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03 - The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Part one, the second stage. Then did Christian address himself
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  Speaker 1: to go back and evangelist. After he had kissed him,
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  Speaker 1: gave him one smile and bid him God's speed. So
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  Speaker 1: he went on with haste. Neither spake he to any
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  Speaker 1: man by the way, nor if any asked him, would
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  Speaker 1: he vouchsafe them an answer. He went like one that
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  Speaker 1: was all the wild, treading on forbidden ground, and could
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  Speaker 1: by no means think himself safe till again he was
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  Speaker 1: got into the way which he had left to follow
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  Speaker 1: mister worldly Wiseman's counsel. So in the process of time
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  Speaker 1: Christian got up to the gate. Now over the gate
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  Speaker 1: there was written, knock, and it shall be opened unto
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  Speaker 1: you Matthew seven seven. He knocked therefore more than once
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  Speaker 1: or twice, saying, may I now enter here? Will he
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  Speaker 1: within open to sorry me? Though I have been an
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  Speaker 1: undeserving rebel, then shall I not fail to sing his
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  Speaker 1: lasting praise on high? At last there came a grave
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  Speaker 1: person to the gate named good Will, who asked who
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  Speaker 1: was there, and whence he came, and what he would
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  Speaker 1: have Christian, here is a poor bird and sinner. I
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  Speaker 1: come from the city of destruction, but I am going
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  Speaker 1: to Mount Zion, that I may be delivered from the
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  Speaker 1: wrath to come. I would, therefore, sir, since I am
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  Speaker 1: informed that by this gate is the way to thither,
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  Speaker 1: know if you are willing to let me in good will.
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  Speaker 1: I am willing with all my heart, said he, And
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  Speaker 1: with that he opened the gate. So, when Christian was
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  Speaker 1: stepping in, the other gave him a pull. Then said Christian?
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  Speaker 1: What means that the other told him? A little distance
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  Speaker 1: from this gate there is erected a strong castle, of
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  Speaker 1: which Beelzebub is the captain. From thence, both he and
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  Speaker 1: they that are with him shoot arrows at those that
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  Speaker 1: come up to this gate, if haply they may die
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  Speaker 1: before they can enter in. Then said Christian, I rejoice
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  Speaker 1: and tremble. So when he was got in, the man
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  Speaker 1: of the gate asked him who directed him thither. Christian
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  Speaker 1: Evangelist bid me come hither and knock as I did,
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  Speaker 1: And he said that, you, sir, would tell me what
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  Speaker 1: I must do. Good Will an open door set before
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  Speaker 1: thee and no man can shut it. Christian, Now I
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  Speaker 1: begin to reap the benefits of my hazards good will.
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  Speaker 1: But how is it that you came alone? Christian? Because
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  Speaker 1: none of my neighbors saw their danger as I saw mine,
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  Speaker 1: good Will, Did any of them know of your coming? Christian? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: my wife and children saw me at the first and
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  Speaker 1: called after me to turn again. Also some of my
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  Speaker 1: neighbors stood crying and calling after me to return. But
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  Speaker 1: I put my fingers in my ears, and so came
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  Speaker 1: on my way, good Will. But did none of them
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  Speaker 1: follow you to persuade you to go back? Christian? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: both Obstinate and Pliable. But when they saw that they
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  Speaker 1: could not prevail, Obstinate went railing back, But Pliable came
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  Speaker 1: with me a little way. Good Will, But why did
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  Speaker 1: he not come through? Christian? We indeed came both together
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  Speaker 1: until we came to the slow of despond, into the
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  Speaker 1: which we also suddenly fell. And then was my neighbor
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  Speaker 1: Pliable discouraged and would not venture father. Wherefore, getting out
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  Speaker 1: again on the side next to his own house, he
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  Speaker 1: told me I should possess the brave country alone for him.
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  Speaker 1: So he went his way, and I came mine here
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  Speaker 1: after Obstinate and I to this gate. Good Will, then
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  Speaker 1: said good Will, alas poor man is the celestial glory
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  Speaker 1: of so little esteem with him that he counted it
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  Speaker 1: not worth running the hazard of a few difficulties to
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  Speaker 1: obtain it. Christian truly said Christian, I have said the
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  Speaker 1: truth appliable, and if I should also say all the
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  Speaker 1: truth of myself, it will appear there is no betterment
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  Speaker 1: betwixt him and myself. It is true he went back
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  Speaker 1: to his own house. But I also turned aside to
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  Speaker 1: go in the way of death, being persuaded thereto by
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  Speaker 1: the carnal arguments of one mister worldly wiseman good Will.
