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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.
68. But oh, deluded man, I did My back upon him turn; Eternal life I did not heed, For which I now do mourn.
69. Ah, golden time, I did thee spend In Sin and Idleness, Ah, health and wealth I did you lend To bring me to distress.
70. My Feet to evil I let run, And Tongue of folly talk; My Eyes to vanity hath gone, Thus did I vainly walk.
71. I did as greatly toil, and strain My self with Sin to please, As if that everlasting gain Could have been found in these.
72. But nothing, nothing, have I found, But weeping and alas; And sorrow which doth now surround Me, and augment my Cross.