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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.
26. Here comes the Angels, here comes Saints, Here comes the Spirit of God To comfort us in our restraints Under the wickeds Rod.
27. God sometime visits Prisons more Than lordly Palaces, He often knocketh at our Door, When he their Houses miss.
28. The Truth and Life of heavenly things, Lifts up our Hearts on high, And carries us on Eagles Wings, Beyond Carnality.
28. The Truth and Life of heav'nly things, Lifts up our Hearts on high, And carries us on Eagles Wings, Beyond Carnality.
29. It takes away those Clogs that hold The Hearts of other men, And makes us lively strong and bold Thus to oppose their sin.