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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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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.
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 bless•d state, his children would have concluded being poor, that they had no share in the life to come.
And again, had not God given such a discovery of the sad condition of those that are for the most part rich men; we should have had men conclude absolutely, that the rich are the blessed men. Nay, albeit the Lord himself doth so evidently declare, that the rich ones of the world are for the most part in the saddest condition, yet they through unbelief, or else presumption, do harden themselves, and seek for the glory of this world, as though the Lord Jesus ⟨p. 11⟩Christ did not mean as he said; or else that he will say more then shall assuredly come to pass: but let them know, that the Lord hath a time to fulfil that he had a time to declare, for the Scripture cannot be broken.
And again, had not God given such a discovery of the sad condition of those that are for the most part rich men; we should have had men conclude absolutely, that the rich are the blessed men. Nay, albeit the Lord himself doth so evidently declare, that the rich ones of the world are for the most part in the saddest condition, yet they through unbelief, or else presumption, do harden themselves, and seek for the glory of this world, as though the Lord Jesus