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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.
33. He feels his very Vitals dye, All waxeth pale and wan; Nay worse he fears, to misery He shortly must be gone.
34. Death doth already strike his Heart, With his most fearful sting Of Guilt, which makes his Conscience start And quake at every thing.
35. Yea, as his body doth decay By a contagious grief, ⟨p. 9⟩So his poor Soul doth faint away Without hope or relief.
36. Thus while the man is in this scare, Death doth still at him lay; Live, dye, sink, swim, fall foul or fair, Death still holds on his way.