Pilgrim's Progress, Part 2 - The Gospel Magazine

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Bat!!; Mr. (;1'14t, he4j"t' t>l!g~n ~ t~ tak~ his lea"~,e pf 'himi
:lnd to wifh him a good reception above; fo he faid, ... '+
t:)':s bold41e-1's {hall, I fhall ;" then pa-'rteq w,e !lf~naer,,"and I fa~'him IN
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plore. ' I
~ Hon. Then, ,t feems, 11e wa~ well at lafi ? " '''; I
Great-beart: y ~s', yes, -{ 'never had a'ny dpubt abo~~
hiJ'll '; 'he was a mal~ of a ~hO'i~ fp·i~it:.. &hly hc' w~~ al- '
ways kept very low, -and that m~de ~i,s' We :(0 b-urde'n"-
, fome, to himfelf, and fo 'very -troubleibme 0' ~\:hets;"{fr.
Ixxxiii. Ro~. ~iv. 2'1: cr-Cor. viii. '3'" He ~as, a&We
many,. tender of fin; ~e was fo aTrard of doing tnJilr~e~
to others, th~t he 'would- o~ten cNny himfetf'of Fh at w~ch
was lawful, becal!l(e he,w0Ufd not"Offerid (g). ". ~- of'
, lfOlZ. Rut what 1houlG be the rea(tJn ~hit fuch'a'g?o4
man fhould be all h~s d,ayHIJ q1\1ch \in' tq~e dark?' ') J;
leafon why, Great-heart. ,There aft two fort:s ,of rea(ons . for it'~
ood men are. .' .. '.., " '
~ in the one ::IS; The wlfe·God w~1I have It fo; f'Gme mufl pIpe,
, k: '. and Jome muft weep! flOW Mr. Feari-ag was one that
"t(.XIo16, d" '. r'.J:
;~8. ' playe upon th€ bafs., He' a'nd hIS fer~ows lottnu th-e
fackbut,'whofe notes:are,more d-01eful than notes pn:lhis firing firit, wh(n he fets the foul in tl1ne for
himfelf. Only there'was the imperfediQn of Mr.7trenr-_
ing". he cowld J}lay upon no other mu.fic but this, tit!' to-
',w.ards-his latt~r end. ; I. 1
r ., J make bold ·to tal'lt thus rnetaphoriq.Uy, for the ripen:.
'~Qg of It~e wi~s _of-.youAg leaderS; -and ·oec2.ufe, -iA tk-e
.bOdlQ of tha Revelations, the faved are, co~pared to a
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nrength be. Ev'en th'-river of de~th, thnugh there be no blidge to go o'lter,
yet faith makes one: anq the Lot-d of faith mak•• the waters low, to [uit the
r ft;te of 'his heloved ones. _ "
, ("l,O this is a bl~lTed fpirit! Ye who are. {hong in the Lord, and in the
!,o,w~r of h~s might, 'ftudy lo exctl,herein. ' • '
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