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7 A reckoning day, which for it they must pay,

So now this vain discourse forbear I pray;

Then I said, sir, though I'm but a youth,

You'll find what I have told you is the truth.

But still persisted that it was the best,

To follow worldly pleasures while here on earth,

I little thinking who it was so nigh,

Till at last his cloven feet I did espy.

At which I was not daunted in the least,

But did begin to upbraid him to his face;

I said, you old deceiver of mankind,

Begone from me, no prey you here will find.

For all your subtle snares I do defy,

Your shining gold will not make me comply,

I prize my soul, into a better state,

Than you can purchase, for my Saviour's sake.

Which words being said he gave me a grim look,

And in a flash of fire forsook the fields,

He being vanished I fell down to pray.

Unto the Lord. When being done I came away.

His master when he heard what he had said,

Cried out there is but few in this sad age,

That ever will the conduct have to shun,

The snares of Satan as you have done.