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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
Introduction › Of Hell, and the Estate of those that perish.
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.
1. Thus having showed you what I see Of Heaven, I now will tell You also, after search, what be The damned wights of Hell.
1. THus having shew'd you what I see Of Heaven, I now will tell You also, after search, what be The damned wights of Hell.
2. And oh that they who read my lines, Would ponder soberly, And lay to heart such things betimes, As touch Eternity.
3. The sleepy sinner little thinks What sorrows will abound Within him, when upon the brinks Of Tophet he is found.
4. Hell is beyond all thought a state So doubtful and forlorn; So fearful, that none can relate The pangs that there are born.