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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 23
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.
Now if it be objected, that hell is here meant the grave, that I plainly deny. First, because there the body is not sensible of torment or ease; but in that hell, into which the spirits of the damned depart, they are sensible of torment, and would be very willingly freed from it, to enjoy ease, which they are sensible of the want of; as is clearly discovered in this Parable. Send Lazarus that he may dip, &c.
2. It is not meant the grave, but some ⟨p. 34⟩other place, because the bodies so long as they lie there, are not capable of lifting up their eyes, to set the glorious condition of the children of God, as the souls of the damned do. In hell he lift up his eyes.
3. It cannot be the grave, for then it must follow, that the soul was buried there with the body, which cannot stand with such a dead state as is here mentioned; for he saith, The rich man died; that is, his soul was separated from his body. And in Hell he lift up his eyes.
If it be again objected, that there is no hell but in this life, that I do also deny, as I said before; after he was dead and buried, In hell he lift up his eyes. And let me tell thee, O soul, whoever thou art, that if thou close not in savingly with the Lord Jesus Christ, and lay hold on what he hath done, and is doing in his own person for sinners, thou wilt find such an hell after this life is ended, that thou wilt not get out of again for ever and ever. And thou that art wanton, and doest make but a mock at the servants of the Lord, when they tell thee of the torments of hell, thou wilt find,