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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.
31. For being coped on every side With helplessness and grief, Head-long into despair they slide Bereaved of all relief.
31. For being cop'd on every side With helplesness and grief, Head-long into despair they slide Berest of all relief.
32. Therefore this Hell is called a Pit, Prepared for those that dye The second Death, a term most fit To show their misery.
32. Therefore this Hell is call'd a Pit, Prepar'd for those that dye The second Death, a term most fit To shew their misery.
33. A Pit that's bottomless is this, A Gulf of grief and woe; A Dungeon which they cannot miss, That will themselves undo.
33. A Pit that's bottomless is this, A Gulf of grief and wo; A Dungeon which they cannot miss, That will themselves undo.