Pilgrim's Progress, Part 2 - The Gospel Magazine

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'{qugh't for their lives, and Giant DeJpair was brought
down to the ground, but was very loth to die: he ftruggled Def p l1ir i.•
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hasd, and had, as theyfay, as many lives as a cat; but.
Great-heart was his death, for he le!t him not till he-had
fevered his head from his lhoulders (0). .
Then they fell to demolilhing Deubting-Caflle, and that Doubting.
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know might with eafe be done, fince Giant DeJpair molilhed.
was dead, They were.feven days in deftroying of that:
and in it, of pilgrims" they found one Mr. DeJpondency,
'almoft flarved to death, and one Much-afraid his daugh- -
ter; thefe tW0 they faved ali;e. But it would. have
made you wonder, to have feen the dead bodies that lay
here and there in' the caille yard, and how full of dead
men's bones the dungeon was.
When Mr. Great-heart and his companions had per·
formed t~is exploit, they took Mr. DeJPofidency, and his'
daughter Much.afraid, intb their protection, for they
were hon'eit:people, tho' they were prifoners in Doubting­
Cajlle to Giant Defpair. They therefore, I fay, took
with them the head of the Giant (for his body they had
buried under a heap of fl:ones), and down to the road, ,
and to their compaDoions they came, and lhewed them
what. they had done. Now when Feeble-mind and Readyto-halt
f~w that it Was the.head of the Giant Difpair Indeed,
they were very jocund and merry. 1'fow Chrijlfana, They have
jf need was, could play upon the viol~ and her daughter
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Merel upon the lute: fo fince they Were fa merrily difpaCed,
lhe played them a le1f9D, and Ready.t~-hait ~ould
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dance. So he took Defpondency's daug!1ter, Much· afraid,
by !he hand, and to dancing tbey went in the road.
True, he could not dance without ,one. ~rutch in hill
(0) What cannot Great.heart do ? what fcats not pe-rforin I, what victories
lIot gain I Who-can fiand be(ore cJreat-heart ? Diffidence !hall fal·l, and Giant
Defpair b~ /lain, by. the pow,er of Great:hear:, wilh th", {word of tbe Spirit,
wJlich i~ the. word of God, Epb. vi. 17• .,'en Drfpoudency, though .lmoit
fiarved, lIrail be delive;ed, and hi; dauj;hter Muth-afriid ihall be refcued.
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