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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.
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.
34. Thus without stay they always sink, Thus fainting still they fail, Despair they up like water drink, These Prisoners have no bail.
35. Here meets them now that worm that gnaws, And plucks their bowels out, The Pit too on them shuts her jaws; This dreadful is no doubt.
36. This ghastly worm is guilt for sin, Which on the Conscience feeds, With Vipers Teeth both sharp and keen, Whereat it sorely bleeds.
36. This gastly worm is guilt for sin, Which on the Conscience feeds, With Vipers Teeth both sharp and keen, Whereat it sorely bleeds.