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  Speaker 1: Oh did he light upon you what he would have
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  Speaker 1: had you have seek for ease at the hands of
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  Speaker 1: mister Legality. They are both of them a very cheat.
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  Speaker 1: But did you take his counsel, Christian? Yes, as far
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  Speaker 1: as I durst, I went to find out mister Legality,
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  Speaker 1: until I thought that the mountain that stands by his
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  Speaker 1: house would have fallen upon my head. Wherefore there I
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  Speaker 1: was forced to stop, good Will. That mountain has been
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  Speaker 1: the death of many and will be the death of
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  Speaker 1: many more. It is well you escaped, being by it
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  Speaker 1: dashed in pieces. Christ Why, truly I do not know
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  Speaker 1: what had become of me there had not evangelists happily
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  Speaker 1: met me again as I was musing in the midst
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  Speaker 1: of my dumps. But it was God's mercy that he
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  Speaker 1: came to me again, for else I had never come hither.
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  Speaker 1: But now I am come such a one as I
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  Speaker 1: am more fit indeed for death by that mountain than
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  Speaker 1: thus to stand talking with my Lord. But oh, what
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  Speaker 1: a favor is this to me, that yet I have
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  Speaker 1: admitted entrance here. Good Will, We make no objections against
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  Speaker 1: any notwithstanding all that they have done before they come hither.
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  Speaker 1: They in no wise are cast out John six thirty seven.
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  Speaker 1: And therefore, good Christian, come a little way with me,
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  Speaker 1: and I will teach THEE about the way thou must go.
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  Speaker 1: Look before THEE, dost thou see this narrow way, that
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  Speaker 1: is the way thou must go. It was cast up
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  Speaker 1: by the patriarchs, prophets, Christ and his apostles, and it
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  Speaker 1: is as straight as a rule can make it. This
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  Speaker 1: is the way thou must go, Christian. But said Christian,
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  Speaker 1: are there no turnings nor windings by which a stranger
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  Speaker 1: may lose his way? Good Will? Yes, there are many ways,
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  Speaker 1: but down upon this, and they are crooked and wide.
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  Speaker 1: But thus thou mayest distinguish the right from the wrong,
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  Speaker 1: the right only being straight and narrow Matthew seven fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: Then I saw in my dream that Christian asked him
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  Speaker 1: further if he could not help him off with his
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  Speaker 1: burden that was upon his back, for as yet he
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  Speaker 1: had not got rid thereof, nor could he by any
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  Speaker 1: means get it off without help. He told him, as
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  Speaker 1: to thy burden, be content to bear it until thou
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  Speaker 1: comest to the place of deliverance, for there it would
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  Speaker 1: fall from thy back of itself. Then Christian began to
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  Speaker 1: gird up his loins and to address himself to his journey.
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  Speaker 1: So the other told him that by by that he
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  Speaker 1: was gone some distance from the gate, he would come
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  Speaker 1: to the house of the Interpreter, at whose door he
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  Speaker 1: should knock, and he would show him excellent things. Then
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  Speaker 1: Christian took his leave of his friend, and he again
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  Speaker 1: bid him God's speed. Then he went on till he
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  Speaker 1: came at the house of the Interpreter, where he knocked
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  Speaker 1: over and over. At last one came to the door
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  Speaker 1: and asked who was there, Christian, Sir, here is a
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  Speaker 1: traveler who is bid by an acquaintance of the good
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  Speaker 1: man of this house to call here for my prophet.
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  Speaker 1: I would therefore speak with the master of the house.
