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One thing is needful, or, Serious meditations upon the four last things, death, judgment…
One thing is needful, or, Serious meditations upon the four last things, death, judgment [brace] and [brace] heaven, hell unto which is added Ebal and Gerizzim, or, The blessing and the curse : with prison meditations and a catalogue of all this author's books / by John Bunyan.
London: printed for Nath. Ponder, 1683
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.
23. Into that gulf my sins have brought Me justly to possess, ⟨p. 15⟩For which I blame not Christ, I wrought It out by wickedness.
24. But oh! how willingly would these That thus in Judgment be, If that they might have help or ease, Unto the Mountains flee.
25. They would rejoice if that they might But underneath them creep, To hide them from revenging Right, For fear of which they weep.
25. They would rejoyce if that they might But underneath them creep, To hide them from revenging Right, For fear of which they weep.
26. But all in vain, the Mountains then Will all be fled and gone; No shelter will be found for Men, That now are left alone.