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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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And therefore to prevent this thy ⟨p. 215⟩dismal state, think thus with thy self. 'Tis true, I do love my sins, my lusts, and pleasures, but what good will they do me at the day of death, and of judgement? Will my sins do me good then, will they be able to help me when I come to fetch my last breath? What good will my profits do me? and what good will my vanities do when death says he will have no nay? What good will all my companions, fellow jesters, jeerers, liars, drunkards, and all my wantons do me? will they help to ease the pains of hell? will these help •o turn the hand of God from inflicting his fierce anger upon me? Nay, will not they rather cause God to show me no mercy, to give me no comfort; but rather to thrust me down in- into the hottest place in hell where I may swim in fire and brimstone.
And therefore to prevent this thy ⟨p. 215⟩dismal state, think thus with thy self. 'Tis true, I do love my sins, my lusts, and pleasures, but what good will they do me at the day of death, and of judgement? Will my sins do me good then, will they be able to help me when I come to fetch my last breath? What good will my profits do me? and what good will my vanities do when death sayes he will have no nay? What good will all my companions, fellow jesters, jeerers, liars, drunkards, and all my wantons do me? will they help to ease the pains of hell? will these help •o turn the hand of God from inflicting his fierce anger upon me? Nay, will not they rather cause God to shew me no mercy, to give me no comfort; but rather to thrust me down in- into the hottest place in hell where I may swim in fire and brimstone.
3. Consider thus with thy self; Would I be glad to have all, every one of my sins to come in against me to inflame the justice of God against me? would I be glad to be bound up in them as the three Children were bound in their clothes, and to be as really thrown into the fiery furnace of the wrath of almighty God, as they were into Nebuchadnezzars fiery furnace.