{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2532", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2532", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "A .wm^: \u00c2\u00b0MMw:\\nC\\n4\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^^c%\u00c2\u00b0", "height": "2532", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "THE\\nPILGRIM S PEOGRESS", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "AS I SLEPT, I DREAMED A DREAM.", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "THE\\nPILGRIM S PROGRESS\\nBY\\nJOHN BUNYAN\\nWITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLORS\\nf^j\\nNEW YORK\\nGILBERT II. McKIBBm\\nMDCCCXCIX", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "TWO COJPlfiS r t,*^\u00c2\u00a3lVEn,\\nL lb r\\nRegister of Co pyrlghta.\\n-P|?3330\\n.A\\n51951 I? 11\\nCopyright, iSgg,\\nBv G. H. McKIBBIN\\nPrinted by the Manhattan Press^ tk ^r^,\\n^7V ;r. Broadivay, New York cJVATO \\\\i J", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "THE AUTHOR S APOLOGY FOR HIS BOOK.\\nWhen at the first I took my pen in hand,\\nThus for to write, I did not understand\\nThat I at all should make a little book\\nlu such a mode nay, I had undertook\\nTo make another which, when almost done,\\nBefore I was aware, I this begun.\\nAnd thus it was I, writing of the way\\nAnd race of saints in this our gospel-day.\\nFell suddenly into an allegory\\nAbout their journey and the way to glory.\\nIn more than twenty things, which I set down\\nThis done, I twenty more had in my crown\\nAnd they again began to multiply,\\nLike sparks that from the coals of fire do fiy.\\nNay, tlien, thought I, if that you breed so fast,\\nI ll put you by yourselves, lest you at last\\nShould prove ad infinitum^ and eat out\\nThe book that I already am about.\\nWell, so I did but yet I did not think\\nTo show to all the world my pen and ink\\nIn such a mode I only thought to make\\nI knew not what nor did I undertake\\nThereby to please my neighbor no, not I\\nI did it mine own self to gratify.\\nNeither did I but vacant seasons spend\\nIn thi_s my scribble nor did I intend\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2But to di vei t myself, in doing this,\\nFrom worser thoughts, which make me do amiss.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "8 AUTHORS APOLOGY FOR HIS BOOK.\\nThus I set pen to paper with delight,\\nAnd quickly had my thoughts in black and white.\\nFor having now my method by the end,\\nStill as I pull d, it came and so I penn d\\nIt down until at last it came to be.\\nFor length and breadth, the bigness which you see.\\nWell, when I had thus put my ends together,\\nI showed them others, that I might see whether\\nThey would condemn them, or them justify\\nAnd some said. Let them live some. Let them die.\\nSome said, John, print it others said. Not so\\nSome said, It might do good others said, No.\\nNow was I in a strait, and did not see\\nWhich was the best thing to be done by me\\nAt last I thought, Since you are thus divided,\\nI print it will and so the case decided.\\nFor, thought I, some I see would have it done,\\nThough others in that channel do not run\\nTo prove, then, who advised for the best,\\nThus I thought fit to put it to the test.\\nI further thought, if now I did deny\\nThose that would have it thus to gratify,\\nI did not know, but hinder them I might\\nOf that which would to them be great delight\\nFor those which were not for its coming forth,\\nI said to them. Offend you I am loath\\nYet, since your brethren pleased with it be,\\nForbear to judge, till you do further see.\\nIf that thou wilt not read, let it alone\\nSome love the meat, some love to pick the bone\\nYea, that I might them better moderate,\\nJ. did too with them thus expostulate\\nMay I not write in such a style as this?\\nIn such a method, too, and yet not miss\\nMy end, thy good? Why may it not be done?\\nDark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "dUTHORS APOLOGY FOR HIS BOOK. 9\\nYea, dark or bright, if they their silver drops\\nCause to descend, the earth, by yielding crops,\\nGives praise to both, and carpeth not at either,\\nBut treasures up the fruit they yield together\\nYea, so commixes both, that in their fruit\\nNone can distinguish this from that they suit\\nHer well when hungry but if she be full.\\nShe spews out both, and makes their blessing null.\\nYou see the ways the fisherman doth take\\nTo catch the fish what engines doth he make.\\nBehold how he engageth all his wits\\nAlso his snares, lines, angles, hooks, and nets:\\nYet fish there be that neither hook nor line.\\nNor snare, nor net, nor engine, can make thine\\nThey must be groped for, and be tickled too.\\nOr they will not be catch d, whate er you do.\\nHow does the fowler seek to catch his game?\\nBy divers means, all which one cannot name:\\nHis guns, his nets, his lime-twigs, light, and bell;\\nHe creeps, he goes, he stands yea, who can tell\\nOf all his postures? Yet there s none of these\\nWill make him master of what fowls he please.\\nYea, he must pipe and whistle to catch this,\\nYet, if he does so, that bird he will miss.\\nIf that a pearl may in a toad s head dwell,\\nAnd may be found, too, in an oyster shell\\nIf things that promise nothing do contain\\nWhat better is than gold, who will disdain,\\nThat have an inkling of it there to look,\\nThat they may find it? Now, my little book\\n(Though void of all these paintings that may make\\nIt with this or the other man to take)\\nIs not without those things that do excel\\nWhat do in brave but empty notions dwell.\\nWell, yet I am not fully satisfied,\\nThat this your book will stand when soundly tried.\\nWhy, what s the matter? It is dark What though?\\nBut it is feigned. What of that, I trow?", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "10 AUTHORS APOLOGY FOR HIS BOOK.\\nSome men, by feigned words, as dark as mine,\\nMake truth to spangle, and its rays to shine\\nBut they want solidness. Speak, man, tliy mind 1\\nThey drown the weak metaphors make us blind.\\nSolidity, indeed, becomes the pen\\nOf him that writeth things divine to men:\\nBut must I needs want solidness, because\\nBy metaphors I speak? Were not God s laws,\\nHis gospel laws, in olden time held forth\\nBy shadows, types, and metaphors? Yet loath\\nWill any sober man be to find fault\\nWith them, lest he be found for to assault\\nThe Highest Wisdom. No he rather stoops,\\nAnd seeks to find out what by pins and loops,\\nBy calves and sheep, by heifers and by rams,\\nBy birds and herbs, and by the blood of lambs\\nGod speaketh to him and happy is he\\nThat finds the light and grace that in them be.\\nBe not too forward, therefore, to conclude\\nThat I want solidness, that I am rude\\nAll things solid in show, not solid be\\nAll things in parable despise not we.\\nLest things most hui tful lightly we receive.\\nAnd things that good are, of our souls bereave.\\nMy dark and cloudy words, they do but hold\\nThe truth, as cabinets enclose the gold.\\nThe prophets used much by metaphors\\nTo set forth truth yea whoso considers\\nChrist, His apostles too, shall plainly see\\nThe truths to this day in such mantles be.\\nAm I afraid to say that Holy Writ.\\nWhich for its style and phrase puts down all wit,\\nIs everywhere so full of all these things\\nDark figures, allegories yet there springs\\nFrom that same book that lustre, and those I ays\\nOf light, that turn our darkest nights to days?", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "AUTHORS APOLOGY FOR HIS BOOK. 11\\nCome, let my carper to his life now look,\\nAnd find there darker lines than in my book\\nHe findeth any yea, and let him know,\\nThat in his best things there are worse lines too.\\nMay we but stand before impartial men,\\nTo his poor one I dare adventure ten\\nThat they will take my meaning in these lines\\nFar better than his lies in silver shrines.\\nCome, Truth, although in swaddling-clouts I find.\\nInforms the judgment, rectifies the mind\\nPleases the understanding, makes the will\\nSubmit; the memory, too, it doth fill\\nWith what both our imagination please\\nLikewise it tends our troubles to appease.\\nSound words, I know, Timothy is to use,\\nAnd old wives fables he is to refuse\\nBut yet grave Paul him nowhere did forbid\\nThe use of parables, in which lay hid\\nThat gold, those pearls, and precious stones that were\\nWorth digging for, and that with greatest care.\\nLet me add one word more Oh, man of God\\nArt thou offended? l^ost thou wish I had\\nPut forth my matter in another dress?\\nOr that I had in things been more express?\\nTo those that are my betters, as is fit.\\nThree things let me propound, then I submit:\\n1. I find not that I am denied the use\\nOf this my method, so I no abuse\\nPut on the words, things, readers, or be rude\\nIn handling figure or similitude\\nIn application but all that I may\\nSeek the advance of truth, this or that way.\\nDenied, did I say? Nay, I have leave\\n(ICxamples too, and that from them that have\\nGod better pleased, by their words or ways,\\nThan any man that breatheth nowadays)\\nThus to express my nund, thus to declare\\nThings unto thee that excellentest are.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12 AUTHORS APOLOGY FOR HIS BOOK.\\n2. I find that men (as high as trees) will \u00e2\u0080\u00a2write\\nDialogue-wise yet no man doth them slight\\nFor writing so indeed, if they abuse\\nTruth, cursed be they, and the craft they use\\nTo that intent but yet let truth be free\\nTo make her sallies upon thee and me,\\nWhich way it pleases God for who knows how\\nBetter than He that taught us first to plough.\\nTo guide our minds and pens for His design?\\nAnd He makes base things usher in Divine.\\n3. I find that Holy Writ, in many places,\\nHath semblance with this method, where the cases\\nDo call for one thing to set forth another\\nUse it I may then, and yet nothing smother\\nTruth s golden beams nay, by this method may\\nMake it cast forth its rays as light as day.\\nAnd now, before I do put up my pen,\\nI ll show the profit of my book, and then\\nCommit both me and it unto that Hand\\nThat pulls the strong down, and makes weak ones stand.\\nThis book, it chalketh out before thine eyes\\nThe man that seeks the everlasting prize\\nIt shows you whence he comes, whither he goes\\nWhat he leaves undone also what he does\\nIt also shows you how he runs and runs,\\nTill he unto the Gate of Glory comes.\\nIt shows, too, who set out for life amain.\\nAs if the lasting crown they would obtain.\\nHere also you may see the reason why\\nThey lose their labor, and like fools do die.\\nThis book will make a traveller of thee,\\nIf by its counsel thou wilt ruled be\\nIt will direct thee to the Holy Land,\\nIf thou wilt its direction understand\\nYea, it will make the slothful active be\\nThe blind also delightful things to see.", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "AUTHORS APOLOGY FOR HIS BOOK. 13\\nArt thou for something rare and profitable,\\nOr wouldst thou see a truth within a fable?\\nArt thou forgetful? Wouldst thou remember\\nFrom New-year s day to the last of December?\\nThen read my fancies they will stick like burs\\nAnd may be to the helpless comforters.\\nThis book is writ in such a dialect\\nAs may the minds of listless men affect\\nIt seems a novelty, and yet contains\\nNothing but sound and honest gospel strains.\\nWouldst thou divert thyself from melancholy?\\nWouldst thou be pleasant, yet be far from folly?\\nWouldst thou read riddles and their explanation,\\nOr else be drowned in thy contemplation?\\nDost thou love picking meat? Or wouldst thou see\\nA man i the clouds, and hear him speak to thee?\\nWouldst thou be in a dream and yet not sleep?\\nOr wouldst thou in a moment laugh and weep?\\nWouldst thou lose thyself and catch no harm.\\nAnd find thyself again without a charm?\\nWouldst read thyself, and read thou knowest not what.\\nAnd yet know whether thou art blest or not.\\nBy reading the same lines? Oh, then, come hither,\\nAnd lay my book, thy head, and heart together.\\nJohn Buntan.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nAs I walked through the wilderness of this world,\\nI lighted on a certain place where was a Den, and\\nI laid me down in that place to sleep; and, as I\\nslept, I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and behold,\\nI saw a man clothed with rags, standing in a cer-\\ntain place, with his face from his own house, a book\\nin his hand, and a great burden upon his back. I\\nlooked, and saw him open the book, and read therein\\nand, as he read, he wept, and trembled; and, not\\nbeing able longer to contain, bo brake out with a\\ncry, saying, What shall I do\\nIn this plight, therefore, he went home and re-\\nfrained himself as long as he could, that his wife\\nand children should not perceive his distress but\\nhe could not be silent long, because his trouble in-\\ncreased. Wherefore he brake his mind to his wife\\nand children and thus said to them O my dear\\nwife, and you my children, I, your dear friend, am\\nin myself undone by reason of a burden that lieth\\nhard upon me; moreover, lam for certain informed\\nthat this our city will be burned with fire from\\nheaven in which fearful overthrow, both myself,\\nwith thee, my wife, and you, my sweet babes, shall", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "16 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nmiserably come to ruin, except (the which yet I soe\\nnot) some way of escape can be found, whereby we\\nmay be deHvered. At this his relations were sore\\namazed not for that they believed that what he\\nsaid to them was true, but because they thought\\nthat some distemper had got into his head there-\\nfore, it drawing towards night, and they hoping\\nthat sleep might settle his brain, with all haste they\\ngot him to bed. But the night was as troublesome\\nto him as the day and, instead of sleeping, he\\nspent it in sighs and tears. So, when the morning\\nwas come, they would know how he did. He told\\nthem. Worse and worse: he also set to talking to\\nthem again; but they began to be hardened. They\\nalso thought to drive away his distemper by harsh\\nand surly carriages to him sometimes they would\\nderide, sometimes they would chide, and sometimes\\nthey would quite neglect him. Wherefore he be-\\ngan to retire himself to his chamber, to pray for\\nand pity them, and also to condole his own misery\\nhe would also walk solitarily in the fields, some-\\ntimes reading, and sometimes praying: and thus\\nfor some days he spent his time.\\nNow, I saw, upon a time, when he was walking\\nin the fields, that he was, as he was wont, reading\\nin his book, and greatly distressed in his mind; and,\\nas he read, he burst out, as he had done before,\\ncrying, What shall I do to be saved?\\nI saw also that he looked this way and that way,\\nas if he would run yet he stood still, because, as I\\nperceived, he could not tell which way to go.", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "A MAN CLOTHED WITH RAGS.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "18 THE PILGRIM S PBOGRESS.\\nI looked then, and saw a man named Evangelist\\ncoming to him, who asked, Wherefore dost thou cr}^?\\nHe answered, Sir, I perceive by the book in my\\nhand, that I am condemned to die, and after that\\nto come to judgment, and I find that I am not will-\\ning to do the first, nor able to do the second.\\nEvangelist. Why not willing to die, since this\\nlife is attended with so many evils? The man an-\\nswered, Because I fear that this burden that is upon\\nmy back will sink me lower than the grave, and I\\nshall fall into Tophet. And, Sir, if I be not fit to\\ngo to prison, I am not fit, I am sure, to go to judg-\\nment, and from thence to execution; and the\\nthoughts of these things make me cry.\\nEvangelist. If this be thy condition, why\\nstandest thou still? He answered, Because I know\\nnot whither to go. Then he gave him a parchment\\nroll, and there was written within, Flee from the\\nwrath to come.\\nThe man read it, and looking upon Evangelist\\nvery carefully, said, Whither must I fly? Then\\nsaid Evangelist, pointing with his finger over a very\\nwide field, Do you see yonder wicket-gate? The\\nman said. No. Then said the other, Do you see\\nyonder shining light? He said, I think I do. Then\\nsaid Evangelist, Keep that light in your eye, and\\ngo up thereto; so shalt thou see the gate; at which,\\nwhen thou knockest, it shall be told thee what thou\\nshalt do. So I saw in my dream that the man be-\\ngan .to run. Now, he had not run far from his own\\ndoor, but his wife and children, perceiving it, began", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "THE PlLGRUrS PROGRESS. 19\\nto cry after him to return but the man put his\\nfingers in his ears, and ran on, crying, Life hfe\\neternal life So ho looked not behind him, but fled\\ntowards the middle of the plain.\\nThe neighbors also came out to see him run and,\\nas he ran, some mocked, others threatened, and\\nsome cried after him to return and, among those\\nthat did so, there were two that resolved to fetch\\nhim back by force. The name of the one was Ob-\\nstinate, and the name of the other Pliable. Now,\\nby this time, the man was got a good distance from\\nthem but, however, they were resolved to pursue\\nhim, which they did, and in a little time they over-\\ntook him. Then said the man. Neighbors, where-\\nfore are ye come? They said. To persuade you to\\ngo back with us. But he said, That can by no\\nmeans be; you dwell, said he, in the City of De-\\nstruction, the place also where I was born: I see it\\nto be so; and, dying there, sooner or later, you will\\nsink lower than the grave, into a place that burns\\nwith fire and brimstone; be content, good neigh-\\nbors, and go along with me.\\nObstinate. What! and leave our friends and\\nour comforts behind us?\\nYes, said Christian, for that was his name, be-\\ncause that ALL which you shall forsake is not worthy\\nto be compared with a little of that which I am\\nseeking to enjoy, and if you will go along with me,\\nand hold it, you shall fare as I myself; for there\\nwhere I go is enough and to spare. Come away,\\nand prove my words.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "20 TEE PILGBBI S PROGRESS.\\nObstinate. What are the things you seek, since\\nyou leave all the v/orld to find them?\\nChristian. I seek an inheritance incorruptible,\\nundefiled, and that fadeth not away, and it is laid\\nup in heaven, and safe there to be bestowed, at the\\ntime appointed, on them that diligently seek it.\\nEead it so, if you will, in my book.\\nObstinate. Tush away with your book will\\nyou go back with us or no?\\nChristian. No, not I, because I have laid my\\nhand to the plough.\\nObstinate. Come, then, neighbor Pliable, let us\\nturn again, and go home without him there is a\\ncompany of these crazy-headed coxcombs, that,\\nwhen they take a fancy by the end, are wiser in\\ntheir own eyes than seven men that can render a\\nreason.\\nPliable. Don t revile if what the good Christian\\nsays is true, the things he looks after are better\\nthan ours my heart inclines to go with my neigh-\\nbor.\\nObstinate. What more fools still Be ruled by\\nme, and go back; who knows whither such a brain-\\nsick fellow will lead you? Go back, go back, and\\nbe wise.\\nChristian. Nay, but do thou come with thy\\nneighbor Pliable there are such things to be had\\nwhich I spoke of, and many more glories besides.\\nIf you believe not me, read here in this book; and\\nfor the truth of what is expressed therein, behold,\\nall is confirmed by the blood of him that made it.", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "TEE PlLGRBl S PROGRESS. 21\\nPliable. Well, neighbor Obstinate, I begin to\\ncome to a point I intend to go along with this good\\nman, and to cast in my lot with him but, my good\\ncompanion, do you know the way to this desired\\nplace?\\nChristian. I am directed by a man, whose name\\nis Evangelist, to speed me to a little gate that is\\nbefore us, where we shall receive instructions about\\nthe way.\\nPliable. Come, then, good neighbor, let us be\\ngoing. Then they went both together.\\nObstinate. And I will go back to my place I\\nwill be no companion of such misled fellows.\\nNow, I saw in my dream that, when Obstinate\\nwas gone back, Christian and Pliable went talking\\nover the plain and thus they began their discourse.\\nChristian. Neighbor Pliable, I am glad you are\\npersuaded to go along with me. Had Obstinate\\nbut felt what I have felt of the powers and terrors\\nof what is yet unseen, he would not thus lightly\\nhave given us the back.\\nPliable. Come, neighbor Christian, since there\\nare none but us two here, tell me now, further what\\nthe things are, and how to be enjoyed, whither we\\nare going.\\nChristian. I can better conceive of them with\\nmy mind, than speak of them with my tongue; but\\nyet, since you are desirous to know, I will read of\\nthem in my book.\\nPliable. And do you think that the words of\\nyour book are certainly true?", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "22 TEE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nChristian. Yes, verily; for it was made by him\\nthat cannot He.\\nPliable. Well said what things are they\\nChristian. There is an endless kingdom to be\\ninhabited, and everlasting life to be given us, that\\nwe may inhabit that kingdom forever.\\nPliable. Well said; and what else?\\nChristian. There are crowns of glory to be given\\nns, and garments that will make us shine like the\\nsun in the firmament of heaven.\\nPliable. This is very pleasant; and what else?\\nChristian. There shall be no more crying, nor\\nsorrow: for he that is owner of the place will wipe\\nall tears from our eyes.\\nPliable. And what company shall we have\\nthere?\\nChristian. There we shall be with seraphims and\\ncherubims, creatures that will dazzle your eyes to\\nlook on them. There also you shall meet with\\nthousands and ten thousands that have gone before\\nus to that place; none of them are hurtful, but\\nloving and holy every one walking in the sight of\\nGod, and standing in his presence with acceptance\\nforever. In a word, there we shall see the elders\\nwith their golden crowns; there we shall see the\\nholy virgins with their golden harps there w^e shall\\nsee men that by the world were cut in pieces, burnt\\nin flames, eaten of beasts, drowned in the seas, for\\nthe love that they bare to the Lord of the place, all\\nclothed with immortality as with a garment.\\nPliable. The hearing of this is enough to ravish", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRUrS PROGRESS. 23\\none s heart. But are these things to be enjoyed?\\nHow shall we get to be sharers thereof?\\nChristian. The Lord, the Governor of the coun-\\ntry, hath recorded that in this book; the substance\\nof which is, If we be truly willing to have it, he\\nwill bestow it upon us freely.\\nPliable. Well, glad am I to hear of these things\\ncome on, let us mend our pace.\\nChristian. I cannot go so fast as I would, by\\nreason of this burden that is on my back.\\nNow, I saw in my dream, that just as they had\\nended this talk they drew near to a very miry\\nslough, that v/as in the midst of the plain and\\nthey, being heedless, did both fall suddenly into the\\nbog. The name of the slough was Despond. Here,\\ntherefore, they wallowed for a time, being griev-\\nously bedaubed with dirt; and Christian, because\\nof the burden that was on his back, began to sink\\nin the mire.\\nPliable. Neighbor Christian, where are you\\nnow?\\nChristian. Truly, I do not know.\\nAt this Pliable began to be offended, and angrily\\nsaid to his fellow, Is this the happiness you have\\ntold me all this while of? If we have such ill\\nspeed at our first setting out, what may we expect\\nbetwixt this and our journey s end? May I get\\nout again with my life, you shall possess the brave\\ncountry alone for me. And, with that, he gave a\\ndesperate struggle or two, and got out of the mire\\non that side of the slough which was next to his", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "24 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nown house so away he went, and Christian saw\\nhim no more.\\nWherefore Christian was left to tumble in the\\nSlough of Despond alone: but still he endeavored\\nto struggle to that side of the slough that was still\\nfurther from his own house, and next to the wicket-\\ngate; the which he did, but could not get out be-\\ncause of the burden that was upon his back but I\\nbeheld in my dream that a man came to him, whose\\nname was Help, and asked him, What he did there?\\nChristian. Sir, I was bid go this way by a man\\ncalled Evangelist, who directed me also to yonder\\ngate, that I might escape the wrath to come and\\nas I was going thither I fell in here.\\nHelp. But why did not you look for the steps\\nChristian. Fear followed me so hard that I fled\\nthe next way, and fell in.\\nHelp. Give me thy hand so he gave him his\\nhand, and he drew him out, and set him upon\\nsound ground, and bid him go on his way.\\nThen I stepped to him that plucked him out, and\\nsaid, Sir, wherefore, since over this place is the way\\nfrom the City of Destruction to yonder gate, is it\\nthat this plat is not mended, that poor travellers\\nmight go thither with more security? And he said\\nunto me. This miry slough is such a place as cannot\\nbe mended it is the descent whither the scum and\\nfilth that attends conviction for sin doth continu-\\nally run, and therefore it is called the Slough of\\nDespond for still, as the sinner is awakened about\\nhis lost condition, there ariseth in his soul many", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "HE BRAKE HIS MIND TO HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "26 THE PlLGRUl S PROGRESS.\\nfears, and doubts and discouraging apprehensions,\\nwhich all of them get together, and settle in this\\nplace. And this is the reason of the badness of\\nthis ground.\\nIt is not the pleasure of the King that this place\\nshould remain so bad. His laborers also have, by\\nthe direction of His Majesty s surveyors, been for\\nabove these sixteen hundred years employed about\\nthis patch of ground, if perhaps it might have been\\nmended yea, and to my knowledge, said he, here\\nhave been swallowed up at least twenty thousand\\ncartloads, yea, millions of wholesome instructions,\\nthat have at all seasons been brought from all places\\nof the King s dominions, and they that can tell, say\\nthey are the best materials to make good ground of\\nthe place, if so be it might have been mended but\\nit is the Slough of Despond still, and so will be\\nwhen they have done what they can.\\nTrue, there are, by the direction of the Lawgiver,\\ncertain good and substantial steps, placed even\\nthrough the very midst of this slough but at such\\ntime as this place doth much spew out its filth, as it\\ndoth against change of weather, these steps are\\nhardly seen or, if they be, men, through the dizzi-\\nness of their heads, step beside, and then they are\\nbemired to purpose, notwithstanding the steps be\\nthere; but the ground is good when they are once\\ngot in at the gate.\\nNow, I saw in my dream, that by this time Pli-\\nable was got home to his house again, so that his\\nneighbors came to visit him and some of them", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRUI S PROGRESS. 27\\ncalled him wise man for coming back, and some\\ncalled him fool for hazarding himself with Chris-\\ntian others again did mock at his cowardliness\\nsaying, Surely, since you began to venture, I would\\nnot have been so base to have given out for a few\\ndifficulties. So Pliable sat sneaking among them.\\nBut at last he got more confidence, and then they\\nall turned their tales, and began to deride poor\\nChristian behind his back. And thus much con-\\ncerning Pliable.\\nNow, as Christian was walking by himself, he\\nespied one afar off, come crossing over the field to\\nmeet him and their hap was to meet just as they\\nwere crossing the way of each other. The gentle-\\nman s name that met him was Worldly Wiseman;\\nhe dwelt in the town of Carnal Policy, a very great\\ntown, and also hard-by, from whence Christian\\ncame. This man, then, meeting with Christian,\\nand having an inkling of him, for Christian s set-\\nting forth from the City of Destruction was much\\nnoised abroad, not only in the town where he dwelt,\\nbut, also it began to be the town talk in some other\\nplaces, Worldly Wiseman, therefore, having some\\nguess of him, by beholding his laborious going, by\\nobserving his sighs and groans, and the like, began\\nthus to enter into some talk with Christian.\\nWorldly. How now, good fellow, whither away\\nafter this burdened manner?\\nChristian. A burdened manner, indeed, as ever,\\nI think, poor creature had And whereas you ask\\nme. Whither away? I tell 3 ou, Sir, I am going to", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "28 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nyonder wicket-gate before me for there, as I am\\ninformed, I shall be put into a way to get rid of\\nmy heavy burden.\\nWorldly. Hast thou a wife and children?\\nChristian. Yes; but I am so laden with this\\nburden, that I cannot take that pleasure in them\\nas formerly; methinks I am as if I had none.\\nWorldly. Wilt thou hearken unto me if I give\\nthee counsel?\\nChristian. If it be good, I will for I stand in\\nneed of good counsel.\\nWorldly. I would advise thee, then, that thou\\nwith all speed get thyself rid of thy burden for\\nthou wilt never be settled in thy mind till then;\\nnor canst thou enjoy the benefits of the blessing\\nwhich God has bestowed upon thee till then.\\nChristian. That is that which I seek for, even\\nto be rid of this heavy burden but get it off my-\\nself, I cannot nor is there any man in our country\\nthat can take it off my shoulders; therefore am I\\ngoing this way, as I told you, that I may be rid of\\nmy burden.\\nWorldly. Who bid thee go this way to be rid of\\nthy burden?\\nChristian. A man that appeared to me to be a\\nvery great and honorable person his name, as I\\nremember, is Evangelist.