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  Speaker 1: So he called for the mass of the house, who,
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  Speaker 1: after a little time came to Christian and asked him
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  Speaker 1: what he would have Christian, Sir, said Christian, I am
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  Speaker 1: a man that am come from the city of Destruction
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  Speaker 1: and am going to the Mount Zion. And I was
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  Speaker 1: told by the man that stands at the gate at
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  Speaker 1: the head of this way, that if I called here,
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  Speaker 1: you would show me excellent things such as would be
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  Speaker 1: helpful to me on my journey. Interpreter then said, Interpreter,
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  Speaker 1: come in, I will show thee that which will be
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  Speaker 1: profitable to thee. So he commanded his man to light
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  Speaker 1: the candle and bid Christian follow him. So he had
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  Speaker 1: him into a private room and bid his man open
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  Speaker 1: a door the witch. When he had done, Christian saw
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  Speaker 1: the picture very grave person hang up against the wall,
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  Speaker 1: and this was the fashion of it. It had eyes
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  Speaker 1: lifted up to heaven, the best of books in its hand,
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  Speaker 1: the law of truth was written upon its lips. The
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  Speaker 1: world was behind its back. It stood as if it
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  Speaker 1: pleaded with men, and a crown of gold did hang
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  Speaker 1: over its head. Christian then said, Christian, what means this interpreter.
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  Speaker 1: The man whose picture this is is one of a thousand.
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  Speaker 1: He can beget children one Corinthians four fifteen, travail in
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  Speaker 1: birth with children Galatians four nineteen, and nurse them himself
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  Speaker 1: when they are born. And wheres thou seest him, with
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  Speaker 1: his eyes lift up to heaven, the best of books
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  Speaker 1: in his hand, and the law of truth writ on
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  Speaker 1: his lips. It is to show THEE that his work
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  Speaker 1: is to know and unfold dark things to sinners, even
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  Speaker 1: as also thou seest him stand as if he pleaded
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  Speaker 1: with men, and where as thou seest the world as
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  Speaker 1: cast behind him, and that a crowd hangs over his head.
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  Speaker 1: That is to show THEE that slighting and despising the
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  Speaker 1: things that are present, for the love that he hath
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  Speaker 1: to his master's service. He is sure in the world
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  Speaker 1: that comes next to have glory for his reward. Now
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  Speaker 1: said the interpreter, I have showed THEE this picture first,
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  Speaker 1: because the man whose picture this is is the only
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  Speaker 1: man whom the Lord of the place whither thou art
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  Speaker 1: going hath authorized to be thy guide in all difficult
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  Speaker 1: places thou mayest meet with in the way. Wherefore, take
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  Speaker 1: good to what I have showed thee, and bear well
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  Speaker 1: in thy mind what thou hast seen. Lest in thy
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  Speaker 1: journey thou meet with some that pretend to lead thee right,
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  Speaker 1: but their way goes down to death. Then he took
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  Speaker 1: him by the hand and led him into a very
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  Speaker 1: large parlor that was full of dust because never swept
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  Speaker 1: the witch. After he had reviewed it a little while,
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  Speaker 1: the interpreter called for a man to sweep. Now, when
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  Speaker 1: he began to sweep, the dust began so abundantly to
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  Speaker 1: fly about that Christian had almost therewith been choked. Then
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  Speaker 1: said the interpreter to a damsel that stood by, bring
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  Speaker 1: hither water and sprinkle the room the witch. When she
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  Speaker 1: had done it was swept and cleansed with pleasure. Christian
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  Speaker 1: then said Christian, what means this interpreter? The interpreter answered,
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  Speaker 1: this parlor is the heart of a man that was
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  Speaker 1: never sanctified by the sweet grace of the Gospel. The
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  Speaker 1: dust is his original sea and inward corruptions that have
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  Speaker 1: defiled the whole man. He that began to sweep at
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  Speaker 1: first is the law. But she that brought water and
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  Speaker 1: did sprinkle it is the Gospel. Now, where's thou soarest,
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  Speaker 1: that so soon as the first began to sweep the
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  Speaker 1: dust did so fly about, that the room by him
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  Speaker 1: could not be cleansed, but that thou wast almost choked therewith.
