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

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Speaker 1: As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I
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Speaker 1: lighted on a certain place where was a den, and
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Speaker 1: laid me down in that place to sleep. And as
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Speaker 1: I slept, I dreamed a dream. I dreamed, and behold,
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Speaker 1: I saw a man clothed with rags, standing in a
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Speaker 1: certain place, with his face from his own house, a
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Speaker 1: book in his hand, and a great burden upon his
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Speaker 1: back Isaiah sixty four six, Luke fourteen thirty three, Psalm
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Speaker 1: thirty eight four. I looked and saw him open the
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Speaker 1: book and read therein. And as he read, he wept
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Speaker 1: and trembled, and, not being able longer to contain, he
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Speaker 1: brake out with a lamentable cry, saying, what shall I do?
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Speaker 1: Acts two thirty seven, sixteen thirty He BACKUK one two
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Speaker 1: and three in this plight. Therefore he went home and
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Speaker 1: restrained himself as long as he could, that his wife
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Speaker 1: and children should not perceive his distress. But he could
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Speaker 1: not be silent long because that his trouble increased. Wherefore,
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Speaker 1: at length he brake his mind to his wife and children,
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Speaker 1: and he began to talk to them. Oh, my dear wife,
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Speaker 1: said he and knew the children of my bowels, Ay
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Speaker 1: your dear friend, am in myself undone by reason of
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Speaker 1: a burden that lieth hard upon me. Moreover, I am
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Speaker 1: certainly informed that this sole city will be burnt with
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Speaker 1: fire from heaven, in which fearful overthrow both myself with
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Speaker 1: thee my wife, and you, my sweet babes, shall miserably
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Speaker 1: come to ruin, except the which yet I see not
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Speaker 1: somewhere of his scape can be found whereby remay be delivered.
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Speaker 1: At this, his relations were so amazed, not for that
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Speaker 1: they believed that what he had said to them was true,
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Speaker 1: but because they thought that some frenzied distemper had got
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Speaker 1: into his head. Therefore, it drawn towards night, and they,
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Speaker 1: hoping that sleep might settle his brains, with all haste
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Speaker 1: they got him to bed. But the night was as
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Speaker 1: troublesome to him as the day, Wherefore, instead of sleeping,
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Speaker 1: he spent it in sighs and tears. So when the
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Speaker 1: morning was come they would know how he did. He
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Speaker 1: told them worse and worse. He also set to talking
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Speaker 1: to them again, but they began to be hardened. They
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Speaker 1: also thought to drive away his distemper by harsh and
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Speaker 1: surly carriage to him. Sometimes they would deride. Sometimes they
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Speaker 1: would chied, and sometimes they would quite neglect him. Wherefore
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Speaker 1: he began to retire himself to his chamber to pray
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Speaker 1: for and pity them, and also to condole his own misery.
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Speaker 1: He would also walk solitarily in the fields, sometimes reading
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Speaker 1: and sometimes praying, And thus for some days he spent
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Speaker 1: his time. Now, I saw upon a time when he
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Speaker 1: was walking in the fields, that he was as he
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Speaker 1: was wont reading in his book, and greatly distressed in
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Speaker 1: his mind. And as he read, he burst out, as
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Speaker 1: he had done before, crying, what shall I do to
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Speaker 1: be saved? Acts sixteen thirty thirty one. I saw so
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Speaker 1: that he looked this way and that way, as if
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Speaker 1: he would run. Yet he stood still, because, as I perceived,
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Speaker 1: he could not tell which way to go. I looked
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Speaker 1: and saw a man named Evangelist coming to him, and
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Speaker 1: he asked, wherefore dost thou cry? He answered, sir, I
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Speaker 1: perceive by the book in my hand that I am
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Speaker 1: condemned to die, and after that to come to judgment
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Speaker 1: Hebrews nine twenty seven. And I find that I am
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Speaker 1: not willing to do the first Jove ten twenty one
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Speaker 1: and twenty two, nor able to do the second Ezekiel
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Speaker 1: twenty two fourteen. Then said the evangelist, why not willing
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Speaker 1: to die? Since this life is attended with so many evils?
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Speaker 1: The man answered, because I fear that this burden that
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Speaker 1: is upon my back will sink me lower than the grave,
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Speaker 1: and I shall fall into tofort Isaiah thirty thirty three.
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Speaker 1: And Sir, if I be not fit to go to prison,
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Speaker 1: I am not fit to go to judgment, and from
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Speaker 1: thence to execution. And the thoughts of these things make
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Speaker 1: me cry. Then said the evangelist, If this be thy condition,
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Speaker 1: why standest thou still? He answered, because I know not
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Speaker 1: whither to go. Then he gave him a parchment roll,
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Speaker 1: and there was written within fly from the Wrath to
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Speaker 1: Come Matthew three seven. The man therefore read it, and,
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Speaker 1: looking upon evangelist very carefully, said whither must I fly?
