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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.
36. Here we can see how all men play Their parts, as on a Stage, How good men suffer for God's way, And bad men at them rage.
37. Here we can see who holds that ground Which they in Scripture find; Here we see also who turns round Like Weathercocks with' Wind.
38. We can also from hence behold How seeming Friends appear But Hypocrites, as we are told In Scripture every where.
39. When we did walk at liberty, We were deceived by them, Who we from hence do clearly see Are vile deceitful Men.
39. When we did walk at liberty, We were deceiv'd by them, Who we from hence do clearly see Are vile deceitful Men.