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  Speaker 1: This is to show THEE that the law, instead of
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  Speaker 1: cleansing the heart, by its working from sin, doth revive
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  Speaker 1: Romans seventy nine, put strength into first Corinthians fifteen fifty six,
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  Speaker 1: and increase it in the soul Romans five twenty. Even
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  Speaker 1: as it doth discover and forbid it, for it doth
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  Speaker 1: not give power to subdue again, as thou sawest the
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  Speaker 1: damsel sprinkle the room with water, upon which it was
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  Speaker 1: cleansed with pleasure. This is to show THEE that when
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  Speaker 1: the gospel comes in the wheat and precious influences thereafter
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  Speaker 1: the heart. Then I say, even as thou sawest the
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  Speaker 1: damsel laid the dust by sprinkling the floor with water,
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  Speaker 1: so is sin vanquished and subdued, and the soul made
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  Speaker 1: clean through the faith of it, and consequently fit for
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  Speaker 1: the King of Glory to inhabit. John fifteen three, Ephesians
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  Speaker 1: five twenty six, Acts fifteen nine, Romans sixteen twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: and twenty six. I saw moreover in my dream that
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  Speaker 1: the interpreter took him by the hand and led him
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  Speaker 1: into a little room where sat two little children, each
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  Speaker 1: one in his chair. The name of the eldest was Passion,
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  Speaker 1: and the name of the other Patience. Passion seemed to
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  Speaker 1: be much discontent, but Patience was very quiet. Then Christian asked,
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  Speaker 1: what is the reason of the discontent of Passion. The
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  Speaker 1: interpreter answered, the governor of them would have him stay
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  Speaker 1: for his best things till the beginning of the next year.
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  Speaker 1: But he will have all now, But Patience is willing
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  Speaker 1: to wait. Then I saw that one came to Passion
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  Speaker 1: and brought him a bag of treasure, and poured it
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  Speaker 1: down at his feet, the which he took up and
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  Speaker 1: rejoiced therein, and with all laughed Patience to scorn. But
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  Speaker 1: I beheld but awhile, and he had lavished all away,
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  Speaker 1: and had nothing left him but rags. Christian then said
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  Speaker 1: Christian to the interpreter, expound this matter more fully to me. Interpreter,
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  Speaker 1: so he said, these two lads are figures Passion of
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  Speaker 1: the men of this world and Patience of the men
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  Speaker 1: of that which is to come. For as here thou
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  Speaker 1: seest Passion will have all now this year, that is
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  Speaker 1: to say, in this world, so are the men of
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  Speaker 1: this world. They must have all their good things now.
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  Speaker 1: They cannot stay till the next year, that is, until
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  Speaker 1: the next world, for their poor of good. That proverb
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  Speaker 1: a bird in the hand is worth two in the
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  Speaker 1: bush is of more authority with them than are all
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  Speaker 1: the divine testimonies of the good of the world to come.
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  Speaker 1: But as thou sawest that he had quickly lavished all
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  Speaker 1: the way, and had presently left him nothing but rags,
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  Speaker 1: so will it be with all such men at the
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  Speaker 1: end of this world. Christian then said Christian. Now I
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  Speaker 1: see that Patience has the best wisdom, and that upon
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  Speaker 1: many accounts, one because he stays for the best things
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  Speaker 1: two and also because he will have the glory of
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  Speaker 1: his when the other has nothing but rags. Interpreter, Nay,
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  Speaker 1: you may add another to wit. The glory of the
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  Speaker 1: next world will never wear out. But these are suddenly gone. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: Passion had not so much reason to laugh at Patience
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  Speaker 1: because he had his good things first, as Patience will
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  Speaker 1: have to laugh at Passion because he had his best
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  Speaker 1: things last. For first must give place to last, because
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  Speaker 1: last must have his time to come. But last gives
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  Speaker 1: place to nothing, for there is not another to succeed He. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: that hath his portion first must needs have a time
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  Speaker 1: to spend it. But he that hath his portion last
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  Speaker 1: must have it lastingly. Therefore it is said of dives
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  Speaker 1: in thy lifetime, thou receivest thy good things, and likewise
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  Speaker 1: Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted, and thou
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  Speaker 1: art tormented Luke sixteen twenty five. Christian, then I perceive
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  Speaker 1: it is not best to covet things that are now,
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  Speaker 1: but to wait for things to come. Interpreter, you say truth,
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  Speaker 1: for the things that are seen are temporal, but the
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  Speaker 1: things that are not seen are eternal second Corinthians four eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: But though this be so, yet, since things present and
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  Speaker 1: our fleshly appetite are such near neighbors one to another,
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  Speaker 1: and again because things to come and carnal sense are
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  Speaker 1: such strangers to one another. Therefore it is that the
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  Speaker 1: first of these so suddenly fall into amity, and that
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  Speaker 1: distance is so continued between the second. Then I saw
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  Speaker 1: in my dream that the interpreter took Christian by the
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  Speaker 1: hand and led him into a place where was a
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  Speaker 1: fire burning against the wall, and one standing by it,
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  Speaker 1: always casting much water upon it to quench it. Yet
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  Speaker 1: did the fire burn higher and hotter? Then said Christian?
