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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.
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.
51. They are all dead, yet live they do, Yet neither live nor dye, They dye to weal, and live to wo, This is their misery.
52. Amidst all this so great a scare, That here I do relate, Another falleth to their share In this their sad estate.
53. The Legions of infernal Fiends Then with them needs must be, A just reward for all their pains, This they shall feel and see.