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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.
To invite sinners, seeing there is mercy and deliverance to be had, to come in and accept of it, and that from these considerations.
1. Consider thy state by nature if thou come not in, which is this. Thou art under the breach of the law, and so under the curse, which doth call for inexpressible destruction. I mean destruction of soul, destruction of body, destruction by fire, by hell fire; by the fire the devils must be burned in, even eternal fire: destruction from God for sins against the law, without intermission, without ease, without end, without hopes of any recovery, or of ever coming out of this sad and miserable condition.
2. Consider, thou wilt bring all this upon thy self for having some of the devils brats, some hellish lusts, that like ⟨p. 222⟩so many witches, imps, will suck and draw thy soul from God, Christ, Angels, Saints, Heaven and all happiness.
3. Consider, thou wilt buy sin at a dear rate, inasmuch as it will cost the body, soul, ease, peace, joy, comfort, heaven, God, Christ, &c.