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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
A FEW Sighs from Hell: OR, The Groans of a damned Soul: OR, An Expo… › Verse 20
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Verse 20. And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus which was laid at his gate full of sores.
1This verse doth chiefly hold forth these things. 1. That the Saints of God are a poor contemptible people. There was a certain beggar. If you understand the word beggar, to hold forth outward poverty, or scarcity in outward things, the Saints of the Lord, for they are for the most part a poor, despised, contemptible people. But if you allegorize it, and interpret it ••us, They are such as beg earnestly for heavenly food; this is also the spirit of the Children of God, and it may be, and is a truth in this sense, though not so naturally gathered from this Scripture.
1THis verse doth chiefly hold forth these things. 1. That the Saints of God are a poor contemptible people. There was a certain beggar. If you understand the word beggar, to hold forth outward poverty, or scarcity in outward things, the Saints of the Lord, for they are for the most part a poor, despised, contemptible people. But if you allegorize it, and interpret it ••us, They are such as beg earnestly for heavenly food; this is also the spirit of the Children of God, and it may be, and is a truth in this sence, though not so naturally gathered from this Scripture.
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