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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 might here enlarge very much, but I shall not▪ only thus much I shall say to you that have much of this world; Have a care that you have not your portion in this world; take heed that it be not said to you hereafter, when you would very willingly have heaven. Remember in your life time you had your good things, in your life time you had your portion Psalm 17.14.
I might here enlarge very much, but I shall not▪ onely thus much I shall say to you that have much of this world; Have a care that you have not your portion in this world; take heed that it be not said to you hereafter, when you would very willingly have heaven. Remember in your life time you had your good things, in your life time you had your por••on Psalm 17.14.
And Friend, thou that seekest after this world, and desirest riches, let me ask this question, wouldest thou be content that God should put thee off with a portion in this life? Wouldest thou be glad to be kept out of heaven with a back well clothed, and a belly well filled with the dainties of this world? Wouldest thou be glad to have all thy good things in thy life time, to have thy heaven to last no longer then while ⟨p. 9⟩thou dost live in this world? Wouldest thou be willing to be deprived of eternal happiness and felicity? If you say, no, then have a care of the world and thy sins; have a care of desiring to be a rich man, lest thy table be made a snare unto thee; lest the wealth in this world do bar thee out of glory. For as the Apostle saith, They that w•ll be rich do fall into temptation, and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in perdition and destruction,