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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.
Again, not only this, but lay to heart a little what he received from God his dear Father, though he were his dear and tender Son. First, in that he did reckon him the greatest sinner, and rebel in the world: for he laid the sins of thousands, and ten thousands, and thousands of thousands of sinners to his charge, Isaiah 53. And caused him to drink the terrible cup that was due to them all: and not only so, but did delight in so doing; For it pleased the Lord to bruise him. God dealt indeed with his Son, as Abraham would have dealt with Isaac, I, and more terribly by ten thousand parts: for he did not only tear his body like a lion, but made his soul an offering for sin. And this was not done feignedly, but really (for justice ⟨p. 234⟩called for it, he standing in the room of sinners) witness that horrible and unspeakable agony that fell on him suddenly in the Garden, as if all the vials of Gods unspeakable scalding vengeance had been cast upon him all at once, and all the devils in hell had been broken loose from thence at once to destroy him, and that for ever; insomuch, that the very pangs of death seized upon him the same hour. For saith he, My soul is exceeding sorrowful and amazed, even unto death, Mark 14.33, 34.
Again, not onely this, but lay to heart a little what he received from God his dear Father, though he were his dear and tender Son. First, in that he did reckon him the greatest sinner, and rebell in the world: for he laid the sins of thousands, and ten thousands, and thousands of thousands of sinners to his charge, Esay 53. And caused him to drink the terrible cup that was due to them all: and not onely so, but did delight in so doing; For it pleased the Lord to bruise him. God dealt indeed with his Son, as Abraham would have dealt with Isaac, I, and more terribly by ten thousand parts: for he did not onely tear his body like a lion, but made his soul an offering for sin. And this was not done fainedly, but really (for justice ⟨p. 234⟩called for it, he standing in the room of sinners) witness that horrible and unspeakable agony that fell on him suddenly in the Garden, as if all the vials of Gods unspeakable scalding vengeance had been cast upon him all at once, and all the devils in hell had been broken loose from thence at once to destroy him, and that for ever; insomuch, that the very pangs of death seized upon him the same hour. For saith he, My soul is exceeding sorrowful and amazed, even unto death,