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Speaker 1: Then said evangelist, pointing with his finger over a very
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Speaker 1: wide field. Do you see yonder wicked gate? Matthew seven
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Speaker 1: thirteen and fourteen. The man said no, Then said the
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Speaker 1: other do you see yonder shining light? Some one hundred
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Speaker 1: and nineteen one hundred and five tewod Peter one, What nineteen,
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Speaker 1: He said, I think I do. Then said evangelist, keep
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Speaker 1: that light in your eye and go up directly there.
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Speaker 1: So shalt thou see the gate, at which when thou knockers,
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Speaker 1: it shall be told thee what thou shalt do. So
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Speaker 1: I saw in my dream that the man began to run,
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Speaker 1: now he had not run from his own door. When
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Speaker 1: his wife and children, perceiving it, began to cry after
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Speaker 1: him to return. But the man put his fingers in
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Speaker 1: his ears and ran on, crying, Life, Life, Eternal Life, Luke,
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Speaker 1: fourteen twenty six. So he looked not behind him Genesis
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Speaker 1: nineteen seventeen, but fled towards the middle of the plain.
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Speaker 1: The neighbors also came out to see him run Jeremiah
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Speaker 1: twenty ten. And as he ran, some mocked, others threatened,
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Speaker 1: and some cried after him to return. And among those
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Speaker 1: that did so, there were two that were resolved to
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Speaker 1: fetch him back by force. The name of the one
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Speaker 1: was obstinate, and the name of the other pliable. Now
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Speaker 1: by this time the man was got a good distance
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Speaker 1: from them, But however they were resolved to pursue him,
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Speaker 1: which they did, and a little time they overtook him.
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Speaker 1: Then said the man, neighbors, wherefore are you come? They said,
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Speaker 1: to persuade you to go back with us, But he
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Speaker 1: said that can by no means be you dwell, said
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Speaker 1: he in the city of destruction, the place also where
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Speaker 1: I was born, I see it to be so, and
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Speaker 1: dining there sooner or later you will think lower than
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Speaker 1: the grave, into a place that burns with fire and brimstone.
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Speaker 1: Be content, good neighbors, and go along with me. Obstinate
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Speaker 1: what said Obstinate, and leave our friends and our comforts
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Speaker 1: behind us. Christian, Yes, said Christian, for that was his name.
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Speaker 1: Because that all which you forsake is not worthy to
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Speaker 1: be compared with a little of that I am seeking
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Speaker 1: to enjoy Second Corinthians four eighteen. And if you will
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Speaker 1: go along with me and hold it, you shall fare
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Speaker 1: as I myself, For there where I go is enough,
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Speaker 1: and to spare Luke fifteen seventeen. Come away and prove
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Speaker 1: my words. Obstinate. What are the things you seek, since
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Speaker 1: you leave all the world to find them? Christian? I
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Speaker 1: seek an inheritance, incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away
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Speaker 1: First Peter one four. And it is laid up in
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Speaker 1: heaven and safe there Hebrews eleven sixteen, to be bestowed
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Speaker 1: at the time appointed on them that diligently seek it.
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Speaker 1: Read it. So if you will in my book obstinate,
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Speaker 1: Tush said, obstinate away with your book. Will you go
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Speaker 1: back with us or no? Christian? No, not, I said
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Speaker 1: the other, because I have laid my hand to the plow.
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Speaker 1: Luke nine sixty two. Obstinate. Come, then, neighbor, pliable, let
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Speaker 1: us turn again and go home without him. There is
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Speaker 1: a company of these crazy headed cockscombs, that when they
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Speaker 1: take a fancy by the end, are wiser in their
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Speaker 1: own eyes than seven men that can render a reason. Pliable,
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Speaker 1: then said pliable, don't revile. If what the good Christian
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Speaker 1: says is true, the things he looks after are better
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Speaker 1: than our its. My heart inclines to go with my neighbor, obstinate,
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Speaker 1: what more fools still be ruled by me and go back?
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Speaker 1: Who knows whether such a brainsick fellow will lead you
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Speaker 1: go back, go back and be wise Christian? Nay, But
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Speaker 1: do thou come with thy nigh a pliable? There are
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Speaker 1: such things to be had which I spoke of, and
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Speaker 1: many more glorious Besides, if you believe not me, read
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Speaker 1: here in this book, and for the truth of what
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Speaker 1: is expressed therein behold, all is confirmed by the blood
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Speaker 1: of Him that made it Hebrews nine seventeen to twenty one. Pliable,
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Speaker 1: well neighbor, Obstinate, said Pliable, I begin to come to
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Speaker 1: a point. I intend to go along with this good
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Speaker 1: man and to cast in my lot with him. But
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Speaker 1: my good companion, do you know the way to this
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Speaker 1: desired place? Christian? I am directed by a man whose
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Speaker 1: name is Evangelist to speed me to a little gate
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Speaker 1: that is before us, where we shall receive instructions about
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Speaker 1: the way. Pliable, come good, nay, but let us be going.
