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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 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.
Of this sort are they spoken of in Psalm 73. where he saith, There are no bonds in their death, but their strength is firm. They are not troubled as other folk, neither are they plagued like other men. And again, they spend their days in wealth, and in a moment, mark, in a moment, before they are aware, they go down to the grave, Job 21.17.
Of this sort are they spoken of in Psalm 73. where he saith, There are no bonds in their death, but their strength is firm. They are not troubled as other folk, neither are they plagued like other men. And again, they spend their dayes in wealth, and in a moment, mark, in a moment, before they are aware, they go down to the grave, Job 21.17.
Indeed this is too much known by woeful and daily experience, sometimes when we go to visit them that are sick in the towns and places where we live, Oh how senseless, how seared in their consciences are they? they are neither sensible ⟨p. 40⟩of heaven, nor of hell; of sin, nor a Saviour: speak to them of their condition, and the state of their souls, and you shall find them as ignorant, as if they had no souls to regard. Others, though they lie ready to die, yet they are busying themselves about their outward affairs, as though they should certainly live here, even to live and enjoy the same for ever. Again, come to others, speak to them about the state of their souls, though they have no more experience of the new birth then a beast, yet will they speak as confidently of their eternal state, and the welfare of their souls, as if they had the most excellent experience of any man or woman in the world, When as I said even now, the Lord knows they are as ignorant of the new birth, of the nature and operation of faith, of the witness of the Spirit: as if there were no new birth, no faith, no witness of the Spirit of Christ in any of the Saints in the world. Nay, thus many of them are, even an hour or less before their departure. Ah poor souls, though they may go away here like a lamb, as the world says, yet if you could but follow them a little to