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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.
63. I once was fair for light and grace, My days were long and good; ⟨p. 42⟩I lived in a blessed place Where was most heavenly food.
63. I once was fair for light and grace, My days were long and good; ⟨p. 42⟩I lived in a blessed place Where was most heav'nly food.
64. But wretch I am, I slighted life, I chose in death to live; Oh, for these days now if I might, Ten thousand Worlds would give.
65. What time had I to pray and read! What time to hear the Word! What means to help me at my need, Did God to me afford!
66. Examples too of Piety I every day did see, But they abuse and slight did I, Oh, woe be unto me.