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Speaker 1: Then they both went together, Obstinate, and I will go
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Speaker 1: back to my place, said Obstinate. I will be no
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Speaker 1: companion of such misled, fantastical fellows. Now I saw in
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Speaker 1: my dream that when Obstinate was gone back, Christian and
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Speaker 1: Pliable went talking of the plane. And thus they began
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Speaker 1: their discourse. Christian, Come now, labor, Pliable, how do you do?
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Speaker 1: I am glad you are persuaded to go along with me.
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Speaker 1: Had even Obstinate himself but felt what I have felt
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Speaker 1: of the powers and terrors of what is yet unseen,
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Speaker 1: He would not thus lightly have given us the back. Pliable,
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Speaker 1: Come labor, Christian, since there are none but us to
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Speaker 1: you here, Tell me now, Father, what the things are
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Speaker 1: and how to be enjoyed? Whither we are going? Christian?
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Speaker 1: I can better conceive of them with my mind than
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Speaker 1: speak of them with my tongue. But yet, since you
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Speaker 1: are desirous to know, I will read of them in
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Speaker 1: my book. Pliable. And do you think that the words
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Speaker 1: of your book are certainly true? Christian? Yes, verily, if
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Speaker 1: it was made by him, that cannot lie. Titus one
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Speaker 1: two pliable, Well said, What things are they? Christian? There
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Speaker 1: is an endless kingdom to be inhabited, an everlasting life
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Speaker 1: to be given us, that we may inhabit that kingdom
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Speaker 1: forever Isaiah sixty five seventeen, John ten twenty seven to
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Speaker 1: twenty nine pliable, well said. And what else, Christian? There
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Speaker 1: are crowns of glory to be given us, and garments
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Speaker 1: that will make us shine like the sun in the
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Speaker 1: firmament of heaven two Timothy four eight, Revelations twenty two five.
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Speaker 1: Matthew thirteen forty three pliable. This is very pleasant and
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Speaker 1: what else Christian, there shall be no more crying nor sorrow,
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Speaker 1: for he that is owner of the place will wipe
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Speaker 1: all tears from our eyes Isaiah twenty five eight, Revelations seven,
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Speaker 1: sixteen and seventeen twenty one four pliable, And what company
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Speaker 1: shall we have there, Christian? There we shall be with
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Speaker 1: Seraphim and Cherubim Isaiah six two, first Thessalonians four sixteen
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Speaker 1: and seventeen, Revelations five eleven, creatures that will dazzle your
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Speaker 1: eyes to look on them. There also you shall meet
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Speaker 1: with thousands and ten thousands that have gone before us
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Speaker 1: to that place. None of them are hurtful, but loving
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Speaker 1: and holy, every one walking in the sight of God
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Speaker 1: and standing in His presence with acceptance forever. In a word,
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Speaker 1: There we shall see the elders with their golden crowns
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Speaker 1: Revelations four four. There we shall see the holy virgins
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Speaker 1: with their golden harps Revelations fourteen one to five. There
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Speaker 1: we shall see men that by the world were cut
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Speaker 1: in pieces, burnt in flames, eaten of beasts, drowned in
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Speaker 1: the seas, for the love they bear to the Lord
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Speaker 1: of the place. John twelve twenty five. All well, clothed
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Speaker 1: with immortality as with a garment second Corinthians five to two, pliable.
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Speaker 1: The hearing of this is enough to ravish one's heart.
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Speaker 1: But are these things to be enjoyed? How shall we
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Speaker 1: get to be shared? As thereof? Christian the Lord, the
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Speaker 1: governor of the country had to record it that in
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Speaker 1: this book Isaiah fifty five one and two, John six
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Speaker 1: thirty seven, seven thirty seven, Revelations twenty one six twenty
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Speaker 1: two seventeen, the substance of which is, if we be
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Speaker 1: truly willing to have it, he will bestow it upon
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Speaker 1: us freely pliable. Well, my good companion, glad am I
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Speaker 1: to hear of these things. Come on, let us mend
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Speaker 1: our place. Christian, I cannot go as fast as I
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Speaker 1: would by reason of this burden that is on my back.
