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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.
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.
27. Out at these brazen bars they may The Saints in glory see; But this will not their grief allay, But to them torment be.
28. Thus they in this infernal Cave, Will now be holden fast From heavenly freedom, though they crave, Of it they may not taste.
28. Thus they in this infernal Cave, Will now be holden fast From heav'nly freedom, though they crave, Of it they may not tast.
29. The Chains that darkness on them hangs, Still rattling in their Ears, Creates within them heavy pangs, And still augments their fears.
29. The Chains that darkness on them hangs, Still ratling in their Ears, Creates within them heavy pangs, And still augments their fears.