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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.
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.
37. This worm is fed by memory, Which strictly brings to mind ⟨p. 38⟩All things done in prosperity, As we in Scripture find.
38. No word, nor thought, nor act they did, But now is set in sight, Not one of them can now be hid, Memory gives them light.