Pilgrim's Progress, Part 2 - The Gospel Magazine

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his knees in the Inchanted Gr.ound. And the PQH
brought it him open in his hands. T,he contents whereof
;.vere, That he mufl prepare fir a ,hante of life, for ~is
Mc:Jler was not willing that he Jhould be Jo far fro.m him any
longer. At this. Mr. Stan4fqfl was put into a mufe.
Nay, faith the meffenger, you need not doubt of the
truth of my meffage; for here is a token of the truth
Ecc1.xii.6. thereof: Thy whetl is b~oke1i at the ciJlern~ Then he
~~:c~~:;~~ called to him Mr. Great-hean, who was their:'guide, ,and L.
heart. {aid unto him, Sir, although it was not my hap to be
Hisfpecchto m1;lch in your good company in the days of my pilgrimhim.
age; yet, fince the time I knew you, you have been pro-
..fitable to me. When I cante from home, I left 'behind
me a wife, and five {mall children; let me intreat you,
_at your return (for I know that you go and return to
your Mafter's h.oMe, in'hopes that you may be a con- ,
duaor to more of.the holy pilgrims)" that you fend to
~iserra~dto my family, and let them be acquainted with all that
his tamlly. hath, and {hall happen unto me. lTell them, moreover,
of my happy arrival to this place, an~ of the prefent and
late bleffed condition that I am in. Tell them alfo of
Chrijizan and Chrifliana his wife, and howth~ and her
children came after her hufband. TeU them alfo, of'
what a happy end'the made, and whither the is gone.
I hav:e, little or nothing to fend to my family, except it
be my prayers and tears for them; oC 'which it will fufnce
if you acquaint them, if penidventure they may prevail.
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When-\Mr. StandJafi had thus fet things in order,and
,the time being come for him to h'afte him away, he alfo
went down to the river. Now' there was a great calm at
that time in the r~ver; wherefore Mr. Standjajl, when
he was about half way. in, flood, a while, and talked
. to his companions that had waited upon him tpither:
and he raid,
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