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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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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.
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.
The 19 and 20 verses also, I shall not spend much time upon, onely 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.
The 19, 20, and 21, verses run thus, There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared deliciously or sumptuously every day. And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate full of sores, &c.
The 19, 20, and 21, verses run thus, There was a certain rich man, which was cloathed in purple and fine linnen, and fared deliciously or sumptuously every day. And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate full of sores, &c.
1. If these verses had been spoken by Jesus Christ, and no more, all the world would have gone near to have cast a wrong interpretation on them. I say, if Jesus had said only thus much, There was a certain rich man that fared sumptuously daily, and a certain beggar laid at his gate full of sores. The world would have made this conclusion of them, the rich man was the happy man. For at the first view it doth represent such a thing. But take all together, (that is) read the whole Parable, and you shall find, that there is no man in a worse ⟨p. 5⟩condition then he, as I shall clearly hold forth afterward.
1. If these verses had been spoken by Jesus Christ, and no more, all the world would have gone near to have cast a wrong interpretation on them. I say, if Jesus had said onely thus much, There was a certain rich man that fared sumptuously daily, and a certain beggar laid at his gate full of sores. The world would have made this conclusion of them, the rich man was the happy man. For at the first view it doth represent such a thing. But take all together, (that is) read the whole Parable, and you shall finde, that there is no man in a worse