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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Or how is it with thy soul? Art thou such an one as regards not these things? but rather busy thy thoughts about the things here below, following those things that have no sent of divine glory upon them: if so, look to thy self, for ⟨p. 212⟩it is high time for thee so to do, for thou art an unbeliever, and so under the wrath of God, and wilt for certain fall into the same place of torment that thy fellows have fallen into before thee, to the grief of thy own soul, and everlasting destruction both of soul and body.
Or how is it with thy soul? Art thou such an one as regards not these things? but rather busie thy thoughts about the things here below, following those things that have no sent of divine glory upon them: if so, look to thy self, for ⟨p. 212⟩it is high time for thee so to do, for thou art an unbeliever, and so under the wrath of God, and wilt for certain fall into the same place of torment that thy fellows have fallen into before thee, to the grief of thy own soul, and everlasting destruction both of soul and body.
Consider and regard these things, and lay them to thy heart, before it be too late to recover thy self by repenting of the one, and desiring to close in with the other. O I say, regard, regard, for hell is hot, Gods hand is up, the Law is resolved to discharge against thy soul; the judgement-day is at hand; the graves are ready to fly open, the trumpet is near the sounding, the sentence will ere long be past, and then you and I cannot call time again.
Now then from what hath been spoken, there might many things be spoken by way of Use and Application: But I shall be very brief, and but touch some things and so wind up. And first, I shall begin with the sad condition of those that die out of Christ and speak something to that. Secondly, to the latter end of the parable which more evidently