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Jesus blesses Joseph as he dies. Engraving by C. Fantetti after C. Maratta.

Enoch in the clouds above a group of people at a festival. Etching.

Enoch is spared death and 'translated' to heaven. Autotype after F.J. Shields, 1877.

A believers triumph over death : exemplified in a relation of the last hours of Dr. Andrew Rivet and an account of divers other remarkable instances : being an history of the comfortable end and dying words of several eminent men, with other occasional passages, all tending to comfort Christians against the fear of death and prepare them for a like happy change.

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Jesus blesses Joseph as he dies. Engraving by C. Fantetti after C. Maratta.

Enoch is spared death and 'translated' to heaven. Autotype after F.J. Shields, 1877.

Enoch in the clouds above a group of people at a festival. Etching.