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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30168	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.	Bunyan, John, 1628-1688.	1683 (1683)	Wing B5555; ESTC R36059	32,095	89

one ungodly first And so by him crave pardon for thy sin Which thou hast loved and hast lived in For this cannot at all forgiven be For any righteousness that is in thee Because the best thou hast is filthy raggs Prophane presumptuous and most beastly braggs Of Flesh and Blood which always cross doth lye To God to Grace and thy Felicity Then Righteousness imputed thou must have Thee from that guilt and punishment to save Thou lyest under as a sinful man Throughout polluted and that never can By any other means acquitted be Or ever have true holiness in thee The reason is because all Graces are Only in Christ and be infused where Or into those whom he doth justifie By what himself hath done that he thereby Might be the whole of all that happiness The Sinner shall enjoy here and in Bliss Besides if Holiness should first be found In those whom God doth pardon then the ground Why we forgiven are would seem to be He first found Holiness in thee and me But this the Holy Scriptures will refute And prove that Righteousness he doth impute Without respect to goodness first in man For to speak Truth indeed no goodness can Be found in those that underneath the Law Do stand For if God Goodness in them saw Why doth he once and twice say Ther 's is none That Righteous be no not so much as one None understandeth none seek after God His ways they have not known but have abode In Wickedness unprofitable they Must needs appear to be then every way Their Throats an open Sepulchre also Their Mouths are full of filthy Cursings too And bitterness yea underneath their Lips The Asp hath Poyson O how many slips And falls in Sin must such poor People have Now where 's the Holiness that should them save Or as a preparation go before To move God to do for them less or more No Grace must on thee Righteousness bestow Or else Sin will for ever thee undo Sweet Paul this Doctrine also doth express Where he saith Some may have a Righteousness Though Works they have not and it thus may stand Grace by the promise gives what the command Requireth us to do and so are we Quitted from doing and by Grace made free Now then if Holiness thou would'st obtain And would'st a tender Christian-man remain Keep Faith in action let that Righteousness That Christ fulfilled always have express And clear distinction in thy Heart from all That Men by Scripture or besides it call Inherent Gospel-holiness or what Terms else they please to give it for 't is that And that alone by which all Graces come Into the Heart for else there is no room For ought but pride presumption or despair No love or other Graces can be there Received you the Spirit saith St. Paul By hearing Faith or Works not Works and shall No ways retain the same except you do Hear Faith imbrace the same and stick thereto The word of Faith unto me pardon brings Shews me the ground and reason whence it springs To wit free grace which moved God to give His Son to dye and bleed that I might live This word doth also loudly preach to me Though I a miserable sinner be Yet in this Son of God I stand compleat Whose righteousness is without all deceit 'T is that which God himself delighteth in And that by which all his have saved been When I do this begin to apprehend My Heart my Soul and Mind begins to bend To God-ward and sincerely for to love His Son his Ways his People and to move With brokenness of Spirit after him Who broken was and killed for my sin Now is mine heart grown holy now it cleaves To Jesus Christ my Lord and now it leaves Those ways that wicked be it mourns because It can conform no more unto the Laws Of God who loved me when I was vile And of sweet Jesus who did reconcile Me unto Justice by his precious blood When no way else was left to do me good If you would know how this can operate Thus on the Soul I shall to you relate A little farther what my Soul hath seen Since I have with the Lord acquainted been The word of Grace when it doth rightly seize The Spirit of a man and so at ease Doth set the Soul the Spirit of the Lord Doth then with might accompany the Word In which it sets forth Christ as crucifi'd And by that means the Father pacifi'd With such a wretch as thou and by this fight Thy guilt is in the first place put to flight For thus the Spirit doth expostulate Behold how God doth now communicate By changing of the person grace to thee A sinner but to Christ great misery Though he the just one was and so could not Deserve this punishment behold then what The love of God is how 't is manifest And where the reason lyes that thou art blest This Doctrine being spoken to the heart Which also is made yield to every part Thereof it doth the same with sweetness fill And so doth sins and wickednesses kill For when the love of God is thus reveal'd And thy poor drooping Spirit thereby seal'd And when thy heart as dry ground drinks this in Unto the roots thereof which nourish sin It smites them as the worm did Jonah's Gourd And makes them dwindle of their own accord And dye away instead of which there springs Up Life and Love and other holy things Besides the holy Spirit now is come And takes possession of thee as its home By which a war maintained always is Against the old man and the deeds of his When God at first upon Mount Sinai spake He made his very servant Moses quake But when he heard the Law the second time His heart was comforted his face did shine What was the reason of this difference Seeing no change was in the ordinance Although a change was in the manner when The second time he gave it unto Men. At first 't was given in Severity In Thunder Blackness Darkness Tempest high In fiery Flames it was delivered This struck both Moses and the Host as dead But Moses when he went into the Mount The second Time upon the same account No fear nor dread nor shaking of his Mind Do we in all the Holy Scripture find But rather in his Spirit he had rest And look'd upon himself as greatly blest He was put in the Rock he heard the Name Which on the Mount the Lord did thus proclaim The Lord merciful gracious and more Long-suffering and keeping up in store Mercy for thousands pardoning these things Iniquity Transgressions and Sins And holding guilty none but such as still Refuse forgiveness of rebellious will This Proclamation better pleased him Than all the Thunder and the Light'ning Which shook the Mount this rid him of his fear This made him bend make haste worship there Jehosaphat when he was sore opprest By Amon and by Moab and the rest Of

