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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.
90. For ever separate from God, From Peace, and Life, and Rest; For ever underneath the Rod That Vengeance liketh best.
91. O, ever, ever, this will drowned Them quite, and make them cry, We never shall get o'er thy bound, Oh great Eternity!
91. O, ever, ever, this will drown'd Them quite, and make them cry, We never shall get o're thy bound, Oh great Eternity!
92. They sooner now the Stars may count, Than loose these dismal bands; Or see to what the moats amount, Or number up the sands,
93. Than see an end of this their woe, Which now for sin they have; O wantons take heed what ye do, Sin will you never save.