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  Speaker 1: What means this? The interpreter answered, This fire is the
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  Speaker 1: work of brace that is wrought in the heart. He
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  Speaker 1: that casts water upon it to extinguish and put it
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  Speaker 1: out is the devil. But in that thou seest the fire,
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  Speaker 1: notwithstanding very higher and hotter, thou shalt also see the
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  Speaker 1: reason of that. So he had him about to the
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  Speaker 1: back side of the wall, where he saw a man
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  Speaker 1: with a vessel of oil in his hand, of the
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  Speaker 1: which he did also continually cast, but secretly into the fire.
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  Speaker 1: Then said Christian, what means this? The interpreter answered, this
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  Speaker 1: is Christ, who continually, with the oil of his grace,
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  Speaker 1: maintains the work already begun in the heart, by the
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  Speaker 1: means of which, notwithstanding what the devil can do, the
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  Speaker 1: souls of his people proved gracious still second Corinthius twelve nine.
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  Speaker 1: And in that thou sawest that the man stood behind
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  Speaker 1: the wall to maintain the fire. This is to teach
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  Speaker 1: thee that it is hard for the tempted to see
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  Speaker 1: how this work of great is maintained in the soul.
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  Speaker 1: I saw also that the interpreter took him again by
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  Speaker 1: the hand, and led him into a pleasant place, where
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  Speaker 1: was built a stately palace, beautiful to behold, at the
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  Speaker 1: sight of which Christian was greatly delighted. He saw also
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  Speaker 1: upon the top thereof certain persons walking who were clothed
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  Speaker 1: all in gold. Then said Christian, may we go in thither.
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  Speaker 1: Then the interpreter took him and led him up towards
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  Speaker 1: the door of the palace, And behold at the door
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  Speaker 1: stood a great company of men, as desirous to go in,
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  Speaker 1: but durst not. They also set a man at a
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  Speaker 1: little distance from the door, at a table side, with
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  Speaker 1: a book and his inkhorn before him, to take the
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  Speaker 1: names of them that should enter therein. He saw also
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  Speaker 1: that in the doorway stood many men in armor to
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  Speaker 1: keep it, being resolved to do to the men that
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  Speaker 1: would enter, what hurt and mischief they could. Now was
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  Speaker 1: Christian somewhat in a maze. At last, when every man
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  Speaker 1: started back for fear of the armed men, Christian saw
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  Speaker 1: a man of a very stout countenance come up to
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  Speaker 1: the man that sat there to write saying, set down
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  Speaker 1: my name, sir the rich. When he ye done, he
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  Speaker 1: saw the man draw his sword and put a helmet
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  Speaker 1: on his head, and rushed towards the door upon the
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  Speaker 1: armed men, who laid upon him with deadly force. But
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  Speaker 1: the man, not at all discouraged, fell to cutting and
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  Speaker 1: hacking most fiercely. So, after he had received and given
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  Speaker 1: many wounds to those that attempted to keep him out
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  Speaker 1: Matthew eleven twelve Acts fourteen twenty two, he cut his
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  Speaker 1: way through them all and pressed forward into the palace,
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  Speaker 1: at which there was a pleasant voice heard from those
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  Speaker 1: that were within, even of those that walked upon the
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  Speaker 1: top of the palace, saying, come in, Come, in eternal glory,
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  Speaker 1: thou shalt win. So he went in and was clothed
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  Speaker 1: with such garments as stay. Then Christian smiled and said,
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  Speaker 1: I think verily I know the meaning of this. Now,
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  Speaker 1: said Christian, let me go. Hence, nay, stay, said the interpreter,
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  Speaker 1: till I have showed thee a little more, and after
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  Speaker 1: that thou shalt go on thy way. So he took
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  Speaker 1: him by the hand again and led him into a
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  Speaker 1: very dark room, where there sat a man in an
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  Speaker 1: iron cage. Now the man to look on seemed very sad.
