Pilgrim's Progress, Part 2 - The Gospel Magazine

Feeb'e·mind
gl.d to fee
R!e,dy-to-
halt come.
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a fuitable companion, but Jhou art according' to 'niy
wllh, h '~J(;()nlt:, ',u(;ome, good Mr. Ready-ta-baIt, I
hope thou and I m,jy be fome help.
Ready-to-hait. I thall be glad ,of thy company, faid the
other; and, good Mr. Feeble-mind, rather than we wili
part, £Ince we are thus happily met, I will lend thee on,e
pf my crutches Cb), -
Feebl. N~y, faid he~ though I thank thee for thy good­
, will, I am irlClined to halt before I am lame. Howbeit,
I think, wh~n occaton is, it may help me againft a
,dog.
Read;;-ta-halt• .If either myfelf, or my er ches,' calJ.
do the~ a pleafure, we are both at thy command, gooq.
Mr. Feeble-mind.
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, Thus therefore they went on. Mr. Great·heart and
Mr:Hond/ went before, Chrijliana and 'her children went
next, ,!-ndMr. Feeble-mirJd and Mr. Ready-to-ohalt came
behind with his crutches~ Then [aid Mr. Honejl:
New talk. flon. Pray, Sir, now we are YJpon the, road, tell us
fome profitable thingspf fame that have gone:op pilgrimage
before us. I '
Great-heart. With a g.ood will~ I fuppofe you have
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p. 61 to 66. heard how· Chriflian of old did meet with Apol&on in the,
Valley of H!Jmiliatjon, and alfo what hard wor~ he haq.
to go through the Valley of the Shadow of Death. AlfQ
. I think you cannot but have heard how Faithful was ,pu~
to it by Madam Wanton, with Adq-m the flrft, with 'one
Difeontent and Sbame : four as deceitful villaiq's as a maq.
can meet with upon the,road.
Jiop. Yes, I-believe 1 heard of.all thjs; but- indeed
good'Faitbful was hardeft put to it with Sham.e; he was
an unwearied one. .
Cb) Excellent! See the nature of chtiftian jove: even to be ready to fpare
to a ~br~iher, what we oudel,;es have ocealion for. Love looketh not at thill '
thin~s of our own, but to provide for the wants of ~thers.
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