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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.
77. My Senses, how were you beguiled! When you said sin was good! It hath in all parts me defiled, And drowned me like a flood.
77. My Senses, how were you beguil'd! When you said sin was good! It hath in all parts me defil'd, And drown'd me like a flood.
78. Ah, that I now a being have In sorrow and in pain; Mother, would you had been my grave, But this I wish in vain.
79. Had I been made a Cockatrice, A Toad, or such like thing; Yea, had I been made Snow or Ice, Then had I had no sin.
80. A Block, a Stock, a Stone, or Clot, Is happier than I; For they know neither cold nor hot To live nor yet to dye.