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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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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.
Methinks to see how the great ones of the world will go strutting up and down the streets sometimes, it makes me wonder. Surely, they look upon themselves to be the only happy men, but it is because they judge according to outward appearance; they look upon themselves to be the only blessed men when the Lord knows, the generality ⟨p. 8⟩are left out of that blessed condition. Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called, 1 Cor. 1.26. Ah! did they that do now so brag, that no body dare scarce look on them, but believe this, it would make them hang down their heads, and cry, O give me a Lazarus portion.
Methinks to see how the great ones of the world will go strutting up and down the streets sometimes, it makes me wonder. Surely, they look upon themselves to be the onely happy men, but it is because they judge according to outward appearance; they look upon themselves to be the onely blessed men when the Lord knows, the generality ⟨p. 8⟩are left out of that blessed condition. Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called, 1 Cor. 1.26. Ah! did they that do now so brag, that no body dare scarce look on them, but believe this, it would make thm hang down their heads, and cry, O give me a Lazarus portion.