The Hour of Death and the Invisible World, Collection of Opinions and Facts, by H.O.F. (Paperback)

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. 1882. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. JOHN Bunyan's Descriptions. "Fainting, dying, now mine eyes I close, My weary head upon Thy bosom, Lord, repose Thou wilt not leave nor fail me Till my short race is run; Thanks be to God The glorious victory's won Dying, I can sing, "Where, 0 death's thy sting? Salvation's perfect work is done " John Bunyan in "The Pilgrim's Progress" describes the deaths of Christians, of a great variety of temperament and character. Thus, Greatheart says of Fearing: --"But when he was come to the entrance of the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I thought I should have lost my man; not for that he had any inclination to go back; that he always abhorred; but he was ready to die for fear. 'Oh, the hobgoblins will have me Oh, the hobgoblins will have me ' cried he, and I could not beat him out of it. He made such a noise and such an outcry here, that had they but heard him, it was enough to encourage them to come and fall upon us. "But this I took very great notice of, that this Valley was as quiet when we went through it, as ever I knew it before or since. I suppose those enemies here had now a special check from our Lord, and a command not to meddle until Mr. Fearing had passed over it. "It would be tedious to tell you of all, we will therefore only mention a passage or two more. When he was come to Vanity Fair, I thought he would have fought with all the men in the Fair. I feared that we should have been both knocked on the head, so hot was he against their fooleries. Upon the Enchanted Ground he was very wakeful. But when he was come at the river where was no bridge, there again he was in a heavy case. 'Now, now, ' he said, 'he should be drowned for ever, and so never see that face with comfort, that he had come so many miles to behold.' "And here also I took ...