Pilgrim's Progress, Part 2 - The Gospel Magazine

Of the tree
that is rot- ,
ten at heart.
They are at
fupper.
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.'When the Interpr..tter had done, he takes them out int'O·
his garden again, and had them to a tree, whore inlide was
ali,rotten and gone, and yet itgrew,and had ](}avb: Then
[aid Mercy, What means' this j.This tree, faid hc, whore'
outfide is,fair, and wh{Jre inlide IS rotten, it is, to which,
many may be compa~ed that are in the garden of God::
who with their mouths fpeak high in behalf orGod, but
',indeed wiJ.l do nothing for hi m; whore leaves' ate 'fair"
but their heart good for nothing but to be tinder ~or the
devil's tiu.del"-box (u). -,
Now rupper was reauy, the table fpread, and all things'
{et on' b,oard ;.JG,they fat .down~~and did e:lt. when one
had gi,ven thanKS~ And die Interpreter did ufuaHy enter';'
~Tn.thofe •.~hat IQdged wit:h'him, with mufic at'meals; fo
the minftrels played. There was alfa one that did fing~,
and a very fine voice he !lad: .His fang was this:,
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" The Lord is only my fUpp0rt,
C,l And, he: ~J1:rt d,oth ,me feed;
" How ~a~ i then yvant any thing.
" Whereof
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I frand in need?"
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Talltat fup- :When fhe fong,;md~4Jj.~, wer,e ende~,.· t~e, lnterpreUr
:::i~io~'ofe~ )llke,~ C15rijJ/anq, What :it was ~hat at firfl: did move her,.­
ChrilHana', 'thus to'I>eiake herfelf to a pilgrim's life? 9hrifliana ane.pericnee.
f"\f~l~d: .,firfr, dle lofs of !flY hufband came' into my
mind, at'v,r.hicl} I was h~artily grieved: but aJI that was
natural ·alfeClion. Then, a'fter that came the troubles
·and pjl,g~image of my hufb~nd into my mind. and alfo
'how like a churl I .had 'carried it to him as to that. S.
(u) ,That's-my very ~haraaer, rays many a doubting, broken-hearted fiR.
~tler, ''Veil, thank GO,d, fays many a fdf-confident, wJiole·hearted Pl1arifee,
it i, far from being mine. We can only fay to this, he that kllows moft of
hi. OWl! fuperl~tjvely dcc,itful ~n9jefpe~"~j;ly wicked heart, fufpeas .himfelf
· moli,and exer~i(es m!lft godly jealoufy over'bimfelf; while perfons, who fee lealt
•ef'theml$lves; are moll felf-confident ar,d daring. Even Judas could as bol~ly
afk, Maner,·1s it I whg /hall betray thee? as any of the [eft of hisdifcipJes.
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