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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.
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.
16. Now all these things are but the shade And badges of his Coat; The Glass that runs, the Sythe and Spade, Though weapons more remote.
17. Yet such as make poor mortals shrink And fear, when they are told, These things are signs that they must drink With death, O then how cold