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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
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.
I say therefore consider seriously of these things. 1. May not the very devils themselves come in against thee, as well as Sodom that damned crew? May not they I say come in against thee and say, O thou simple man or woman! O vile wretch that had not so much care of thy soul, thy precious soul, as the beast hath of his young, or the dog of the very bone that lieth before him. Was thy soul worth so much, and didst thou so little regard it? were the thunder-claps of the law so terrible, and didst thou so slight them? Besides, was the Gospel so freely, so frequently, so fully ⟨p. 225⟩tendered to thee, and yet hast thou rejected all these things?
I say therefore consider seriously of these things. 1. May not the very devils themselves come in against thee, as well as Sodom that damned crue? May not they I say come in against thee and say, O thou simple man or woman! O vile wretch that had not so much care of thy soul, thy precious soul, as the beast hath of his young, or the dog of the very bone that lyeth before him. Was thy soul worth so much, and didst thou so little regard it? were the thunder-claps of the law so terrible, and didst thou so slight them? Besides, was the Gospel so freely, so frequently, so fully ⟨p. 225⟩tendered to thee, and yet hast thou rejected all these things?
Hast thou valued sin at an higher rate then thy soul? then God, Christ, Angels, Saints, and Communion with them in eternal Blessedness, and Glory? Wast thou not told of hell fire, those intolerable flames? Didst thou never hear of the intolerable roarings of the damned ones that are therein? Didst thou never hear or read that doleful saying in the 16. of Luke, how the sinful man cries out among the flames, One drop of water to cool my tongue. Thus I say may the very devils, being ready to go with thee into the burning furnace of fire and brimstone, though not for sins of so high a nature as thine, tremblingly say, Oh that Christ had died for devils, as he died for man! And, Oh that the Gospel had been preached to us, as it hath been to thee! O how glad would we have been of it! How would we have laboured to have closed in with it? But woe be to us, for we might never have it proffered; no, not in the least, though we would have been glad of it. But you, you have had it proffered,