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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.
83. Thus-will these Souls with watery eyes, And hacking of their Teeth, With wringing hands, and fearful cries, Expostulate their grief.
83. Thus-will these Souls with watry eyes, And hacking of their Teeth, With wringing hands, and fearful cries, Expostulate their grief.
84. O set their teeth they will, and gnash, And gnaw for very pain, While as with Scorpions God doth lash Them for their Life so vain.
85. Again, still as they in this muse, Are feeding on the fire, To mind there comes yet other news, To screw their Torments higher.
85. Again, still as they in this muse, Are feeding on the fire, To mind there comes yet other news, To scrue their Torments higher.
86. Which is the length of this estate, Where they at present lye, Which in a word I thus relate, 'Tis to Eternity.