Pilgrim's Progress, Part 2 - The Gospel Magazine

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preferring the excellencies of this life. She is a bold
and impudent llut; fhe will talk with any man. She
.Iaugheth poor pilgrims to fcorn; but highly commends
the rich. If there be one cunning enQugh to get money
in a piace, fhe will fpeak well of him from houfe to
houfe; fhe loveth banqueting and feafting mainly well;
fhe is always at one full table or another. She has given
it out a't fame places, that fhe is. a goddefs, and therefore
fame do worfhip her. She has her time and open
places of cheating; and fhe will fay, and avow it, that
none can fhew a good comparable to hers. She promifeth
to dwell with children's children, if they would
but love and make much of her. She will call: out of
her purfe gold like dull:, in fame places, and to fame
perfons. She loves to be fought after, fpoken well of,
p.nd to lie in the bofoms of men. She is never weary of
coinmending here commodities, and lhe loves them mail:
that think bell: of her. She will promife downs and
kingdoms, if they ,will but take her advice; yet many
. hath ilielilrought to the halter, and ten thoufand times
more to hell.
StandJafl. Oh! faid StandJ'!fl, what a mercy it is that
I did refift heJ ..1 for whither might fhe have drawn me!
Great-heart. "Whither! nay, none btlt God knows•
.But, in general,lhe would have drawn thee into" many 1 Tim. vi. g;
foolifh ,md hurtfullufts, which drown men in dell:rutl:ion
and perdition."
It was fhe that fet Abfalom againll: his father, and 'jeroboam
againft hi's mafter. It was [he that perfuaded
Juda; to fell his Lord, and thatp-revailed with Demas to
forfake :the godly pilgrim's life: none can tell of the
mifchief that ihe (loth. She makes variance betwixt
rulers and fubjetts, betwixt parents and children, betwixt
"neighbour and neighbour, betwixt a man and his wife,
betwixt a man and himfelf, betwixt the fie lh and the
fpirit.
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