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Speaker 1: Now I saw in my dream that just as they
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Speaker 1: had ended this talk, they drew night were very miry slow,
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Speaker 1: that was in the midst of the plane, and they,
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Speaker 1: being heedless, did both four sudden into the bog. The
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Speaker 1: name of the slow was despond Here. Therefore they wallered
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Speaker 1: for a time, being grievously bedulbed with the dirt, and
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Speaker 1: Christian because of the burden that was on his back
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Speaker 1: began to sink in the mire. Pliable, then said, pliable,
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Speaker 1: our neighbor, Christian, where are you now? Christian truly said Christian,
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Speaker 1: I do not know Pliable. At this Pliable began to
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Speaker 1: be offended, and angrily said to his fellow, is this
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Speaker 1: the happiness you have told me all this while? Love?
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Speaker 1: If we have such ill speed at our first setting out,
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Speaker 1: what may we expect between this and our journey's end?
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Speaker 1: May I get out again with my life? Ye shall
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Speaker 1: possess the brave country alone from me. And with that
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Speaker 1: he gave a desperate struggle or two and got out
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Speaker 1: of the mire on that side of the slow, which
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Speaker 1: was next to his own house. So away he went,
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Speaker 1: and Christian saw him no more. Wherefore Christian was left
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Speaker 1: to tumble and the slow of despond alone. But still
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Speaker 1: he endeavored to struggle to that side of the slow
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Speaker 1: that was furthest from his own house and next to
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Speaker 1: the wicked gate, the which he did, but could not
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Speaker 1: get out because of the burden that was upon his back.
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Speaker 1: But I beheld in my dream that a man came
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Speaker 1: to him whose name was Help, and asked him what
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Speaker 1: he did there Christian, Sir, said Christian, I was bid
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Speaker 1: to go this way by a man called Evangelists. He
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Speaker 1: directed me also to yonder Gate, that I might escape
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Speaker 1: the rath to come. And as I was going thither,
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Speaker 1: I fell in here help, But why did you not
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Speaker 1: look for the steps? Christian fear followed me so hard
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Speaker 1: that I fled the next way and fell in help.
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Speaker 1: Then said he give me thine hand. So he gave
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Speaker 1: him his hand, and he drew him out some forty
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Speaker 1: two and he set him upon sound ground and bid
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Speaker 1: him go on his way. Then I stepped to him
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Speaker 1: that plucked him out, and said, sir, wherefore, since over
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Speaker 1: this place the way from the city of Destruction to
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Speaker 1: yonder Gate, is it that this plot is not mended?
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Speaker 1: That poor travelers might go thither with more security? And
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Speaker 1: he said, unto me, this Mariuslow is such a place
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Speaker 1: as cannot be mended. It is the descent, whether the
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Speaker 1: scum and filth that tends conviction for sin doth continually run.
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Speaker 1: And therefore it is called the slow of despond For still,
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Speaker 1: as the sinners awakened about his lost condition, there arise
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Speaker 1: in his soul many fears and doubts and discouraging apprehensions,
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Speaker 1: which all of them get together and settle in this place.
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Speaker 1: And this is the reason of the badness in this ground.
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Speaker 1: It is not the pleasure of the King that this
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Speaker 1: place should remain so bad Isaiah thirty five three and four.
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Speaker 1: His laborers also have, by the direction of His Majesty's surveyors,
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Speaker 1: been for above this sixteen hundred years, employed about this
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Speaker 1: patch of ground. If perhaps it might have been mended. Yea,
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Speaker 1: and to my knowledge, said he, they have been swallow
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Speaker 1: up at least twenty thousand cartloads. Yeah, millions of wholesome
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Speaker 1: instructions that have at all seasons been brought from all
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Speaker 1: places of the King's dominions. And they that can tell
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Speaker 1: say they are the best materials to make good ground
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Speaker 1: of the place, if so be it might have been mended.
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Speaker 1: But it is the slow of despond still, and so
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Speaker 1: will be when they have done what they can. True,
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Speaker 1: there are, by the direction of the lawgiver, certain good
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Speaker 1: and substantial steps placed even through the very midst of
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Speaker 1: this slow But at such time as this place doth
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Speaker 1: much spew at its filth, as it doth against change
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Speaker 1: of weather, these steps are hardly seen, or if they
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Speaker 1: be men, through the dizziness of their heads, step beside,
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Speaker 1: and then they are bemired to purpose, notwithstanding the steps
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Speaker 1: be there, but the ground is good when they are
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Speaker 1: once got in at the gate first Samuel twelve twenty three.
