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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... 11 Although they shew'd that, at God's aweful throne, Each must a reckoning make, when he is dead, For ev'ry villain)', which he has done; Yet it could never enter to my head. 12 But now in hell, I know it to my cost, That all they taught was, to a tittle, true, And that the deathless soul, which I have lost, Must in those flames my foul offences rue. IS I vainly thought, whilst yet I drew my breath, There was no God, no mansions of the blest, No hell, nor Devil in the realms beneath, And that Man di'd, as dies the brutal beast. 14 But now in hell, at each repeated blow, By each insulting fiend I'm better taught, And, to my full conviction, made to know, That there's a God to punish ev'ry fault. 15 Now, now I feel, and see, alas, too plain, That there's a Devil, and a local hell, With Demons an innumerable train, To plague my soul, with whom I'm fore'd to dwell. 16 Now, to a demonstration, I well know, That man is of a deathless soul possest, (Whether that soul bedoom'd to bliss, or woe,) Though in the tomb the body's laid to rest. 17 Now, I believe the scriptures to be true, Now, I believe whatever Christ did say, And that the skies will scud away like dew, Before a Word of his shall pass away. io But as I did not this believe, in time, What I believe at present is in vain: For want of faith I pluug'd to ev'ry crime, Worse than the brutes, that graze the verdant plain: 9 And such will you, my brethren be, when dead, If you do not the scripture-truths embrace, And strive a life of piety to lead, As they direct you, like the sous of grace. 20 Because the scriptures I did not obey, Because my nature J did not subdue, Because I would not see the gospel's ray, I now, in woeful case, my folly rue. 21 Because in Moses' rules I never trod, Because those sacred truths ...
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