seeth due Read sin then by the death that doth ensue Most men do judge of sin not by the fruits It bears and bringeth forth but as it suits Their carnal and deluded hearts that be With sensual Pleasures eaten up but he That now so judgeth shortly shall perceive That God will judge thereof himself and leave Such men no longer to their carnal lusts To judge of wickedness and of the just And righteous punishment that doth of right Belong thereto and will too in despite Of all their carnal reason justifie Himself in their eternal misery Then Hell will be no fancy neither will Mens sins be pleasant to them but so ill And bitter yea so bitter that none can Fully express the same or ever stand Under the burden it will on them lay When they from Life and Bliss are sent away When I have thought how often God doth speak Of their destruction who his Law do break And when the nature of the punishment I find so dreadful and that Gods intent Yea resolution is it to inflict On every sinner that shall stand convict I have amazed been yet to behold To see poor sinners yet with sin so bold That like the Horse that to the battel runs Without all fear and that no danger shuns Till down he falls O resolute attempts O sad amazing damnable Events The end of such proceedings needs must be From which O Lord save and deliver me But if thou think that God thy noble Race Will more respect than into such a place To put thee hold though thou his off-spring be And so art lovely yet sin hath made thee Another kind of Creature than when thou Didst from his fingers drop and therefore now Thy first Creation stands thee in no stead Thou hast transgressed and in very deed Set God against thee who is infinite And that for certain never will forget Thy sins nor favour thee if thou shalt dye A graceless Man this is thy misery When Angels sinned though of higher race Than thou and also put in higher place Yet them he spared not but cast them down From Heaven to Hell where also they lye bound In everlasting chains and no release Shall ever have but wrath that shall encrease Upon them to their everlasting woe As for the state they were exalted to That will by no means mitigate their fear But aggravate their hellish torment here For he that highest stands if he shall fall His danger needs must be the great'st of all Now if God noble Angels did not spare Because they did transgress will he forbear Poor dust and ashes will he suffer them To break his Law and sin and not condemn Them for so doing let not man deceive Himself or others they that do bereave Themselves by sin of happiness shall be Cut off by Justice and have misery Witness his great severity upon The World that first was planted wherein none But only eight the Deluge did escape All others of that Vengeance did partake The reason was That World ungodly stood Before him therefore he did send the flood Which swept them all away a just Reward For their most wicked ways against the Lord Who could no longer bear them and their ways Therefore into their bosom Vengeance pays We read of Sodom and Gomorrha too What Judgments they for sin did undergo How God from Heaven did fire upon them rain Because they would not wicked ways refrain Condemning of them with an overthrow And turned them to ashes who can know The miseries that these poor People felt While they did underneath those burnings melt Now these and many more that I could name That have been made partakers of the flame And Sword of Justice God did then cut off And make Examples unto all that scoff At holiness or do the Gospel slight And long it will not be before the night And Judgment painted out by what he did To Sodom and Gomorrha fulfilled Upon such sinners be that they may know That God doth hate the sin and Persons too Of such as still rebellious shall abide Although they now at Judgment may deride FINIS Prison-Meditations Directed to the Heart of SUFFERING SAINTS AND REIGNING SINNERS By JOHN BUNYAN in Prison 1665. 1. FRiend I salute thee in the Lord And wish thou may'st abound In Faith and have a good regard To keep on Holy Ground 2. Thou dost encourage me to hold My Head above the Flood Thy Counsel better is than Gold In need thereof I stood 3. Good Counsel's good at any time The Wise will it receive Tho' Fools count he commits a Crime Who doth good Counsel give 4. I take it kindly at thy hand Thou didst unto me write My Feet upon Mount Sion stand In that take thou delight 5. I am indeed in Prison now In Body but my Mind Is free to study Christ and how Unto me he is kind 6. For though men keep my outward man Within their Locks and Bars Yet by the Faith of Christ I can Mount higher than the Stars 7. Their Fetters cannot Spirits tame Nor tye up God from me My Faith and Hope they cannot lame Above them I shall be 8. I here am very much refresht To think when I was out I preached Life and Peace and Rest To Sinners round about 9. My business then was Souls to save By preaching Grace and Faith Of which the comfort now I have And have it shall till death 10. They were no Fables that I taught Devis'd by cunning men But God's own Word by which were caught Some sinners now and then 11. Whose Souls by it were made to see The evil of their sin And need of Christ to make them free From death which they were in 12. And now those very Hearts that then Were Foes unto the Lord Embrace his Christ and Truth like men Conquered by his Word 13. I hear them sigh and groan and cry For Grace to God above They loath their sin and to it dye 'T is Holiness they love 14. This was the work I was about When Hands on me they laid 'T was this from which they pluck'd me out And vilely to me said 15. You Heretick Deceiver come To Prison you must go You preach abroad and keep not home You are the Churches foe 16. But having Peace within my Soul And Truth on every side I could with comfort them controul And at their charge deride 17. Wherefore to Prison they me sent Where to this day I lie And can with very much content For my Profession die 18. The Prison very sweet to me Hath been since I came here And so would also hanging be If God will there appear 19. Here dwells good Conscience also Peace Here be my Garments white Here though in Bonds I have Release From Guilt which else would bite 20. When they do talk of Banishment Of Death or such like Things Then to me God sends Hearts content That like a Fountain springs 21. Alas they little think what peace They help