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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.
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.
26. Which Prison with its locks and bars, Of Gods lasting decree, Will hold them fast; O how this mars All thought of being free.