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Speaker 1: Now I saw in my dream that by this time
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Speaker 1: Pliable was got home to his house. So his neighbors
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Speaker 1: came to visit him in Some of them called him
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Speaker 1: wise man for coming back, and some called him fool
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Speaker 1: for hazarding himself with Christian. Others again did mock at
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Speaker 1: his cowardliness, saying, surely, since you began to venture, I
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Speaker 1: would not have been so base as to have given
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Speaker 1: out for a few difficulties. So Pliable sat sneaking among them,
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Speaker 1: But at last he got more confidence, and then they
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Speaker 1: all turned their tales and began to deride poor Christian
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Speaker 1: behind his back, and thus much concerning Pliable. Now, as
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Speaker 1: Christian was walking solitarily by himself, he espied one afar
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Speaker 1: off come crossing over the field to meet him, and
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Speaker 1: their hap was to meet just as they were crossing
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Speaker 1: the way of each other. The gentleman's name that met
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Speaker 1: him was mister worldly wise man. He dwelt in the
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Speaker 1: town of carnal Policy, a very great town, and also
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Speaker 1: haar by from whence Christian came. This man, then, meeting
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Speaker 1: with Christian, and having some inkling of him, for Christians
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Speaker 1: setting forth from the city of Destruction, was much noised about,
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Speaker 1: not only in the town where he dwelt, but also
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Speaker 1: it began to be the town talk in some other places.
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Speaker 1: Mister worldly Wiseman, therefore, having some guess of him, by
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Speaker 1: beholding his laborious going, by observing his sighs and groans
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Speaker 1: and the like, began thus to enter into some talk
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Speaker 1: with Christian. Mister worldley wise man. How now, good fellow,
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Speaker 1: whither away up for this burdened manner Christian? A burden
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Speaker 1: manner indeed, as ever I think poor creature had. And
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Speaker 1: whereas you ask me whither away, I tell you, sir,
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Speaker 1: I am going to yonder wicked gate before me for theirs.
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Speaker 1: I am informed I shall be put into a way
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Speaker 1: to be rid of my heavy burden. Mister worldy wiseman,
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Speaker 1: hast thou wife and children. Christian? Yes, but I am
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Speaker 1: so laden with this burden that I cannot take that
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Speaker 1: pleasure in them as formerly methinks I am as if
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Speaker 1: I had none First Corinthian seven twenty nine. Mister worldley
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Speaker 1: wise man, wilt thou hearken to me if I give
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Speaker 1: THEE counsel, if it be good, I will, for I
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Speaker 1: stand in need of good counsel. Mister worldly wise man,
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Speaker 1: I would advise THEE then that thou, with all speed,
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Speaker 1: get thyself rid of thy burden, for thou wilt never
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Speaker 1: be settled in thy mind till then, Nor canst thou
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Speaker 1: enjoy the benefits of the blessings which God hath bestowed
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Speaker 1: upon THEE till then, Christian, that is that which I
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Speaker 1: seek for, even to be rid of this heavy burden.
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Speaker 1: But get it off myself I cannot, nor is there
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Speaker 1: any man in our country that can take it off
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Speaker 1: my shoulders. Therefore am I going this way as I
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Speaker 1: told you, that I may be rid of my burden,
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Speaker 1: mister worldly wise man, who bid THEE go this way
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Speaker 1: to be rid of thy burden? Christian, a man that
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Speaker 1: appeared to me to be a very great and honorable person.
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Speaker 1: His name, as I remember, is Evangelist. Mister worldly wise man.
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Speaker 1: I besrw him for his counsel. There is not a
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Speaker 1: more dangerous and troublesome way in the world, than is
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Speaker 1: that into which he hath direct to thee, and that
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Speaker 1: thou shalt find, if thou wilt be ruled by his counsel,
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Speaker 1: Thou hast met with something as I perceive already, For
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Speaker 1: I see the dirt of the slow of desponders upon thee.
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Speaker 1: But that slow is the beginning of the sorrows that
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Speaker 1: do attend those that go on in that way. Hear me,
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Speaker 1: I am older than thou. Thou art like to meet
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Speaker 1: with in the way which thou goest wearisomeness, painfulness, hunger, perils, nakedness, sword, lions, dragons, darkness,
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Speaker 1: and in a word, death, and whatnot. These things are
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Speaker 1: certainly true, having been confirmed by many testimonies. And should
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Speaker 1: a man so carelessly cast away himself by giving heed
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Speaker 1: to a stranger Christian, Why sir, this burden on my
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Speaker 1: back is more terrible to me than are all these
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Speaker 1: things which you have mentioned, Nay me things. I care
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Speaker 1: not what I meet with in the way, If so
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Speaker 1: be I can also meet with deliverance from my burden.
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Speaker 1: Mister worldlywisn how camest thou by thy burden? At first? Christian?
