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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.
6. Submit he must to feeble ones, To Worms who will enclose His skin and flesh, sinews and bones, And will thereof dispose
7. Among themselves, as Merchants do The prizes they have got; Or as the Soldiers give unto Each man the share and lot,
7. Among themselves, as Merchants do The prizes they have got; Or as the Souldiers give unto Each man the share and lot,
8. Which they by dint of Sword have won, From their most daring foe; While he lies by as still as stone, Not knowing what they do.
8. Which they by dint of Sword have won, From their most daring foe; While he lyes by as still as stone, Not knowing what they do.
9. Beauty Death turns to rottenness, And Youth to wrinkled Face; ⟨p. 5⟩