation of God, (according as he hath read and believed,) he must and shall be damned. And he that believeth this aright, will not be contented until (according as it is written,) he do partake of, and enjoy the new birth, and until he do find through grace that faith, that is wrought by the operation of God, in his soul. For this is the cause why men do satisfie themselves with so slender a conceited hope that their state is good, (when it is nothing so) namely, because, they do not credit the Scripture; for did they, they would look into their own hearts, and examine seriously whether that faith, that hope, that grace which they think they have, be of that nature, ⟨p. 206⟩