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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.
22. I gave my Son to do you good, I gave you space and time With him to close, which you withstood, And did with Hell combine.
23. Justice against you now is set, Which you cannot appease; Eternal Justice doth you let From either life or ease.
24. Thus he that to this place doth come, May groan, and sigh, and weep; ⟨p. 36⟩But sin hath made that place his home, And there it will him keep.
25. Wherefore Hell in another place. Is called a Prison too, And all to show the evil case, Of all sin doth undo.
25. Wherefore Hell in another place. Is call'd a Prison too, And all to shew the evil case, Of all sin doth undo.