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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.
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.
37. Still pulling of him from his place Full sore against his Mind; Death like a Sprite stares in his face, And doth with links him bind,
38. And carries him into his den, In darkness there to lye Among the swarms of wicked men In grief eternally.