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Today's Devotional

Whilst in this world I stay, some hopes have I

That I shall reign in Heaven eternally

But when my time is past, and I am gone,

There’s no hope left for me to build upon.

    Lord, grant me full assurance whilst that I

    Am here, so willing I shall be to die.

About the author and the source

Philip Pain (d. 1668) was a young New England poet who drowned in a shipwreck. Fittingly the sixty-four stanzas of his meditations, begun on this day, 19 July 1666, were subtitled Quotidian Preparations for and Considerations of Death and Eternity. Today we feature his seventeenth meditation.