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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.
23. For as the Devil sets before Me Heaviness and Grief, So God sets Christ and Grace much more, Whereby I take relief.
24. Though they say then, that we are Fools Because we here do lye, I answer, Goals are Christ his Schools, In them we learn to dye.
25. 'Tis not the baseness of this state Doth hide us from God's Face, He frequently, both soon and late Doth visit us with Grace.
26. Here comes the Angels, here comes Saints, Here comes the Spirit of God To comfort us in our restraints Under the wickeds Rod.