\\nWorldly. I beshrew him for his counsel there\\nis not a more dangerous and troublesome way in\\nthe world than is that unto which he hath directed\\nthee and that thou shalt find, if thou wilt be ruled", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS. 29\\nby his counsel. Thou hast met with something, as\\nI perceive already for I see the dirt of the Slough\\nof Despond is upon thee but that slough is the be-\\nginning of the sorrows that do attend those that go\\non in that way. Hear me, I am older than thou\\nthou art like to meet with, in the way which thou\\ngoest, wearisomeness, painfulness, hunger, perils,\\nnakedness, sword, lions, dragons, darkness, and, in\\na word, death, and what not These things are\\ncertainly true, having been confirmed by many\\ntestimonies. And why should a man so carelessly\\ncast away himself, by giving heed to a stranger?\\nChristian. Why, Sir, this burden upon my back\\nis more terrible to me than are all these things\\nwhich you have mentioned; nay, methinks I care\\nnot what I meet with in the way, if so be I can also\\nmeet with deliverance from my burden.\\nWorldly. How camest thou by the burden at\\nfirst?\\nChristian. By reading this book in my hand.\\nWorldly, I thought so and it is happened unto\\nthee as to other weak men, who, meddling with\\nthings too high for them, do suddenly fall into thy\\ndistractions; which not only unman men, as thine,\\nI perceive, has done thee, but they run them upon\\ndesperate ventures to obtain they know not what.\\nChristian. I know what I would obtain it is\\nease for my heavy burden.\\nWorldly. But why wilt thou seek for ease this\\nway, seeing so many dangers attend it? especially\\nsince, hadst thou but patience to hear me, I could", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "30 TEE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\ndirect thee to the obtaining of what thou desirest,\\nwithout the dangers that thou in this way wilt run\\nthyself into; yea, and the remedy is at hand. Be-\\nsides, I will add, that, instead of those dangers,\\nthou shalt meet with much safety, friendship, and\\ncontent.\\nChristian. Pray, Sir, open this secret to me.\\nWorldly. Why, in yonder village the village\\nis named Morality there dwells a gentleman whose\\nname is Legality, a very judicious man, and a man\\nof a very good name, that has skill to help men off\\nwith such burdens as thine are from their shoul-\\nders: yea, to my knowledge, he hath done a great\\ndeal of good this way ay, and besides, he hath\\nskill to cure those that are somewhat crazed in their\\nwits with their burdens. To him, thou may est go,\\nand be helped presently. His house is not quite a\\nmile from this place, and if he should not be at\\nhome himself, he hath a pretty young naan to his\\nson, whose name is Civility, that can do it as well\\nas the old gentleman himself; there, I say, thou\\nmayest be eased of thy burden and if thou art not\\nminded to go back to thy former habitation, as, in-\\ndeed, I would not wish thee, thou mayest send for\\nthy wife and children to thee to this village, where\\nthere are houses now stand empty, one of which\\nthou mayest have at reasonable rates provision is\\nthere also cheap and good and that which will\\nmake thy life the more happy is, to be sure, there\\nthou shalt live by honest neighbors, in credit and\\ngood fashion.", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "THE FILGBIJI S PROGRESS. 31\\nNow was Christian somewhat at a stand; but\\npresently he concluded, If this be true, which this\\ngentleman hath said, my wisest course is to take\\nhis advice; and with that he spoke, Sir, which is\\nmy way to this honest man s house?\\nWorldly. Do you see yonder hill? By that hill\\nyou must go, and the first house you come at is\\nhis.\\nSo Christian turned out of his way to go to\\nLegality s house for help; but, behold, when he\\n\\\\Was got now hard-by the hill, it seemed so high,\\nand also that side of it that was next the wayside\\ndid hang so much over that Ciiristian was afraid\\nto venture further, lest the hill should fall on his\\nhead wherefore there he stood still, and wotted\\nnot what to do. Also his burden now seemed\\nheavier to him than while he was in his way.\\nThere came also flashes of fire out of the hill, that\\nmade Christian afraid that he should be burned.\\nHere, therefore, he did quake for fear.\\nAnd now he began to be sorry that he had taken\\nWorldly Wiseman s counsel. And with that he\\nsaw Evangelist coming to meet him at the sight\\nalso of whom he. began to blush for shame. So\\nEvangelist drew nearer and coming up to him, he\\nlooked upon him with a severe countenance, and\\nthus began to reason with Christian.\\nEvangelist. What dost thou here. Christian?\\nAt which words Christian knew not what to an-\\nswer; so he stood speechless before him. Then said\\nEvangelist further, Art not thou the man that I", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "32 THE PILGRUrS PROGRESS.\\nfound crying without the walls of the City of De-\\nstruction?\\nChristian. Yes, Sir, I am the man.\\nEvangelist. Did not I direct thee the way to the\\nlittle wicket-gate?\\nChristian. Yes, Sir.\\nEvangelist. How is it, then, that thou art so\\nquickly turned aside? for thou art now out of the\\nway.\\nChristian. I met with a gentleman so soon as I\\nhad got over the Slough of Despond, who persuaded\\nme that I might, in the village before me, find a\\nman that could take off my burden.\\nEvangelist. What was he?\\nChristian. He looked like a gentleman, and\\ntalked much to me, and got me at last to yield so\\nI came hither; but when I beheld this hill, and how\\nit hangs over the way, I suddenly made a stand lest\\nit should fall on my head.\\nEvangelist. What said that gentleman to\\nyou?\\nChristian. Why, he asked me whither I was go-\\ning? And I told him.\\nEvangelist. And what said he then\\nChristian. He asked me if I had a family? And\\nI told him. But, said I, I am so loaden with the\\nburden that is on my back, that I cannot take\\npleasure in them as formerly.\\nEvangelist. And what said he then?\\nChristian. He bid me with speed get rid of my\\nburden and I told him it was ease that I sought.", "height": "2496", "width": "1684", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "DO YOU SEE YONDER WICKET-GATE", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "34 THE PILGBBl S PROGRESS.\\nAnd, said I, I am therefore going to yonder gate,\\nto receive further direction how I may get to the\\nplace of deliverance. So he said that he would\\nshow me a better way, and short, not so attended\\nwith difficulties as the way. Sir, that you set me in\\nwhich way, said he, will direct you to a gentleman s\\nhouse that hath skill to take off these burdens, so I\\nbelieved him, and turned out of that way into this,\\nif haply I might be soon eased of my burden. But\\nwhen I came to this place, and beheld things as\\nthey are, I stopped for fear of danger: but I now\\nknow not what to do.\\nEvangelist. Then, stand still a little, that I may\\nshow thee the words of God. So he stood trembling.\\nThen said Evangelist, See that ye refuse not him\\nthat speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused\\nhim that spake on earth, much more shall not we\\nescape, if we turn away from him that speaketh\\nfrom heaven. He said, moreover. Now the just\\nshall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my\\nsoul shall have no pleasure in him. He also did\\nthus apply them: Thou art the man that art run-\\nning into this misery thou hast begun to reject the\\ncounsel of the Most High, and to draw back thy\\nfoot from the way of peace, even almost to the\\nhazarding of thy perdition.\\nChristian fell down at his feet as dead, crying,\\nWoe is me, for I am undone! At the sight of\\nwhich. Evangelist caught him by the right hand,\\nsaying, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be\\nforgiven unto men. Be not faithless, but believing.", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "TEE PILGRUrS PROGRESS. 35\\nThen did Christian revive, and stood up trembling,\\nas at first, before Evangehst.\\nEvangelist. Give more earnest heed to the\\nthings that I shall tell thee of. I will now show\\nthee who it was that deluded thee, and who it was\\nalso to whom he sent thee. The man that met thee\\nis one Worldly Wiseman, and rightly is he so\\ncalled partly, because he savoreth only the doc-\\ntrine of this world (therefore he always goes to\\nthe town of Morality to church) and partly because\\nhe loveth that doctrine best, for it saveth him best\\nfrom the cross. And because he is of this carnal\\ntemper, therefore he seeketh to prevent my ways,\\nthough right. Now, there are three things in this\\nman s counsel that thou must utterly abhor. (1)\\nHis turning thee out of the way. (2) His laboring\\nto render the cross odious to thee. And (3) His\\nsetting thy feet in that way that leadeth unto the\\nadministration of death.\\nFirst, thou must abhor his turning thee out of\\nthe way; and thine own consenting thereto: be-\\ncause this is to reject the counsel of God for the\\nsake of the counsel of a Worldly Wiseman. The\\nLord says, Strive to enter in at the strait gate; the\\ngate to which I send thee for strait is the gate\\nthat leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.\\nFrom this little wicket gate, and from the way\\nthereto, hath this wicked man turned thee, to the\\nbringing of thee almost to destruction hate, there-\\nfore, his turning thee out of the way, and abhor\\nthyself for hearkening to him.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "36 TEE PILGBIM S PROGBESS.\\nSecondly, thou must abhor his laboring to render\\nthe cross odious unto thee for thou art to prefer it\\nbefore the treasures in Egypt. Besides, the King\\nof glory hath told thee, that he that will save his\\nlife shall lose it. And, He that cometh after me,\\nand hateth not his father, and mother, and wife,\\nand children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and\\nhis own life also, he cannot be my disciple. I say,\\ntherefore, for man to labor to persuade thee, that\\nthat shall be thy death, without which, the truth\\nhath said, thou canst not have eternal life; this\\ndoctrine thou must abhor.\\nThirdly, thou must hate his setting of thy feet\\nin the way that leadeth to the ministration of death.\\nAnd for this thou must consider to whom he sent\\nthee, and also how unable that person was to de-\\nliver thee from thy burden.\\nHe to whom thou wast sent for ease, being by\\nname Legality, is the son of the bondwoman which\\nnow is, and is in bondage with her children and\\nis, in a mystery, this Mount Sinai, which thou hast\\nfeared will fall on thy head. Now, if she, with her\\nchildren, are in bondage, how canst thou expect by\\nthem to be made free? This Legality, therefore, is\\nnot able to set thee free from thy burden. No man\\nwas as yet ever rid of his burden by him no, nor\\never is like to be: ye cannot be justified by the\\nworks of the law for by the deeds of the law no\\nman living can be rid of his burden therefore.\\nWorldly Wiseman is an alien, and Legality is a\\ncheat; and for his son Civility, he is but a hypocrite", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "IN THE SLOUGH OF DESPOND.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "38 THE PILGRUrS PROGRESS.\\nand cannot help thee. Beheve me, there is nothing\\nin all this noise, that thon hast heard of these sot-\\ntish men, but a design to beguile thee of thy salva-\\ntion, by turning thee from the way in which I had\\nset thee. After this, Evangelist called aloud to the\\nheavens for confirmation of what he had said and\\nwith that there came words and fire out of the\\nmountain under which poor Christian stood, tliat\\nmade the hair of his flesh stand up. The words\\nwere thus pronounced As many as are of the\\nworks of the law are under the curse for it is writ-\\nten, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all\\nthings which are written in the book of the law to\\ndo them.\\nNow Christian looked for nothing but death, and\\nbegan to cry out; even cursing the time in which\\nhe met with Worldly Wiseman; still calling him-\\nself a thousand fools for hearkening to his counsel\\nhe also was greatly ashamed to think that this\\ngentleman s arguments, flowing only from the flesh,\\nshould have the prevalency with him as to cause\\nhim to forsake the right way. This done, he ap-\\nplied himself again to Evangelist in words and sense\\nas follow: Sir, what think you? Is there hope?\\nMay I now go back and go up to the wicket-gate?\\nShall I not be abandoned for this, and sent back\\nfrom thence ashamed? I am sorrry I have heark-\\nened to this man s counsel. But may my sin be\\nforgiven\\nEvangelist. Thy sin is very great, for by it thou\\nhast committed two evils: thou hast forsaken the", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "THE PILGBBl S PROGRESS. 39\\nway that is good, to tread in forbidden paths; yet\\nwill the man at the gate receive thee, for he has\\ngood- will for men only, said he, take heed that\\nthou turn not aside again, lest thou perish from the\\nway, when his wrath is kindled hut a little. Then\\ndid Christian address himself to go back; and\\nEvangelist, after he had kissed him, gave him one\\nsmile, and bid him God-speed. So he went on with\\nhaste, neither spake he to any man by the wa}\\nnor, if any asked him, would he vouchsafe them\\nan answer. He went on like one that was all the\\nwhile treading on forbidden ground, and could by\\nno means think himself safe, tjll again he was got\\ninto the way which he left, to follow Worldly Wise-\\nman s counsel. So, in process of time Christian\\ngot up to the gate. Now, over the gate it was\\nwritten. Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.\\nHe knocked, therefore, more than once or twice.\\nAt last there came a grave person to the gate named\\nGood- will,, who asked who was there? and whence\\nhe came? and what he would have?\\nChristian. Here is a poor burdened sinner. I\\ncome from the City of Destruction, but am going\\nto Mount Zion, that I may be delivered from the\\nwrath to come. I would, therefore, Sir, since I am\\ninformed that by this gate is the way thither,\\nknow if you are willing to let me in?\\nGoOD-w^iLL. I am willing with all my heart, said\\nhe and with that he opened the gate.\\nSo when Christian was stepping in, the other\\ngave him a pull. Then said Christian, What means", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "40 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nthat? The other told him. A little distance from\\nthis gate, there is erected a strong castle, of which\\nBeelzebub is the captain from thence both he and\\nthem that are with him shoot arrows at those that\\ncome iiiD to this gate, if haply they may die before\\nthey can enter in.\\nChristian. I rejoice and tremble. So when he\\nwas got in, the man of the gate asked him who\\ndirected him thither?\\nChristian. Evangelist bid me come hither, and\\nknock (as I did) and he said that you, Sir, would\\ntell me what I must do.\\nGood-will. An open door is set before thee, and\\nno man can shut it.\\nChristian. Now I begin to reap the benefits of\\nmy hazards.\\nGood- will. But how is it that you came alone?\\nChristian. Because none of ray neighbors saw\\ntheir danger as I saw mine.\\nGood- will. Did any know of your coming?\\nChristian. Yes; my wife and children saw me\\nat the first, and called after me to turn again also\\nsome of my neighbors stood crying and calling after\\nme to return but I put my fingers in my ears, and\\nso came on my way.\\nGood-w^ll. But did none of them follow you to\\npersuade you to go back?\\nChristian. Yes, both Obstinate and Pliable; but\\nwhen they saw that they could not prevail, Obsti-\\nnate went railing back, but Pliable came with me a\\nlittle way.", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "WORDLY WISEMAN.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "42 THE PILGRBI S PROGRESS.\\nGood-will. But why did he not come throu|;h?\\nChristian. We, indeed, came both together, until\\nwe came to the Slough of Despond, into the which\\nwe suddenly fell. And then was my neighbor.\\nPliable, discouraged, and would not venture further.\\nWherefore, getting out again on that side next to\\nhis own house, he told me I should possess the brave\\ncountry alone for him so he went his way, and I\\ncame mine he after Obstinate, and I to this gate.\\nGood-will. Alas, poor man is the celestial glory\\nof so small esteem with him that he counteth it\\nnot worth running the hazards of a few difficulties\\nto obtain it?\\nChristian. Truly, I have said the truth of Pliable,\\nand if I should also say all the truth of myself, it\\nwill appear there is no betterment betwixt him and\\nmyself. It is true, he went back to his own house,\\nbut I also turned aside to go in the way of death,\\nbeing persuaded thereto by the carnal arguments\\nof one Worldly Wiseman.\\nGood-will. Oh! did he light upon you? What!\\nhe would have had you a sought for ease at the\\nhands of Legality, They are, both of them, a very\\ncheat. But did you take his counsel?\\nChristian. Yes, as far as I durst; I w^ent to find\\nout Legality, until I thought that the mountain\\nthat stands by his house would have fallen upon\\nmy head wherefore, there I was forced to stop.\\nGood-will. That mountain has been the death\\nof many, and will be the death of many more; it is\\nwell you escaped being by it dashed in jDieces.", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS. 43\\nChristian. Why, truly, I do not know what had\\nbecome of me there, had not EvangeHst happily\\nmet me again, as I was musing in the midst of my\\ndumps; but it was God s mercy that he came to\\nme again, for else I had never come hither. But\\nnow I am come, such a one as I am, more fit, in-\\ndeed, for death, by that mountain, than thus to\\nstand talking with my Lord but, oh, what a favor\\nis this to me, that yet I am admitted entrance here\\nGood-will. We make no objections against any,\\nnotwithstanding all that they have done before\\nthey came hither. They are in no wise cast out;\\nand therefore, good Christian, come a little way\\nwith me, and I will teach thee about the way thou\\nmust go. Look before thee; dost thou see this nar-\\nrow way? That is the way thou must go; it was\\ncast up by patriarchs, prophets, Christ and his\\napostles and it is as straight as a rule can make it.\\nThis is the way thou must go.\\nChristian. But, are there no turnings or wind-\\nings, by which a stranger may lose his way?\\nGood-will. Yes, there are many ways butt down\\nupon this, and they are crooked and wide. But\\nthus thou may est distinguish the right from the\\nwrong, the right only being straight and narrow.\\nThen I saw in my dream that Christian asked\\nhim further if he could not help him off with his\\nburden that was upon his back for as yet he had\\nnot got rid thereof, nor could he by any means get\\nit off without help. He told him. As to thy burden,\\nbe content to bear it until thou comest to the place", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "44 THE PILGRUrS PROGRESS.\\nof deliverance for there it will fall from thy back\\nof itself.\\nThen Christian began to gird up his loins, and to\\naddress himself to his journey. So the other told\\nhim, That by that he was gone some distance from\\nthe gate, he would come at the house of the In-\\nterpreter, at whose door he should knock, and he\\nwould show him excellent things. Then Christian\\ntook his leave of his friend, and he again bid him\\nGod -speed.\\nThen he went on till he came to the house of the\\nInterpreter, where he knocked over and over; at\\nlast one came to the door, and asked who was there.\\nChristian. Sir, here is a traveller, who was bid\\nby an acquaintance of the good man of this house\\nto call here for my profit I would therefore speak\\nwith the master of the house. So he called for the\\nmaster of the house, who, after a little time, came\\nto Christian, and asked him what he would have.\\nChristian. Sir, I am a man that am come from\\nthe City of Destruction, and am going to the Mount\\nZion ^nd I was told by the man that stands at the\\ngate, at the head of this way, that if I called here,\\nyou would show me excellent things, such as would\\nbe a help to me in my journey.\\nInterpreter. Come in I will show that which\\nwill be profitable to thee. So he commanded his\\nman to light the candle, and bid Christian follow\\nhim so he had him into a private room, and bid\\nhis man open a door the which when he had done,\\nChristian saw the picture of a very grave person", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "HE GAVE HIM A PULL.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "46 THE PlLGRBl S PROGRESS.\\nhang up against the wall; and this was the fashion\\nof it. It had eyes lifted up to heaven, the best of\\nbooks in his hand, the law of truth was written\\nupon his lips, the world was behind his back. It\\nstood as if it pleaded with men, and a crown of gold\\ndid hang over its head.\\nChristian. What meaneth this?\\nInterpreter. The man whose picture this is, is\\none of a thousand he can beget children, travail\\nin birth with children, and nurse them himself\\nwhen they are born. And whereas thou seest him\\nwith his eyes lift up to heaven, the best of books in\\nhis hand, and the law of truth writ on liis lips, it is\\nto show thee that his work is to know and unfold\\ndark things to sinners; even as also thou seest him\\nstand as if he pleaded with men and whereas thou\\nseest the world as cast behind him, and that a\\ncrown hangs over his head, that is to show thee\\nthat despising the things that are present, for the\\nlove that he hath to his Master s service, he is sure\\nin the world that comes next to have glory for his\\nreward. Now, said the Interpreter, I have showed\\nthee this picture first, because the man whose\\npicture this is, is the only man whom the Lord of\\nthe place whither thou art going hath authorized\\nto be thy guide in all difficult places thou mayest\\nmeet with in the way wherefore take good heed\\nto what I have showed thee, and bear well in thy\\nmind what thou hast seen, lest in thy journey thou\\nmeet with some that pretend to ad thee right, but\\ntheir way goes down to death.", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS. 47\\nThen he took him by the hand, and led him into\\na very large parlor that was full of dust, because\\nnever swept; the which after he had reviewed a\\nlittle while, t^ie Interpreter called for a man to\\nsweep. Now, when he began to sweep, the dust\\nbegan to fly about so that Christian had almost\\ntherewith been choked. Then said the Interpreter\\nto a damsel that stood by, Bring hither the water,\\nand sprinkle the room when she had done, it was\\nswept and cleansed with pleasure.\\nChristian. What means this?\\nInterpreter. This parlor is the heart of a man\\nthat was never sanctified by the sweet grace of the\\ngospel the dust is his original sin and inward cor-\\nruptions, that have defiled the whole man. He\\nthat began to sweep at first, is the Law but she\\nthat brought water, and did sprinkle it, is the\\nGospel. Now, whereas thou sawest, that so soon\\nas the first began to sweep, the dust did so fly about\\nthat the room by him could not be cleansed, but\\nthat thou wast almost choked therewith; this is to\\nshow thee that the law, instead of cleansing the\\nheart (by its working) from sin, doth revive, put\\nstrength into, and increase it in the soul, even as it\\ndoth discover and forbid it, for it doth not give\\npower to subdue.\\nAgain, as thou sawest the damsel sprinkle the\\nroom with water, upon which it was cleansed with\\npleasure; this is to show thee that when the gospel\\ncomes, in the sweet and precious influences thereof,\\nto the heart, then, I say, even as thou sawest the", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "48 THE PILGRUrS PROGRESS.\\ndamsel lay the dust by sprinkling the floor with\\nwater, so is sin vanquished and subdued, and the\\nsoul made clean through the faith of it, and con-\\nsequently fit for the King of glory to inhabit.\\nI saw, moreover, in my dream, that the Inter-\\npreter took him by the hand, and had him into a\\nlittle room, where sat two little children, each one\\nin his chair. The name of the eldest was Passion,\\nand the name of the other Patience. Passion\\nseemed to be much discontented but Patience was\\nvery quiet. Then Christian asked. What is the\\nreason of the discontent of Passion? The Inter-\\npreter answered. The Governor of them would have\\nhim stay for his best things till the beginning of the\\nnext year; but he will have all now; but Patience\\nis willing to wait.\\nTher. I saw that one came to Passion, and brought\\nhim a bag of treasure, and poured it down at his\\nfeet, the which he took up and rejoiced therein, and\\nwithal laughed Patience to scorn. But I beheld\\nbut a while, and he had lavished all away, and had\\nnothing left him but rags.\\nChristian. Expound this matter more fully to\\nme.\\nInterpreter. These two lads are figures: Pas-\\nsion, of the men of this world and Patience, of\\nthe men of that which is to come; for as here\\nthou seest, Passion will have all now this year,\\nthat is to say, in this world; so are the men of\\nthis world they must have all their good things\\nnow, they cannot stay till next year, that is, until", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "THE MAN IN THE CAGE.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "50 THE PILGRBI S PROGRESS.\\nthe next world, for their portion of good. The\\nproverb, A bird in the hand is worth two in the\\nbush, is of more authority with them than are all\\nthe Divine testimonies of the good of the world to\\ncome. But as thou sawest that he had quickly\\nlavished all away, and had presently left him noth-\\ning but rags; so will it be with all such men at the\\nend of this world.\\nChristian. Now I see that Patience has the best\\nwisdom, and that upon many accounts. First, be-\\ncause he stays for the best things. Second, and\\nalso because he will have the glory of his when the\\nother has nothing but rags.\\nInterpreter. Nay, you may add another, to wit,\\nthe glory of the next world will never wear out;\\nbut these are suddenly gone. Therefore Passion\\nhad not so much reason to laugh at Patience, be-\\ncause he had his good things first, as Patience will\\nhave to laugh at Passion, because he had his best\\nthings last for first must give place to last, because\\nlast must have his time to come; but last gives\\nplace to nothing; for there is not another to suc-\\nceed. He, therefore, that hath his portion first,\\nmust needs have a time to spend it; but he that\\nhath his portion last, must have it lastingly; there-\\nfore it is said of Dives Thou in thy lifetime receiv-\\ned thy good things, and Lazarus evil things; but\\nnow he is comforted, and thou art tormented.\\nChristian. Then I perceive it is not best to covet\\nthings that are now, but to wait for things to\\ncome.", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRUrS PROGRESS. 51\\nInterpreter. You say the truth For the things\\nwhich are seen are temporal but the things which\\nare not seen are eternal.\\nThen I saw in my dream that the Interpreter took\\nChristian by the hand, and led him into a place\\nwhere was a fire burning against the wall, and one\\nstanding by it, always casting much water upon it,\\nto quench it yet did the fire burn higher and hotter.\\nChristian. What means this?\\nInterpreter, This fire is the work of grace that\\nis wrought in the heart he that casts water upon\\nit to extinguish and put it out, is the Devil but in\\nthat thou seestthe fire notwithstanding burn higher\\nand hotter, thou shalt also see the reason of that.\\nSo he had him about to the back side of the wall,\\nwhere he saw a man with a vessel of oil in his hand,\\nwhich he did cast, but secretly, into the fire.\\nChristian. What means this?\\nInterpreter. This is Christ, who continually,\\nwith the oil of his grace, maintains the work al-\\nready begun in the heart; by the means of which,\\nnotwithstanding what the Devil can do, the souls of\\nhis people prove gracious still. And in that thou\\nsawest that the man stood behind the wall to main-\\ntain the fire, that is to teach thee that it is hard for\\nthe tempted to see how this work of grace is main-\\ntained in the soul.\\nI saw also that the Interpreter took him again\\nby the hand, and led him into a pleasant place,\\nwhere was builded a stately palace, beautiful to be-\\nhold at the sight of which Christian was greatly", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "52 THE FILGBUrS PROGRESS.\\ndelighted. He saw also upon the top thereof cer-\\ntain persons walking, who were clothed all in gold.\\nChristian. May we go in thither?\\nThen the Interpreter took him, and led him up\\ntowards the door of the palace and behold at the\\ndoor stood a great company of men, as desirous to\\ngo in, but durst not. There also sat a man at a\\nlittle distance from the door, at a tableside, with a\\nbook and his inkhorn before him, to take the name\\nof him that should enter therein he saw also, that\\nin the doorway stood many men in armor to keep\\nit, being resolved to do the men that would enter\\nwhat hurt and mischief they could. Now was\\nChristian somewhat in amaze. At last, when every\\nman started back for fear of the armed men. Chris-\\ntian saw a man of a very stout countenance come\\nup to the man that sat there to write, saying, Set\\ndown my name, Sir; the which when he had done,\\nhe saw the man draw his sword, and put an helmet\\nupon his head, and rush toward the door upon the\\narmed men, who laid upon him with deadly force;\\nbut the man, not at all discouraged, fell to cut-\\nting and hacking most fiercely. So after he had\\nreceived and given many wounds to those that\\nattempted to keep him out, he cut his way through\\nthem all and pressed forward into the palace, at\\nwhich there was a pleasant voice heard from those\\nthat were within, even of those that walked upon\\nthe top of the palace, saying.\\nCome in, come in\\nEtei nal glory thou slialt w", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS, 53\\nSo he went in, and was clothed with such gar-\\nments as they. Then Christian smiled and said, I\\nthink I know the meaning of this.\\nChristian. Let me go hence. Nay, stay, said\\nthe Interpreter, till I have shown thee a little more,\\nand after that thou shalt go on thy way. So he\\ntook him by the hand again, and led him into a\\nvery dark room, where there sat a man in an iron\\ncage.\\nNow the man, to look on, seemed very sad he\\nsat with his eyes looking down to the ground, his\\nhands folded together, and he sighed as if he would\\nbreak his heart. Then said Christian, What means\\nthis? At which the Interpreter bid him talk with\\nthe man.