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A man rises from behind a gravestone as a skeleton in a shroud attempts to keep it closed. Etching by J. Haynes after J. Mortimer.

An angel leading a soul into hell. Oil painting by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch.

A discourse concerning the happiness of good men, and the punishment of the wicked, in the next world. Part I. Containing the Proofs of the Immortality of the Soul, and Immortal Life. By William Sherlock, D. D. Dean of St. Paul's, Master of the Temple, and Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty.

The life of a Christian: a sermon on the occasion of the death of His Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark, ... who departed this life at Kensington, October the 28th, 1708. preached ... at St. James's, on the 21st of November following, by Antony William Boehm, ... Now done into English.

Hercules brings Alcestis back from the dead and restores her to her husband Admetus. Engraving by L. Desplaces after A. Coypel, 1715.

What should be most of all tho't upon. A brief essay, to awaken in a dying man, (that is to say, in every man,) a proper and a lively concern for, a good state after death. With some directions, how that good state is to be obtain'd and ensur'd. [One line of quotation in Latin]

Time and the end of time, in two discourses; the first about redemption of time; the second about consideration of our latter end. By John Fox. [Ten lines of quotations]

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A discourse concerning the happiness of good men, and the punishment of the wicked, in the next world. Part I. Containing the Proofs of the Immortality of the Soul, and Immortal Life. By William Sherlock, D. D. Dean of St. Paul's, Master of the Temple, and Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty.

The life of a Christian: a sermon on the occasion of the death of His Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark, ... who departed this life at Kensington, October the 28th, 1708. preached ... at St. James's, on the 21st of November following, by Antony William Boehm, ... Now done into English.

Hercules brings Alcestis back from the dead and restores her to her husband Admetus. Engraving by L. Desplaces after A. Coypel, 1715.

What should be most of all tho't upon. A brief essay, to awaken in a dying man, (that is to say, in every man,) a proper and a lively concern for, a good state after death. With some directions, how that good state is to be obtain'd and ensur'd. [One line of quotation in Latin]

Time and the end of time, in two discourses; the first about redemption of time; the second about consideration of our latter end. By John Fox. [Ten lines of quotations]