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Speaker 1: By reading this book in my hand, mister worldly wise men,
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Speaker 1: I thought so, and it has happened unto THEE, as
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Speaker 1: to other weak men, who meddling with things too high
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Speaker 1: for them, do suddenly fall into thy distractions. Which distractions
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Speaker 1: do not only unmad men, as thine I perceive, have
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Speaker 1: done THEE, but they run them upon desperate ventures to
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Speaker 1: obtain They know not what Christian. I know what I
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Speaker 1: would obtain. It is ease from my heavy burden, mister
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Speaker 1: worldly wise men. But why woult thou seek for ease
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Speaker 1: this way, seeing so many dangers attended, Especially since hadst
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Speaker 1: thou but patience to hear me, I could direct THEE
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Speaker 1: to the obtaining of what thou desirest, without the dangers
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Speaker 1: that Thou in this way wilt run thyself into yea
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Speaker 1: and the remedy is at hand. Besides, thou will add
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Speaker 1: that instead of those dangers, thou shalt meet with safety, friendship,
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Speaker 1: and content. Christian, Sir, I pray open the secret to me,
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Speaker 1: mister wildly wise man. Why in yonder village, the village's
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Speaker 1: name Morality, there dwells a gentlemen whose name is Legality,
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Speaker 1: a very judicious man and a man of a very
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Speaker 1: good name, that has skill to help men off with
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Speaker 1: such burdens as thine is from their shoulders. Yet to
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Speaker 1: my knowledge he hath done a great deal of good
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Speaker 1: this way, ay, And besides he hath skilled to cure
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Speaker 1: those that are somewhat crazed in their wits with their
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Speaker 1: burdens to him, As I said, thou mayest go and
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Speaker 1: be helped. Presently. His house is not quite a mile
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Speaker 1: from this place, And if he should not be at
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Speaker 1: home himself, he had the pretty young man to his son,
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Speaker 1: whose name is Civility, that can do it to speak
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Speaker 1: on as well as the old gentleman himself. There, I say,
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Speaker 1: thou mayst be eased of thy burden, if thou art
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Speaker 1: not minded to go back to thy former habitation, as
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Speaker 1: indeed I would not wish thee thou mayest send for
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Speaker 1: thy wife and children to this village, where there are
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Speaker 1: houses now standing empty, one of which thou mayest have
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Speaker 1: at a reasonable rate. Provision is there all so cheap
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Speaker 1: and good, And that which will make thy life the
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Speaker 1: more happy is to be sure there thou shalt leave
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Speaker 1: thy honest neighbors in credit and good fashion. Now was
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Speaker 1: Christian somewhat at a stand. But presently he concluded, if
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Speaker 1: this be true, which this gentleman has said, my wisest
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Speaker 1: course is to take his advice. And with that he
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Speaker 1: thus further spake Christian, Sir, which is my way to
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Speaker 1: this honest man's house. Mister worldly wise man, do you
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Speaker 1: see yonder high hill? Christian? Yes, very well, mister worldly
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Speaker 1: wise man. By that hill you must go in the
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Speaker 1: first house you come at, is his. So Christian turned
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Speaker 1: out of his way to go to mister legality's house
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Speaker 1: for help. But behold, when he was got now hard
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Speaker 1: by the hill, it seemed so high, and also that
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Speaker 1: side of it that was next the wayside, did hang
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Speaker 1: so much over that Christian was afraid to venture further
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Speaker 1: lest the hill should fall on his head. Wherefore there
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Speaker 1: he stood still and wotted not what to do. Also,
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Speaker 1: his burden now seemed heavier to him than while he
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Speaker 1: was in his way. There came also flashes of fire
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Speaker 1: Exodus nineteen sixteen and eighteen out of the hill, that
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Speaker 1: made Christian afraid that he should be burnt here. Therefore
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Speaker 1: he did sweat and quake for fear he Brews twelve
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Speaker 1: twenty one. And now he began to be sorry that
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Speaker 1: he had taken mister worldly wiseman's counsel. And with that
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Speaker 1: he saw Evangelist coming to meet him at the sight,
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Speaker 1: also of whom he began to blush for shame. So
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Speaker 1: Evangelist drew nearer and nearer, and coming up to him,
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Speaker 1: he looked upon him with a severe and dreadful countenance,
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Speaker 1: and thus began to reason with Christian Evangelist. What doest
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Speaker 1: thou here? Christian? Said he, at which words Christian knew
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Speaker 1: not what to answer, Wherefore at present he stood speechless
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Speaker 1: before him, then said Evangelists, father, art not thou the
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Speaker 1: man that I found crying without the war or the
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Speaker 1: city of destruction? Christian, Yes, dear sir, I am the man, Evangelist.
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Speaker 1: Did not I direct thee the way to the little
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Speaker 1: wicket gate? Christian? Yes, dear sir, said Christian Evangelist. How
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Speaker 1: is it then that thou art so quickly turned aside?