\\nChristian. What art thou? The man answered,\\nI am what I was not once.\\nChristian. What wast thou once?\\nMan. I was once a fair and flourishing professor,\\nboth in mine own eyes and also in the eyes of others\\nI once was, as I thought, fair for the Celestial City,\\nand had then even joy at the thoughts that I should\\nget thither.\\nChristian. Well, but what art thou now?\\nMan. I am now a man of despair, and am shut\\nup in it, as in this iron cage. I cannot get out.\\nOh, now I cannot\\nChristian. How came you in this condition?\\nMan. I left off to watch and be sober; I laid the\\nreins upon the neck of my lusts I sinned against\\nthe light of the Word and the goodness of God I", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "54 THE PILGRBI S PROGRESS.\\nhave grieved the Spirit, and he is gone; I tempted\\nthe devil, and he is come tome; I have provoked\\nGod to anger, and he has left me: I have so hard-\\nened my heart that I cannot repent.\\nThen said Christian to the Interpreter, Is there\\nno hope for such a man as this? Ask him, said the\\nInterpreter. Nay, said Christian, pray, do yon.\\nInterpreter. Is there no hope, but you must he\\nkept in the iron cage of despair?\\nMan. No, none at all.\\nInterpreter. Why, the Son of the blessed is very\\npitiful.\\nMan. I have crucified him to myself afresh I\\nhave despised his person I have despised his right-\\neousness I have counted his blood an unholy thing\\nI have done despite to the Spirit of grace. There-\\nfore I have shut myself out of all the promises, and\\nthere now remains to me nothing but threatenings,\\ndreadful threatenings, fearful threatenings of cer-\\ntain judgment and fiery indignation, which shall\\ndevour me as an adversary.\\nInterpreter. For what did you bring yourself\\ninto this condition?\\nMan. For the lusts, pleasures, and profits of this\\nworld in the enjoyment of which I did then promise\\nmyself much delight; but now every one of those\\nthings also bite me, and gnaw me like a burning\\nworm.\\nInterpreter. But canst thou not now repent and\\nturn?\\nMan. God hath denied me repentance. His Word", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRUrS PROGRESS. 55\\ngives me no encouragement to believe yea, himself\\nhath shut me up in this iron cage nor can all the\\nmen in the w^orld let me out. eternity, eternity\\nhow shall I grapple vv^ith the misery that I must\\nmeet with in eternity\\nInterpreter. Let this man s misery be remem-\\nbered by thee, and be an everlasting caution to thee.\\nChristian. Well, this is fearful! God help me\\nto watch and be sober, and to pray that I may shun\\nthe cause of this man s misery! Sir, is it not time\\nfor me to go on my way now?\\nInterpreter. Tarry till I shall show thee one\\nthing more, and then thou shalt go on thy wa}\\nSo he took Christian by the hand again, and led\\nhim into a chamber, where there was one rising out\\nof bed; and as he put on his raiment, he shook and\\ntrembled. Then said Christian, Why doth this man\\nthus tremble? The Interpreter then bid him tell to\\nChristian the reason of his so doing. So he said,\\nThis night, as I was in my sleep, I dreamed, and\\nbehold the heavens grew exceedingly black also it\\nthundered and lightened in most fearful wise, that\\nit put me into an agony; so I looked up in my\\ndream, and saw the clouds rack at an unusual rate,\\nupon which I heard a great sound of a trumpet,\\nand saw also a man sit upon a cloud, attended with\\nthe thousands of heaven; they were all in flaming\\nfire: also the heavens were in a burning flame. I\\nheard then a voice, saying, Arise, ye dead, and\\ncome to judgment; and with that the rocks rent,\\nthe graves opened, and the dead that were therein", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "56 THE PILGRUrS PROGRESS.\\ncame forth. Some of them were exceeding glad,\\nand looked upward and some sought to hide them-\\nselves under the mountains. Then I saw the man\\nthat sat upon the cloud open the book, and bid the\\nworld draw near. Yet there was, by reason of a\\nfierce flame which issued out and came from before\\nhim, a convenient distance betwixt him and them,\\nas betwixt the judge and the prisoners at the bar.\\nI heard it also proclaimed to them that attended on\\nthe man that sat on the cloud. Gather together\\nthe tares, the chaff, and stubble, and cast them into\\nthe burning lake. And with that, the bottomless\\npit opened, just whereabout I stood out of the\\nmouth of which there came, in an abundant man-\\nner, smoke and coals of fire, with hideous noises.\\nIt was also said to the same persons, Gather my\\nwheat into the garner. And with that I saw many\\ncaught up and carried away into the clouds, but I\\nwas left behind. I also sought to hide myself, but\\nI could not, for the man that sat upon the cloud\\nstill kept his eye upon me my sins also came into\\nmy mind: and my conscience did accuse me on\\nevery side. Upon this I awaked from my sleep.\\nChristian. But what was it that made you so\\nafraid of this sight?\\nMan. Why, I thought that the day of judgment\\nwas come, and that I was not ready for it; but this\\nfrighted me most, that the angels gathered up sev-\\neral and left me behind also the pit of hell opened\\nher mouth just where I stood. My conscience, too,\\nafflicted me and, as I thought, the Judge had al-", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "HIS BURDEN FELL OFF HIS BACK,", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "58 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nways his eye upon me, showing indignation in his\\ncountenance.\\nInterpreter. Hast thou considered all these\\nthings?\\nChristian. Yes, and they put me in hope and\\nfear.\\nInterpreter. Well, keep all things so in thy\\nmind that they may be as a goad in thy sides, to\\nprick thee forward in the way thou must go. Then\\nChristian began to gird up his loins, and to address\\nhimself to his journey. Then said the Interpreter,\\nThe Comforter be always with thee, good Christian,\\nto guide thee in the way that leads to the City. So\\nChristian went on his way.\\nNow I saw in my dream that the highway up\\nwhich Christian was to go, was fenced on either\\nside with a wall, and that wall was called Salvation.\\nUp this way, therefore, did burdened Christian run,\\nbut not without great difficulty, because of the load\\non his back.\\nHe ran thus till he came to a place somewhat as-\\ncending, and upon that place stood a cross, and .a\\nlittle below, in the bottom, a sepulchre. So I saw\\nin my dream, that just as Christian came up with\\nthe cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders,\\nand fell from off his back, and began to tumble, and\\nso continued to do till it came to the mouth of the\\nsepulchre, where it fell in, and I saw it no more.\\nThen was Christian glad and lightsome, and said\\nwith a merry heart, He hath given me rest by his\\nsorrow, and life by his death. Then he stood still", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRUrS PROGRESS. 59\\na while to look and wonder; for it was very surpris-\\ning to him, that the sight of the cross should thus\\nease him of his burden. He looked, therefore, and\\nlooked again, even till the springs that were in his\\nbead sent the waters down his cheeks. Now, as be\\nstood looking and weeping, behold three Shining\\nOnes came to him and saluted him with. Peace be\\nto thee. So the first said to him. Thy sins be\\nforgiven thee the second stripped him of his rags,\\nand clothed him with change of raiment; the\\nthird also set a mark on his forehead, and gave him\\na roll with a seal upon it, which he bade him look\\non as he ran, and that he should give it in at the\\nCelestial Gate. So they went their way.\\nI saw then in my dream, that he went on thus,\\neven until he came at a bottom, where he saw, a\\nlittle out of the way, three men fast asleep, with\\nfetters upon their heels. The name of the one was\\nSimple, another Sloth, and the third Presumption.\\nChristian then seeing them lie in this case went\\nto them, if peradventurehe might awake them, and\\ncried. You are like them that sleep on the top of a\\nmast, for the Dead Sea is under you a gulf that\\nhath no bottom. Awake, tl orefore, and come\\naway be willing also, and I will help you off with\\nyour irons. He also told them, If he that goeth\\nabout like a roaring lion comes by, you will cer-\\ntainly become a prey to his teeth. With that they\\nlooked upon him, and began to reply in this sort:\\nSimple said, I see no danger; Sloth said. Yet a little\\nmore sleep; and Presumption said, Every tub must", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "60 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nstand upon its own bottom what is the answer else\\nthat I should give thee? And so they lay down to\\nsleep again, and Christian went on his way.\\nYet was he troubled to think that men in that\\ndanger should so little esteem the kindness of him\\nthat so freely offered to help them, both by awaken-\\ning of them, counselling of them, and proffering to\\nhelp them off with their irons. And as he was\\ntroubled thereabout, he espied two men come\\ntumbling over the wall, on the left hand of the\\nnarrow way; and they made up apace to him. The\\nname of the one was Formalist, and the name of\\nthe other Hypocrisy. So, as I said, they drew up\\nunto him, who thus entered with them into dis-\\ncourse.\\nChristian. Gentleman, whence came you, and\\nwhither go you?\\nFormalist and Hypocrisy. We were born in the\\nland of Vainglory, and are going for praise to\\nMount Zion.\\nChristian. Why came you not in at the gate\\nwhich standeth at the beginning of the way?\\nKnow you not that it is written, that he that\\nCometh not in by the door, but climbeth up some\\nother way, the same is a thief and a robber?\\nFormalist and Hypocrisy. That to go to the\\ngate for entrance was, by all their countrymen,\\ncounted too far about; and that, therefore, their\\nusual way was to make a short cut of it, and to\\nclimb over the wall, as they had done.\\nChristian. But will it not be counted a trespass", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS. 61\\nagainpiC the Lord of the city whither we are bound,\\nthus to violate his revealed will?\\nFormalist and Hypocrisy. They told him that,\\nas for that, he needed not to trouble his head there-\\nabout; what they did they had custom for; and\\ncould produce, if need were, testimony that would\\nwitness it for more than a thousand years.\\nChristian. But, will your practice stand a trial\\nat law?\\nFormalist and Hypocrisy. They told him that\\ncustom, it being of so long a standing as above a\\nthousand years, would, doubtless, now be admitted\\nas a thing legal by any impartial judge and besides,\\nsaid they, if we get into the way, what s matter\\nwhich way we get in? if we are in, we are in thou\\nart but in the way, who, as we perceive, came in at\\nthe gate; and we are also in the way, that came\\ntumbling over the wall wherein, now, is thy con-\\ndition better than ours?\\nChristian. I walk by the rule of my Master; you\\nwalk by the rude working of your fancies. You\\nare counted thieves already, by the Lord of the way\\ntherefore, I doubt you will not be found true men\\nat the end of the way. You come in by yourselves,\\nwithout his direction and shall go out by your-\\nselves, without his mercy.\\nTo this they made him but little answer; only\\nthey bid him look to himself. Then I saw that they\\nwent on every man in his way, without much con\\nference one with another; save that these two men\\ntold Christian, that as to laws and ordinances, they", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "62 THE PILGBBI S PROGRESS.\\ndoubted not but they should as conscientiously do\\nthem as he therefore, said they, we see not wherein\\nthou differest from us but by the coat that is on thy\\nback, which was, as we trow, given thee by some\\nof thy neighbors, to hide the shame of thy naked-\\nness.\\nChristian, Bj laws and ordinances you will not\\nbe saved, since you came not in by the door. And\\nas for this coat that is on my back, it was given me\\nby the Lord of the place whither I go; and that, as\\nyou say, to cover my nakedness with. And I take\\nit as a token of his kindness to me for I had noth-\\ning but rags before. And besides, thus I comfort\\nmyself as I go: Surely, think I, when I come to\\nthe gate of the city, the Lord thereof will know me\\nfor good, since I have his coat on my back a coat\\nthat he gave me freely in the day that he stripped\\nme of my rags. I have, moreover, a mark in my\\nforehead, of which, perhaps, you have taken no\\nnotice, which one of my Lord s most intimate asso-\\nciates fixed there in the day that my burden fell off\\nmy shoulders. I will tell you, moreover, that I had\\nthen given me a roll, sealed, to comfort me by read-\\ning as I go on the way I was also bid to give it in\\nat the Celestial Gate, in token of my certain going\\nin after it; all which things, I doubt, you want,\\nand want them because you came not in at the gate.\\nTo these things they gave him no answer only\\nthey looked upon each other, and laughed. Then\\nI saw that they went on all, save that Christian\\nkept before, who had no more talk but with him-", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS. 63\\nself, and that sometimes sighingly and sometimes\\ncomfortably also he would be often reading in the\\nroll that one of the Shining Ones gave him, by\\nwhich he was refreshed.\\nI beheld, then, that they all went on till they\\ncame to the foot of the hill Difficulty at the bot-\\ntom of which was a spring. There were also in the\\nsame place two other ways besides that which came\\nstraight from the gate; one turned to the left hand,\\nand the other to the right, at the bottom of the hill\\nbut the narrow way lay right up the hill, and the\\nname of the going up the side of the hill is called\\nDifficulty. Christian now went to the spring, and\\n.drank thereof, to refresh himself, and then began\\nto go up the hill.\\nThe other two also came to the foot of the hill\\nbut when they saw that the hill was steep and high,\\nand that there were two other ways to go and sup-\\nposing also that these two ways might meet again,\\nwith that up which Christian went, on the other\\nside of the hill therefore they were resolved to go\\nin those ways. Now the name of one of those ways\\nwas Danger, and the name of the other Destruction.\\nSo the one took the way which is called Danger,\\nwhich led him into a great wood, and the other took\\ndirectly up the way to Destruction, which led him\\ninto a wide field, full of dark mountains, where he\\nstumbled and fell, and rose no more.\\nI looked, then, after Christian, to see him go up\\nthe hill, where I perceived he fell from running to\\ngoing, and from going to clambering upon his", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "64 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nhands and his knees, because of the steepness of the\\nplace. Now, about the midway to the top of the hill\\nwas a pleasant arbor, made by the Lord of the\\nhill for the refreshing of weary travellers thither,\\ntherefore. Christian got, where also he sat down to\\nrest him. Then he pulled his roll out of his bosom,\\nand read therein to his comfort he also now began\\nafresh to take a review of the coat or garment that\\nwas given him as he stood by the cross. Thus\\npleasing himself a while, he at last fell into a slum-\\nber, and thence into a fast sleep, which detained\\nhim in that place until it was almost night; and in\\nhis sleep his roll fell out of his hand. Now, as he\\nwas sleeping, there came one to him, and awaked-\\nhim, saying. Go to the ant, thou sluggard con-\\nsider her ways, and be wise. And with that Chris-\\ntian started up, and sped him on his way, and went\\napace, till he came to the top of the hill.\\nNow, when he was got up to the top of the hill,\\nthere came two men running to meet him amain;\\nthe name of the one was Timorous, and of the other\\nMistrust; to whom Christian said. Sirs, what s the\\nmatter? You run the wrong way. Timorous an-\\nswered that they were going to the City of Zion,\\nand had got up that difficult place but, said he,\\nthe farther we go, the more danger we meet with\\nwherefore we turned, and are going back again.\\nYes, said Mistrust, for just before us lie a couple\\nof lions in the way, whether sleeping or waking we\\nknow not, and we could not think, if we came\\nwithin reach, but they would pull us in pieces.", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "r s\\nTHE THREE SHINING ONES.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "66 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nChristian. You make me afraid, but whither\\nshall I fly to be safe? If I go back to mine own\\ncountry, that is prepared for fire and brimstone,\\nand I shall certainly perish there. If I can get to\\nthe Celestial City, I am sure to be in safety there.\\nI must venture. To go back is nothing but death\\nto go forward is fear of death, and life everlasting\\nbeyond it. I will yet go forward. So Mistrust and\\nTimorous ran down the hill, and Christian went on\\nhis way. But, thinking again of what he had heard\\nfrom the men, he felt in his bosom for his roll, that\\nhe might read therein, and be comforted but he\\nfelt, and found it not. Then was Christian in great\\ndistress, and knew not what to do; for he wanted\\nthat which used to relieve him, and that which\\nshould have been his pass into the Celestial City.\\nHere, therefore, he began to be much perplexed,\\nand knew not what to do. At last he bethought\\nhimself that he had slept in the arbor that is on the\\nside of the hill and, falling down upon his knees,\\nhe asked God s forgiveness for that his foolish act,\\nand then went back to look for his roll. But all\\nthe way he went back, who can sufficiently set forth\\nthe sorrow of Christian s heart! Sometimes he\\nsighed, sometimes he wept, and oftentimes he chid\\nhimself for being so foolish to fall asleep in that\\nplace, which was erected only for a little refresh-\\nment for his weariness. Thus, therefore, he went\\nback, carefully looking on this side and on that, all\\nthe way as he went, if happily he might find his\\nroll, that had been his comfort so many times in", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRUrS PROGRESS. 67\\nhis journey. He went thus, till he came again\\nwithin sight of the arbor where he sat and slept;\\nbut that sight renewed his sorrow the more, by\\nbringing again, even afresh, his evil of sleeping\\ninto his mind. Thus, therefore, he now went on\\nbewailing his sinful sleep, saying, O wretched man\\nthat I am that I should sleep in the daytime! that\\nI should sleep in the midst of difficulty! that I\\nshould so indulge the flesh, as to use that rest for\\nease to my flesh, which the Lord of the hill hath\\nerected only for the relief of the spirits of pilgrims\\nHow many steps have I took in vain Thus it\\nhappened to Israel, for their sin; they were sent\\nback again by the way of the Red Sea and I am\\nmade to tread those steps with sorrow, which I\\nmight have trod with delight, had it not been for\\nthis sinful sleep. How far might I have been on\\nmy way by this time I am made to tread those\\nsteps thrice over, which I needed not to have trod\\nbut once; yea I am like to be benighted, for the\\nday is almost spent. Oh, that I had not slept\\nNow, by this time he was come to the arbor\\nagain, where for a while he sat down and wept;\\nbut at last, as Christian would have it, looking sor-\\nrowfully down under the settle, there he espied his\\nroll; which he, with trembling and haste, catched\\nup, and put it into his bosom. But who can tell\\nhow joyful this man was when he had gotten his\\nroll again for this roll was the assurance of his life\\nand acceptance at the desired haven. Therefore he\\nlaid it up in his bosom, gave thanks to God for", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "68 THE FILGBUrS PROGRESS.\\ndirecting his eye to the place where it lay, and with\\njoy and tears betook himself again to his journey.\\nBut oh, how nimbly now did he go up the rest of\\nthe hill! Yet, before he got up the sun went down\\nupon Christian and this made him again recall the\\nvanity of his sleeping to his remembrance; and\\nthus he again began to condole with himself. O\\nthou sinful sleep: how, for thy sake am I like to be\\nbenighted in my journey. I must walk without\\nthe sun; darkness must cover the path of my feet;\\nand I must hear the noise of the doleful creatures,\\nbecause of my sinful sleep. Now also he remem-\\nbered the story that Mistrust and Timorous told\\nhim of, how they were frighted with the sight of\\nthe lions. Then said Christian to himself again,\\nThese beasts range in the night for their prey; and\\nif they should meet with me in the dark, how\\nshould I shift them? How should I escape being\\nby them torn in pieces? Thus he went on his way.\\nBut while he was thus bewailing his unhappy mis-\\ncarriage, he lift up his eyes, and behold there was\\na very stately palace before him, the name of which\\nwas Beautiful and it stood by the highway side.\\nSo I saw in my dream that he made haste and\\nwent forward, that if possible he might get lodging\\nthere. Now, before he had gone far, he entered\\ninto a very narrow passage, which was about a fur-\\nlong off of the porter s lodge; and looking very\\nnarrowly before him as he went, he espied two lions\\nin the way. Now, thought he, I see the dangers\\nthat Mistrust and Timorous were driven back by.", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "THE HILL OF DIFFICULTY.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "70 THE PILGRnrS PROGRESS.\\n(The lions were chained, but he saw not the chains.)\\nThen he was afraid, and thought also himself to go\\nback after them, for he thought nothing but death\\nwas before him. But the porter at the lodge,\\nwhose name is Watchful, perceiving that Christian\\nmade a halt as if he would go back, cried unto him,\\nsaying. Is thy strength so small? Fear not the\\nlions, for they are chained, and are placed there for\\ntrial of faith where it is, and for discovery of those\\nthat have none. Keep in the midst of the path, and\\nno hurt shall come unto thee.\\nThen I saw that he went on, trembling for fear\\nof the lions, but taking good heed to the directions\\nof the porter he heard them roar, but they did him\\nno harm. Then he clapped his hands, and went on\\ntill he came and stood before the gate where the\\nporter was. Then said Christian to the porter. Sir,\\nwhat house is this? And may I lodge here to-\\nnight? The porter answered, This house was built\\nby the Lord of the liill, and he built it for the relief\\nand security of pilgrims. The porter also asked\\nwhence he was, and whither he was going.\\nChristian. I am come from the City of Destruc-\\ntion, and am going to Mount Zion but because\\nthe sun is now set, I desire, if I may, to lodge here\\nto-night.\\nPorter. What is your name?\\nMy name is now Christian, but my name at the\\nfirst was Graceless; I came of the race of Japheth,\\nwhom God will persuade to dwell in the tents of\\nShem.", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS. 71\\nPorter, But how doth it happen that you come\\nso late? The sun is set.\\nChristian. I had been here sooner, but that\\nwretched man that I am I slept in the arbor that\\nstands on the hill-side; nay, I had, notwithstanding\\nthat, been here much sooner, but that, in my sleep,\\nI lost my evidence, and came without it to the brow\\nof the hill; and then feeling for it, and finding it\\nnot, I was forced with sorrow of heart to go back\\nto the place where I slept my sleep, where I found\\nit, and now I am come.\\nPorter. Well, I will call out one of the virgins of\\nthis place, who will, if she likes your talk, bring\\nyou in to the rest of the family, according to the\\nrules of the house. So Watchful, the porter, rang\\na bell, at the sound of which came out at the door\\nof the house a grave and beautiful damsel, named\\nDiscretion, and asked why she was called.\\nThe porter answered, This man is on a journey\\nfrom the City of Destruction to Mount Zion, but\\nbeing weary and benighted, he asked me if he might\\nlodge here to-night; so I told him I would call for\\nthee, who, after a discourse had with him, mayest\\ndo as seemeth thee good, even according to the law\\nof the house.\\nThen she asked him whence he was, and whither\\nhe was going; and he told her. She asked him\\nalso how he got into the way and he told her.\\nThen she asked him what he had seen and met with\\nin the way and he told her. And last she asked\\nhis name; so he said, It is Christian, and I have so", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "72 THE PILGRUrS PROGRESS.\\nmuch the more a desire to lodge here to-night, be-\\ncause by what I perceive, this place was built by\\nthe Lord of the hill, for the relief and security of\\npilgrims. So she smiled, but the water stood in her\\neyes; and after a little pause, she said, I will call\\nforth two or three more of the family. So she ran\\nto the door, and called out Prudence, Piety, and\\nCharity, who, after a little more discourse with\\nhim, had him into the family; and many of them,\\nmeeting him at the threshold of the house, said,\\nCome in, thou blessed of the Lord this house was\\nbuilt by the Lord of the hill, on purpose to enter-\\ntain such pilgrims in. Then he bowed his head,\\nand followed them into the house. So when he was\\ncome in and sat down, they gave him something\\nto drink, and consented together, that until supper\\nwas ready, some of them should have some particu-\\nlar discourse with Christian, for the best improve-\\nment of time; and they appointed Piety and Pru-\\ndence and Charity to discourse with him and thus\\nthey began\\nPiety. Come, good Christian, since we have been\\nso loving to you, to receive you in our house this\\nnight, let us, if perhaps we may better ourselves\\nthereby, talk with you of all things that have hap-\\npened to you in your pilgrimage.\\nChristian. With a very good will, and I am glad\\nthat you are so well disposed.\\nPiety. What moved you at first to betake your-\\nself to a pilgrim s life?\\nChristian. I was driven out of my native coun-", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "--fti^^^^^\\nm\\n.w f^^^ ^^\u00e2\u0082\u00ac3^^\\nTHE LIONS WERE CHAINED, BUT HE SAW NOT THE CHAINS.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "74 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\ntry, by a dreadful sound that was in mine ears: to\\nwit, that unavoidable destruction did attend me, if\\nI abode in that place where I was.\\nPiety. But how did it happen that you came out\\nof your country this way?\\nChristian, It was as God would have it; for\\nwhen I was under the fears of destruction, I did\\nnot know whither to go but by chance there came\\na man, even to me, as I was trembling and weep-\\ning, whose name is Evangelist, and he directed me\\nto the wicket-gate which else I should never have\\nfound, and so set me into the way that hath led me\\ndirectly to this house.\\nPiety, But did you not come by the house of the\\nInterpreter?\\nChristian, Yes, and did see such things there,\\nthe remembrance of which will stick by me as long\\nas I live; especially three things; to wit, how\\nChrist, in despite of Satan, maintains his work of\\ngrace in the heart; how the man had sinned him-\\nself quite out of hopes of God s mercy: and also the\\ndream of him that thought in his sleep the day of\\njudgment was come.\\nPiety. Why, did you hear him tell his dream?\\nChristian. Yes, and a dreadful one it was, I\\nthought; it made my heart ache as he was telling\\nof it; but yet I am glad I heard it.\\nPiety: Was that all that you saw?\\nChristian. No; he took me and had me where he\\nshowed me a stately palace, and how the people\\nwere clad in gold that were in it and how there", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "THE PILGBBI S PROGRESS. 75\\ncame a venturous man, and cut his way through\\nthe armed men that stood in the door to keep him\\nout; and how he was bid to come in and win\\neternal glory. Methought those things did ravish\\nmy heart I would have stayed at that good man s\\nhouse a twelvemonth, but that I had further to go.\\nPiety. And what saw you else in the way?\\nChristian. Saw why, I went but a little further,\\nand I saw one, as I thought in my mind, hang\\nbleeding upon the tree; and the very sight of him\\nmade my burden fall off my back (for I groaned\\nunder a very heavy burden), but then it fell down\\nfrom off me. It was a strange thing to me, for I\\nnever saw such a thing before yea, and while I\\nstood looking up, for then I could not forbear look-\\ning, three Shining Ones came to me. One of them\\ntestified that my sins were forgiven me; another\\nstripped me of my rags, and gave me this broidered\\ncoat which you see; and the third set the mark\\nwhich you see in my forehead, and gave me this\\nsealed roll. (And with that he plucked it out of\\nhis bosom.)\\nPiety. But you saw more than this, did you not?\\nChristian. The things that I have told you were\\nthe best yet some other matters I saw, as, namely\\nI saw three men, Simple, Sloth, and Presumption,\\nlie asleep a little out of the way, as I came, with\\nirons upon their heels; but do you think I could\\nawake them? I also saw Formality and Hypocrisy\\ncome tumbling over the wall, to go, as they pre-\\ntended, to Zion, but they were quickly lost, even as", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "76 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nI myself did tell them but they would not believe.\\nBut above all, I found it hard work to get up this\\nhill, and as hard to come by the lions mouths and\\ntruly if it had not been for the good man, the porter\\nthat stands at the gate, I do not know but that\\nafter all I might have gone back again but now,\\nI thank God I am here, and I thank you for receiv-\\ning of me.\\nThen Prudence thought good to ask him a few\\nquestions, and desired his answer to them.\\nPrudence. Do you not think sometimes of the\\ncountry from whence you came?\\nChristian. Yes, but with much shame and detes-\\ntation: truly if I had been mindful of that country\\nfrom whence I came out, I might have had oppor-\\ntunity to have returned but now I desire a better\\ncoimtry, that is, a heavenly.