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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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5. Examine again, dost thou labour after those qualifications that the Scriptures do describe a child of God by? that is faith, yea the right faith, the most holy faith, the faith of the operation of God. And also dost thou examine whether ⟨p. 211⟩there is a real growth of grace in thy soul, as love, zeal, self-denial and a seeking by all means to attain, (if possible) to the resurrection of the dead; that is, not to satisfy thy self until thou be dissolved & rid of this body of death, and be transformed into that glory that the Saints shall be in after the resurrection day; and in the mean time dost labour, and take all opportunities to walk as near as may be to the pitch, though thou know thou canst not attain it perfectly, yet I say, thou doest aim at it, seek after it, press towards it, and to hold on in thy race thou shunnest that which may any way hinder thee, and also close in with what may any way further the same: knowing, that that must be, or desiring that it should be thine eternal frame, and therefore out of love and liking to it, thou dost desire and long after it, as being the thing that doth much please thy soul.
5. Examine again, dost thou labour after those qualifications that the Scriptures do describe a child of God by? that is faith, yea the right faith, the most holy faith, the faith of the operation of God. And also dost thou examine whether ⟨p. 211⟩there is a real growth of grace in thy soul, as love, zeal, self-denial and a seeking by all means to attain, (if possible) to the resurrection of the dead; that is, not to satisfie thy self until thou be dissolved & rid of this body of death, and be transformed into that glory that the Saints shall be in after the resurrection day; and in the mean time dost labour, and take all opportunities to walk as near as may be to the pitch, though thou know thou canst not attain it perfectly, yet I say, thou doest aim at it, seek after it, press towards it, and to hold on in thy race thou shunnest that which may any way hinder thee, and also close in with what may any way further the same: knowing, that that must be, or desiring that it should be thine eternal frame, and therefore out of love and liking to it, thou dost desire and long after it, as being the thing that doth much please thy soul.