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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 22
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.
Mark, he doth not say it is so, that men by chance may die, which might beget in the hearts of the ungodly, especially some hope to scape the bitterness of it; but he saith, It is a thing most certain, it is appointed. Mark, it is appointed for men once to die, and after that the judgement. God hath decreed it, that since men have fallen from that happy estate that God at the first did set them in, they shall die: now when it is said the beggar died, and the rich man died; part of the meaning is, they ⟨p. 21⟩ceased to be any more in this world; I say, partly the meaning, but not altogether. Though it be altogether the meaning when some of the creatures die, yet it is but in part the meaning, when it is said, that men, women, or children die; for there is to them something else to be said more then barely a going out of the world: For if when unregenerate men and women die, there were an end of them, not only in this world, but also in the world to come, they would, as I may say, be happy over they will be now; for when ungodly men and women die, there is that to come after death, if they die unregenerate, that will be very terrible to them; namely, to be carried by the Angels of darkness from their death-beds to hell, there to be reserved to the judgement of the great day, when both body and soul shall meet, and be united together again, and made capable to undergo the uttermost vengeance of the Almighty to all eternity. This is that I say, which doth follow a man (that is not born again) after death; as is clear from that in 1 Pet. 3.18, 19. Where before speaking of Christ being raised again by the power of his eternal ⟨p. 22⟩spirit, he saith, by which, that is, by that spirit he went and preached to the spirits in prison; but what is the meaning of this? Why thus much; that those souls who were once alive in the world in the time, or days in which Noah lived, being disobedient in their times to the calls of God by his Spirit in Noah, for so I understand it, was according to that which was foretold by that Preacher deprived of life, and overcome by the flood, and are now in prison. Mark, he preached to the spirits in Prison;
Mark, he doth not say it is so, that men by chance may die, which might beget in the hearts of the ungodly, especially some hope to scape the bitterness of it; but he saith, It is a thing most certain, it is appointed. Mark, it is appointed for men once to die, and after that the judgement. God hath decreed it, that since men have fallen from that happy estate that God at the first did set them in, they shall die: now when it is said the beggar died, and the rich man died; part of the meaning is, they