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  Speaker 1: He sat with his eyes looking down to the ground,
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  Speaker 1: his hands folded together, and he sighed as if he
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  Speaker 1: would break his heart. Then said Christian, what means this,
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  Speaker 1: at which the interpreter bid him talk with the man.
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  Speaker 1: Then said Christian to the man, what art thou? The
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  Speaker 1: man answered, I am what I was not once? Christian?
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  Speaker 1: What wast thou once the man? The man said, I
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  Speaker 1: was once a fair and flourishing professor Luke eight thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: both in mine own eyes and also in the eyes
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  Speaker 1: of others. I once was, as I thought, fair for
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  Speaker 1: the celestial city, and had then even joy at the
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  Speaker 1: thoughts that I should get thither. Christian, Well, but what
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  Speaker 1: art thou now, the man? I am now a man
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  Speaker 1: of despair, and am shut up in it? As in
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  Speaker 1: this iron cage I cannot get out? Oh now I cannot, Christian?
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  Speaker 1: But how camest thou into this condition? The man I
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  Speaker 1: left off to watch and be sober. I laid the
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  Speaker 1: reins upon the neck of my lusts. I sinned against
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  Speaker 1: the light of the Word and the goodness of God.
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  Speaker 1: I have grieved the spirit, and he is gone. I
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  Speaker 1: tempted the devil, and he has come to me. I
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  Speaker 1: have provoked God to anger, and he has left me.
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  Speaker 1: I have so hardened my heart that I cannot repent, then,
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  Speaker 1: said Christian to the interpreter. But is there no hope
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  Speaker 1: for such a man as this ask him, said the interpreter.
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  Speaker 1: Christian then said, Christian, is there no hope? But you
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  Speaker 1: must be kept in the iron cage of despair? The man,
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  Speaker 1: no none at all? Christian. Why the son of the
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  Speaker 1: blessed is very pitiful the man I have crucified him
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  Speaker 1: to myself afresh Hebrews six six. I have despised his
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  Speaker 1: person Luke nineteen fourteen. I have despised his righteousness. I
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  Speaker 1: have counted his blood an unholy thing. I have done
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  Speaker 1: despite to the spirit of grace Hebrews ten twenty nine.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore I have shut myself out of all the promises,
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  Speaker 1: and there now remains to me nothing but threatenings, dreadful threatenings,
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  Speaker 1: faithful threatenings of certain judgment, and fiery indignation, which shall
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  Speaker 1: devour me as an adversary. Christian, For what did you
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  Speaker 1: bring yourself into this condition? The man for the last
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  Speaker 1: pleasures and prophets of this world? In the enjoyment of
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  Speaker 1: which I did then promise myself much delight. But now
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  Speaker 1: every one of those things also bite me and gnaw
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  Speaker 1: me like a burning worm. Christian, But canst thou not
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  Speaker 1: now repent and turn the man? God hath denied me repentance.
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  Speaker 1: His word gives me no encouragement to believe. Yea himself
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  Speaker 1: hath shut me up in this iron cage. Nor can
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  Speaker 1: all the men in the world let me out, Oh, eternity, eternity,
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  Speaker 1: How shall I grapple with the misery that I must
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  Speaker 1: meet with in eternity? Interpreter? Then said the interpreter to Christian.
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  Speaker 1: Let this man's misery be remembered by THEE and be
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  Speaker 1: an everlasting caution to THEE. Christian, Well said Christian, this
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  Speaker 1: is fearful. God. Help me to watch and to be sober,
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  Speaker 1: and to pray that I may shun the cause of
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  Speaker 1: this man's misery. Sir, is it not time for me
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  Speaker 1: to go on my way? Now? Interpreter tarry till I
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  Speaker 1: shall show THEE one thing more, and then thou shalt
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  Speaker 1: go on thy way. So he took Christian by the
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  Speaker 1: hand again and led him into a chamber where there
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  Speaker 1: was one rising out of bed, and as he put
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  Speaker 1: on his raiment, he shook and trembled. Then said Christian,
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  Speaker 1: why doth this man thus tremble? The interpreter then bid
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  Speaker 1: him tell to Christian the reason of his so doing.
