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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.
10. Unto a dreadful burning Lake, All on a fiery flame, Hell is compared, for to make All understand the same.
11. A burning Lake, a Furnace hot, A burning Oven too ⟨p. 34⟩Must be the portion, share, and lot Of those which evil sow.
12. This plainly shows the burning heat With which it will oppress All hearts, and will like burnings eat Their Souls with sore distress.
12. This plainly shews the burning heat With which it will oppress All hearts, and will like burnings eat Their Souls with sore distress.
13. This burning Lake it is Gods wrath Incensed by the sin Of those who do reject his path, And wicked ways walk in.