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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Cbrifl. Nay, faid Chrljiiana., if they were fuch? they<br />
fuould never be bewailed by me: they have but what<br />
they deferve j and I think. it weB that they fia~.d fa near<br />
the highway, that others may fee and take warning. But<br />
ha~ it not beeh well, if their crimes had been en graven<br />
on fame pillar of. iron or bra:s, and left here \#here they<br />
did their mif.chiefs, for a caution to other bad men? '<br />
Great-heart. So 'it is" as you may well perceive, if you<br />
will go a little to the wall. . '<br />
Mercy. No, no;' let them bang, their names rot, and<br />
their crimes lie. for ever againft them: L think it is a<br />
high favour that they are h2;nged before we came hither;'<br />
who knows elfe what they might have done to fuch poor<br />
. women as we atc? <strong>The</strong>n {he turned it into a fang, fay~<br />
,<br />
ll1g,<br />
.'" Now then you three hang there, and be a fign<br />
" To all that {hall againfi the.truth combin~.<br />
" And let him that comes after, fear this end,<br />
" U'unto' pilgrims he is not a friend.<br />
" And thOtl, my foul, of all fuch men bew..:ep<br />
. " That unto ·!Jolinc[s oppofers are."<br />
Thus they' went on, till they came at the foot of the<br />
hill DifJicultj'(n), where again their' good frie.nd Mr•<br />
. Great heart took Qccafion to tell them what happened<br />
there when Chriflian h~mfelf went oy. So he had' them<br />
people in the fpirit of th.ir minds in ~ighteoltrners and true holinefs, fot without<br />
this real; pe"fonal holinefs n; man fh III fee the Lord, H~b. xii. 14. 0 bew~re<br />
of thefe three rort of profdfors, fo( they turn many afide. Real ,chrif.<br />
tians are in dariger of being fedured by the';", if !lot of total ddlruClian from<br />
them.<br />
(n) This hlil Difficulty' may ftgnify, how hard it Is to abide by ,Chria:<br />
cleave to him, and continue to hold faft the truth as it is him, whe!! furrounded<br />
by. errors and herefies 0"; every fide, and temptatipns and lulls ate<br />
continu~lJy.rprinZingup from v{ith!n us. But, looking to Jefus; and praying<br />
him t(l keep us, j; tile way of fafety, though the hill be evet fo diffi~ult t~<br />
... us. -'..., ~<br />
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