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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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I say this might be, I, and is the conclusion with them that judg• according to outward appearance. But if the whole Parable be well considered, you will see, that that which is had in high estimation with men, is an abomination in the sight of God. And again, that condition that is the saddest condition, according to outward appearance, is oft times t•e most excellent; for the beggar had t•n thousand degrees the best of it, though to outward appearance his state was the saddest; from we shall observe thus much.
I say this might be, I, and is the conclusion with them that judg• according to outward app•arance. But if the whole Parable be well considered, you will see, that that which is had in high estimation with men, is an abomination in the sight of God. And again, that condition that is the saddest condition, according to outward appearance, is oft times t•e most excellent; for the beggar had t•n thousand degrees the best of it, though to outward appearance his state was the saddest; from we shall observe thus much.
1 That those who judge according to outward appearance, do for the most part judge amiss.
2. That they who look upon their outward enjoyments to be tokens of Gods special grace unto them, are also deceived; for as it is here in the Parable, a man of wealth, and a child of the devil may make but one person; or thus, a man may have abundance of outward enjoyments, and yet be carried by the devils into eternal burnings. But this is the trap, in which the devil hath