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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.
43. This worm now needs must in them live, For sin will still be there, And guilt, for God will not forgive, Nor Christ their burden bear.
44. But take from them all help and stay, And leave them to despair, Which seeds upon them night and day, This is the damned's share.
45. Now will confusion so possess These Monuments of Ire, And so confound them with distress, And trouble their desire,
46. That what to think, or what to do, Or where to lay their head, They know not; 'tis the damned's woe To live, and yet be dead.
46. That what to think, or what to do, Or where to lay their head, They know not; 'tis the damned's wo To live, and yet be dead.