\\nPrudence. Do you not yet bear away with you\\nsome of the things that then you were conversant\\nwithal?\\nChristian. Yes, but greatly against my will;\\nespecially my inward and carnal cogitations, with\\nwhich all my countrymen, as well as myself, were\\ndelighted; but now all those things are my grief;\\nand might I but choose mine own things, I would\\nchoose never to think of those things more; but\\nwhen I would be doing of that which is best, that\\nwhich is worst is with me.\\nPrudence. Do you not find sometimes, as if those\\nthings were vanquished, which at other times are\\nyour perplexity?", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "THIS MAN IS FROM THE CITY OF DESTRUCTION TO MOUNT ZION.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "78 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nChristian. Yes, but that is seldom they are to\\nme golden hours in which such things happen to me.\\nPrudence. Can you remember by what means\\nyou find your annoyances, at times, as if they were\\nvanquished?\\nChristian. Yes, when I think what I saw at the\\ncross, that will do it and when I look upon my\\nbroidered coat, that will do it also when I look\\ninto the roll that I carry in my bosom, that will do\\nit and when my thoughts wax warm about whither\\nI am going, that will do it.\\nPrudence. And what is it that makes you so de-\\nsirous to go to Mount Zion?\\nChristian. Why, there I hope to see him alive\\nthat did hang dead on the cross; and there I hope\\nto be rid of all those things that to this day are in\\nme an annoyance to me; there, they say, there is\\nno death; and there I shall dwell with such com-\\npany as I like best. For, to tell you truth, I love\\nhim, because I was by him eased of my burden\\nand I am weary of my inward sickness. I would\\nfain be where I shall die no more, and with the\\ncompany that shall always cry. Holy, Holy, Holy\\nThen said Charity to Christian, Have you a\\nfamily? Are you a married man?\\nChristian. I have a wife and four small children.\\nCharity. And why did you not bring them along\\nwith you?\\nThen Christian wept, and said, Oh, how willingly\\nwould I have done it! but they were all of them\\nutterly averse to my going on pilgrimage.", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS. 79\\nCharity. But you should have talked to them,\\nand endeavored to have shown them the danger of\\nbeing behind.\\nChristian. So I did and told them also what God\\nhad shown to me of the destruction of our city but\\nI seemed to them as one that mocked, and they\\nbelieved me not.\\nCharity. And did you pray to God that he would\\nbless your counsel to them?\\nChristian. Yes, and that with much affection\\nfor you must think that my wife and poor children\\nwere very dear unto me.\\nCharity. But did you tell them of your own sor-\\nrow, and fear of destruction? for I suppose that de-\\nstruction was visible enough to you.\\nChristian. Yes, over, and over, and over. They\\nmight also see my fears in my countenance, in my\\ntears, and also in my trembling under the apprehen-\\nsion of the judgment that did hang over our heads;\\nbut all was not sufficient to prevail with them to\\ncome with me.\\nCharity. But what could they say for themselves,\\nwhy they came not?\\nChristian. Why, my wife was afraid of losing\\nthis world, and my children w^ere given to the fool-\\nish delights of youth so what by one thing, and\\nwhat by another, they left me to wander in this\\nmanner alone.\\nCharity. But did you not, with your vain life,\\ndamp all that you by words used by way of persua-\\nsion to bring them away with you?", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "80 THE PILGBBI S PROGRESS.\\nChristian. Indeed, I cannot commend my life;\\nfor I am conscious to myself of many failings\\nthei ein I know also that a man by his conversa-\\ntion may soon overthrow, what by argument or\\npersuasion he doth labor to fasten upon others for\\ntheir good. Yet this I can say, I was very wary of\\ngiving them occasion, by any unseemly action, to\\nmake them averse to going on pilgrimage. Yea,\\nfor this very thing they would tell me I was too\\nprecise, and that I denied myself of things, for their\\nsakes, in which they saw no evil. Nay, I think I\\nmay say, that if what they saw in me did hinder\\nthem, it was my great tenderness in sinning against\\nGod, or of doing any wrong to my neighbor.\\nCharity. Indeed Cain hated his brother, because\\nhis own works were evil, and his brother s right-\\neous and if thy wife and children have been offended\\nwith thee for this, they thereby show themselves to\\nbe implacable to good, and thou hast delivered thy\\nsoul from their blood.\\nNow I saw in my dream, that thus they sat talk-\\ning together until supper was ready. So when they\\nhad made ready, they sat down to meat. Now the\\ntable was furnished with fat things, and with wine\\nthat was well refined and all their talk at the table\\nwas about the Lord of the hill; as, namely, about\\nwhat he had done, wherefore he did what he did,\\nand why he had builded that house. And by what\\nthey said, I perceived that he had been a great\\nwarrior, and had fought with and slain him that\\nhad the power of death, but not without great", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "THEY READ TO HIM.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "82 THE PlLGRUrS PROGRESS.\\ndanger to himself, which made me love him the\\nmore.\\nFor, as they said, and as I believe (said Chris\\ntian), he did it with the loss of much blood; but\\nthat which put glory of grace into all he did was,\\nthat he did it out of pure love to his country. And\\nbesides, there were some of them of the household\\nthat said they had been and spoke with him since\\nhe did die on the cross; and they have attested that\\nthey had it from his own lips, that he is such a lover\\nof poor pilgrims, that the like is not to be found\\nfrom the east to the west.\\nThey, moreover, gave an instance of what they\\naffirmed, and that was, he had stripped himself of\\nhis glory, that he might do this for the poor; and\\nthat they heard him say and affirm that he would\\nnot dwell in the mountain of Zion alone. They\\nsaid, moreover, that he had made raanj pilgrims\\nprinces, though by nature they were beggars born,\\nand their original had been the dunghill.\\nThus they discoursed together till late at night\\nand after they had committed themselves to their\\nLord for protection, they betook themselves to rest:\\nthe pilgrim they laid in a large upper chamber,\\nwhose window opened toward the sun-rising: the\\nname of the chamber was Peace where he slept till\\nbreak of day.\\nSo in the morning they all got up; and, after\\nsome more discourse, they told him that he should\\nnot depart till they had shown him the rarities of\\nthat place. And first they had him into the study.", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "THE PlLGRUrS PROGRESS. 83\\nwhere they showed him records of the greatest an-\\ntiquity; in which, as I remember my dream, they\\nshowed him first the pedigree of the Lord of the\\nhill, that he was the son of the Ancient of Days,\\nand came by that eternal generation. Here also\\nwas more fully recorded the acts that he had done,\\nand the names of many hundreds that he had taken\\ninto his service; and how he had placed them in\\nsuch habitations, that could neither by length of\\ndays, nor decays of nature, be dissolved.\\nThen they read to him some of the worthy acts\\nthat some of his servants had done as, how they\\nhad subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness,\\nobtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,\\nquenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of\\nthe sword, out of weakness were made strong,\\nwaxed valiant in fight, and turned to flight the\\narmies of the aliens. They then read again, in\\nanother part of the records of the house, where it\\nwas showed how wiUing their Lord was to receive\\ninto his favor any, even any, though they in time\\npast had offered great affronts to his person and\\nproceedings.\\nThe next day they took him and had him into\\nthe armory, where they showed him all manner of\\nfurniture, which their Lord had provided for pil-\\ngrims, as sword, shield, helmet, breastplate, all-\\nprayer, and shoes that would not wear out. And\\nthere was here enough of this to harness out as\\nmany men for the service of their Lord as there be\\nstars in the heaven for multitude. They also", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "84 THE PILORUrS PROGRESS.\\nshowed him some of the engines with which some\\nof his servants had done wonderful things. They\\nshowed him Moses rod the hammer and nail with\\nwhich Jael slew Sisera; the pitchers, trumpets, and\\nlamps too, with which Gideon put to flight the\\narmies of Midian. Then they showed him the ox s\\ngoad wherewith Shamgar slew six hundred men.\\nThey showed him also the jaw-bone with which\\nSamson did such mighty feats. They showed him,\\nmoreover, the sling and stone with which David\\nslew Goliath of Gath and the sword, also, with\\nwhich their Lord will kill the Man of Sin, in the\\nday that he shall rise up to the prey. They showed\\nhim, besides, many excellent things, with which\\nChristian was much delighted. This done, they\\nwent to their rest again.\\nThen I saw in my dream, that on the morrow he\\ngot up to go forward but they desired him to stay\\ntill the next day also and then, said they, we will,\\nif the day be clear, show you the Delectable Moun-\\ntains, which, they said, would yet further add to\\nhis comfort, because they were nearer the desired\\nhaven than the place where at present he was; so\\nhe consented and stayed. When the morning was\\nup, they had him to the top of the house, and bid\\nhim look south; so he did: and behold, at a great\\ndistance, he saw a most pleasant mountainous\\ncountry, beautiful with woods, vineyards, fruits of\\nall sorts, flowers also, with springs and fountains,\\nvery delectable to behold. Then he asked the name\\nof the country. They said it was Immanuel s", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS. 85\\nLand; and it is as common, said they, as this hill\\nis, to and for all the pilgrims. And when thou\\ncomest there from thence, said they, thou mayest\\nsee to the gate of the Celestial City, as the shep-\\nherds that live there will make appear.\\nNow he bethought himself of setting forward,\\nand they were willing he should. But first, said\\nthey, let us go again into the armory. So they did\\nand when they came there, they harnessed him from\\nhead to foot with what was of proof, lest, perhaps,\\nhe should meet with assaults on the way. He be-\\ning, therefore, thus accoutred, walketh out with his\\nfriends to the gate and there he asked the porter\\nif he saw any pilgrim pass by. Then the porter\\nanswered, Yes.\\nChristian. Pray, did you know him? said he.\\nPorter. I asked him his name, and he told me it\\nwas Faithful.\\nChristian. I know him; he is my townsman, my\\nnear neighbor; he comes from the place where I\\nwas born. How far do you think he may be before?\\nPorter. He is got by this time below the hill.\\nChristian. Well, good Porter, the Lord be with\\nthee, and add to all thy blessings much increase,\\nfor the kindness that thou hast showed to me.\\nThen he began to go forward but Discretion,\\nPiety, Charity, and Prudence would accompany\\nhim down to the foot of the hill. So they went on\\ntogether, reiterating their former discourses, till\\nthey came to go down the hill. Then said Chris-\\ntian. As it was difficult coming up, so, so far as I", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "86 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\ncan see, it is dangerous going clown. Yes, said\\nPrudence, so it is, for it is a hard matter for a man\\nto go down into the Valley of Humiliation, as thou\\nart now, and to catch no slip by the way there-\\nfore, said they, are we come out to accompany thee\\ndown the hill. So he began to go down, but very\\nwarily; yet he caught a slip or two.\\nThen I saw in my dream that these good com-\\npanions, when Christian was gone to the bottom of\\nthe hill, gave him a loaf of bread, a bottle of wine,\\nand a cluster of raisins and then he went on his\\nway.\\nBut now, in this Valley of Humiliation, jDoor\\nChristian was hard put to it; for he had gone but\\na little way, before he espied a foul fiend coming\\nover the field to meet him; his name is Apoll3^on.\\nThen did Christian begin to be afraid, and to cast\\nin his mind whether to go back or to stand his\\nground. But he considered again that he had no\\narmor for his back and therefore thought that to\\nturn the back to him might give him the greater\\nadvantage with ease to pierce him with his darts.\\nTherefore he resolved to venture and stand his\\nground for, thought he, had I no more in mine\\neye than the saving of my life, it would be the best\\nway to stand.\\nSo he went on, and Apollyon met him. Now\\nthe monster was hideous to behold he was clothed\\nwith scales, like a fish (and they are his pride), he\\nhad wings like a dragon, teet like a bear, and out\\nof his belly came fire and smoke, and his mouth", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRBI S PROGRESS. 87\\nwas as the month of a lion. When he was come\\nnp to Christian, he beheld him with a disdainful\\ncountenance, and thus began to question with him.\\nApollyon. Whence came you and whither are\\nyou bound?\\nChristian. I am come from the City of Destruc-\\ntion, which is the place of all evil, and am going to\\nthe City of Zion.\\nApollyon. By this I perceive that thou art one of\\nmy subjects, for all that country is mine, and I am\\nthe prince and god of it. How is it, then, that\\nthou hast run away from thy king? Were it not\\nthat I hope thou mayest do me more service, I\\nwould strike thee now, at one blow to the ground.\\nChristian. I was born, indeed, in your dominions,\\nbut your service was hard, and your wages such as\\na man could not live on, for the wages of sin is\\ndeath therefore, when I was come to years, I did\\nas other considerate persons do, look out, if, per-\\nhaps, I might mend myself.\\nApollyon. There is no prince that will thus\\nlightly lose his subjects, neither will I as yet lose\\nthee but since thou complainest of thy service and\\nwages, be content to go back; what our country\\nwill afford, I promise to give thee.\\nChristian. But I have let myself to another, even\\nto the King of princes; and how can I, with fair-\\nness, go back with thee?\\nApollyon. Thou hast done in this, according to\\nthe proverb, Changed a bad for a worse but those\\nthat have professed themselves his servants, after\\n6", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "88 THE PILGHni S PBOGRESS.\\na while give him the slip, and return again to me.\\nDo thou so too, and all shall be well.\\nChristian. I have given him my faith, and sworn\\nmy allegiance to him; how, then, can I go back\\nfrom this, and not be hanged as a traitor?\\nApollyon. Thou didst the same to me, and yet I\\nam willing to pass by all, if now thou wilt yet turn\\nagain and go back.\\nChristian. What I promised thee was in my\\nnonage; and, besides, I count the Prince under\\nwhose banner now I stand is able to absolve me;\\nyea, and to pardon also what I did with thee and\\nbesides, thou destroying Apollyon to speak truth,\\nI like his service, his wages, his servants, his gov-\\nernment, his company and country, better than\\nthine; and, therefore, leave off to persuade me\\nfurther; I am his servant and I will follow him.\\nApollyon. Thou hast already been unfaithful in\\nthy service to him; and how dost thou think to\\nreceive wages of him?\\nChristian. Wherein, O Apollyon! have I been\\nunfaithful to him?\\nApollyon. Thou didst faint at first setting out,\\nwhen thou wast almost choked in the Gulf of De-\\nspond thou didst attempt wrong ways to be rid of\\nthy burden, whereas thou shouldst have stayed till\\nthy Prince had taken it off; thou didst sinfully\\nsleep and lose thy choice thing; thou wast, also,\\nalmost persuaded to go back, at the sight of the\\nlions; and when thou talkest of thy journey, and of\\nwhat thou hast heard and seen, thou art inwardly", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "CHRISTIAN GIVES THANKS.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "90 THI^ PILGRBI S PROGRESS.\\ndesirous of vainglory in all that thou sayest or\\ndoest.\\nChristian. All this is true, and much more which\\nthou hast left out but the Prince whom I serve\\nand honor is merciful, and ready to forgive; but,\\nbesides, these infirmities possessed me in thy coun-\\ntry, for there I sucked them in and I have groaned\\nimder them, been sorrry for them, and have ob-\\ntained jjardon of my Prince,\\nThen Apollyon broke out into a grievous rage,\\nsaying, I am an enemy to this Prince; I hate his\\nperson, his laws, and people; I am come out on\\njDurpose to withstand thee,\\nCHRisriAN. Apollyon, beware what 3 ou do; fori\\nam in the king s highway, the way of holiness;\\ntherefore take heed to yourself.\\nThen Apollyon straddled quite over the whole\\nbreadth of the way, and said, I am void of fear in\\nthis matter prepare thyself to die for I swear by\\nmy infernal den, that thou shalt go no further;\\nhere will I spill thy soul. And with that he threw\\na flaming dart at his breast; but Christian had a\\nshield in his hand, with which he caught it, and so\\njjrevented the danger of that.\\nThen did Christian draw, for he saw it was time\\nto bestir him and AjDollyon as fast made at him,\\nthrowing darts as thick as hail; by the which, not-\\nwithstanding all that Christian could do to avoid\\nit, Apollyon wounded him in his head, his hand,\\nand foot. This made Christian give a little back\\nApollyon, therefore, followed his work amain, and", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRUrS PROGRESS. 91\\nChristian again took courage, and resisted as man-\\nfully as he could. This sore combat lasted for\\nabove half a day, till Christian was quite spent; for\\nyou must know that Christian, by reason of his\\nwounds, must needs grow weaker and weaker.\\nThen Apollyon began to gather up close to Chris-\\ntian, and wrestling with him, gave him a dreadful\\nfall; and with that Christian s sword flew out of\\nhis hand. Then said Apollyon, I am sure of thee\\nnow. And with that he had almost pressed him to\\ndeath, so that Christian began to despair of life:\\nbut as God would have it, while Apollyon was\\nfetching of his last blow, thereby to make a full\\nend of this good man, Christian nimbly stretched\\nout his hand for his sword, and caught it, saying,\\nEejoice not against me, O mine enemy when I fall\\nI shall arise; and with that gave him a deadly\\nthrust, which made him give back, as one that had\\nreceived his mortal wound. Christian perceiving\\nthat, made at him again, saying, Nay, in all these\\nthings we are more than conquerors through him\\nthat loved us. And with that Apollyon sj^read\\nforth his dragon s wings, and sped him away, that\\nChristian for a season saw him no more.\\nIn this combat no man can imagine, unless he\\nhad seen and heard as I did, what yelling and hid-\\neous roaring Apollyon made all the time of the fight\\nhe spake like a dragon; and, on the other side,\\nwhat sighs and groans burst from Christian s heart.\\nI never saw him all the while give so much as one\\npleasant look, till he perceived he had wounded", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "92 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nApollyon with his two-edged sword; then, iDdeed,\\nhe did smile, and look upward but it was the dread-\\nfulest sight that ever I saw. So when the battle\\nwas over, Christian said, I will here give thanks to\\nhim that delivered me out of the mouth of the lion,\\nto him that did help me against Apollyon.\\nThen there came to him a hand, with some of\\nthe leaves of the tree of life, the which Christian\\ntook, and applied to the wounds that he had re-\\nceived in the battle, and was healed immediately.\\nHe also sat down in that place to eat bread, and to\\ndrink of the bottle that was given him a little be-\\nfore; so, being refreshed, he addressed himself to\\nhis journey, with his sword drawn in his hand for\\nhe said, I know not but some other enemy may be\\nat hand. But he met with no other affront from\\nApollyon quite through this valley.\\nNow, at the end of this valley was another, called\\nthe Valley of the Shadow of Death, and Christian\\nmust needs go through it, because the way to the\\nCelestial City lay through the midst of it. Now,\\nthis valley is a very solitary place. The prophet\\nJeremiah thus describes it: A wilderness, a land of\\ndeserts and of pits, a land of drought, and of the\\nshadow of death, a land that no man (but a Chris-\\ntian) passed through, and where no man dwelt.\\nNow here Christian was worse put to it than in\\nhis fight with Apollyon as you shall see.\\nI saw then in my dream, that when Christian\\nwas got to the borders of the Shadow of Death,\\nthere met him two men, children of them that", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "ONE OF THE IMPS HISSED IN HIS EAR.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "94 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nbrought up an evil report of the good land, making\\nhaste to go back to whom Christian spake as\\nfollows\\nChristian. Whither are you going?\\nMen. Back back and we would have you to do\\nso too, if life or peace is prized by you.\\nChristian. Why, what s the matter?\\nMen. Matter! we were going that way as you\\nare going, and went as far as we durst; and indeed\\nwe were almost past coming back for had we gone\\na little farther we had not been here to bring the\\nnews to thee.\\nChristian. But what have you met with?\\nMen. Why, we were almost in the Valley of the\\nShadow of Death; but that, by good hap, we looked\\nbefore us, and saw the danger before we came\\nto it.\\nChristian. But what have you seen?\\nMen. Seen Why, the Valley itself, which is as\\ndark as pitch we also saw there the hobgoblins,\\nsatyrs, and dragons of the pit; we heard also in\\nthat Valley a continual howling and yelling, as of\\na people under unutterable misery, who there sat\\nbound in affliction and irons and over that Valley\\nhang the discouraging clouds of confusion. Death\\nalso doth always spread his wings over it. In a\\nword, it is dreadful, being utterly without order.\\nChristian. I perceive not yet, by what you have\\nsaid, but that this is my way to the desired haven.\\nMen. Be it thy way; we will not choose it for\\nours. So they parted, and Christian went on his", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRBl S PROGRESS. 95\\nway, bnt still with his sword drawn in his hand,\\nfor fear lest he should be assaulted.\\nI saw then in my dream so far as this valley\\nreached, there was on the right hand a very deep\\nditch that ditch is it into which the blind have\\nled the blind in all ages, and both have there miser-\\nably perished. Again, behold, on the left hand,\\nthere was a very dangerous quag, into which, if\\neven a good man falls, he can find no bottom for\\nhis foot to stand on. Into that quag king David\\nonce did fall, and had no doubt therein been smoth-\\nered, had not PIe that is able plucked him out.\\nThe pathway was here also exceedingly narrow,\\nand therefore good Christian was the more put to\\nit; for when he sought, in the dark, to shun the\\nditch on the one hand, he was ready to tip over\\ninto the mire on the other; also when he sought\\nto escape the mire, without great carefulness he\\nwould be ready to fall into the ditch. Thus he\\nwent on, and I heard him here sigh bitterly for,\\nbesides the dangers mentioned above, the pathway\\nwas here so dark, that ofttimes, when he lift up\\nhis foot to set forward, he knew not where or upon\\nwhat he should set it next.\\nAbout the midst of this valley, I perceived the\\nmouth of hell to be, and it stood also hard by the\\nway-side. Now, thought Christian, what shall I\\ndo? And ever and anon the flame and smoke\\nwould come out in such abundance, with sparks\\nand hideous noises (things that cared not for Chris-\\ntian s sword, as did Apollyon before), that he was", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "96 THE PILGRUrS PROGRESS.\\nforced to put up his sword, and betake himself to\\nanother weapon called All-prayer. So he cried in\\nmy hearing, O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my\\nsoul! Thus he went on a great while, yet still the\\nflames would be reaching towards him. Also he\\nheard doleful voices, and rushings to and fro, so\\nthat sometimes he thought he should be torn in\\npieces, or trodden down like mire in the streets.\\nThis frightful sight was seen and these dreadful\\nnoises were heard by him for several miles together;\\nand, coming to a place where he thought he heard\\na company of fiends coming forward to meet him,\\nhe stopped, and began to muse what he had best to\\ndo. Sometimes he had half a thought to go back\\nthen again he thought he might be half way\\nthrough the valley; he remembered also how he\\nhad already vanquished many a danger, and that\\nthe danger of going back might be much more than\\nfor to go forward; so he resolved to goon. Yet\\nthe fiends seemed to come nearer and nearer but\\nwhen they were come even almost at him, he cried\\nout with a most vehement voice, I will walk in the\\nstrength of the Lord God so they gave back, and\\ncame no further.\\nOne thing I would not let slip I took notice that\\nnow poor Christian was so confounded, that he did\\nnot know his own voice and thus I perceived it.\\nJust when he was come over against the mouth of\\nthe burning pit, one of the wicked ones got behind\\nhim, and stepped up softly to him, and whisperingly\\nsuggested many grievous blasphemies to him, which", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "FAITHFUL CAME TO HELP HIM.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "08 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS,\\nhe verily thought had proceeded from his own mind.\\nThis put Christian more to it than anything that\\nhe met with before, even to think that he should\\nnow blaspheme him that he loved so much before\\nyet if he could have helped it, he would not have\\ndone it; but he had not the discretion either to stop\\nhis ears, or to know from whence these blasphemies\\ncame.\\nWhen Christian had travelled in this disconsolate\\ncondition some considerable time, he thought he\\nheard the voice of a man, as going before him, say-\\ning, Though I walk through the valley of the\\nshadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art\\nwith me.\\nThen he was glad, and that for these reasons:\\nFirst, Because he gathered from thence, that some\\nwho feared God were in this valley as well as him-\\nself. Secondly^ For that he perceived God was\\nwith them, though in that dark and dismal state;\\nand why not, thought he, with me? though, by\\nreason of the impediment that attends this place,\\nI cannot perceive it, TliircUy, For that he hoped,\\ncould he overtake them, to have company by and\\nby. So he went on, and called to him that was be-\\nfore; but he knew not what to answer; for that he\\nalso thought himself to be alone. And by and by\\nthe day broke; then said Christian, He hath turned\\nthe shadow of death into the morning.\\nIn this light, therefore, he came to the end of the\\nvalley. Now I saw in my dream, that at the end\\nof this valley lay blood, bones, ashes, and mangled", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS. 99\\nbodies of men, even of pilgrims that had gone this\\nway formerly and while I was musing what should\\nbe the reason, I espied a little before me a cave,\\nwhere two giants. Pope and Pagan, dwelt in old\\ntime by whose power and tyranny the men whose\\nbones, blood, ashes, etc., lay there, were cruelly put\\nto death. But by this place Christian went without\\nmuch danger, whereat I somewhat wondered but\\nI have learnt since, that Pagan has been dead many\\na day and as for the other, though he be yet alive,\\nhe is, by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd\\nbrushes that he met with in his younger days,\\ngrown so crazy and stiff in his joints, that he can\\nnow do little more than sit in his cave s mouth\\ngrinning at pilgrims as they go by, and biting his\\nnails because he cannot come at them.\\nSo I saw that Christian went on his way yet,\\nat the sight of the Old Man that sat in the mouth\\nof the cave, he could not tell what to think, espe-\\ncially because he spake to them, though he could\\nnot go after him, saying. You will never mend till\\nmore of you be burned. But he held his peace, and\\nso went by and caught no hurt.\\nAs he went on his way, he came to a little ascent,\\nwhich was cast up on purpose that pilgrims might\\nsee before them. Up there, therefore, Christian\\nwent, and looking forward, he saw Faithful before\\nhim, upon his journey. Then said Christian aloud,\\nHo ho Soho I stay, and I will be your companion\\nAt that. Faithful looked behind him; to whom\\n^Christian cried again, Stay, stay, till I come up to", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "100 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nyou. But Faithful answered, No, I am upon my\\nlife, and the avenger of blood is behind me.\\nAt this. Christian was somewhat moved, and\\nputting to all his strength, he quickly got up with\\nFaithful, and did also overrun him so the last was\\nfirst. Then did Christian vain-gloriously smile,\\nbecause he had gotten the start of his brother but\\nnot taking good heed to his feet, he suddenly\\nstumbled and fell, and could not rise again until\\nFaithful came up to help him.\\nThen I saw in my dream they went very lovingly\\non together, and had sweet discourse of all things\\nthat had happened to them in their pilgrimage;\\nand thus Christian began: My honored and well-\\nbeloved brother, Faithful, I am glad that I have\\novertaken you and that God has so tempered our\\nspirits, that we can walk in so pleasant a path.\\nFaithful. I had thought to have had your com-\\npany quite far from our town but you did get the\\nstart of me, wherefore I was forced to come thus\\nmuch of the way alone.