Pilgrim's Progress, Part 2 - The Gospel Magazine

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~ee~and fuch too as liveJupon thech~r~tyofour friencrs,~
f Jlr-[av: Then faid one o~ th~ ,two. h!en, W:. ~:a~k~ '!l'?
affault.upon you for, money, ~u~ are f~!!'~ out : t~ ~el, "
you, that .if you will but. ~rant on~ f~aU ~eql,le~.;w~Jc:~
we fhalI afk, we will make women of you for ever.
"'Chrijt. Now ChriJtiana imagining ~hai: they"l1i~'ula
mean, m,ade a~fwer again, ,,'We win neithbr: hear ~~t
:regard~ nor yield to what you Jhall af1c; "~~ ~ieJ la
h~fte, and cannot fray, our bullnefs' is o( life and death.
$0 again fhe and her companiQns, JA3d~' a frefh eIray to
go paft th~m': but they lett;d thc:"m. in their way'. ~ , ,
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I!/.jav. And they faid, We intend no hu~!o your
lives; 'tis anoth~r thing we would 'h"ave. , u'.. "
_ ChriJt. Ay, quoth Chrijtiana, you 'wo~ld h~v~ us body She cries
• .J _ out.
an~.foul, .f;o~ :lknow 'tis for tl)~,t y,~u are com~; ',~,ut we
will die rat~er u,pon the fpot, 'th~n', tohlf?~ ~uife1ve~ t? "
be brought m.fo~ fuch [nares, as r ih~lt liaz~rd 9~r well,-'
being h.ereafter. And with 'th'at they'bofh~'fhr!e'ked out, Deut. xxii.
and cry'd Murder, Murder., And'fo P~t' ,tlieinfeIves'u~- ~3;:z6>37.
der thoCe laws tpat are proviqed for the p'~oteaj~!i, of~w~men,
But tbe men frill made th~ir approa2h ~pon Jtneii1,
with'defign to prevail againfr'them; They therefore'cried
out ~gain (d). : ' '" '~' ,
Now they being, as 1 faid, not far from' the Gate, in
at which they came, "'their voice was heard from where
. they wer~,'thither: ~he~ef~re' ~Onle ~~. the houte came
out,. and knowing that it was Chriftiana's tongue; they
Cd) Here we 'Cu, that the moll violent temptation to'~be'gre;tell e~i1, is not
fin, if refilled and-not complied with. Ollr dear.Lord himfelf was,tempted in,
all thing's like as· WI! ar~; yet without fin. Therefore, ye dear followers, of
him, don't be deje£l:ed and call down, tho'Jgh you 1hould be'e""rdfed with
. teinptations to the blackeft crimes, and the moft hein'ous frns. You cal1not'loe
1 affaulted witb wO,rfe t~an your Lord w.s', 'be WlfS tempted'to hellilh unbelief, ­
abominable,idola'rry, and cruel felf,murder, by the d...il ; 'but he refifted Satan,
and overcame all in our nature. Andhe is faithful, who will not fuffer us to
Le tempted ~bov,e that WI are able; b..t will, with the temptation a]fo, make
a w.y 'to efcaPe' diat",e nny be abI'e to bea~ it, 'I Co": x. i 3. 0 tben cry te
flisll, J.I,e.is the precious Relie',,.,, wh,o will cOllie in the hour of diftrefs.
made
It is good t8
cry out wb..
we are affaulted.