Acacia John Bunyan

A Book for Boys and Girls
or
Temporal Things Spritualized.


By J O H N.B U N Y A N.

Licensed and entered according to order.


L O N D O N,
Printed for, and sold by, R. Tookey,
at his Printing House in St. Christopher's Court,
in Threadneedle Street, behind the Royal Exchange, 1701.

First published thirteen years after John Bunyan's death.



XLIX.

UPON FIRE.

Who falls into the fire shall burn with heat;
While those remote scorn from it to retreat.
Yea, while those in it, cry out, O! I burn,
Some farther off those cries to laughter turn.

Comparison.

While some tormented are in hell for sin;
On earth some greatly do delight therein.
Yea, while some make it echo with their cry,
Others count it a fable and a lie.
[38]


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[38] Fools make a mock at sin. The scorner occupies a
proud, an elevated seat, which will sink under him, and
crush him down to everlasting destruction. The threatenings
and promises of God stand sure for ever.—Ed