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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.
16. And truly as the steam and smoke, And flames of Brimstone smell, To blind the Eyes, and Stomach choke, So are the pangs of Hell.
16. And truly as the steam and smoak, And flames of Brimstone smell, To blind the Eyes, and Stomach choak, So are the pangs of Hell.
17. To see a Sea of Brimstone burn, Who would it not affright? But they whom God to Hell doth turn Are in most woeful plight.
17. To see a Sea of Brimstone burn, Who would it not afright? But they whom God to Hell doth turn Are in most woful plight.
18. This burning cannot quenched be, No, not with tears of blood, No mournful groans in misery Will here do any good.
19. O damned Men! this is your fate, The day of Grace is done, Repentance now doth come too late, Mercy is fled and gone.