Pilgrim's Progress, Part 2 - The Gospel Magazine
Pilgrim's Progress, Part 2 - The Gospel Magazine
Pilgrim's Progress, Part 2 - The Gospel Magazine
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<strong>The</strong>n Chrijliana made low obeifance, and '{aid, Let not<br />
our Lord be offended with his handmaidens, for that we<br />
~ave knocked at his princelyGate. <strong>The</strong>n faid the keeper,<br />
Whepee came ye? And what i~ that you would have?<br />
Chriftiana anfwered, We are come from whence Chrtf<br />
tian did come, and upon the fame errand as he j to wit,<br />
to be, i'f it lhalll'lea'fe you, graciQufIy admitted, by this, '<br />
Gate, iQto the way that leads unto the Celeftial City.<br />
And I an[wer, my Lord, in the next place, that I am<br />
Cbrijliana, once the wife of Chrijlian, that now is gotten<br />
abov~. .<br />
~With that the Keeper of the Gate did marvel, faying,<br />
What is the now become a pilgrim, that but a while ago<br />
abhorred that life? <strong>The</strong>n the Itowed her head" and faid,<br />
Yea, and fo are thefe my fweet babes a'lfo.<br />
How-CbriC- <strong>The</strong>n he took her. by the hand, and let her in; and<br />
tiana is entettaineQ<br />
at . faid alfo; "'Stiffer the little childI:e'n to ~onie ilnto me;"<br />
the Gate. "with that he thut up'the Gate. This done, he called to<br />
a trumpeter tnat was above, over the Gate, to entertain<br />
Chrifliana ~ith thputing, and found of tru~pet, for joy.<br />
So he obeyed and founded, and fill'd the air with his me...<br />
lodious notes.' , '<br />
Now, all this while poor Mercy did. frand without,<br />
trembling and crying~ for fear that !he was rejected. But<br />
when Chr!ftiana had got' admittance for herfelf and hu<br />
boys, then !he began to make interceffion for Mercy.<br />
Chrilliana's Chrifl. And !he [aid, My Lord, I have a companion'<br />
prayer for<br />
her friend of mine that fulnds yet without, that is come hither upon<br />
Merey. the fame account as tnyfelf: one that is much qeje'Cl:ed<br />
in her mind, for that the comes; as !he thinks, without<br />
fendi~g for; whereas I was fent to by my Huiband's<br />
King,to come. \<br />
<strong>The</strong> delays<br />
make the<br />
kungering<br />
. Now MCfcy began to be very impatient, and each minute<br />
w~s as l~g to her as an hour j wherefore the pr~-<br />
(oul the fer- ,<br />
\"enter. and he will fly from you, James iv. 7,. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw<br />
nigh to you, James iv. 8. 0 ever rememberoul" clear Lord's word, Men Ihbu14,<br />
'pray alway~, and not'faint, Luke xviii. 1. .<br />
vent~Q<br />
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