\\nChristian. How long did you stay in the City of\\nDestruction, before you set out after me?\\nFaithful, Till I could stay no longer; for there\\nwas great talk presently after you were gone out,\\nthat our city would in a short time, with fire from\\nheaven, be burned down to the ground.\\nChristian. What! did your neighbors talk so?\\nFaithful. Yes, it was in everybody s mouth.\\nChristian. What! and did no more of them but\\nyou come out to escape the danger?", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS. 101\\nFaithful. Though there was, as I said, a great\\ntalk thereabout, yet I do not think they did firmly\\nbelieve it. For in the heat of the discourse, I heard\\nsome of them deridingly speak of you and of your\\ndesperate journey (for so they called this your pil-\\ngrimage), but I did believe, and do still, that the\\nend of our city will be with fire and brimstone from\\nabove; and therefore I have made my escape.\\nChristian. Did you hear no talk of Pliable?\\nFaithful. Yes, Christian, I heard that he fol-\\nlowed you till he came at the Slough of Despond,\\nwhere, as some said, he fell in; but he would not\\nbe known to have so done but I am sure he was\\nsoundly bedabbled with that kind of dirt.\\nChristian. And what said the neighbors to him?\\nFaithful. He hath, since his going back, been\\nheld greatly in derision, and that among all sorts of\\npeople some do mock and despise him and scarce\\nwill any set him on work. He is now worse than\\nif he had never gone out of the city.\\nChristian. But why should they be so set against\\nhim, since they also despise the way that he forsook?\\nFaithful. Oh, they say, hang him, he is a turn-\\ncoat he was not true to his profession. I think\\nGod has stirred up even his enemies to hiss at him,\\nbecause he hath forsaken the way.\\nChristian. Had you no talk with him before you\\ncame out?\\nFaithful. I met him once in the streets, but he\\nleered away on the other side, as one ashamed of\\nwhat he had done so I spake not to him.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "102 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nChrtstian. Well, at my first setting out, I had\\nhopes of that man but now I fear he will perish in\\nthe overthrow of the city for it is happened to him\\naccording to the true proverb, The dog is turned to\\nhis own vomit again and the sow that was washed,\\nto her wallowing in the mire.\\nFaithful. These are my fears of him too; but\\nwho can hinder that which will be?\\nChristian. Well, neighbor Faithful, let us leave\\nhim, and talk of things that more immediately\\nconcern ourselves. Tell me now what .you have\\nmet with in the way as you came for I know you\\nhave met with some things, or else it may be writ\\nfor a wonder.\\nFaithful. I escaped the Slough that I perceived\\nyou fell into, and got up to the gate without that\\ndanger. When I came to the foot of the hill called\\nDifficulty, I met with a very aged man, who asked\\nme what I was, and whither bound. I told him\\nthat I am a pilgrim, going to the Celestial City.\\nHe said. Thou lookest like an honest fellow; wilt\\nthou be content to dwell with me for the wages that\\nI shall give thee? Then I asked him his name, and\\nwhere he dwelt. He said his name was Adam the\\nFirst, and that he dwelt in the town of Deceit. I\\nasked him then what was his work, and what the\\nwages that he would give. He told me, that his\\nwork was many delights; and his wages, that I\\nshould be his heir at last. I further asked him\\nwhat house he kept, and what other servants he\\nhad. So he told me, that his house was maintained", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRBI S PROGRESS. lOa\\nwith all the dainties in the world and that his ser-\\nvants were those of his own begetting. Then I\\nasked if he had any children. He said that he had\\nbut three daughters: the Lust of the Flesh, the\\nLust of the Eyes, and the Pride of Life, and that I\\nshould marry them all if I would. Then I asked\\nhow long time he would have me live with him?\\nAnd he told me, As long as he lived himself. At\\nfirst, I found myself somewhat inclined to go with\\nthe man, but looking in his forehead I saw there\\nwritten, Put off the old man with his deeds.\\nChristian. And how then?\\nFaithful. Then it came into my mind, whatever\\nhe said, and however he flattered, when he got me\\nhome to his house he would sell me for a slave. So\\nI bid him cease to talk, for I would not come near\\nthe door of his house. He reviled me, and told me\\nthat he would send such a one after me, that should\\nmake my way bitter to my soul. So I turned to\\ngo awa} from him; but just as I turned myself to\\ngo thence, I felt him take hold of my flesh, and\\ngive me such a deadly twitch back, that I thought\\nhe had pulled part of me after himself. This made\\nme cry, Oh, wretched man So I went on my way\\nup the hill. Now when I had got about half-way\\nup, I looked behind, and saw one coming after me,\\nswift as the wind so he overtook me just about\\nthe place where the settle stands.\\nChristian. Just there did I sit down to rest me;\\nbut being overcome with sleep, I there lost this roll\\nout of my bosom.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "104 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nFaithful. But, good brother, hear me out. So\\nsoon as the man overtook me, he was but a word\\nand a blow, for down he knocked me, and laid me\\nfor dead. But when I was a little come to myself\\nagain, I asked him wherefore he served me so.\\nHe said, because of my secret inclining to Adam\\nthe First: and with that he struck me another\\ndeadly blow on the breast, and beat me down back-\\nward so I lay at his foot as dead as before. So,\\nwhen I came to myself again, I cried him mercy\\nbut he said, I know not how to show mercy and\\nwith that knocked me down again. He had doubt-\\nless made an end of me, but that one came by, and\\nbid him cease.\\nChristian. Who was that that bid him cease?\\nFaithful. I did not know Him at first, but as he\\nwent by, I perceived the holes in His hands and in\\nHis side; then I concluded that He was our Lord.\\nSo I went up the hill.\\nChristian. That man that overtook you was\\nMoses. He spareth none, neither knoweth he how\\nto show mercy to those that transgress his law.\\nFaithful. I know it very well it was not the\\nfirst time that he has met with me. It was he that\\ncame to me when I dwelt securely at home, and\\nthat told me he would burn my house over my head\\nif I stayed there.\\nChristian. But did you not see the house that\\nstood there on the top of the hill, on the side of\\nwhich Moses met you?\\nFaithful. Yes, and the lions too, before I came", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "A MAN WHOSE NAME IS TALKATIVE.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "106 THE PlLGRnrS PROGRESIS.\\nat it: but for the lions, I think they were asleep,\\nfor it was about noon and because I had so much\\nof the day before me, I passed by the j^orter, and\\ncame down the hill.\\nChristian. He told me, indeed, that he saw you\\n^o by, but I wished you had called at the house,\\nfor they would have showed you so many rarities,\\nthat you would scarce have forgot them to the day\\nof your death. But pray tell me, Did you meet\\nnobody in the Valley of Humility\\nFaithful. Yes, I met with one Discontent who\\nwould willingly have persuaded me to go back\\nagain with him; his reason was for that the valley\\nwas altogether without honor. He told me, more-\\nover, that there to go was the way to disobey\\nall my friends, as Pride, Arrogancy, Self-conceit,\\nWorldly-glory, with others, who, he knew, as he\\nsaid, would be very much offended, if I made such\\na fool of myself as to wade through this valley.\\nChristian. Met you with nothing else in that\\nv^alley?\\nFaithful. Yes, I met with Shame; but of all the\\nmen that I met with in my pilgrimage, he, I think,\\nbears the wrong name. The others would be said\\nnay, after a little argument, and somewhat else;\\nbut this bold-faced Shame would never have done.\\nChristian. Why, what did he say to you?\\nFaithful. What! why, he objected against re-\\nligion itself; he said it was a pitiful, low, sneaking\\nbusiness for a man to mind religion he said that\\na tender conscience was an unmanly thing; and", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRBI S PROGRESS. 107\\nthat for a man to watch over his words and ways,\\nso as to tie up himself from that hectoring liber-\\nty that the brave spirits of the times accustom\\nthemselves unto, would make him the ridicule of\\nthe times. He objected also, that but few of the\\nmighty, rich, or wise, were ever of my opinion;\\nnor any of them neither, before they were persuaded\\nto be fools, and to be of a voluntary fondness, to\\nventure the loss of all, for nobody knows what.\\nHe, moreover, objected the base and low estate and\\ncondition of those that were chiefly the pilgrims, of\\nthe times in which they lived also their ignorance\\nand want of understanding in all natural science.\\nChristian, I am glad, my brother, that thou didst\\nwithstand this villain so bravely.\\nFaithful. I think we must cry to Him for help\\nagainst Shame, who would have us to be valiant\\nfor the truth upon the earth.\\nChristian, You say true but did you meet no-\\nbody else in that valley?\\nFaithful, No, not I for I had sunshine all the\\nrest of the way through that, and also through the\\nValley of the Shadow of Death,\\nChristian. It was well for you. I am sure it\\nfared far otherwise with me; I had for a long sea-\\nson, as soon almost as I entered into that valley, a\\ndreadful combat with that foul fiend Apollyon yea,\\nI thought verily he would have killed me, especially\\nwhen he got me down and crushed me under him,\\nas if he would have crushed me to pieces for as he\\nthrew me, my sword flew out of my hand nay, he", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "108 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\ntold me he was sure of me but I cried to God, and\\nHe heard me, and delivered me out of all my\\ntroubles. Then I entered into the Valley of the\\nShadow of Death, and had no light for almost half\\nthe way through it. I thought I should have been\\nkilled there over and over but at last day broke,\\nand the sun rose, and I went through that Wxiich\\nwas behind with far more ease and quiet.\\nMoreover, I saw in my dream, that as they went\\non. Faithful, as he chanced to look on one side, saw\\na man whose name is Talkative walking at a dis-\\ntance beside them; for in this place there was room\\nenough for them all to walk. He was a tall man,\\nand something more comely at a distance than at\\nhand. To this man Faithful addressed himself in\\nthis manner:\\nFaithful. Friend, are you going to the heavenly\\ncountry?\\nTalkative. I am going to the same place.\\nFaithful. That is well then I hope we may have\\nyour good company.\\nTalkative. I shall be glad to be your companion.\\nFaithful. Come on, then, and let us go together,\\nand let us spend our time in discoursing of things\\nthat are profitable.\\nTalkative. To talk of things that are good, to me\\nis very acceptable, with you or with any other; and\\nI am glad that I have met with those that incline to\\nso good a work; for, to speak the truth, there are\\nbut few that care thus to spend their time as they\\nare in their travels, but choose much rather to be", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": ".2", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "no THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nspeaking of things to no profit; and this hath been\\na trouble to me.\\nFaithful. That is indeed a thing to be lamented\\nfor what things so worthy of the use of the tongue\\nand mouth of men on earth as are the things of\\nthe God of heaven?\\nTalkative. I like you wonderful well, for your\\nsayings are full of conviction; and I will add, what\\nthing is so pleasant, and what so profitable, as to\\ntalk of the things of God? What things so pleas-\\nant (that is, if man hath any delight in things that\\nare wonderful) For instance, if a man doth de-\\nlight to talk of the history or the mystery of things;\\nor if a man doth love to talk of miracles, wonders,\\nor signs, where shall he find things recorded so\\ndelightful, and so sweetly penned, as in the Holy\\nScripture?\\nFaithful. That is true but to be profited by such\\nthings in our talk should be that which we design.\\nTalkative. That is it that I said for to talk of\\nsuch things is most profitable; for by so doing a\\nman may get knowledge of many things: as of the\\nvanity of earthly things, and the benefit of things\\nabove. Thus, in general, but more particularly by\\nthis, a man may learn the necessity of the new\\nbirth, the insufficiency of our works, the need of\\nChrist s righteousness, etc. Besides, by this a man\\nmay learn, by talk, what it is to repent, to believe,\\nto pray, to suffer, or the like; by this also a man\\nmay learn what are the great promises and consola-\\ntions of the gospel, to his own comfort. Further,", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS. Ill\\nby this a man may learn to refute false opinions,\\nto vindicate the truth, and also to instruct the\\nignorant.\\nFaithful. All this is true, and glad am I to hear\\nthese things from you.\\nTalkative, Alas the want of this is the cause\\nwhy so few understand the need of faith, and the\\nnecessity of a work of grace in their soul, in order\\nto eternal life; but ignorantly live in the works of\\nthe law, by which a man can by no means obtain\\nthe kingdom of heaven.\\nFaithful. By your leave, heavenly knowledge of\\nthese is the gift of God no man obtaineth them by\\nhuman industry, or only by the talk of them.\\nTalkative. All this I know very well for a man\\ncan receive nothing, except it be given him from\\nheaven all is of grace, not of works. I could give\\nyou a hundred scriptures to confirm this.\\nFaithful. Well, then, what is that one thing that\\nwe shall at this time found our discourse upon?\\nTalkative. What you will. I will talk of things\\nheavenly, or things earthly; things moral, or things\\nevangelical; things sacred, or things profane;\\nthings past, or things to come; things foreign, or\\nthings at home things more essential, or circum-\\nstantial provided that all be done to our profit.\\nNow did Faithful begin to wonder; and stepping\\nto Christian (for he walked all this while by him-\\nself), he said to him (but softly), What a brave\\ncompanion have we got Surely this man will make\\na very excellent pilgrim.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "112 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nAt this Christian modestly smiled, and said, This\\nman, with whom you are so taken, will beguile,\\nwith that tongue of his, twenty of them that know\\nhim not.\\nFaithful. Do you know him then?\\nChristian. Know him Yes, better than he\\nknows himself.\\nFaithful. Pray, what is he?\\nChristian. His name is Talkative he dwelleth in\\nour town. I wonder that you should be a stranger\\nto him, only I consider that our town is large.\\nFaithful. Whose son is he? And whereabout\\ndoes he dwell?\\nChristian. He is the son of one Say-well; he\\ndwelt in Prating Row and is known of all that are\\nacquainted with him by the name of Talkative in\\nPrating Row and notwithstanding his fine tongue,\\nhe is but a sorry fellow.\\nFaithful. But I am ready to think you do but\\njest, because you smiled.\\nChristian. God forbid that I should jest (al-\\nthough I smiled) in this matter, or that I should\\naccuse any falsely I will give you a further dis-\\ncovery of him. This man is for any company, and\\nfor any talk religion hath no place in his heart,\\nor house, or conversation; all he hath lieth in his\\ntongue, and his religion is to make a noise there-\\nwith.\\nFaithful. Say you so then am I in this man\\ngreatly deceived.\\nChristian. Deceived you may be sure of it; re-", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "114 THE PILGRUrS PROGRESS.\\nmember the jDroverb, They say and do not. But\\nthe kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.\\nHe talketh of prayer, of repentance, of faith, and\\nof the new birth; but he knows but only to talk of\\nthem. I have been in his family, and have observed\\nhim both at home and abroad; and I know what I\\nsay of him is the truth. His house is as empty of\\nreligion as the white of an egg is of savor.\\nFaithful. Well, my brother, I am bound to be-\\nlieve you; not only because you say you know him,\\nbut also because, like a Christian, you make your\\nreports of men. For I cannot think that you speak\\nthese things of ill-will, but because it is as you say.\\nChristian. Had I known him no more than you,\\nI might perhaps have thought of him, as, at the\\nfirst, you did; yea, had he received this report at\\ntheir hands only that are enemies to religion, I\\nshould have thought it had been a slander a lot\\nthat often falls from bad men s mouths upon good\\nmen s names and professions; but all these things,\\nyea, and a great many more as bad, of my own\\nknowledge, I can prove him guilty of. Besides,\\ngood men are ashamed of him they can neither\\nall him brother nor friend; naming of him among\\nthem makes them blush, if they know him.\\nFaithful. Well, I see that saying and doing are\\ntwo things, and hereafter I shall better observe this\\ndistinction.\\nThus they went on talking of what they had seen\\nby the way, and so made that way easy which\\nwould otherwise, no doubt, have been tedious to", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS. 115\\nthem; for now they went through a wilderness.\\nNow, when they were got almost quite out of this\\nwilderness, Faithful chanced to cast his eye back,\\nand espied one coming after them, and he knew\\nhim. Oh! said Faithful to his brother, Who comes\\nyonder? Then Christian looked, and said, It is my\\ngood friend Evangelist. Ay, and my good friend\\ntoo, said Faithful, for it was he that set me the\\nway to the gate. Now was Evangelist come up to\\nthem, and thus saluted them Peace be with you,\\ndearly beloved and peace be to your helpers.\\nChristian. Welcome, my good Evangelist; the\\nsight of thy countenance brings to my remembrance\\nthy ancient kindness and unwearied laboring for\\nmy eternal good.\\nFaithful. And a thousand times welcome. Thy\\ncompany, O sweet Evangelist, how desirable it is\\nto us poor pilgrims\\nEvangelist. How hath it fared with you, my\\nfriends, since the time of our last parting? What\\nhave you met with, and how have you behaved\\nyourselves?\\nThen Christian and Faithful told him of all things\\nthat had happened to them in the way and how,\\nand with what difficulty, they had arrived to that\\nplace.\\nEvangelist. Eight glad am I, not that you have\\nmet with trials, but that you have been victors;\\nand for that you have, notwithstanding many\\nweaknesses, continued in the way to this very day.\\nI say, right glad am I of this thing, and that for", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "116 THE PILGRBI S PROGRESS.\\nmine own sake and yours. I have sowed, and you\\nhave reaped and the day is coming when botii lie\\nthat sowed and they that reaped shall rejoice to-\\ngether; that is, if you hold out: for in due season\\n3^e shall reap, if ye faint not. The crown is before\\nyou, and it is an incorruptible one; so run that you\\nmay obtain it. Some there be that set out for this\\ncrown, and, after they have gone far for it, another\\ncomes in and takes it from them hold fast, there-\\nfore, that you have; let no man take your crown.\\nThen I saw in my dream, that when they were\\ngot out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town\\nbefore them, and the name of that town is Vanity;\\nand at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity\\nFair; it is kept all the year long; it beareth the\\nname of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is\\nkept is lighter than vanity and also because all\\nthat is there sold, or that cometh thither, is vanity.\\nAs is the saying of the wise, all that cometh is\\nvanity.\\nThis fair is no new-erected business, but a thing\\nof ancient standing; I will show you the original of\\nit. Almost five thousand years agone, there were\\npilgrims walking to the Celestial City, as these two\\nhonest persons are; and Beelzebub, Apollyon, and\\nLegion, with their companions, perceiving by the\\npath that the pilgrims made that their way to the\\ncity lay through this town of Vanity, they contrived\\nhere to set up a fair wherein should be sold all sorts\\nof vanity, and that it should last all the year long;\\ntherefore at this fair are all such merchandise", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "1/\\nvf-^:\\nl^,^.,^\\n/J\\nBURNING AT THE STAKE.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "118 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nsold as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, prefer-\\nments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures,\\nand delights of all sorts; as wives, husbands, chil-\\ndren, masters, servants, lives, blood, bodies, souls,\\nsilver, gold, pearls, precious stones, and v^diat not.\\nAnd, moreover, at this fair there is at all times\\nto be seen juggling, cheats, games, plays, fools,\\napes, knaves, and rogues, and that of every kind.\\nHere are to be seen, too, thefts, murders, false swear-\\ners, and that of a blood-red color.\\nAnd as in other fairs of less moment, there are\\nseveral rows and streets, under their proper names,\\nwhere such and such wares are vended so here\\nlikewise you have the proper places, rows, streets\\n(viz., countries and kingdoms), where the wares of\\nthis fair are soonest to be found. Here is the\\nBritain Row, the French Row, the Italian Row, the\\nSpanish Row, the German Row, where several sorts\\nof vanities are to be sold. But, as in other fairs,\\nsome one commodity is as the chief of all the fair,\\nso the ware of Rome and her merchandise is greatly\\npromoted in this fair; only our English nation, with\\nsome others, have taken a dislike thereat.\\nNow, as I said, the way to the Celestial Cit} lies\\njust through this town where this lusty fair is kept;\\nand he that will go to the City, and yet not go\\nthrough this town, must needs go out of the world.\\nThe Prince of princes himself, when here, went\\nthrough this town to his own country, and that\\nupon a fair day too; yea, and as I think, it was\\nBeelzebub, the chief lord of this fair, that invited", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRUrS PROGRESS. 119\\nhim to buy of his vanities; yea, would have made\\nhim lord of the fair, would he but have done him\\nreverence as he went through the town. Yea, be-\\ncause he was such a person of honor, Beelzebub had\\nhim from street to street, and showed him all the\\nkingdoms of the world in a little time, that he\\nmight, if possible, allure the Blessed One to cheapen\\nand buy some of his vanities; but he had no mind\\nto the merchandise, and therefore left the town,\\nwithout laying out so much as one farthing upon\\nthese vanities. This fair, therefore, is an ancient\\nthing, of long standing, and a very great fair.\\nNow these pilgrims, as I said, must needs go through\\nthis fair. Well, so they did: but, behold, even as\\nthey entered into the fair, all the people in the fair\\nwere moved, and the town itself as it were in a\\nhubbub about them.\\nOne chanced mockingly to say unto them, What\\nwill ye buy? But they answered. We buy the truth.\\nAt that there was an occasion taken to despise the\\nmen the more; some mocking, some taunting, some\\nspeaking reproachfully, and some calling upon oth-\\ners to smite them. At last things came to a hub-\\nbub and a great stir in the fair, insomuch that all\\norder was confounded. Now was word presently\\nbrought to the great one of the fair, who quickly\\ncame down and deputed some of his most trusty\\nfriends to take these men into examination, about\\nwhom the fair was almost overturned. So the men\\nwere brought to examination and they that sat\\nupon them, asked them whence they came, whither", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "120 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nthey went, and what they did there, in such an un-\\nusual garb. The men told them that they were\\npilgrims and strangers in the world, and that they\\nwere going to their own country, which was the\\nheavenly Jerusalem and that they had given no\\noccasion to the men of the town thus to abuse\\nthem, and to let them in their journey, except it\\nwas for that, when one asked them what they\\nwould buy, they said they would buy the truth.\\nBut they that were appointed to examine them did\\nnot believe them to be any other than bedlams and\\nmad, or else such as came to put all things into\\na confusion in the fair. Therefore they took them\\nand beat them, and besmeared them with dirt, and\\nput them into the cage, that they might be made a\\nspectacle to all the men of the fair.\\nThere, therefore, they lay for some time, and\\nwere made the objects of any man s sport or malice\\nor revenge, the great one of the fair laughing still\\nat all that befell them. But the men being patient,\\nand not rendering railing for railing, but contrari-\\nwise, blessing, and giving good words for bad, and\\nkindness for injuries done, some men in the fair\\nthat were more observing, and less prejudiced than\\nthe rest, began to check and blame the baser sort\\nfor their continual abuses done by them to the men\\nthey, therefore, in angry manner, let fly at them\\nagain, counting them as bad as the men in the cage,\\nand telling them that they seemed confederates and\\nshould be made partakers of their misfortunes. The\\nothers replied, that for aught they could see, the", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "y^_\\nHOPEFUL JOINS HIM.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "122 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nmen were quiet, and sober, and intended nobody\\nany harm and that there were many that traded\\nin their fair that were more worthy to be put into\\nthe cage, yea, and pillory too, than were the men\\nthey had abused. Thus, after divers words had\\npassed on both sides, the men behaving themselves\\nall the while very wisely and soberly before them,\\nthey fell to some blows among themselves, and did\\nharm one to another. Then were these two poor\\nmen brought before their examiners again, and there\\ncharged as being guilty of the late hubbub that had\\nbeen in the fair. So they beat them pitifully, and\\nhanged irons upon them, and led them in chains\\nup and down the fair, for an example and a terror\\nto others, lest any should speak in their behalf, or\\njoin themselves unto them. But Christian and\\nFaithful behaved themselves yet more wisely, and\\nreceived the ignominy and shame that was cast\\nupon them with so much meekness and patience\\nthat it won to their side, though but few in com-\\nparison of the rest, several of the men in the fair.\\nThis put the other party yet into greater rage, inso-\\nmuch that they concluded the death of these two\\nmen. Wherefore they threatened, that the cage\\nnor irons should serve their turn, but that they\\nshould die, for the abuse they had done, and for\\ndeluding the men of the fair.\\nThen were they remanded to the cage again,\\nuntil further order should be taken with them. So\\nthey put them in, and made their feet fast in the\\nstocks.", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS. 123\\nHere, therefore, they called again to mind what\\nthey had heard from their faithful friend Evangel-\\nist, and were the more confirmed in their way and\\nsufferings by what he told them would happen to\\nthem. They also now comforted each other, that\\nwhose lot it was to suffer, even he should have the\\nbest of it therefore each man secretly wished that\\nhe might have that preferment: but committing\\nthemselves to the all-wise disposal of Him that ruleth\\nall things, with much content, they abode in the\\ncondition in which they were until they should be\\notherwise disposed of.\\nThen a convenient time being appointed, they\\nbrought them forth to their trial, in order to their\\ncondemnation. When the time was come, they\\nwere brought before their enemies and arraigned.\\nThe judge s name was Lord Hate-good. Their in-\\ndictment was one and the same in substance, though\\nsomewhat varying in form, the contents whereof\\nwere this:\\nThat they were enemies to and disturbers of\\ntheir trade; that they had made commotions and\\ndivisions in the town, and had won a party to their\\nown most dangerous opinions, in contempt of the\\nlaw of their prince.\\nThen Faithful began to answer that he had only\\nset himself against that which hath set itself against\\nhim that is higher than the highest. And, said he,\\nas for disturbance, I make none, being myself a\\nman of peace; the parties that were won to us,\\nwere won by beholding our truth and innocence,", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "124 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nand they are only turned from the worse to the\\nbetter. And as to the king you talk of, since he is\\nBeelzebub, the enemy of our Lord, I defy him and\\nall his angels.\\nThen proclamation was made, that they that had\\naught to say for their lord the king against the\\nprisoner at the bar, should forthwith appear and\\ngive in their evidence. So there came in three wit-\\nnesses, to wit, Envy, Superstition, and Pickthank.\\nThey were then asked if they knew the prisoner at\\nthe bar and what they had to say for their lord the\\nking against him.\\nThen stood forth Envy, and said to this effect\\nMy Lord, I have known this man a long time, and\\nwill attest upon my oath that he is one of the vilest\\nmen in our country. He neither regardeth prince\\nnor people, law nor custom but doth all that he can\\nto possess all men with certain of his disloyal notions,\\nwhich he in the general calls principles of faith and\\nholiness. And, in particular, I heard him once\\nmyself affirm that Christianity and the customs of\\nour town of Vanit} could not be reconciled. By\\nwhich saying, my Lord, he doth at once not only\\ncondemn all our laudable doings, but us in the\\ndoing of them.\\nThen they called Superstition, and bid him look\\nupon the prisoner. They also asked what he could\\nsay for their lord the king against him.