A30168:302
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.
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.
87. This thought now is so firmly sixth, In all that comes to mind, And also is so strongly mixed With wrath of every kind.
87. This thought now is so firmly fixt, In all that comes to mind, And also is so strongly mixt With wrath of every kind.
88. So that whatever they do know, Or see, or think, or feel, For ever still doth strike them throw, As with a bar of steel.