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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.
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.
7. Instead of Life, a living death Will there in all be found, Dyings will be in every breath, Thus sorrow will abound.
8. No light, but darkness here doth dwell, No peace, but horror strange: The fearful damning wights of Hell In all, will make this change.