Pilgrim's Progress, Part 2 - The Gospel Magazine

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guilt took hold of my mind, and wou:td hav~ drawn m~
into the pond; but that opportunely1had, a dr,eam of the
. well-being of my hulband, and a letter fent br the King
of that country, where nry halband dwells, to c~me t~
him. The dream and the letter 'together [C) wrought upon
my mind, that they forced me to this way•.
Inter. But met you with no oppofition before YGU [e~
Qut of doors?
Chrijl. Yes, a neighbour of mine, one ~rs. T'imoroJli
(!he ~as akin to him that would nave per'[~aded. my hufband
to'goback, for fear ofthe.1ions). She a\fo fo be­
'fooled me, for, as fue. called it, my intended defperate
adventure; {he a\fo urged what {he could to difhearten
me from it, the hard{hip and troubles that my hufband
met with in the way: but all this I got over pretty, well.
But a dream that I had of two ill-Iook'cl ones, that i
thought did plot how to make me mifcarrY in my journey,
that hath troubled m'e: yea, it Il:iJI runs in my mind,
and makes me afraid of everyone that I met, leIl: they
lhould meet me. to .do me a mliChief, and turn me out of
my way (w). Yea, I may teU my Lord, tho' I would
not have every-body know it, that, between this and the
Gate by which we got into t he way,' we were Imth [Q
'Jorelya!faulted, th;t we were ma.de- to cry out Murder;
and the two that made this alfault upon us, were like th'e
two that I raw in my dream.
Then faid the hlterprctcr, Thy beginning 'Is good, thy
latter end !hall greatly increafe. So he addrelfed hitilfelf
to .Nlcrcy, and laid unto her;:' 'And what moved thee to
come hither," fweetheart ?
(w) Ah, Mrs,'TImorous! hO\9 many profelfed pil2rims haa thou befooled
and t~rned b.~k I HGW often does /he attack dod affrigh~ maoy real pilgrims!
I am (ure, /he has often made my poor hearr·.ke with her gha/ty looks, and
'terrifyjng fpeechcs. She always .ccofts liS in th" Arminia,! dialect, S.~YI:
. 7HYS£I.F; or, like fat.n, when he borrowed Peter's tongue, to oppore our
"Lord's (lIfferings. 0 may we ever fay to her, in our Lord'. words, "-Get thee
'behihd me, fatan: thou favoreft not the things that be of God, but thnfethat
be of men,". Matt. xvi. z3'
G2
. Mmy.
A queftion
put to Mer·
cy.