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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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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.
he doth not say, who were in Prison, but to them (in) that is, now in Prison, under chains of da•kness, reserved, or kept there, in that prison, in which now they are (ready like villains in the jail to be brought before the judgement seat of Christ at the great day: but of this I shall speak further by and by. Now if this one truth▪ that men must die and depart this world, •nd either enter into joy, or else into prison, to be reserved to the day of judgement, were believed, we should not have so many wantons walk up and down the streets as there do; at least it would put a mighty check to their filthy carriages, so that they ⟨p. 23⟩would not, could not walk so basely and sinfully as they do. Belshazzar notwithstanding he was so far from the fear of God, so long as he was senseless of the Lords hand against him; yet when he did but see that God was offended, and threatened him for his wickedness, it made him hang down his head, and knock his knees together, Dan. 5.5, 6. If you read the verses before, you will find he was careless, and satisfying his lusts in drinking, and playing the wanton with his Concubines. But so soon as he did but perceive the finger of an hand, writing, then (saith the Scripture) the Kings countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another. And when Paul told Felix of Righteousness,1 Temperance, and Judgement to come, it made him rremble. And let me tell thee (Soul) whosoever thou art, that if thou didst but verily believe that thou must die, and come into the judgement, it would make thee turn over a new leaf, as we say. But this is the misery, the devil doth labour by all means, as to keep out other things that are good, so to ⟨p. 24⟩keep out of the heart as much as in him lies, the thoughts of passing from this life into another world; for he knows, if he can but keep them from the serious thoughts of death, he shall the more easily keep them in their sins; and so from closing with Jesus Christ, as Job saith, Their houses are safe from fear,