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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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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 ⟨p. 7⟩caught many thousands of poor souls, namely, by getting them to judge according to outward appearance.
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 childe 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 ⟨p. 7⟩caught many thousands of poor souls, namely, by getting them to judge according to outward appearance.
Do but ask a poor carnal covetous wretch, how we should know a man to be in a happy estate, and he will answer, Those that God blesseth, and giveth abundance of this world unto; when for the most part they are they that are the the cursed men. Alas poor men, they are so ignorant, as to think, that because a man is increased in outward things, and that by a small stock, therefore God doth love that man with a special love, or else he would never do so much for him, never bless him so, and prosper the work of his hands. Ah! poor soul, it is the rich man that goes to hell. And the rich man died, and in hell, mark, in hell he lift up his eyes, &c.