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Speaker 1: For thou art now out of the way, Christian. I
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Speaker 1: met with a gentleman, so soon as I had got
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Speaker 1: over the slur of despond, who persuaded me that I might,
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Speaker 1: in the village before me find a man that could
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Speaker 1: take off my burden. Evangelist. What was he? Christian? He
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Speaker 1: looked like a gentleman and talked much to me and
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Speaker 1: got me at last to yield. So I came hither.
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Speaker 1: But when I beheld this hill and how it hangs
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Speaker 1: over the way, I suddenly made a stand lest it
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Speaker 1: should fall on my head. Evangelist. What said that gentleman
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Speaker 1: to you? Christian? Why? He asked me whither I was going?
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Speaker 1: And I told him Evangelist? And what said he? Then? Christian?
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Speaker 1: He asked me if I had a family? And I
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Speaker 1: told him, but said I I am so laden with
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Speaker 1: the burden that is on my back that I cannot
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Speaker 1: take pleasure in them. As formerly Evangelist? And what said he? Then? Christian?
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Speaker 1: He bid me with speed get rid of my burden.
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Speaker 1: I told him it was ease that I sought, and
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Speaker 1: said I I am therefore going to Yondergate to receive
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Speaker 1: farther direction how I may get to the place of deliverance.
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Speaker 1: So he said that he would show me a better way,
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Speaker 1: and short, not so attended with difficulties as the way, sir,
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Speaker 1: that you set me in. Which way said he will
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Speaker 1: direct you to a gentleman's house that had skill to
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Speaker 1: take off these burdens. So I believed him and turned
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Speaker 1: out of that way into this. If haply, I might
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Speaker 1: be soon eased up my burden. But when I came
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Speaker 1: to this place and beheld things as they are, I
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Speaker 1: stopped for fears, I said, of danger. But I now
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Speaker 1: know not what to do. Evangelist then said, evangelist, stand
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Speaker 1: still a little, that I show thee the words of God.
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Speaker 1: So he stood trembling. Then said evangelist, see that ye
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Speaker 1: refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escape not
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Speaker 1: who refused him that spake on earth. Much more shall
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Speaker 1: not we escape if we turn away from him that
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Speaker 1: speaketh from heaven Hebrews twelve twenty five. He said, moreover,
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Speaker 1: now that just shall live by faith. But if any
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Speaker 1: man draw back my soul shall have no pleasure in
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Speaker 1: him Hebrews ten thirty eight. He also did thus apply them,
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Speaker 1: Thou art, the man that art running into this misery.
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Speaker 1: Thou hast begun to reject the counsel of the most High,
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Speaker 1: and to draw back thy foot from the way of peace,
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Speaker 1: even almost to the hazarding of thy perdition. Then Christian
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Speaker 1: fell down at his feet as dead, crying, woe is
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Speaker 1: to me for I am undone at the sight of
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Speaker 1: which evangelists caught him by the right hand, saying, all
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Speaker 1: manner of sin and blasphemis shall be forgiven unto men
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Speaker 1: Matthew twelve thirty one, be not faithless but believing John
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven. Then did Christian again a little revive
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Speaker 1: and stood up trembling as at first before evangelist. Then
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Speaker 1: evangelist proceeded saying, give more earnest heed to the things
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Speaker 1: that I shall tell THEE of I will now show
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Speaker 1: THEE who it was that deluded THEE, and who it
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Speaker 1: was also to whom he sent THEE. The man that
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Speaker 1: met THEE is one worldly wise man, and rightly as
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Speaker 1: he is so called, partly because he savereth only the
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Speaker 1: doctrine of this world first John four five. Therefore he
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Speaker 1: always goes to the town of the morality to church,
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Speaker 1: and partly because he loveth that doctrine best, for it
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Speaker 1: saveth him best from the cross Galatians six twelve. And
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Speaker 1: because he is of this carnal temper. Therefore he seeketh
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Speaker 1: to pervert my ways. Though right now there are three
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Speaker 1: things in this man's counsel that thou must utterly abhor
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Speaker 1: one his turning THEE out of the way, two, his
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Speaker 1: laboring to render the cross odious to THEE, three and
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Speaker 1: his setting thy feet in that way that leadeth unto
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Speaker 1: the administration of death. First, thou must abhor his turning
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Speaker 1: THEE out of the way, yea in thine own, consenting
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Speaker 1: there too, because this is to reject the counsel of
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Speaker 1: God for the sake of the counsel of a worldly
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Speaker 1: wise man. The Lord says, strive to enter in at
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Speaker 1: the straight gate Luke thirteen twenty four. The gate to
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Speaker 1: which I send THEE for straight is the gate that
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Speaker 1: leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it
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Speaker 1: Matthew seven thirteen and fourteen. From this little wicked gate,
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Speaker 1: and from the way thereto hath this wicked man turned
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Speaker 1: THEE to the bringing of THEE almost to destruction. Hate
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Speaker 1: therefore his turning THEE out of the way, and abhor
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Speaker 1: thyself for hearkening to him. Secondly, thou must abhor his
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Speaker 1: laboring to render the cross odious unto THEE, for thou
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Speaker 1: art to prefer it before the treasures of Egypt Hebrews
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Speaker 1: eleven twenty six. Besides, the King of glory hath told
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Speaker 1: THEE that he that will save his life shall lose it.