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  Speaker 1: So he began and said, this night, as I was
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  Speaker 1: in my sleep, I dreamed, and behold, the heavens grew
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  Speaker 1: exceeding black. Also it thundered and lightened in most fearful,
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  Speaker 1: wise that it put me into an agony. So I
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  Speaker 1: looked up in my dream and saw the clouds rack
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  Speaker 1: at an unusual wait, upon which I heard a great
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  Speaker 1: sound of a trumpet, and saw also a man sitting
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  Speaker 1: upon a cloud, attended with the thousands of heaven They
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  Speaker 1: were all in flaming fire. Also the heavens were in
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  Speaker 1: a burning flame. I heard then a voice saying, arise,
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  Speaker 1: ye dead, and come to judgment. And with that the
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  Speaker 1: rocks rent the graves opened, and the dead that were
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  Speaker 1: therein came forth. Some of them were exceeding glad and
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  Speaker 1: looked upward, and some sought to hide themselves under the mountains.
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  Speaker 1: Then I saw the man that sat upon the cloud
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  Speaker 1: opened the book and bid the world draw near. Yet
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  Speaker 1: there was by reason of a fierce flame that issued
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  Speaker 1: out and came from before him, a convenient distance between
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  Speaker 1: him and them, as between the judge and the prisoners
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  Speaker 1: at the bar. First Corinthians fifteen, First the Selonians four sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: Jude fifteen, John five, twenty eight and twenty nine, Second
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  Speaker 1: Thessalonians one eight to ten, Revelations twenty eleven to fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah twenty six, twenty one, Micah seven, sixteen and seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: Psalmed five four fifty one to three, Malachi three two
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  Speaker 1: and three, Daniel seven nine and ten. I heard it
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  Speaker 1: also proclaimed to them that attended on the man that
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  Speaker 1: sat on the cloud gathered together the tears, the chaff,
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  Speaker 1: and stubble, and cast them into the burning lake Matthew
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  Speaker 1: three twelve, eighteen thirty twenty four thirty Malachi four one.
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  Speaker 1: And with that the bottomless pit opened just whereabout I stood,
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  Speaker 1: out of the mouth of which there came, in an
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  Speaker 1: abundant manner, smoke and coals of fire, with hideous noises.
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  Speaker 1: It was also said to the same persons gather my
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  Speaker 1: wheat into the ghana Luke three seventeen. And with that
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  Speaker 1: I saw many catched up and carried away into the clouds,
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  Speaker 1: but I was left behind first the Salonians four sixteen
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  Speaker 1: and seventeen. I also sought to hide myself, but I
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  Speaker 1: could not, for the man that sat upon the cloud
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  Speaker 1: still kept his eye upon me. My sins also came
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  Speaker 1: into my mind, and my conscience did accuse me on
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  Speaker 1: every side Romans two fourteen and fifteen. Upon this I
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  Speaker 1: awakened from my sleep, Christian. But what was it that
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  Speaker 1: made you so afraid of this sight the man? Why?
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  Speaker 1: I thought that the day of judgment was come, and
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  Speaker 1: that I was not ready for it. But this frightened
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  Speaker 1: me most that the angels gathered up several and left
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  Speaker 1: me behind. Also, the pit of Hell opened her mouth
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  Speaker 1: just where I stood. My conscience too afflicted me, and
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  Speaker 1: as I thought, the judge had always his eye upon me,
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  Speaker 1: showing indignation in his countenance. Then said the interpreter to Christian,
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  Speaker 1: hast thou considered all these things, Christian? Yes, and they
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  Speaker 1: put me in hope and fear. Interpreter, Well, keep all
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  Speaker 1: things so in thy mind, that they may be as
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  Speaker 1: a goad in thy sides, to prick thee forward in
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  Speaker 1: the way thou must go. Then, Christian began to gird
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  Speaker 1: up his loins and to address himself to his journey.
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  Speaker 1: Then said the interpreter. The comforter be always with THEE,
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  Speaker 1: good Christian, to guide THEE in the way that leads
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  Speaker 1: to the city. So Christian went on his way, saying,
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  Speaker 1: here I have seen things rare and profitable, things pleasant, dreadful,
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  Speaker 1: things to make me stable in what I have begun
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  Speaker 1: to take in hand. Then let me think on them
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  Speaker 1: and understand wherefore they showed me were, And let me
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  Speaker 1: be thankful, O good interpreter, to THEE. End Part one,
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  Speaker 1: The second stage