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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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4. Consider thus. Would I be glad to have all and every one of the ten Commandments to discharge themselves against my soul? The first saying damn him, for he hath broken me. The second saying damn him, for he hath broken me, &c. Consider how terrible this will be, yea more terrible then if thou shouldest have ten of the biggest pieces of Ordnance in England to be discharged against thy body; thunder, thunder, one after another. Nay, this would not be comparable to the reports that the law (for the breach thereof) will give against thy soul: For those can but kill the body; but these will kill both body and soul; and that, not for an hour, a day, a month, or a year, but they will condemn thee for ever. Mark, it is for ever, for ever. It is into everlasting damnation. eternal destruction, eternal wrath and displeasure from God, eternal gnawings of conscience, eternal continuance with devils.
4. Consider thus. Would I be glad to have all and every one of the ten Commandments to discharge themselves against my soul? The first saying damne him, for he hath broken me. The second saying damne him, for he hath broken me, &c. Consider how terrible this will be, yea more terrible then if thou shouldest have ten of the biggest peeces of Ordnance in England to be discharged against thy body; thunder, thunder, one after another. Nay, this would not be comparable to the reports that the law (for the breach thereof) will give against thy soul: For those can but kill the body; but these will kill both body and soul; and that, not for an hour, a day, a month, or a year, but they will condemn thee for ever. Mark, it is for ever, for ever. It is into everlasting damnation. eternal destruction, eternal wrath and displeasure from God, eternal gnawings of conscience, eternal continuance with devils.
O consider, it may be the thoughts of seeing the devil doth now make thine hair to stand right up on the head. O but this to be damned, to be among all the devils, and that not only for a time, ⟨p. 217⟩as I said before, but for ever to all eternity.