\\nSuperstition. My Lord, I have no great acquaint-\\nance with this man, but I know that he is a very\\npestilent fellow, from some discourse I had with", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "V\\n^0,^-\\nAS THEY CAME UP, HE MADE THEM A LOW BOW.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "12G THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nhim in tiiis town for then, talking with him, I\\nheard him say that our religion was naught, and\\nsuch by which a man could by no means please God.\\nThen was Pickthank bid to say what he knew, in\\nbehalf of their lord the king, against the prisoner\\nat the bar.\\nPickthank. My Lord, and you gentlemen all, this\\nfellow I have known of a long time, and have heard\\nhim speak things that ought not to bespoke; for he\\nhath railed on our noble prince Beelzebub, and hath\\nspoken contemptibly of his honorable friends, and\\nall the rest of our nobility and he hath said that\\nif all men were of his mind, if possible, there is\\nnone of these noblemen should have any longer a\\nbeing in this town. Besides, he hath not been\\nafraid to rail on you, my Lord, who are now ap-\\npointed to be his judge, calling you an ungodly\\nvillain, with many other such like vilifying terms,\\nwith which he hath bespattered most of the gentry\\nof our town.\\nWhen this Pickthank had told his tale, the Judge\\ndirected his speech to the prisoner at the bar, say-\\ning, Thou runagate, heretic, and traitor, hast thou\\nheard what these honest gentlemen have witnessed\\nagainst thee?\\nFaithful. May I speak a few words in my own\\ndefence?\\nJudge. Sirrah thou deservest to live no longer,\\nbut to be slain immediately upon the place; yet,\\nthat all men may see our gentleness towards thee,\\nlet us hear what thou, vile runagate, hast to sa}", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS. 127\\nFaithful. 1. I say, then, in answer to what Envy-\\nhath spoken, I never said aught but this, That what\\nrule, or laws, or customs, or people, were flat\\nagainst the Word of God, are diametrically opposite\\nto Christianity. If I have said amiss in this, con-\\nvince me of my error, and I am ready hore before\\nyou to make my recantation.\\n2. As to the second, to wit, Superstition, and his\\ncharge against me, I said only this. That in the\\nworship of God there is required a Divine faith but\\nthere can be no Divine faith without a Divine rev-\\nelation of the will of God. Therefore, whatever i\\nthrust into the worship of God that is not agreeable\\nto Divine revelation, cannot be done but by a human\\nfaith, which faith will not be profitable to eternal\\nlife.\\n3. As to what Pickthank hath said, I say that\\nthe prince of this town, with all the rabblement, his\\nattendants, by this gentleman named, are more fit\\nfor a being in hell than in this town and country\\nand so, the Lord have mercy upon me\\nThen the Judge called to the jury. Gentlemen of\\nthe jury, you see this man about whom so great an\\nuproar hath been made in this town. You have\\nalso heard what these worth} gentlemen have wit-\\nnessed against him. Also you have heard his reply\\nand confession. It lieth now in your breasts to\\nhang him or save his life but yet I think meet to\\ninstruct you into our law.\\nThere was an Act made in the days of Pharaoh\\nthe Great, servant to our prince, that lest those of", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "128 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\na contrary religion should multiply and grow too\\nstrong for him, their males should be thrown into\\nthe river. There was also an Act made in the days\\nof Nebuchadnezzar the Great, another of his serv-\\nants, that whosoever would not fall down and wor-\\nship his golden image, should be thrown into a fiery\\nfurnace. There was also an Act made in the days\\nof Darius, that whoso, for some time, called upon\\nany god but him, should be cast into the lions den.\\nNow the substance of these laws this rebel has\\nbroken, not only in thought (which is not to be\\nborne), but also in word and deed; which must\\ntherefore needs be intolerable.\\nFor that of Pharaoh, his law was made upon a\\nsupposition, to prevent mischief, no crime being yet\\napparent but here is a crime apparent. For the\\nsecond and third, you see he disputeth against our\\nreligion and for the treason he hath confessed, he\\ndeserveth to die the death.\\nThen went the jury out, whose names were,\\nBlind-man, No-good, Malice, Love-lust, Live-loose,\\nHeady, High-mind, Enmity, Liar, Cruelty, Hate-\\nlight, and Implacable who every one gave in his\\nprivate verdict against him among themselves, and\\nafterward unanimously concluded to bring him in\\nguilty before the Judge. And first, among them-\\nselves, Blind-man, the foreman, said, I see clearly\\nthat this man is a heretic. Then said No-good,\\nAway with such a fellow from the earth. Ay, said\\nMalice, for I hate the very looks of him. Then said\\nLove-lust, I could never endure him. Nor I, said", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "THEY COULU NOT TELL WHAT TO MAKE THEREOF.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "130 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nLive-loose, for he would always be condemning my\\nway. Hang him, hang him, said Heady. A sorry\\nscrub, said High-mind. My heart riseth against\\nhim, said Enmity. He is a rogue, said Liar.\\nHanging is too good for him, said Cruelty. Let us\\ndespatch him out of the way, said Hate-light.\\nThen said Implacable, Might I have all the world\\ngiven me, I could not be reconciled to him there-\\nfore let us forthwith bring him in guilty of death.\\nAnd so they did therefore he was presently\\ncondemned to be had from the place where he\\nwas, to the place from whence he came, and there\\nto be put to the most cruel death that could be\\ninvented.\\nThey, therefore, brought him out, to do with\\nhim according to their law and, first, they scourged\\nhim, then they buffeted him, then they lanced his\\nflesh with knives; after that, they stoned him v/ith\\nstones, then pricked him with their swords; and,\\nlast of all, they burned him to ashes at the stake.\\nThus came Faithful to his end.\\nNow I saw that there stood behind the multitude\\na chariot and a couple of horses, waiting for Faith-\\nful, who (so soon as his adversaries had despatched\\nhim) was taken up into it, and straightway was\\ncarried up through the clouds, with sound of\\ntrumpet, the nearest way to the celestial gate.\\nBut as for Christian, he had some respite, and\\nwas remanded back to prison. So he there remained\\nfor a space but He that overrules all things, having\\nthe power of their rage in His own hand, so wrought", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRIM S P0EGRES8. 131\\nit about that Christian for that time escaped them,\\nand went his way.\\nNow I saw in my dream that Christian went not\\nforth alone, for there was one whose name was\\nHopeful (being made so by the beholding of Chris-\\ntian and Faithful in their words and behavior, in\\ntheir sufferings at the fair), who joined himself unto\\nhim, and, entering into a brotherly covenant, told\\nhim that he would be his companion. Thus, one\\ndied to bear testimony to the truth, and another\\nrises out of his ashes, to be a companion with Chris-\\ntian in his pilgrimage. This Hopeful also told\\nChristian that there were many more of the men in\\nthe fair, that would take their time and follow after.\\nSo I saw that quickly after they were got out of\\nthe fair, they overtook one that was going before\\nthem, whose name was By-ends: so they said to\\nhim. What countryman, Sir? and how far go you\\nthis way? He told them that he came from the\\ntown of Fair-speech, and he was going to the Celes-\\ntial City, but told them not his name.\\nChristian. From Fair-speech Is there any good\\nthat lives there?\\nBy-ends. Yes, I hope.\\nChristian. Pray, Sir, what may I call you?\\nBy-ends. I am a stranger to you, and you to me:\\nif you be going this way, I shall be glad of your\\ncompany; if not, I must be content.\\nChristian. This town of Fair-speech, I have heard\\nof; and, as I remember, they say, it is a wealthy\\nplace.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "132 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nBy-ends. Yes, I will assure you that it is; and I\\nhave very many rich kindred there.\\nChristian. Pray, who are your kindred there?\\nBy-ends. Almost the whole town.\\nChristian. Are you a married man?\\nBy-ends. Yes, and my wife was my Lady Feign-\\ning s daughter, therefore she came of a very honor-\\nable family, and is arrived to such a pitch of breed-\\ning, that she knows how to carry it to all, even to\\nprince and peasant. It is true we somewhat differ\\nin religion from those of the stricter sort, yet but\\nin two small points: first, we never strive against\\nwind and tide secondly, we are always most zeal-\\nous when religion goes in his silver slippers; we\\nlove much to walk with him in the street, if the sun\\nshines, and the people ajDplaud him.\\nThen Christian stepped a little aside to his fellow,\\nHopeful, saying, It runs in my mind that this is\\none By-ends of Fair-speech and if it be he, we have\\nas very a knave in our company as dwelleth in all\\nthese parts. Then said Hopeful, Ask him; me-\\nthinks he should not be ashamed of his name. So\\nChristian came up with him again, and said, Sir,\\nyou talk as if you knew something more than all\\nthe world doth and if I take not my mark amiss,\\nI deem I have half a guess of you Is not your name\\nBy-ends of Fair-speech?\\nBy-ends. This is not my name, but indeed it is a\\nnickname that is given me by some that cannot abide\\nme: and I must be content to bear it as a reproach,\\nas other good men have borne theirs before me.", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "GIANT DESPAIR.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "134 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nChristian. But did you never give an occasion to\\nmen to call you by this name?\\nBy-ends. Never! The worst that ever I did to\\ngive them an occasion to give me this name was,\\nthat I had always the luck to jump in m} judg-\\nment with the present way of the times, whatever\\nit was, and my chance was to get thereby but if\\nthings are thus cast upon me, let me count them a\\nblessing; but let not the malicious load me there-\\nfore with reproach.\\nChristian. I thought, indeed, that you were the\\nman that I heard of; and to tell you what I think,\\nI fear this name belongs to you more properly than\\nyou are willing we should think it doth.\\nBy-ends. Well, if you will thus imagine, I can-\\nnot help it; you shall find me a fair company-keep-\\ner, if you will still admit me your associate.\\nChristian. If you will go with us, you must go\\nagainst wind and tide; the which, I perceive, is\\nagainst your opinion you must also own Religion\\nin his rags, as well as when in his silver slippers\\nand stand by him, too, when bound in irons, as well\\nas when he walketh the streets with applause.\\nBy-ends. Yon must not try to lord it over my\\nfaith leave me to my liberty, and let me go with\\nyou.\\nChristian. Not a step farther, unless you will do\\nin what I propound as we shall do.\\nBy-ends. I shall never desert my old jDrinciples,\\nsince they are harmless and profitable. If I may\\nnot go with you, I must do as I did before you over-", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS. 135\\ntook me, even go by myself, until some overtake\\nme that will be glad of my company.\\nNow I saw in my dream that Christian and\\nHopeful forsook him, and kept their distance before\\nhim but one of them looking back, sav/ three men\\nfollowing by B3 -ends, and behold, as they came up\\nwith him, he made them a very low bow; and they\\nalso gave him a compliment. The men s names\\nwere Hold-the-world, Money-love, and Save-all;\\nmen that By-ends had formerly been acquainted\\nwith for in their minority they were school-fellows,\\nand were taught by one Gripe-man, a school-master\\nin Love-gain, which is a market town in the county\\nof Coveting, in the north. This schoolmaster\\ntaught them the art of getting, either by violence,\\nflattery, lying, or by putting on a guise of religion;\\nand these four gentlemen had attained much of the\\nart of their master, so that they could each of them\\nhave kept such a school themselves.\\nWell, when they had, as I said, thus saluted each\\nother. Money-love said to By-ends, Who are they\\nupon the road before us (for Christian and Hope-\\nful were yet within view)\\nBy-ends. They are a couple of far countrymen,\\nthat, after their mode, are going on pilgrimage.\\nMoney-love. Alas Why did they not stay, that\\nwe might have their good company? for they, and\\nwe, and you, Sir, I hope, are all going on a pil-\\ngrimage.\\nBy-ends. We are so, indeed; but the men before\\nus are so rigid, and love so much of their own", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "136 THE PILGRIM IS PROGRESS.\\nnotions, and do also so lightly esteem the opinions\\nof others, that let a man be never so godly, yet if\\nhe jumps not with them in all things, they thrust\\nhim quite out of their company.\\nSaye-all. That is bad, but we read of some that\\nare righteous overmuch and such men s rigidness\\nprevails with them to judge and condemn all but\\nthemselves. But, I pray, what, and how many,\\nwere the things wherein you differed?\\nBy-ends. Why, they, after their headstrong\\nmanner, conclude that it is their duty to rush on\\ntheir journey all weathers; and I am for waiting\\nfor wind and tide. They are for hazarding all for\\nGod at a clap and I am for taking all advantages\\nto secure my life and estate. They are for holding\\ntheir notions, though all other men are against\\nthem but I am for religion in what, and so far as\\nthe times, and my safety, will bear it. They are\\nfor Religion when in rags and contempt but I am\\nfor him when he walks in his golden slippers, in the\\nsunshine, and with applause.\\nHoLD-THE-woRLD. Ay, and hold you there still,\\ngood By-ends; for, for my part, I can count him\\nbut a fool that, having the liberty to keep what he\\nhas, shall be so unwise as to lose it. Let us be\\nwise as serpents it is best to make hay when the\\nsun shines you see how the bee lieth still all winter,\\nand bestirs her only when she can have profit with\\npleasure. God sends sometimes rain, and some-\\ntimes sunshine if they be such fools to go through\\nthe first, yet let us be content to take fair weather", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRBrS PROGRESS. 1H7\\nalong with us. For my part, I like that religion\\nbest that will stand with the security of God s good\\nblessings unto us: for who can imagine, that is\\nruled by his reason, since God has bestowed upon\\nus the good things of this life, but that He would\\nhave us keep them for His sake? Abraham and\\nSolomon grew rich in religion. And Job says that\\na good man shall lay up gold as dust. But he must\\nnot be such as the men before us, if they be as you\\nhave described them.\\nSave-all. I think that we are all agreed in this\\nmatter, and therefore there needs no more words\\nabout it.\\nMoney-love. No, there needs no more words\\nabout this matter, indeed; for he that believes\\nneither Scripture nor reason (and you see we have\\nboth on our side), neither knows his own liberty\\nnor seeks his own safety.\\nChristian and Hopeful went on till they came at\\na delicate plain called Ease, where they went with\\nmuch content; but that plain was but narrow, so\\nthey were quickly got over it. Now at the farther\\nside of that plain was a hill called Lucre, and in\\nthat hill a silver mine, which some of them that\\nhad formerly gone that way, because of the rarity\\nof it, had turned aside to see but going too near\\nthe brink of the pit, the ground being deceitful\\nunder them, broke, and they were slain; some also\\nhad been maimed there, and could not, to their\\ndying day, be their own men again.\\nThen I saw in my dream, that a little off the", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "138 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nroad, over against the silver mine, stood Demas\\n(gentleman-like) to call to passengers to come and\\nsee; who said to Christian and his fellow, Ho! turn\\naside hither, and I will show you a thing.\\nChristian. What thing so deserving as to turn\\nus out of the way to see it?\\nDemas. Here is a silver mine, and some digging\\nin it for treasure. If you will come, with a little\\npains you may richly provide for yourselves.\\nHopeful. Let us go see.\\nChristian. Not I, I have heard of this place be-\\nfore now; and how many have there been slain;\\nand besides that, treasure is a snare to those that\\nseek it for it hindereth them in their pilgrimage.\\nThen Christian called to Demas, saying, Is not the\\nplace dangerous? Hath it not hindered many in\\ntheir pilgrimage?\\nDemas. Not except to those that are careless.\\nChristian, Let us not stir a step, but still keep\\non our way.\\nHopeful. I will warrant you, when By-ends\\ncomes up, if he hath the same invitation as we, he\\nwill turn in thither to see.\\nChristian. No doubt thereof, for his principles\\nlead him that way, and a hundred to one but he\\ndies there.\\nDemas. But will you not come over and see?\\nChristian. Demas, thou art an enemy to the right\\nways of the Lord of this way, and hast been al-\\nready condemned for thine own turning aside, by\\none of His Majesty s judges; and why seekest thou", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRBl S PROGRESS. 139\\nto briug us into the like condemnation? Besides,\\nif we at all turn aside, our Lord the King will cer-\\ntainly hear thereof, and will there put us to shame,\\nwhere we would stand with boldness before Him.\\nDemas cried again that he also was one of their\\nfraternity and that if they would tarry a little, he\\nalso himself would walk with them.\\nChristian. What is thy name? Is it not the\\nsame by the which I have called thee?\\nDemas. Yes, my name is Demas I am the son\\nof Abraham.\\nChristian. I know you Gehazi was your great-\\ngrandfather, and Judas your father; and you have\\ntrod in their steps. It is but a devilish prank that\\nthou usest; thy father was hanged for a traitor,\\nand thou deservest no better reward. Assure thy-\\nself, that when we come to the King, we will tell\\nHim of thy behavior. Thus they went their way.\\nBy this time By-ends and his companions were\\ncome again within sight, and they, at the first beck,\\nwent over to Demas. Now, whether they fell into\\nthe pit by looking over the brink thereof, or whether\\nthey went down to dig, or whether they were\\nsmothered in the bottom by the damps that com-\\nmonly arise, of these things I am not certain but\\nthis I observed, that they never were seen again\\nin the way.\\nNow I saw that, just on the other side of this\\nplain, the pilgrims came to a place where stood an\\nold monument, hard by the highway side, at the\\nsight of which they were both concerned, because", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "140 THE PILGRIM PROGRESS.\\nof the strangeness of the form thereof; for it\\nseemed to them as if it had been a woman trans-\\nformed into the shape of a pillar; here therefore\\nthey stood looking, and looking upon it, but could\\nnot for a time tell what they should make thereof.\\nAt last Hopeful espied, written above the head\\nthereof, a writing in an unusual hand but he, be-\\ning no scholar, called to Christian (for he was\\nlearned) to see if he could pick out the meaning; so\\nhe came, and after a little laying of letters together,\\nhe found the same to be this, Eemember Lot s wife.\\nSo he read it to his fellow after which they both\\nconcluded that that was the pillar of salt into\\nwhich Lot s wife was turned, for her looking back\\nwith a covetous heart, when she was going from\\nSodom for safety.\\nI saw, then, that they went on their way to a\\npleasant river; which David the king called the\\nriver of God, but John, the river of the water of\\nlife. Now their way lay just upon the bank of the\\nriver here, therefore, Christian and his companion\\nwalked with great delight they drank also of the\\nwater of the river, which was pleasant and enliven-\\ning to their weary spirits: besides, on the banks of\\nthis river, on either side, were green trees, that\\nbore all manner of fruit and the leaves of the trees\\nwere good for medicine; with the fruit of these\\ntrees they were also much delighted; and the leaves\\nthey ate to prevent surfeits and other diseases that\\nare incident to those that heat their blood by travels.\\nOn either side of the river was also a meadow, curi-", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "THEY CONTINUED IN THEIR DOLEFUL CONDITION.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "142 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nously beautified with lilies, and it was green all the\\nyear long. In this meadow they lay down, and\\nslept for here they might lie down safely. When\\nthey awoke, they gathered again of the fruit of the\\ntrees, and drank again of the water of the river,\\nand then lay down again to sleep. Thus they did\\nseveral days and nights. When they were disposed\\nto go on (for they were not, as yet, at their jour-\\nney s end) they ate and drank, and departed.\\nNow, I beheld in my dream, that they, had not\\njourneyed far, but the river and the way for a time\\nparted at which they were not a little sorry yet\\nthey durst not go out of the way. Now the way\\nfrom the river was rough, and their feet tender, by\\nreason of their travels; so the souls of the pil-\\ngrims were much discouraged because of the way.\\nWherefore, still as they went on, the} wished for a\\nbetter way. Now, a little before them, there was\\non the left hand of the road a meadow, and a stile\\nto go over into it; and that meadow is called By-\\npath Meadow. Then said Christian, If this meadow\\nlieth along by our wayside, let us go over into it.\\nThen he went to the stile to see, and behold, a\\npath lay along by the way, on the other side of the\\nfence. It is according to my wish, said Christian.\\nHere is the easiest going; come, good Hopeful, and\\nlet us go over.\\nHopeful. But how if this path should lead us out\\nof the way?\\nChristian. That is not like. Look, doth it not\\ngo along by the wayside? So Hopeful, being per-", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "THE PILGEBi S PROGRESS. 143\\nsuaded by his fellow, went after him over the\\nstile. When they were gone over, and were got\\ninto the path, they found it very easy for their\\nfeet; and withal, ttiey, looking before them, espied\\na man walking as they did, and his name was Vain-\\nconfidence; so they called after him, and asked him\\nwhither that way led. He said, To the Celestial\\nGate. Look, said Christian, did not I tell you so?\\nBy this you may see we are right. So they fol-\\nlowed, and he went before them. But, behold, the\\nnight came on, and it grew very dark; so that they\\nthat were behind lost the sight of him that went\\nbefore.\\nHe, therefore, that went before (Vain-confidence\\nby name), not seeing the way before him, fell into\\na deep pit, which was on purpose there made, by\\nthe Prince of those grounds, to catch vain-glorious\\nfools withal, and was dashed in pieces with his fall.\\nNow Christian and his fellow heard him fall. So\\nthey called to know the matter, but there was none\\nto answer, only they heard a groaning. Then said\\nHopeful, Where are we now? Then was his fellow\\nsilent, as mistrusting that he had led him out of the\\nway and now it began to rain, and thunder, and\\nlighten in a very dreadful manner; and the water\\nrose amain. Then Hopeful groaned in himself,\\nsaying, Oh, that I had kept on my way\\nChristian. Who could have thought that this\\npath should have led us out of the way?\\nHopeful. I was afraid on it at the very first, and\\ntherefore gave you that gentle caution. I would", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "144 THE PILGRUrS PROGRESS.\\nhave spoken plainer, but that you are older than I.\\nChristian. Good brother, be not offended I am\\nsorry I have brought thee out of the way, and that\\nI have put thee into such danger pray, my brother,\\nforgive me; I did not do it of an evil intent.\\nHopeful. Be comforted, my brother, for I forgive\\nthee; and I believe, too, that this shall be for our\\ngood.\\nChristian. I am glad I have with me a merciful\\nbrother but we must not stand thus let us try to\\ngo back again.\\nHopeful. But, good brother, let me go before.\\nChristian. No, if you please, let me go first, that\\nif there be any danger I may be first therein, be-\\ncause by my means we are both gone out of the way.\\nHopeful. No, you shall not go first; for your\\nmind being troubled may lead you out of the way\\nagain. Then, for their encouragement, they heard\\nthe voice of one saying, Set thine heart toward\\nthe highway, even the way which thou went-\\nest; turn again. But by this time the waters were\\ngreatly risen, by reason of which the way of going\\nback was very dangerous. (Then I thought that\\nit is easier going out of the way, when we are\\nin, than going in when we are out.) Yet they\\nventured to go back, but it was dark, and the flood\\nwas so high, that in their going back they had like\\nto have been drowned.\\nNeither could they, with all the skill they had,\\nget again to the stile that night. Wherefore, at\\nlast, lighting under a little shelter, they sat down", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "IN THREATENING LANGUAGE THEY BID HIM STAND,", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "146 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nthere until the day-break; but, being weary, they\\nfell asleep. Now there was, not far from the place\\nwhere they lay, a castle called Doubting Castle, the\\nowner whereof was Giant Despair; and it was in\\nhis grounds they now were sleeping; wherefore he,\\ngetting up in the morning early, and walking up\\nand down in his fields, caught Christian and Hope-\\nful asleep in his grounds. Then, with a gfim and\\nsurly voice, he bid them awake; and asked them\\nwhence they were, and what they did in his ground.\\nThey told him they were pilgrims, and that they\\nhad lost their way. Then said the Giant, You have\\nthis night trespassed on me, by trampling in, and\\nlying on my grounds, and therefore you must go\\nalong with me. So they were forced to go, because\\nhe was stronger than they. They also had but little\\nto sa}^, for they knew themselves in a fault. The\\nGiant, therefore, drove them before him, and put\\nthem into his castle, into a very dark dungeon,\\nnasty and stinking to the spirits of these two men.\\nHere, then, they lay from Wednesday morning till\\nSaturday night, without one bit of bread, or drop of\\ndrink, or light, or any to ask how they did; they\\nwere, therefore, here in evil case, and were far from\\nfriends and acquaintance. Now in this place Chris-\\ntian had double sorrow, because it was through his\\ncounsel that they were brought into this distress.\\nNow, Giant Despair had a wife, and her name\\nwas Diffidence. So when he was gone to bed, he\\ntold his wife what he had done; to wit, that he had\\ntaken a couple of prisoners and cast them into his", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "THE PILGBBI S PROGRESS. 147\\ndungeon, for trespassing on his grounds. Then he\\nasked iier also what he had best to do to them. So\\nshe asked him what they were, whence they came,\\nand whither they were bound; and he told her.\\nThen she counselled that he should beat them with-\\nout any mercy. So, when he arose, he getteth him\\na crab-tree cudgel, and goes down into the dungeon\\nto them, and falls upon them, and beats them fear-\\nfully, in such sort that they were not able to help\\nthemselves, or to turn them upon the floor. This\\ndone, he leaves them, there to condole their misery,\\nand to mourn under their distress. So all that day\\nthey spent the time in sighs and lamentations. The\\nnext night, she, talking with her husband, and\\nunderstanding they were yet alive, did advise him\\nto counsel them to make away with themselves.\\nSo when morning was come, he goes to them in a\\nsurly manner as before, and perceiving them to be\\nvery sore with the stripes that he had given them\\nthe day before, he told them, that since they were\\nnever likely to come out of that place, their only\\nway would be forthwith to make an end of them-\\nselves, either with knife, halter, or poison, for why,\\nsaid he, should you choose life, seeing it is attended\\nwith so much bitterness? But they desired him to\\nlet them go With that he looked ugly upon them,\\nand, rushing to them, had doubtless made an end\\nof them himself, but that he fell into one of his fits\\nand lost for a time the use of his hands; wherefore\\nhe left them as before, to consider what to do. Then\\ndid the prisoners consult between themselves,", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "148 THE PILGRUl S PROGRESS.\\nwhether it was the best to take his counsel or no;\\nand thus they began to discourse\\nChristian. Brother, what shall we do? The life\\nthat we now live is miserable. For my part I know\\nnot whether is best, to live thus, or to die out of\\nhand. My soul chooseth strangling rather than\\nlife, and the grave is more easy for me than this\\ndungeon. Shall we be ruled by the Giant?\\nHopeful. Indeed, our present condition is dread-\\nful, and death would be far more welcome to me\\nthan thus forever to abide; but yet, let us consider,\\nthe Lord of the country to which we are going hath\\nsaid, Thou shalt do no murder; no, not to another\\nman s person; much more, then, are we forbidden\\nto take his counsel to kill ourselves. Besides, he\\nthat kills another can but commit murder upon his\\nbody but for one to kill himself is to kill body and\\nsoul at once. And, moreover, my brother, thou\\ntalkest of ease in the grave but hast thou forgotten\\nthe hell, whither for certain the murderers go? For\\nno murderer hath eternal life, etc. And let us\\nconsider, again, that all the law is not in the hand\\nof Giant Despair. Others, so far as I can under-\\nstand, have been taken by him, as well as we; and\\nyet have escaped out of his hand. Who knows but\\nthat God that made the world may cause that Giant\\nDespair may die? or that, at some time or other,\\nhe may forget to lock us in? or that he may, in a\\nshort time, have another of his fits before us, and\\nmay lose the use of his limbs? and if ever that\\nshould come to pass again, for my part, I am re-", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "THE PILGBnrS PROGRESS. 