Pilgrim's Progress, Part 2 - The Gospel Magazine

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Bever :be/ ov~rcome~
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unlefs he ihould' yield of him-
Great- heart. Well faid~ father Honefl, quoth the guiqe ~
for by this I Know thou art a cock of the right kind, for
thou hall faid the. truth.
/ ,Hon. And by this alfo I know thou kno':Vefl wl1at true
pilgrimage is; for all others do ~hlnk, that we are the
foonell pvercome l of any.
Great-heart. Well, ,now we are happily met, piay)et
me crave your na!Jle, and the name of th~ plaee you cam~
from? _' .
Grean-heart. My name I cannot: but I came from the
town ef Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the
City of DellruCl:ion. .
Great-bear-t. Or.! Are you that countryman1 q-'hen
I deem I have half a guefs of, you; yo.~r
name is old
}lonejly, is it not? So the old gentlernaq hI ufh'd, .and (aid,
N.'ot Hmefllin the abflr-afi (y) : but Hone/iy is my name~
and J wifh that my nature may agree. to.wJ1llt I am called.
Hon. But, Sir, faid the old gentleman,. how could you
guefs that I am (uch a man~ fiilce I came from fudr a place?
Great-heart, 1 had beard of you before-~ by my Ma/kr ;
for he knows all things that are done on the earth; but
I have often :wondered that any fhould come fro.m your:
place, (ofy-our town is wo-rfe .than is' the City .of Defrrutl:ion
j/'felf.
(xl Mind this. A chriftian can never be overcome, unJef. he' yields of
himfeJ f. Then be mQft jealous over yourfelf, and moft wntchful againft giving
way to carnal reafonings, natural fears, and flethly lufts.. · Look at yourfelf,
and be humble. Look to God's word for courage.
(y) By honefly in the ttbflraR, he means to di-Itinguith between himfelf
,;and a perfeCt charaCter. Every chriftian is the fubjill of honefty or juftice, up_
rightnefs, and fincerity; yet when we come to defcribe thefe virtue' in the
abftraCt, ·or what tbey really ar~ in their ftriCt purity, and ntmoft perfe.;tion,
where is the chriftian bllt mull wear the confcious blulh as ~onefty did, un­