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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.
1. Thou sayest thou dost indeed and in truth effectually believe the Scriptures, I ask therefore, wast thou ever killed stark dead by the law of works contained in the Scriptures? To be killed, and to be struck dead, you will say, what is that? Why, to be killed by the law or letter, is by the power thereof to be made to see thy sins against it, and to be left in an helpless condition by that law, for I say the proper work of the law is to slay the soul, and to leave it dead, in a helpless state. For it doth neither give the soul any comfort it self, when it comes, nor doth it show the soul where comfort is to be had; and therefore it is called the ministration ⟨p. 207⟩of condemnation, as in 2 Cor. 3.9. Yea in plain terms, the ministration of death, 2 Cor. 3.7. For though men may have a notion of the blessed word of God as as the children had, yet before they be converted, it may truly be said of to them, Ye err, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God, Mark 12.24.
1. Thou sayest thou dost indeed and in truth effectually believe the Scriptures, I ask therefore, wast thou ever killed stark dead by the law of works contained in the Scriptures? To be killed, and to be struck dead, you will say, what is that? Why, to be killed by the law or letter, is by the power thereof to be made to see thy sins against it, and to be left in an helpless condition by that law, for I say the proper work of the law is to slay the soul, and to leave it dead, in a helpless state. For it doth neither give the soul any comfort it self, when it comes, nor doth it shew the soul where comfort is to be had; and therefore it is called the ministration ⟨p. 207⟩of condemnation, as in 2 Cor. 3.9. Yea in plain termes, the ministration of death, 2 Cor. 3.7. For though men may have a notion of the blessed word of God as as the children had, yet before they be converted, it may truly be said of to them, Ye erre, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God,