149\\nsolved to pluck up the heart of a man, and to try\\nmy utmost to get from under his hand. I was a\\nfool that I did not try to do it before but, however,\\nmy brother, let us be patient and endure a while.\\nThe time may come that may give up a happy re-\\nlease but let us not be our own murderers. With\\nthese words. Hopeful at present did moderate the\\nmind of his brother; so they continued together (in\\nthe dark) that day, in their sad and doleful condition.\\nWell, toward evening, the Giant goes down into\\nthe dungeon again, to see if his prisoners had taken\\nhis counsel but when he came there he found them\\nalive and truly, alive was all for now, what for\\nwant of bread and water, and by reason of the\\nwounds they received when he beat them, they could\\ndo little but breathe. But, I say, he found them\\nalive at which he fell into a rage, and told them\\nthat, seeing they had disobeyed his counsel, it should\\nbe worse with them than if they had never been born.\\nAt this they trembled greatly, and I think that\\nChristian fell into a swoon but, coming a little to\\nhimself again, they renewed their discourse about\\nthe Giant s counsel; and whether yet they had best\\nto take it or no. Now Christian again seemed to\\nbe for doing it, but Hopeful made his second reply\\nas followeth\\nHopeful. My brother, said he, rememberest thou\\nnot how valiant thou hast been heretofore? Apol-\\nlyon could not crush thee, nor could all that thou\\ndidst hear, or see, or feel in the Valley of the\\nShadow of Death. What hardship, terror, and", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "150 THE PILGRBI S PROGRESS.\\namazement hast thou ah-eady gone through And\\nart thou now nothing but fear Thou seest that I\\nam in the dungeon with thee, a far weaker man by\\nnature than thou art; also, this Giant has wounded\\nme as well as thee, and hath also cut off the bread\\nand water from my mouth; and with thee I mourn\\nwithout the light. But let us exercise a little more\\npatience remember how thou playedst the man at\\nVanity Fair, and wast neither afraid of the chain,\\nnor cage, nor yet of bloody death. Wherefore let\\nus (at least to avoid the shame, that becomes not a\\nChristian to be found in) bear up with patience as\\nwell as we can.\\nNow, night being come again, and the Giant and\\nhis wife being in bed, she asked him concerning the\\nprisoners, and if they had taken his counsel. To\\nwhich he replied, They are sturdy rogues, and choose\\nrather to bear all hardships, than to make away\\nwith themselves. Then said she. Take them into\\nthe castle-yard to-morrow, and show them the bones\\nand skulls of those that thou hast already despatched,\\nand make them believe, ere a week comes to an end,\\nthou also wilt tear them in pieces, as thou hast done\\ntheir fellows before them.\\nSo when the morning was come,- the Giant goes\\nto them again, and takes them into the castle-yard,\\nand shows them, as his wife had bidden him. These,\\nsaid he, were pilgrims as you are, once, and they\\ntrespassed in my grounds, as you have done and\\nwhen I thought fit, I tore them in pieces, and so\\nwithin ten days, I will do you. Go, get you down", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRUrS PROGRESS. 151\\nto your den again and with that he beat them all\\nthe way thither. They lay, therefore, all day on\\nSaturday in a lamentable case, as before. Now,\\nwhen night was come, and when Mrs. Diffidence\\nand her husband, the Giant, were got to bed, they\\nbegan to renew their discourse of their prisoners\\nand withal the old Giant wondered, that he could\\nneither by his blows nor his counsel bring them to\\nan end. And with that his wife replied, I fear,\\nsaid she, that they live in hope that some will come\\nto relieve them, or that they have picklocks about\\nthem, by the means of which they hope to escape.\\nAnd sayest thou so, my dear? said the Giant; I\\nwill, therefore, search them in the morning.\\nWell, on Saturday, about midnight, they began\\nto pray, and continued in prayer till almost break\\nof day. Now, a little before it was day, good\\nChristian, as one half amazed, brake out in this\\npassionate speech What a fool, quoth he, am I,\\nthus to lie in a dungeon, when I may walk at\\nliberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise,\\nthat will open any lock in Doubting Castle. That\\nis good news, said Hopeful, good brother; pluck it\\nout of thy bosom, and try.\\nThen Christian pulled it out of his bosom and be-\\ngan to try at the dungeon door, whose bolt (as he\\nturned the key) gave back, and the door flew open\\nwith ease, and Christian and Hopeful both came\\nout. Then he went to the outward door that leads\\ninto the castle-yard, and, with his ke}^, opened that\\ndoor also. After, he went to the iron gate, for that", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "152 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nmust be opened too but that lock went hard, yet\\nthe key did open it. Then they thrust open the\\ngate to make their escape with speed, but that gate,\\nas it opened, made such a creaking, that it waked\\nGiant Despair, who, hastily rising to pursue his\\nprisoners, felt his limbs to fail, for his fits took him\\nagain, so that he could by no means go after them.\\nThen they went on, and came to the King s high-\\nway, and so were safe.\\nNow, when they were gone over the stile, they\\nbegan to contrive with themselves what they should\\ndo at that stile, to prevent those that should come\\nafter from falling into the hands of Giant Despair.\\nSo they consented to erect there a pillar, and to en-\\ngrave upon the side thereof this sentence Over this\\nstile is the way to Doubting Castle, which is kept by\\nGiant Despair, who despiseth the King of the Celes-\\ntial Country, and seeks to destroy his holy Pilgrims.\\nMany, therefore, that followed after, read what\\nwas written, and escaped the danger.\\nThey went then till they came to the Delectable\\nMountains, which mountains belong to the Lord of\\nthat hill of which we have spoken before so they\\nwent up to the mountains, to behold the gardens\\nand orchards, the vineyards and fountains of waters\\nwhere also they drank and washed themselves, and\\ndid freely eat of the vineyards. Now there were on\\nthe tops of these mountains shepherds feeding their\\nflocks, and they stood by the highway side. The\\npilgrims, therefore, went to them, and, leaning\\nupon their staves (as is. common with weary pil-", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "ATHEIST", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "154 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\ngrims, when they stand to talk with any by the\\nway), they asked, Whose Delectable Mountains are\\nthese? and whose be the sheep that feed upon\\nthem?\\nShepherd. These mountains are Immanuel s\\nLand, and they are within sight of His city; and\\nthe sheep also are His, and he laid down His life for\\nthem.\\nChristian. Is this the way to the Celestial City?\\nShepherd. You are just in your way.\\nChristian. How far is it thither?\\nShepherd. Too far for any but those that shall\\nget thither indeed.\\nChristian. Is the way safe or dangerous?\\nShepherd. Safe for those for whom it is to be\\nsafe; but the transgressors shall fall therein.\\nChristian. Is there, in this place, any relief for\\npilgrims that are weary and faint in the way?\\nShepherd. The Lord of these mountains hath\\ngiven us a charge not to be forgetful to entertain\\nstrangers therefore the good of the place is before\\nyou.\\nI saw also in my dream, that when the Shepherds\\nperceived that they were wayfaring men, they also\\nput questions to them, to which they made answer\\nas in other places; as. Whence came you? and.\\nHow got you into the way? and. By what means\\nhave you so persevered therein? For but few of\\nthem that begin to come hither do show their faces\\non these mountains. But when the Shepherds heard\\ntheir answers, being pleased therewith, they looked", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS. 165\\nvery lovingly upon them, and said, Welcome to the\\nDelectable Mountains!\\nThe Shepherds, I say, whose names were Knowl-\\nedge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere, took them\\nby the hand, and had them to their tents, and made\\nthem partake of that which was ready at present.\\nThey said, moreover, We would that ye should stay\\nhere a while, to be acquainted with us; and yet\\nmore to solace yourselves with the good of these\\nDelectable Mountains. They then told them, that\\nthey were content to stay; so they went to their\\nrest that night, because it was very late.\\nThen I saw in my dream, that in the morning the\\nShepherds called up Christian and Hopeful to walk\\nwith them upon the mountains; so they went forth\\nwith them, and walked a while, having a pleasant\\nprospect on every side.\\nThen I saw that they had them to the top of an-\\nother mountain, and the name of that is Caution,\\nand bid them look afar off; which, when they did,\\nthey perceived, as they thought, several men walk-\\ning up and down among the tombs that were there;\\nand they perceived that the men were blind, because\\nthey stumbled sometimes upon the tombs, and be-\\ncause they could not get out from among them.\\nThen said Christian, What means this?\\nThe Shepherds. Did you not see a little below\\nthese mountains a stile, that led into a meadow, on\\nthe left hand of this way? They answered. Yes.\\nThen said the Shepherds, From that stile there goes\\na iDath that leads directly to Doubting Castle, which", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "156 TEE PILGRnrS PROGBESS.\\nis kept by Giant Despair, and these, pointing to\\nthem among the tombs, came once on pilgrimage,\\nas you do now, even till they came to that same\\nstile and because the right way was rough in that\\nplace, they chose to go out of it into that meadow,\\nand there were taken by Giant Despair and cast into\\nDoubting Castle; where, after they had been a\\nwhile kept in the dungeon, he at last did put out\\ntheir eyes, and led them among those tombs, where\\nhe has left them to wander to this very day, that\\nthe saying of the wise man might be fulfilled. He\\nthat wandereth out of the way of understanding,\\nshall remain in the congregation of the dead. Then\\nChristian and Hopeful looked upon one another,\\nwith tears gushing out, but yet said nothing to the\\nShepherds.\\nThen I saw in my dream, that the Shepherds had\\nthem to another place, in a bottom, where was a\\ndoor in the side of a hill, and they opened the door\\nand bid them look in. They looked in, therefore,\\nand saw that within it was very dark and smoky\\nthey also thought that they heard there a rumbling\\nnoise as of fire, and a cry of some tormented, and\\nthat they smelt the scent of brimstone. Then said\\nChristian, What means this? The Shepherds told\\nthem. This is a by-way to hell, a way that hypocrites\\ngo in at namely, such as sell their birthright, with\\nEsau such as sell their master, with Judas such\\nas blaspheme the gospel, with Alexander and that\\nlie and dissemble, with Ananias and Sapphira his\\nwife. Then said Hopeful to the Shepherds, I per-", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS. 157\\nceive that these had on them, even every one, a\\nshow of pilgrimage, as we have now had they not?\\nShepherd. Yes, and held it a long time too.\\nHopeful. How far might they go in pilgrimage\\nin their day, since they notwithstanding were thus\\nmiserably cast away?\\nShepherd. Some further, and some not so far, as\\nthese mountains.\\nThen said the pilgrims one to another. We have\\nneed to cry to the Strong for strength.\\nShepherd. Ay, and you will have need to use it,\\nwhen you have it, too.\\nBy this time the pilgrims had a desire to go for-\\nward, and the Shepherds a desire they should; so\\nthey walked together towards the end of the moun-\\ntains. Then said the Shepherds one to another, Let\\nus here show to the pilgrims the gates of the Celes-\\ntial City, if they have skill to look through our\\nperspective glass. The pilgrims accepted the mo-\\ntion so they had them to the top of a high hill,\\ncalled Clear, and gave them their glass to look.\\nThen they essayed to look, but the remembrance\\nof that last thing that the Shepherds had shown\\nthem made their hands shake by means of which\\nimpediment they could not look steadily through\\nthe glass; yet they thought they saw something\\nlike the gate, and also some of the glory of the\\nplace. Then they went away.\\nWhen they were about to depart, one of the\\nShepherds gave them a note of the way. Another\\nof them bid them beware of the Flatterer. The", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "158 THE PILGRUrS PROGRESS.\\nthird bid them take heed that they sleep not upon\\nthe Enchanted Ground. And the fourth bid them\\nGod-speed. So I awoke from my dream.\\nAnd I slept, and dreamed again, and saw the\\nsame two pilgrims going down the mountains along\\nthe highway towards the city. Now, a little below\\nthese mountains, on the left hand, lieth the coun-\\ntry of Conceit; from which country there comes\\ninto the way in which the pilgrims walked, a little\\ncrooked lane. Here, therefore, they met with a\\nvery brisk lad, that came out of that country; and\\nhis name was Ignorance. So Christian asked him\\nfrom what parts he came, and whither he was going.\\nIgnorance. Sir, I was born in the country that\\nlieth off there a little on the left hand, and I am\\ngoing to the Celestial City.\\nChristian. But how do you think to get in at the\\ngate? for you may find some difficulty there.\\nIgnorance. As other good people do.\\nChristian. But what have you to show at that\\ngate, that may cause that the gate should be opened\\nto you\\nIgnorance. I know my Lord s will, and I have\\nbeen a good liver, I pay every man his own; I\\npray, fast, pay tithes, and give alms, and have left\\nmy country for whither I am going.\\nChristian. But thou camest not in at the wicket-\\ngate that is at the head of this way thou camest\\nin hither through that same crooked lane, and\\ntherefore, I fear, however thou may est think of\\nthyself, when the reckoning day shall come, thou", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS. 159\\nwilt have laid to thy charge that thou art a thief aixl\\na robber, instead of getting admittance into the city.\\nIgnorance. Gentlemen, ye be utter strangers to\\nme, I know you not; be content to follow the re-\\nligion of your country, and I will follow the religion\\nof mine. I hope all will be well. And as for the\\ngate that you talk of, all the world knows that that\\nis a great way off of our country. I cannot think\\nthat any man in all our parts doth so much as know\\nthe way to it, nor need they matter whether they\\ndo or no, since we have, as you see, a fine, pleasant\\ngreen lane, that comes down from our country, the\\nnext way into the way.\\nWhen Christian saw that the man was wise in\\nhis own conceit, he said to Hopeful, whisperingly.\\nThere is more hope of a fool than of him. And said,\\nmoreover, When he that is a fool walketh by the\\nway, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every\\none that he is a fool. What, shall we talk further\\nwith him, or outgo him at present, and so leave\\nhim to think of what he hath heard already, and\\nthen stop again for him afterwards, and see if by\\ndegrees we can do any good to him?\\nHopeful. It is not good, I think, to say all to him\\nat once let us pass him by, if you will, and talk to\\nhim anon, even as he is able to bear it.\\nSo they both went on, and Ignorance he came\\nafter. Now when they had passed him a little wa}^\\nthey entered into a very dark lane, where they met\\na man whom seven devils had bound with seven\\nstrong cords, and were carrying of him back to the", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "160 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\ndoor that they saw on the side of the hill. Now\\ngood Christian began to tremble, and so did Hope-\\nful his companion yet as the devils led away the\\nman, Christian looked to see if he knew him and\\nhe thought it might be one Turn-away, that dwelt\\nin the town of Apostasy. But he did not perfectly\\nsee his face, for he did hang his head like a thief\\nthat is found. But being once past. Hopeful looked\\nafter him, and espied on his back a paper with this\\ninscription. Wanton professor and apostate.\\nThen said Christian to his fellow. Now I call to\\nremembrance that which was told me of a thing\\nthat happened to a good man hereabout. The\\nname of the man was Little-faith, but a good man,\\nand he dwelt in the town of Sincere. The thing\\nwas this At the entering in at this passage, there\\ncomes down from Broad-way Gate, a lane called\\nDead Man s Lane; so called because of the murders\\nthat are commonly done there and this Little-faith\\ngoing on pilgrimage, as we do now, chanced to sit\\ndown there, and slept. Now there happened, at\\nthat time, to come down the lane, from Broad-way\\nGate, three sturdy rogues, and their names were\\nFaint-heart, Mistrust, and Guilt (three brothers),\\nand the}-, espying Little-faith, where he was, came\\ngalloping up with speed. Now the good man was\\njust awake from his sleep, and was getting up to\\ngo on his journey. So they came up all to him,\\nand with threatening language bid him stand. At\\nthis Little-faith looked as white as a clout, and had\\nneither power to fight or fly. Then said Faint-", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "CHRISTIAN, HOPEFl-L, AND IGNORANCE.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "102 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nheart, Deliver thy purse. But he making no haste\\nto do it (for he was loath to lose his money), Mis-\\ntrust ran up to him, and thrusting his hand into his\\npocket, pulled out thence a bag of silver. Then he\\ncried out. Thieves Thieves With that Guilt, with\\na great club that was in his hand, struck Little-\\nfaith on the head, and with that blow felled him flat\\nto the ground, where he lay bleeding as one that\\nwould bleed to death. All this while the thieves\\nstood by. But, at last, they hearing that some\\nwere upon the road, and fearing lest it should be\\none Great-grace, that dwells in the city of Good-\\nconfidence, they betook themselves to their heels,\\nand left this good man to shift for himself. Now,\\nafter a while. Little-faith came to himself, and\\ngetting up made shift to scramble on his way.\\nThis was the stor3^\\nHopeful. But did they take from him all that\\never he had?\\nChristian. No; the place where his jewels were\\nthey never ransacked, so those he kept still. But\\nas I was told, the good man was much afflicted for\\nhis loss, for the thieves got most of his spending-\\nmoney. That which they got not were jewels; also\\nhe had a little odd money left, but scarce enough\\nto bring him to his journey s end nay, if I was not\\nmisinformed, he was forced to beg as he went, to\\nkeep himself alive for his jewels he might not sell.\\nBut beg, and do what he could, he went (as we\\nsay) with many a hungry belly the most part of\\nthe rest of the way.", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "THE PlLGRUrS PROGRESS. 163\\nHopeful. But is it not a wonder they got not from\\nhim his certificate, by which he was to receive his\\nadmittance at the Celestial Gate?\\nChristian. It is a wonder hut they got not that,\\nthough they missed it not through any good cun-\\nning of his; for he, being dismayed with their com-\\ning upon him, had neither power nor skill to hide\\nanything so it was more by good Providence than\\nby his endeavor, that they missed of that good thing.\\nHopeful. But it must needs be a comfort to him,\\nthat they got not his jewels from him.\\nChristian. It might have been great comfort to\\nhim, had he used it as he should but they that\\ntold me the story said, that he made but little use\\nof it all the rest of the way, and that because of the\\ndismay that he had in the taking away his money;\\nindeed, he forgot it a great part of the rest of his\\njourney; and besides, when at any time it came into\\nhis mind, and he began to be comforted therewith,\\nthen would fresh thoughts of his loss come again\\nand those thoughts would swallow up all.\\nSo they went on, and Ignorance followed. They\\nwent then till they came at a place where they saw\\na way put itself into their way, and seemed withal\\nto lie as straight as the way which they should go:\\nand here they knew not which of the two to take,\\nfor both seemed straight before them therefore,\\nhere they stood still to consider. And as they were\\nthinking about the way, behold a man, black of\\nflesh, but covered with a very light robe, came to\\nthem, and asked them why they stood there. They", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "164 THE FILGBUVS PROGRESS.\\nanswered they were going to the Celestial City, but\\nknew not which of these ways to take. Follow\\nme, said the man it is thither that I am going.\\nSo they followed him in the way that but now came\\ninto the road, which by degrees turned, and turned\\nthem so from the city that they desired to go to,\\nthat, in little time, their faces were turned away\\nfrom it; yet they followed him. But by and by,\\nbefore they were aware, he led them both within\\nthe compass of a net, in which they were both so\\nentangled, that they knew not what to do and with\\nthat the white robe fell off the black man s back.\\nThen they saw where they were. Wherefore, there\\nthey lay crying for some time, for they could not\\nget themselves out.\\nChristian. Now do I see myself in error. Did\\nnot the Shepherds bid us beware of the flatterers?\\nAs is the saying of the wise man, so we have found\\nit this day A man that flattereth his neighbor,\\nspreadeth a net for his feet.\\nHopeful. They also gave us a note of directions\\nabout the way, for our more sure finding thereof;\\nbut therein we have also forgotten to read, and have\\nnot kept ourselves from the paths of the destroyer.\\nHere David was wiser than we for, saith he, Con-\\ncerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips,\\nI have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.\\nThus they lay bewailing themselves in the net.\\nAt last they espied a Shining One coming towards\\nthem with a whip of small cord in his hand. When\\nhe was come to the place where they were, he asked", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "_^^*^ \u00c2\u00bb!s\u00c2\u00bbi fe\\nCHRISTIAN SAID, OH I SEE HIM AGAIN.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "166 THE PILGRBI S PROGRESS.\\nthem whence they came, and what they did there.\\nThey told him that they were poor pilgrims going\\nto Zion, but were led out of their way by a black\\nman, clothed in white, who bid us, said they, fol-\\nlow him, for he was going thither too. Then said\\nhe with the whip, It is Flatterer, a false apostle,\\nthat hath transformed himself into an angel of\\nlight. So he rent the net, and let the men out.\\nThen said he to them, Follow me, that I may set\\nyou in your way again. So he led them back to\\nthe way which they had left to follow the Flatterer.\\nThen he asked them, saying. Where did you lie the\\nlast night? They said. With the Shepherds, upon\\nthe Delectable Mountains. He asked them then, if\\nthey had not of those Shepherds a note of direction\\nfor the way. They answered, Yes. But did you,\\nsaid he, when you were at a stand, pluck out and\\nread your note? They answered, No. He asked\\nthem. Why? They said, they forgot. He asked,\\nmoreover, if the Shepherds did not bid them beware\\nof the Flatterer. They answered. Yes, but we did\\nnot imagine, said they, that this fine-spoken man\\nhad been he.\\nThen I saw in my dream, that he commanded\\nthem to lie down which, when they did, he chas-\\ntised them sore, to teach them the good way wherein\\nthey should walk and as he chastised them he said.\\nAs many as I love, I rebuke and chasten be zeal-\\nous, therefore, and repent. This done, he bid them\\ngo on their way, and take good heed to the other\\ndirections of the Shepherds. So they thanked him", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS. 167\\nfor all his kindness, and went softly along the right\\nway.\\nNow, after a while, they perceived, afar off, one\\ncoming alone, all along the highway to meet them.\\nThen said Christian, Yonder is a man with his back\\ntowards Zion, and he is coming to meet us.\\nHopeful. I see him let us take heed to ourselves\\nnow, lest he should prove a flatterer also. So he\\ndrew nearer and nearer, and at last came up unto\\nthem. His name was Atheist, and he asked them\\nwhither they were going.\\nChristian. We are going to Mount Zion.\\nThen Atheist fell into a very great laughter.\\nChristian. What is the meaning of your laughter?\\nAtheist. I laugh to see what ignorant persons you\\nare, to take upon you so tedious a journey, and you\\nare like to have nothing but your travel for your\\npains.\\nChristian. Why, man, do you think we shall not\\nbe received?\\nAtheist. Eeceived There is no such jDlace as\\nyou dream of in all this world.\\nChristian. But there is in the world to come.\\nAtheist. When I was at home in mine own coun-\\ntry, I heard as you now affirm, and from that hear-\\ning went out to see, and have been seeking this city\\nthis twenty years but find no more of it than I did\\nthe first day I set out.\\nChristian. We have both heard and believe that\\nthere is such a place to be found.\\nAtheist. Had not I, when at home, believed, I", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "168 THE FILGBIJI S PROGRESS.\\nhad not come thus far to seek; but finding none\\n(and yet I should, had there been such a place to be\\nfound, for I have gone to seek it further than you),\\nI am going back again, and will seek to refresh\\nmyself with the things that I then cast away, for\\nhopes of that which, I now see, is not.\\nThen said Christian to Hopeful, Is it true which\\nthis man hath said\\nHopeful. Take heed, he is one of the flatterers\\nremember what it hath cost us once already for our\\nhearkening to such kinds of fellows. What! no\\nMount Zion? Did we not see, from the Delectable\\nMountains, the gate of the city? Also, are we not\\nnow to walk by faith? Let us go on, said Hopeful,\\nlest the man with the whip overtake us again.\\nYou should have taught me that lesson, which I\\nwill round you in the ears withal: Cease, my son,\\nto hear the instruction that causeth to err from the\\nwords of knowledge. I say, my brother, cease to\\nhear him, and let us believe to the saving of the soul.\\nChristian. My brother, I did not put the question\\nto thee for that I doubted of the truth of our belief\\nmyself, but to prove thee, and to fetch from thee a\\nfruit of the honesty of thy heart. As for this man,\\nI know that he is blinded by the god of this world.\\nLet thee and I go on, knowing that we have belief\\nof the truth, and no lie is of the truth.\\nHopeful. Now do I rejoice in hope of the glory\\nof God. So they turned away from the man and\\nhe, laughing at them, went his way.\\nI saw then in my dream, that they went until", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS. 169\\nthey came into a certain country whose air naturally\\ntended to make one drowsy, if he came a stranger\\ninto it. And here Hopeful began to be very dull\\nand heavy of sleep wherefore he said unto Chris-\\ntian, I do now begin to grow so drowsy that I can\\nscarcely hold up mine eyes; let us lie down here\\nand take one nap.\\nChristian. By no means; lest sleeping, we never\\nawake more.\\nHopeful. Why, my brother? Sleep is sweet to\\nthe laboring man we may be refreshed if we take\\na nap.\\nChristian. Do you not remember that one of the\\nShepherds bid us beware of the Enchanted Ground?\\nHe meant by that, that we should beware of sleep-\\ning; therefore let us not sleep, as do others, but\\nlet us watch and be sober.\\nHopeful. I acknowledge myself in a fault and\\nhad I been here alone, I had by sleeping run the\\ndanger of death. I see it is true that the wise man\\nsaith. Two are better than one. Hitherto hath thy\\ncompany been my mercy, and thou shalt have a\\ngood reward for thy labor.\\nChristian. Now, then, to prevent drowsiness in\\nthis place, let us fall into good discourse.\\nHopeful. With all my heart.\\nChristian. Where shall we begin?\\nHopeful, Where God began with us. But do\\nyou begin, if you please.\\nChristian, I will ask you a question. How came\\nyou to think at first of so doing as you do now?", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "170 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nHopeful. Do you mean, how came I at first to\\nlook after the good of ray soul?\\nChristian. Yes, that is my meaning.\\nHopeful. I continued a great while in the delight\\nof those things which were seen and sold at our fair\\nthings which, I believe now, would have, had I\\ncontinued in them still, drowned me in perdition\\nand destruction.\\nChristian. What things are they?\\nHopeful. All the treasures and riches of the\\nworld. Also I delighted much in rioting, revelling,\\ndrinking, swearing, lying, uncleanness, Sabbath-\\nbreaking, and what not, that tended to destroy the\\nsoul. But I found at last, by hearing and consider-\\ning of things that are divine, which indeed I heard\\nof you, as also of beloved Faithful, that was put to\\ndeath for his faith and good living in Vanity Fair,\\nthat the end of these things is death. And that\\nfor these things sake cometh the wrath of God upon\\nthe children of disobedience.\\nChristian. And did you presently fall under the\\npower of this conviction?\\nHopeful. No, I was not willing presently to know\\nthe evil of sin, nor the damnation that follows upon\\nthe commission of it; but endeavored, when my\\nmind at first began to be shaken with the Word,\\nto shut mine eyes against the light thereof.\\nChristian. But what was the cause of your carry-\\ning of it thus to the first workings of God s blessed\\nSpirit upon you?