Song 13: "The Danger of Delay".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
Source: Cults, Sects and Questions (c. 1979)
The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650), "The People Who Receive the Saints' Rest"
“He was almighty quick at a time when a man was either quick or he was dead.”
Source: The Quick and the Dead (1973), Ch. 4; L'amour here, and in the title of the work, uses a double entendre, with reference to archaic use of "quick" to mean "living" and a famous idiom regarding the living and the dead which originated in William Tyndale's English translation of the New Testament (1526), 2 Timothy 4:1: "I testifie therfore before god and before the lorde Iesu Christ which shall iudge quicke and deed at his aperynge in his kyngdom."
Context: He had seen Hyle shoot, and he had seen only one man he thought was as good... just one. He'd seen Con Vallian down in the Bald Knob country that time, and Con was quick. He was almighty quick at a time when a man was either quick or he was dead.
“[Henry, to Rod] "Hell's not a place, Rod, it's something people do to each other."”
Source: The Burning Plain (1997), p.304 (Chapter 23)
“Now his wars on God begin;
At stroke of midnight God shall win.”
Parnell's Funeral and Other Poems http://worldebooklibrary.com/eBooks/WorldeBookLibrary.com/ytpafu.htm (1935). Supernatural Songs http://worldebooklibrary.com/eBooks/WorldeBookLibrary.com/ytpafu.htm#1_0_7
Context: p>Then he struggled with the mind;
His proud heart he left behind. Now his wars on God begin;
At stroke of midnight God shall win.</p
Source: The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927), p. 25
Source: The Anti-Christ
