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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.
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, ⟨p. 35⟩that when thou departest out of this life, that hell, even the hell which is after this life, will meet thee in thy journey thither, and will with its hellish crew give thee such a sad salutation, that thou wilt not forget it to all eternity, when that Scripture comes to be fulfilled on thy soul, in Isa. 14.9. where it is said, Hell from beneath it moved for thee, to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth: it hath raised from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they, that is, that are in hell shall say, Art thou become weak as we? art thou become like unto us? O sometimes when I have had but thoughts of going to hell, and considered the everlastingness of their ruin that fall in thither; it hath stirred me up rather to seek to the Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver me from thence, then to slight it, and make a mock at it.
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 finde 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 finde, ⟨p. 35⟩that when thou departest out of this life, that hell, even the hell which is after this life, will meet thee in thy journey thither, and will with its hellish crew give thee such a sad salutation, that thou wilt not forget it to all eternity, when that Scripture comes to be fulfilled on thy soul, in