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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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This Scripture was not spoken by our Lord Jesus Christ,1 to show you the state of two single persons only, (as some through their ignorance of the drift of Christ in his Parables do dream) but to show you the state of the godly and ungodly to the worlds end; as is clear to him that is of an understanding heart. For he spake them to the end, that after generations should take notice thereof, and fear, lest they also fell into the same condition.
THis Scripture was not spoken by our Lord Jesus Christ,1 to shew you the state of two single persons onely, (as some through their ignorance of the drift of Christ in his Parables do dream) but to shew you the state of the godly and ungodly to the worlds end; as is clear to him that is of an understanding heart. For he spake them to the end, that after generations should take notice thereof, and fear, lest they also fell into the same condition.
- 1Verse 19.
Now in my discourse upon these words, I shall not be tedious, but as briefly as I may, I shall pass through the several Verses, and lay you down some of the several truths contained therein: and the Lord grant that they may be profitable, and of great advantage to ⟨p. 4⟩those that read them, or hear them read.
The 19 and 20 verses also, I shall not spend much time upon, only give you three or four short hints, and so pass to the next verses; for they are the words I do intend most especially to insist upon.