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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.
IX. Again, Shall God who is the Truth, Say, There is Heaven and Hell; And shall men play that Trick of Youth, To say, But who can tell?
X. Shall he that keeps his Promise sure In things both low and small, Yet break it like a Man impure, In Matters greatest of all?
X. Shall he that keeps his Promise sure In things both low and small, Yet break it like a Man impure, In Matters great'st of all?
XI. Oh let all tremble at that thought, That puts on God the lye, ⟨p. 3⟩That saith Men shall turn into nought, When they be sick and dye.
XII. Alas, Death is but as the Door, Through which all men do pass, To that which they for evermore Shall have by Wrath or Grace.