\\nHopeful. The causes were, 1. I was ignorant", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRLV S PROGRESS. 171\\nthat this was the work of God upon me. I never\\nthought that, by awakenings for sin, God at first\\nbegins the conversion of a sinner. 2. Sin was yet\\nvery sweet to my flesh, and I was loath to leave it.\\n3. I could not tell how to part with mine old com-\\npanions, their presence and actions were so desirable\\nunto me. -1. The hours in which convictions were\\nupon me were such troublesome and such heart-\\naffrighting hours, that I could not bear, no not so\\nmuch as the remembrance of them upon my heart.\\nChristian. Then, as it seems, sometimes you got\\nrid of your trouble.\\nHopeful. Yes, verily, but it would come into my\\nmind again, and then I should be as bad, nay,\\nworse, than I was before.\\nChristian. And could you at any time, with ease,\\nget off the guilt of sin, when by any of these ways\\nit came upon you?\\nHopeful. No, not I, for then they got faster hold\\nof my conscience; and then if I did but think of\\ngoing back to sin (though my mind was turned\\nagainst it), it would be double torment to me.\\nChristian. And how did 3^ou do then?\\nHopeful. I thought I must endeavor to mind my\\nlife; for else, thought I, I am sure to be damned.\\nChristian. And did you endeavor to mend?\\nHopeful. Yes; and fled from not only my sins,\\nbut sinful company too and betook me to religious\\nduties, as prayer, reading, weeping for sin, speak-\\ning truth to my neighbors, etc. These things did\\nI, with many others, too much here to relate.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "172 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nChristian. And did you think yourself well then?\\nHopeful. Yes, for a while but at the last, my\\ntrouble came tumbling upon me again, and that\\nover the neck of all my reformations.\\nChristian. How came that about, since you were\\nnow reformed?\\nHopeful. There were several things brought it\\nupon me, especially such sayings as these All our\\nrighteousnesses are as filthy rags. By the works\\nof the law shall no flesh be justified. When ye\\nshall have done all those things, say. We are un-\\nprofitable; with many more such like. From\\nwhence I began to reason with myself thus: If all\\nmy righteousnesses are filthy rags; if, by the deeds\\nof the law, NO man can be justified and if, when\\nwe have done all, we are yet unprofitable, then it\\nis but a folly to think of heaven by the law. I\\nfurther thought thus: If a man runs a hundred\\npounds into the shopkeeper s debt, and after that\\nshall pay for all that he shall fetch yet, if this old\\ndebt stands still in the book uncrossed, for that the\\nshopkeeper may sue him, and cast him into prison\\ntill he shall pay the debt.\\nChristian. How did you apply this to yourself?\\nHopeful. Why, I thought thus with myself: I\\nhave, by my sins, run a great way into God s book,\\nand that my now reforming will not pay off that\\nscore; therefore I should think still, under all my\\npresent amendments, But how shall I be freed from\\nthat damnation that I have brought myself in\\ndanger of, by my former transgressions?", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "THUS THEV GOT OVKK.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "174 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nChristian. A very good application but, pray,\\ngo on.\\nHopeful. Another thing that hath troubled me,\\neven since my late amendments, is that if I look\\nnarrowly into the best of what I do now, I still see\\nsin, new sin, mixing itself with the best of that I\\ndo so that now I am forced to conclude, that not-\\nwithstanding my former fond conceits of myself\\nand duties, I have committed sin enough in one day\\nto send me to hell, though my former life had been\\nfaultless.\\nChristian. And what did you do then?\\nHopeful. Do! I could not tell what to do until I\\nbrake my mind to Faithful, for he and I were well\\nacquainted. And he told me, that unless I could\\nobtain the righteousness of a man that never had\\nsinned, neither mine own, nor all the righteousness\\nof the world, could save me.\\nChristian. And did you think he spake true?\\nHopeful. Had he told me so when I was pleased\\nand satisfied v/ith mine own amendment, I had called\\nhim fool for his pains but now, since I see mine own\\ninfirmity, and the sin that cleaves to my best per-\\nformance, I have been forced to be of his opinion.\\nChristian. But did you think, when at first he\\nsuggested it to you, that there was such a man to\\nbe found, of whom it might justly be said that he\\nnever committed sin?\\nHopeful. I must confess the words at first sounded\\nstrangely, but after a little more talk and company\\nwith him I had a full conviction about it.", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "THE FILGBm S PROOEESS. 175\\nChristian. And did you ask him what man this\\nwas, and how you must be justified by him?\\nHopeful. Yes, and he told me it was the Lord\\nJesus, that dwelleth on the right hand of the Most\\nHigh. And thus, said he, you must be justified by\\nHim, even by trusting to what He hath done by\\nHimself, in the days of His flesh, and suffered when\\nHe did hang on the tree. I asked him further, how\\nthat man s righteousness could be of that efficacy\\nto justify another before God? And he told me He\\nwas the mighty God, and did what He did, and died\\nthe death also, not for Himself, but for me to whom\\nHis doings, and the worthiness of them, should be\\nimputed, if I believed on Him.\\nChristian. And what did you then?\\nHopeful. I made my objections against my be-\\nlieving, for that I thought He was not willing to\\nsave me.\\nChristian. And what said Faithful to you then?\\nHopeful. He bid me go to Him and see. Then I\\nsaid it was presumption; but he said, No, for I was\\ninvited to come. Then he gave me a book of Jesus,\\nHis inditing, to encourage me the more freely to\\ncome; and he said, concerning that book, that\\nevery jot and tittle thereof stood firmer than heaven\\nand earth. Then I asked him, What I must do\\nwhen I came; and he told me, I must entreat upon\\nmy knees, with all my heart and soul, the Father\\nto reveal Him to me. Then I asked him further,\\nhow I must make my supplication to Him? And\\nhe said. Go, and thou shalt find Him upon a mercy-", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "176 THE PILORUrS PROGRESS.\\nseat, where He sits all the year long, to give pardon\\nand forgiveness to them that come. I told him\\nthat I knew not what to say when I came. And\\nhe bid me say to this effect God be merciful to me\\na sinner, and make me to know and believe in Jesus\\nChrist for I see, that if His righteousness had not\\nbeen, or I have not faith in that righteousness, I\\nam utterly cast away. Lord, I have heard that\\nThou art a merciful God, and hast ordained that\\nThy Son Jesus Christ should be the Saviour of the\\nworld; and moreover, that Thou art willing to be-\\nstow Him upon such a poor sinner as I am (and I\\nam a sinner indeed); Lord, take therefore this op-\\nportunity, and magnify Thy grace in the salvation\\nof my soul, through Thy Son Jesus Christ. Amen.\\nChristian. And did you do as you were bidden?\\nHopeful. Yes; over, and over, and over.\\nChristian. And did the Father reveal his Son to\\nyou?\\nHopeful. Not at the first, nor second, nor third,\\nnor fourth, nor fifth; no, nor at the sixth time\\nneither.\\nChristian. What did you do then?\\nHopeful. What why I could not tell what to do.\\nChristian. Had you not thoughts of leaving off\\npraying?\\nHopeful. Yes an hundred times twice told.\\nChristian. And what was the reason you did not?\\nHopeful. I believed that that was true which had\\nbeen told me, to wit, that without the righteousness\\nof this Christ all the world could not save me and", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "ONE OF THE KING S TRUMPETERS.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "178 THE PILGRUrS PROGRESS.\\ntherefore, thought I with myself, if I leave off I die,\\nand I can hut die at the throne of grace. And\\nwithal, this came into my mind Though it tarry,\\nwait for it; because it will surely come, it will not\\ntarry. So I continued praying until the Father\\nshowed me His Son.\\nChristian. And how was He revealed unto you?\\nHopeful. I did not see Him with my bodily eyes,\\nbut with the ej^es of my understanding and thus\\nit was: One day I was very sad, I think sadder\\nthan at any one time in my life, and this sadness\\nwas through a fresh sight of the greatness and\\nvileness of my sins. And as I was then looking for\\nnothing but hell, and the everlasting damnation of\\nmy soul, suddenly, as I thought, I saw the Lord\\nJesus Christ look down from heaven upon me, and\\nsaying, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou\\nshalt be saved. But I replied, Lord, I am a great,\\na very great sinner. And He answered. My grace\\nis sufficient for thee. Then I said. But, Lord, what\\nis believing? And then I saw from that saying.\\nHe that cometh to Me shall never hunger, and he\\nthat believeth on Me shall never thirst, that believ-\\ning and coming was all one; and that he that came,\\nthat is, ran out in his heart and affections after\\nsalvation by Christ, he indeed believed in Christ.\\nThen the water stood in mine eyes, and I asked\\nfurther: But, Lord, may such a great sinner as I\\nam be indeed accepted of Thee, and be saved by\\nThee? And I heard Him say. And him that cometh\\nto me, I will in no wise cast out. Then I said, But", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRUrS PROGRESS. 179\\nhow, Lord, must I consider of Thee in my coming\\nto Thee, that my faith may be placed aright upon\\nThee? Then He said, Christ Jesus came into the\\nworld to save sinners. He is the end of the law for\\nrighteousness to every one that believeth. He died\\nfor our sins, and rose again for our justification.\\nHe loved us, and washed us from our sins in His\\nown blood. He is mediator betwixt God and us.\\nHe ever liveth to make intercession for us. From\\nall which I gathered, that I must look for right-\\neousness in His person, and for satisfaction for my\\nsins by His blood that what He did in obedience to\\nHis Father s law, and in submitting to the penalty\\nthereof, was not for Himself, but for him that\\nwill accept it for his salvation, and be thankful.\\nAnd now was my heart full of joy, mine eyes\\nfull of tears, and mine affections running over\\nwith love to the name, people, and ways of Jesus\\nChrist.\\nChristian. This was a revelation of Christ to\\nyour soul indeed but tell me what effect this had\\nupon your spirit.\\nHopeful. It made me see that all the world, not-\\nwithstanding all the righteousness thereof, is in a\\nstate of condemnation. Ifc made me see that God\\nthe Father, though He be just, can justly justify\\nthe coming sinner. It made me greatly ashamed\\nof the vileness of my former life, and confounded\\nme with the sense of mine own ignorance; for there\\nnever came thought into my heart before now that\\nshowed me so the beauty of Jesus Christ. It made", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "180 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\nme love a holy life, and long to do something for\\nthe honor and glory of the name of the Lord Jesus\\nyea, I thought that had I now a thousand gallons\\nof blood in my body, I could spill it all for the sake\\nof the Lord Jesus,\\nI saw then in my dream that Hopeful looked\\nback and saw Ignorance, whom they had left be-\\nhind, coming after. Look, said he to Christian,\\nhow far yonder youngster loitereth behind.\\nChristian. Ay, ay, I see him he careth not for\\nour company.\\nHopeful. But I trow it would not have hurt him,\\nhad he kept pace with us hitherto.\\nChristian. That is true; but, I warrant you, he\\nthinketh otherwise.\\nHopeful. That, I think, he doth but, however,\\nlet us tarry for him. So they did.\\nThen Christian said to him. Come away, man;\\nwhy do you stay so behind?\\nIgnorance. I take my pleasure in walking alone,\\neven more a great deal than in company, unless I\\nlike it the better.\\nThen said Christian to Hopeful (but softly). Did\\nI not tell you he cared not for our company? But,\\nhowever, said he, come up, and let us talk away\\nthe time in this solitary place. Then directing his\\nspeech to Ignorance, he said. Come, how do you?\\nHow stands it between God and your soul now?\\nIgnorance. I hope well for I am always full of\\ngood motions, that come into my mind, to comfort\\nme as I walk.", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "TEE PILGRUrS PROGRESS. 181\\nSo I saw in my dream that they went on apace\\nbefore, and Ignorance he came hobbling after.\\nThen said Christian to his companion, It pities me\\nmuch for this poor man it will certainly go ill with\\nhim at last.\\nHopeful. Alas there are abundance in our town\\nin his condition, whole families, yea, whole streets,\\nand that of pilgrims, too; and if there be so many\\nin our parts, how many, think you, must there be\\nm the place where he was born?\\nChristian. Indeed, the Word saith, He hath\\nblinded their eyes, lest they should see, etc. But\\nnow we are by ourselves, what do you think of such\\nmen? Have they at no time, think you, convic-\\ntions of sin, and so consequently fears that their\\nstate is dangerous?\\nNow I saw in my dream, that by this time the\\npilgrims were got over the Enchanted Ground and\\nentering into the country of Beulah, whose air was\\nvery sweet and pleasant; the way lying directly\\nthrough it, they solaced themselves there for a\\nseason. Yea, here they heard continually the sing-\\ning of birds, and saw every day the flowers appear\\nin the earth, and heard the voice of the turtle in the\\nland. In this country the sun shineth night and\\nday wherefore this was beyond the Valley of the\\nShadow of Death, and also out of the reach of Giant\\nDespair, neither could they from this place so much\\nas see Doubting Castle. Here they were within\\nsight of the city they were going to, also here met\\nthem some of the inhabitants thereof; for in this", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "182 TEE PILGRBrS PROGRESS.\\nland the Shining Ones commonly walked, because\\nit was upon the borders of heaven. In this land\\nalso, the contract between the bride and the bride-\\ngroom was renewed yea, here, As the bridegroom\\nrejoiceth over the bride, so did their God rejoice\\nover them. Here they had no want of corn and\\nwine; for in this place they met with abundance of\\nwhat they had sought for in all their pilgrimage.\\nHere they heard voices from out of the city, loud\\nvoices, saying, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Be-\\nhold, thy salvation cometh Behold, his reward is\\nwith him Here all the inhabitants of the country\\ncalled them. The holy jjeople, The Eedeemed of the\\nLord, Sought out, etc.\\nNow, as they walked in this land, they had more\\nrejoicing than in parts more remote from the king-\\ndom to which they were bound; and, drawing near\\nto the city, they had yet a more perfect view thereof.\\nIt was builded of pearls and precious stones, also\\nthe street thereof was paved with gold so that by\\nreason of the natural glory of the city, and the\\nreflection of the sunbeams upon it. Christian with\\ndesire fell sick; Hopeful also had a fit or two of the\\nsame disease. Wherefore, here they la}^ by it a\\nwhile, crying out, because of their pangs, If ye find\\nmy beloved, tell him that I am sick of love.\\nBut, being a little strengthened, and better able\\nto bear their sickness, they walked on their way,\\nand came 3 et nearer and nearer, where were or-\\nchards, vine3 ards, and gardens, and their gates\\nopened into the highway. Now, as they came up", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "THE PILGimi S PBOGRESS. 183\\nto these places, behold the gardener stood in the\\nway, to whom the Pilgrims said, Whose goodly\\nvinej^ards and gardens are these? He answered,\\nThey are the King s, and are planted here for His\\nown delight, and also for the solace of pilgrims.\\nSo the gardener had them into the vineyards, and\\nbid them refresh themselves with the dainties. He\\nalso showed them there the King s walks, and the\\narbors where He delighted to be; and here they\\ntarried and slept.\\nNow I beheld in my dream, that they talked more\\nin their sleep at this time than ever they did in all\\ntheir journey; and being in a muse thereabout, the\\ngardener said even to me, Wherefore musest thou\\nat the matter? It is the nature of the fruit of\\nthe grapes of these vineyards to go down so sweet-\\nly as to cause the lips of them that are asleep to\\nspeak.\\nSo I saw that when they awoke, they addressed\\nthemselves to go up to the city; but, as I said, the\\nreflection of the sun upon the city for the city was\\npure gold was so extremely glorious, that they\\ncould not, as yet, with open face behold it, but\\nthrough an instrument made for that purpose. So\\nI saw, that as they went on, there met them two\\nmen, in raiment that shone like gold; also their\\nfaces shone as the light.\\nThese men asked the Pilgrims whence they came\\nand they told them. They also asked them where\\nthey had lodged, what difficulties and dangers, what\\ncomforts and pleasures, they had met in the way;", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "184 THE PlLGRUl S PROGRESS.\\nand they told them. Then said the men that met\\nthem, You have but two difficulties more to meet\\nwith, and then you are in the city.\\nChristian and his companion asked the men to go\\nalong with them so they told them they would.\\nBut, said they, you must obtain it by your own\\nfaith. So I saw in my dream that they went on\\ntogether, until they came in sight of the gate.\\nNow, I further saw, that betwixt them and the\\ngate was a river, but there was no bridge to go\\nover: the river was very deep. At the sight,\\ntherefore, of this river, the pilgrims were much\\nstunned but the men that went with them said,\\nYou must go through, or you cannot come at the\\ngate.\\nThe pilgrims then began to inquire if there was\\nno other way to the gate; to which they answered,\\nYes; but there hath not any, save two, to wit,\\nEnoch and Elijah, been permitted to tread that\\npath, since the foundation of the world, nor shall,\\nuntil the last trumpet shall sound. The pilgrims\\nthen, especially Christian, began to despond in their\\nminds, and looked this way and that, but no way\\ncould be found by them, by which they might escape\\nthe river. Then they asked the men if the waters\\nwere all of a depth, They said, No yet they could\\nnot help them in that case for, said they, you shall\\nfind it deeper or shallower as you believe in the King\\nof the place.\\nThey then addressed themselves to the water;\\nand entering. Christian began to sink, and crying", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "TEE PILGRIM S PROGRESS. 185\\nout to his good friend Hopeful, he said, I sink in\\ndeep waters; the billows go over my head, all His\\nwaves go oyer me Selah.\\nThen said the other, Be of good cheer, my brother,\\nI feel the bottom, and it is good. Then said Chris-\\ntian, Ah my friend, the sorrows of death have\\ncompassed me about I shall not see the land that\\nflows with milk and honey and with that a great\\ndarkness and horror fell upon Christian, so that he\\ncould not see before him. Also here he in great\\nmeasure lost his senses, so that he could neither re-\\nmember, nor orderly talk of any of those sweet re-\\nfreshments that he had met with in the way of his\\npilgrimage. But all the words that he spake till\\ntended to discover that he had horror of mind, and\\nheart fears that he should die in that river, and\\nnever obtain entrance in at the gate. Here also,\\nas they that stood by perceived, he was much in the\\ntroublesome thoughts of the sins that he had com-\\nmitted, both since and before he began to be a pil-\\ngrim. It was also observed that he was troubled\\nwith apparitions of hobgoblins and evil spirits, for\\never and anon he would intimate so much bywords.\\nHopeful, therefore, here had much ado to keep his\\nbrother s head above water; yea, sometimes he\\nwould be quite gone down, and then, ere a while,\\nhe would rise up again half dead. Hopeful also\\nwould endeavor to comfort him, saying, Brother, I\\nsee the gate, and men standing by to receive us;\\nbut Christian would answer. It is you, it is you\\nthey wait for; you have been Hopeful ever since I", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "186 THE PlLGRUrS PROGRESS.\\nknew you. And so have you, said he to Christian.\\nAh, brother said he, surely if I was right he would\\nnow rise to help me but for my sins he hath brought\\nme into the snare, and hath left me. Then said\\nHopeful, My brother, you have quite forgot the text\\nwhere it is said of the wicked, There are no bands\\nin their death, but their strength is firm. They are\\nnot in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued\\nlike other men. These troubles and distresses that\\nyou go through in these waters are no sign that\\nGod hath forsaken you but are sent to try you,\\nwhether you will call to mind that which hereto-\\nfore you have received of His goodness, and live\\nupon Him in your distresses.\\nThen I saw in my dream that Christian was in a\\nmuse a while. To whom also Hopeful added this\\nword. Be of good cheer. Jesus Christ maketh thee\\nwhole; and with that Christian brake out with a\\nloud voice. Oh I see him again, and He tells me,\\nWhen thou passest through the waters, I will be\\nwith thee; and through the rivers, they shall not\\noverflow thee. Then they both took courage, and\\nthe enemy was after that as still as a stone, until\\nthey were gone over. Christian therefore presently\\nfound ground to stand upon, and so it followed that\\nthe rest of the river was but shallow. Thus they\\ngot over. Now, upon the bank of the river, on the\\nother side, they saw the two shining men again,\\nwho there waited for them wherefore, being come\\nout of the river, they saluted them, saying. We are\\nministering spirits, sent forth to minister for those", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "TEE PILGRIM S PROGRESS. 187\\nthat shall be heirs of salvation. Thus they went\\nalong towards the gate.\\nNow you must note that the city stood upon a\\nmighty hill, but the pilgrims went up that hill with\\nease, because they had these two men to lead them\\nup by the arms also, they had left their mortal\\ngarments behind them in the river, for though they\\nwent in with them, they came out without them.\\nThey, therefore, went up here with much agility\\nand speed, though the foundation upon which the\\ncity was framed was higher than the clouds. They\\ntherefore went up through the regions of the air,\\nsweetly talking as they went, being comforted, be-\\ncause they safely got over the river, and had such\\nglorious companions to attend them.\\nThe talk they had with the Shining Ones was\\nabout the glory of the place who told them that\\nthe beaut} and glory of it was inexpressible. There,\\nsaid they, is the Mount Zion, the heavenly Jeru-\\nsalem, the innumerable company of angels, and the\\nspirits of just men made perfect. You are going\\nnow, said they, to the Paradise of God, wherein you\\nshall see the tree of life, and eat of the never-fading\\nfruits thereof; and when you come there, you shall\\nhave white robes given you, and your walk and talk\\nshall be every day with the King, even all the days\\nof eternity. There you shall not see again such\\nthings as you saw when you were in the lower\\nregion upon the earth, to wit, sorrow, sickness,\\naffliction, and death, for the former things are\\npassed away. You are now going to Abraham, to", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "188 TEE PlLORUrS PROGRESS.\\nIsaac, and Jacob, and to the prophets men that\\nGod hath taken away from the evil to come, and\\nthat are now resting upon their beds, each one\\nwalking in his righteousness. The man then asked,\\nWhat must we do in the holy place? To whom it\\nwas answered. You must there receive the comforts\\nof all your toil, and have joy for all your sorrow\\nyou must reap what you have sown, even the fruit\\nof all your prayers, and tears, and sufferings for\\nthe King by the way. In that place you must wear\\ncrowns of gold, and enjoy the perpetual sight and\\nvision of the Holy One, for there you shall see Him\\nas He is. There also you shall serve Him continually\\nwith praise, with shouting, and thanksgiving, whom\\nyou desired to serve in the world, though with much\\ndifficulty, because of the infirmity of your flesh.\\nThere your eyes shall be delighted with seeing, and\\nyour ears w^ith hearing the pleasant voice of the\\nMighty One. There you shall enjoy your friends\\nagain, that are gone thither before you and there\\nyou shall with joy receive even every one that fol-\\nlows into the holy place after you. There also shall\\nyou be clothed with glory and majesty, and put\\ninto an equipage fit to ride out with the King of\\nGlory. When He shall come with sound of trumpet\\nin the clouds, as upon the wings of the wind, you\\nshall come .with Him and when He shall sit upon\\nthe throne of judgment, you shall sit by Him yea,\\nand when He shall pass sentence upon all the work-\\ners of iniquity, let them be angels or men, you also\\nshall have a voice in that judgment, because they", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "i-m. -^ir .III\\nCUNORANCE CAST OL T.", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "190 THE PILGliUrS PBOGBESS.\\nwere His and your enemies. Also, when He shall\\nagain return to the city, you shall go too, with\\nsound of trumpet, and be ever with Him.\\nWhile they were drawing toward the gate, a\\ncompany of the heavenly host came to meet them\\nto whom it was said, by the other two Shining\\nOnes, These are the men that have loved our Lord\\nwhen they were in the world, and that have left all\\nfor His holy name and He hath sent us to fetch\\nthem, that they may go in and look their Redeemer\\nin the face with joy. Then the heavenly host gave\\na great shout, saying. Blessed are they which are\\ncalled unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.\\nThen there came out several of the King s trumpet-\\ners, clothed in white and shining raiment, who, with\\nmelodious noises, made even the heavens to echo\\nwith their sound. These trumpeters saluted Chris-\\ntian and his fellow with ten thousand welcomes\\nfrom the world and this they did with shouting,\\nand sound of trumpet.\\nThen I saw in my dream that the Shining Men\\nbid them call at the gate; the which, when they\\ndid, some looked from above over the gate, to wit,\\nEnoch, Moses, and Elijah, etc., to whom it was\\nsaid. These pilgrims are come from the City of De-\\nstruction, for the love that they bear to the King of\\nthis place; and then the pilgrims gave in unto\\nthem each man his certificate, which they had re-\\nceived in the beginning; those, therefore, were car-\\nried in to the King, who, when He had read them,\\nsaid. Where are the men? To whom it was an-\\n^107", "height": "2506", "width": "1757", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "THE PILGPilM S PROGRESS. 191\\nswered, They are standing without the gate. The\\nKing then commanded to open the gate, That the\\nrighteous nation, said He, which keepeth the truth\\nmay enter in.\\nNow I saw in my dream that these two men went\\nin at the gate: and lo, as they entered, they were\\ntransfigured, and they had raiment put on that\\nshone like gold. There was also that met them\\nwith harps and crowns, and gave them to them\\nthe harps to praise withal, and the crowns in token\\nof honor. Then I heard in my dream that all the\\nbells in the city rang again for joy, and that it was\\nsaid unto them, Enter ye into the joy of your\\nLord. I also heard the men themselves, that they\\nsang with a loud voice, saying, Blessing, and\\nhonor, and glory, and power, be unto him\\nthat sitteth upon the throne, and unto the\\nLamb, for ever and ever.\\nNow, just as the gates were opened to let in the\\nmen, I looked in after them, and, behold, the City\\nshone like the sun the streets also were paved with\\ngold, and in them walked many men, with crowns\\non their heads, palms in their hands, and golden\\nharps to sing praises withal.\\nThere were also of them that had wings, and they\\nanswered one another without intermission, saying.\\nHoly, holy, holy is the Lord. And after that they\\nshut up the gates; which, when I had seen, I\\nwished myself among them.\\nNow while I was gazing upon all these things, I\\nturned my head to look back, and saw Ignorance", "height": "2491", "width": "1700", "jp2-path": "pilgrimsprogress03buny_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "192 THE PILGRIM S PROGRESS.\\ncome up to the river side but he soon got over, and\\nthat without half that difficulty which the other\\ntwo men met with. For it happened that there\\nwas then in that place, one Vain-hope a ferryman,\\nthat with his boat helped him over; so he, as the\\nother 1 saw, did ascend the hill, to come up to the\\ngate, only he came alone neither did any man meet\\nhim with the least encouragement. When he was\\ncome up to the gate, he looked up to the writing\\nthat was above, and then began to knock, suppos-\\ning that entrance should have been quickly admin-\\nistered to him but he was asked by the men that\\nlooked over the top of the gate, Whence came you?\\nand what would you have? He answered, I have\\neat and drank in the presence of the King, and He\\nhas taught in our streets. Then they asked him\\nfor his certificate, that they might go in and show\\nit to the King so he fumbled in his bosom for one,\\nand found none. Then they said. Have you none?\\nBut the man answered never a word. So they told\\nthe King, but he would not come down to see him,\\nbut commanded the two Shining Ones that con-\\nducted Christian and Hopeful to the City, to go out\\nand take Ignorance, and bind him hand and foot,\\nand have him away. Then they took him up, and\\ncarried him through the air, to the door that I saw\\nin the side of the hill, and put him in there. Then\\nI saw that there was a way to hell, even from the\\ngates of heaven, as well as from the City of De-\\nstruction. 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