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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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1. Because Christ would no have them look too high, as I said before, but that those who have riches should have a care, that they be not all their portion,
2. Because rich men are most liable to the devils temptations, are most ready ⟨p. 10⟩to be puffed up with pride, stoutness, cares of this world, in which things they spend most of their time, in lusts, drunkenness, wantonness, idleness, together with the other works of the flesh, For which things sake the wrath of God cometh upon the children of disobedience, Col. 3.6.
2. Because rich men are most liable to the devils temptations, are most ready ⟨p. 10⟩to be puft up with pride, stoutness, cares of this world, in which things they spend most of their time, in lusts, drunkenness, wantonness, idleness, together with the other works of the flesh, For which things sake the wrath of God comith upon the children of disobedience, Col. 3.6.
3. Because he would comfort the hearts of his own which are most commonly of the poorer sort, But God hath chosen the poor▪ despised and base things of this world, 1 Cor. 1.26. Should God have set the ich man in the blessed state, his children would have concluded being poor, that they had no share in the life to come.