Pilgrim's Progress, Part 2 - The Gospel Magazine

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"God's people, 'HoC. iv. 8. is no fign of one that is 1'offeffed
of their virtl,les. Nor can I believe, that one who
is Of this opinion, can at pre~fefJt have faith or, love 'in,
him. But·I know you have made fame ftrong objections
againft him, pr'ythee what can he [ay fot himfelf'
?
. ,'Hon. Why, he fays; To do this 6y way of opinion.
feems abundantly more honeft than ,to do it; and yet
hold: cont,r~ry to'it in 0pinion.'
Great-heart.. A .very wiel(ea anfwer; for ,though to
let: loofe the bridle to lufis, while our opinions are agai~fl:
fuch thing,s, is bad' ; ye't, to. fin; an'cl ple,ad a tolerationJo
to do, is worfe : the one fium b1es beholders accidentally,
the other leads them into .the fnare.
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H:m. There are many of this man's mind, that have
not this man's mouth; and that makes gGin'g on pilgri'-
mage of fo little efteem as it is. ' , - -
Great·beart. You have'faid the trutll~ and it is to be'
l~'lliented ; b-ut he that: feareth the King of Paradife, !hall ,
'come1out of them all.
Cbrijl. There' are fiJange opinion's- V1 the world: I
. know one that faid, It was time' enough to repent- when'
we come to die•
. 'Great-beart, Such' are not over-wife: that man would
have ~een loth, might he haye had a week to run twenty
miles in, his- hre, to have deferred that journey to the,lail:
hour of that week. . '
, lion; Yau Jay right; and yet the general fty of them..
th,at count themfelves pilgrims, do indeed d6 thus. I
am. as'youJee, an oldman~ and pave been a traveper in
'this road many a day ; and 1 ha,ve taken 110tit:e of many
things (m).
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• : (m) ~ray 'attentively mind, apd deeply confider, the fi~ following ohfe~va.
tions : they are jult j they are daily confirmed to our obfervation, in the different
~ondua of profelIOrs. Study, and pray tu improve'taem, tlfyaur fool's
profit.
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