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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.
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.
89. For ever shineth in the fire, Ever is on the chains; 'Tis also in the pit of Ire, And tastes in all their pains.
89. For ever shineth in the fire, Ever is on the chains; 'Tis also in the pit of Ire, And tasts in all their pains.
90. For ever separate from God, From Peace, and Life, and Rest; For ever underneath the Rod That Vengeance liketh best.