Pilgrim's Progress, Part 2 - The Gospel Magazine

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.Hon. I perceive you know him;' and I am apt to bc~
Feeble.
mind h:u
lieve alfo, that you were related one to another, for you fome ofMr.
have his whitely look, a cafr like his with your eye, and, rFeatring's
. ea ures.
Y our fpeech is' much alike. •.
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Fe~hl. MoR have {aid fo, that have known us both;
and,· ;befides,. what l' have read 'in him, I have for. the
moll: p~rt found in myCelf.
Gaius. Co~e, Sir, faid'good Gaius, be of good chear, Gaius eom·
forts him.
,~u are welcome to me, and to my houre, and what thou
:-hall: a mind to, call for freely; and what thou wouldfi:
llave ~y fervan'ts do for thee, they wilt" do it with a ready
·mind. >
. 'then faid Mr. Feeble.mind, This is an unexpected Notice to be
taken of
favour, and as the fun fhining out of a '{ery dark cloud. providellce.
Pid Gjant Slay-good intend me this favour when he ftopt .
.me, and refolved toJet me go no farther? Did he intend,
that after he had rifled my pocket, I fhould go to
Gaius mine hoft? 'Yet f6 it IS (x).
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__ Now, ,jufi: as Mr. Feeble-mind' and Gaius were thus in .Tiding'how
~'. one Nottalk,
there comes one running, and called at the door, riiht was
~d told, that about a milt) and ahalf oif,. there W2S one ~~~:::.~a
Mr. Not-right, a pilgrim,· ftruck dead upon the place bolt: and
h h
. -. h h d b 1 Mr. Feeble-.
.w ere e was, wit a t un er 0 t. 'mind's com-
. Feehl. ·A.las! faid Mr. Feeble-mind, is he flain? He ment upoa
ook me fame days before I came fo far as hither, it•
.,. id: would be my -company-keeper; -he alfo was with me
';;hen Slay.good took me. but he was nimble of his heel$,
al\d efcaped ; but it fee·ros, he efcaped todie, and' I was
taken toliv.e rfl. , I
(.xl 0 how fweet to r~flea, the moll gigantic enemy /hall be_cO!lnquered,
and their Rlilfl: malicious defigns /hall be ever-ruled for our gooO': Y'", what
they intend for our,ru>n, /hall be made to work for our health and profperity.
(y) See the various dealings of God, and more and more adore him in all.
. JUs way.s of providence and gra