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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.
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.
5. God will exclude them utterly From his most blessed Face, And them involve in misery, In shame, and in disgrace.
6. God is the Fountain of all bliss, Of Life, of Light, and peace; They then must needs be comfortless, Who are deprived of these.
6. God is the Fountain of all bliss, Of Life, of Light, and peace; They then must needs be comfortless, Who are depriv'd of these.