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: And he used to repeat that sentence from St. Paul “ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ,” and many other verses of Scripture, urging us thereby to awake from the slumber of the soul by thinking in good time of our last hour.

And in our own language ,— for he was familiar with English poetry ,— speaking of the soul ’ s dread departure from the body: