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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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Fourthly, consider, how ever it goes with friends and relations, yet it will go well with thee, Ecclesiastes 8.12 However it goes with the wicked, yet I know, Mark, yet I know (saith he) that it shall go well with them that fear ⟨p. 239⟩the Lord, that fear before him. And therefore let this in the first place cause thee cheerfully to exercise thy patience under all the calamities, crosses, troubles and afflictions that may come upon thee: and by patient continuance in well doing, to commit both thy self and thine affairs, and actions into the hands of God, through Jesus Christ, as to a faithful Creator, who is true in his word, and loveth to give unto thee whatsoever he hath promised to thee.
Fourthly, consider, how ever it goes with friends and relations, yet it will go well with thee, Ecclesiastes 8.12 However it goes with the wicked, yet I know, Mark, yet I know (saith he) that it shall go well with them that fear ⟨p. 239⟩the Lord, that fear before him. And therefore let this in the first place cause thee chearfully to exercise thy patience under all the calamities, crosses, troubles and afflictions that may come upon thee: and by patient continuance in well doing, to commit both thy self and thine affairs, and actions into the hands of God, through Jesus Christ, as to a faithful Creatour, who is true in his word, and loveth to give unto thee whatsoever he hath promised to thee.
And therefore to encourage thee while thou art here with comfort, to hold on for all thy crosses in this thy journey, be much in considering the place that thou must go into, so soon as dissolution comes. It must be into heaven, to God the Judge of all, to an innumerable company of Angels, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to the general Assembly, and Church of the first born, whose names are written in heaven, and to Jesus (too the Redeemer) who is the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things for thee,