Pilgrim's Progress, Part 2 - The Gospel Magazine

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.t., He that'did wear this head, was on~
" That pilgrims' did. mifufe ;
~.' He fl:opp'd t~eir way, hefpared none.
&< But did them aB a'bufe:
". Until that I Great-heart arofe,
" The pilgrims' guide to be;
" Until that I did him oppore,
." ~lio was their enemy."
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Now I faw that they went to the afeeat, that was,
,a lit~le way off, cafl: up to be a prolpeCl: for pilgrims
(that was the place from whence Chrijii'anhad the firit
ftght of Faithful his brorher): wherefore here they fat.
down, and reited '; they alfo .here did eat and .drink, and
make meny, for that they had gotten deliverance from
this fo dangerous an enC!my. As they fat thUs and did
~at, Chrijliana alked the.~).uide, If he had caught no hurt
i~ the battle? No, {ave a little hn my flefh; yet that
allo iliall be fo far from being' to my detrim~n.t. that it is
atrreCent ~ proof of my love to my Mafter and you,
and'l1l.aU be.a means, Py grate, to' increafe my reward
at lafl:. ' .
all. .
But what did you think, when be fetched you down
.to the ground at the firfl: blow?
,",Vhy. I tho4ght, q'uoth he,- that fo' my Ma:fl:er was
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{erved, and yet,he it was that ctilnquered at lafl:.
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·But was you netafra1d, good Sir, when you Caw him 2 Cor. iv.
Difcourfe pf
come ~ith his club (u) ?
~he fight.,
'Jt is my duty, faid he, to mHhufl: my own ability,
that imay have relianc~ on him that is :fl:ronger than
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(u) This dub we m,ay fuppofe to mean, human power, under whkb m3,DY
.~t.dly minift~rs in the lan: century. fuffered greatly. Rlelfed be God,_ we
~ave nothing of this to fear in Our day: therefore the more /hame for foch
profelfo.rs, who defert Chrift, whe~ they have nothing' to -fear but the 'breath
c of reproach, a n,ickname, or a bye-word of contempt,