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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.
54. With yellings, howlings, shrikes, and cries, And other doleful noise, With trembling hearts, and failing eyes, These are their hellish joys.
54. With yellings, howlings, shrikes, and cries, And other doleful noise, With trembling hearts, and failing eyes, These are their hellish joyes.
55. These Angels black they would obey, And serve with greedy mind, And take delight to go astray, That pleasure they might find,
56. Which pleasure now like poison turns Their joy to heaviness, Yea, like the gall of Asps it burns, And doth them sore oppress.
57. Now is the joy they lived in All turned to brinish tears, And resolute attempts to sin, Turned into hellish fears.
57. Now is the joy they lived in All turn'd to brinish tears, And resolute attempts to sin, Turn'd into hellish fears.