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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.
13. What shall I say, the Graves declare That Death shall Conquer all; There lye the skulls, dust, bones, and there The Mighty daily fall.
13. What shall I say, the Graves declare That Death shall Conquer all; There lye the skuls, dust, bones, and there The Mighty daily fall.
14. The very looks of Death are grim And ghastly to behold; Yea, though but in a Dead-mans-skin, When he is gone and cold.
14. The very looks of Death are grim And gastly to behold; Yea, though but in a Dead-mans-skin, When he is gone and cold.
15. How fraid are some of dead-mens beds, And others of their bones; They neither care to see their Heads, Nor yet to hear their Groans.
16. Now all these things are but the shade And badges of his Coat; The Glass that runs, the Sith and Spade, Though weapons more remote.