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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.
26. Then will he so begin to tear Thy Body from thy Soul, And both from Life, if now thy Care Be not on Grace to roll.
27. Death puts on things another face Than we in health do see: Sin, Satan, Hell, Death, Life, and Grace Now great and weighty be.
28. Yea, now the Sick-man's Eye is set Upon a World to come: He also knows too without let, That there must be his Home.
29. Either in Joy, in Bliss, and Light, Or Sorrow, Woe, and Grief; Either with Christ and Saints in white, Or Fiends without Relief.
30. But oh the sad estate, that then They will be in that dye Both void of Grace and Life; poor men How will they fear and cry,