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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.
48. God, Christ, & Heaven, they know are best, Yet dare not on them think; The Saints they know in joys do rest, While they their tears do drink.
48. God, Christ, & Heav'n, they know are best, Yet dare not on them think; The Saints they know in joys do rest, While they their tears do drink.
49. They cry alas, but all in vain, They stick fast in the mire, They would be rid of present pain, Yet set themselves on fire.
50. Darkness is their perplexity, Yet do they hate the light, ⟨p. 40⟩They always see their misery, Yet are themselves all night.
51. They are all dead, yet live they do, Yet neither live nor dye, They dye to weal, and live to woe, This is their misery.