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Speaker 1: And he that comes after him and hates not his
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Speaker 1: father and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren and
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Speaker 1: sisters yea, and his own life, also he cannot be
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Speaker 1: his disciple. Mark eight thirty eight, John twelve twenty five,
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Speaker 1: Matthew ten thirty nine, Luke fourteen twenty six. I say, therefore,
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Speaker 1: for a man to labor to persuade THEE that that
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Speaker 1: shall be thy death, without which the Truth has said,
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Speaker 1: thou canst not have eternal life. This doctrine thou must abhor. Thirdly,
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Speaker 1: thou must hate his setting off thy feet in the
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Speaker 1: way that leadeth to the administration of death. And for
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Speaker 1: this thou must consider to whom he sent THEE, and
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Speaker 1: also how unable that person was to deliver THEE from
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Speaker 1: thy burden. He to whom thou wast sent for ease,
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Speaker 1: being by name legality, is the son of the bond woman,
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Speaker 1: which now is and is in bond with her children
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Speaker 1: Galatians for twenty one to twenty seven, and is in
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Speaker 1: a mystery this Mount Sinai, which thou hast feared will
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Speaker 1: fall on thy head. Now she with her children are
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Speaker 1: in bondage, how canst thou expect by them to be
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Speaker 1: made free? This Legality therefore is not able to set
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Speaker 1: THEE free from thy burden. No man was as yet
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Speaker 1: ever rid of his burden by him, No nor ever
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Speaker 1: is like to be. Ye cannot be justified by the
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Speaker 1: works of the law, but by the deeds of the law,
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Speaker 1: no man living can be rid of his burden. Therefore,
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Speaker 1: mister worldly wise man is an alien, and mister Legality
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Speaker 1: is a cheat. And for his son's civility, notwithstanding his
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Speaker 1: simpering looks, he is but a hypocrite, and cannot help THEE.
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Speaker 1: Believe me, there is nothing in all this noise that
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Speaker 1: thou hast heard of these Scottish men, but a desire
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Speaker 1: to beguile thee of thy salvation by turning THEE from
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Speaker 1: the way in which I had set thee. After this,
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Speaker 1: evangelists called aloud to the heavens for confirmation of what
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Speaker 1: he had said. And with that there came words and
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Speaker 1: fire out of the mountain under which poor Christians stood,
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Speaker 1: which made the hair of his flesh stand up. The
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Speaker 1: words were pronounced, as many as are of the works
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Speaker 1: of the law are under the cursed, for it is
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Speaker 1: written cursed, as every one that continueth not in all
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Speaker 1: things which are written in the book of the Law
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Speaker 1: to do them Galatians three ten. Now Christian looked for
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Speaker 1: nothing but death and began to quiet lamentably, even cursing
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Speaker 1: the time in which he met with mister worldly wise man,
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Speaker 1: still calling himself a thousand fools for hearkening to his counsel.
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Speaker 1: He also was greatly ashamed to think that this gentleman's arguments,
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Speaker 1: flowing only from the flesh, should have the prevalency with him,
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Speaker 1: so far as to cause him to forsake the right way.
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Speaker 1: This done, he applied himself again to evangelists in words
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Speaker 1: and senses follows Christian, Sir, what think you? Is there
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Speaker 1: any hope? May I now go back and go up
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Speaker 1: to the wicket gate? Shall I not be abandoned for this?
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Speaker 1: And sent back? From thence ashamed? I am sorry. I
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Speaker 1: have hearkened to this man's counsel, But may my sin
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Speaker 1: be forgiven? Evangelist, And then then said evangelist to him,
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Speaker 1: thy sin is very great, for by it thou hast
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Speaker 1: committed two evils. Thou hast forsaken the way that is
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Speaker 1: good to tread in forbidden paths. Yet will the man
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Speaker 1: at the gate receive thee For he has good will
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Speaker 1: for men. Only, said he take heed that thou turn
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Speaker 1: not aside again, lest thou perish from the way when
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Speaker 1: his wrath is kindled. But a little Psalm two twelve
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