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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
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.
10. They were no Fables that I taught Devised by cunning men, But God's own Word, by which were caught Some sinners now and then.
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, 'Tis Holiness they love.