A30168:1255
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.
65. The Swine doth not the Pearls regard, But them doth slight for Grains, Though the wise Merchant labours hard For them with greatest pains.
66. Consider Man, what I have said, And judge of things aright; When all mens Cards are fully plaid, Whose will abide the Light?
67. Will those, who have us hither cast? Or they who do us scorn? Or those who do our Houses wast? Or us, who this have born?
68. And let us count those things the best That best will prove at last; And count such Men the only blest, That do such things hold fast.