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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.
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.
94. They sooner may drink up the Sea, Than shake off these their fears; Or make another in one day As big with brinish tears,
95. Than put an end to misery, In which they now do roar, Or help themselves; no, they must cry, Alas, for evermore.
96. When years by thousands on a heap, Are passed o'er their head; Yet still the fruits of sin they reap, Among the ghostly dead.
96. When years by thousands on a heap, Are passed o're their head; Yet still the fruits of sin they reap, Among the ghostly dead.