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

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  Speaker 1: Part one the sixth stage. Now, when they were got
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  Speaker 1: almost quite out of this wilderness, Faithful chanced to cast
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  Speaker 1: his eye back, and a spied one coming after them,
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  Speaker 1: and he knew him. Oh, said Faithful to his brother
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  Speaker 1: who comes yonder. Then Christian looked and said, it is
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  Speaker 1: my good friend, Evangelist. Ay. And my good friend too,
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  Speaker 1: said Faithful, For twas he that set me on the
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  Speaker 1: way to the gate. Now was Evangelist come up unto them,
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  Speaker 1: and thus saluted them. Evangelist, Peace be with you, dearly beloved,
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  Speaker 1: and peace be to your helpers. Christian, welcome, Welcome, my
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  Speaker 1: good Evangelist. The sight of thy countenance brings to my
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  Speaker 1: remembrance thy ancient kindness and unwearied labors for my eternal
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  Speaker 1: good Faithful, And a thousand times welcome, said good Faithful.
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  Speaker 1: Thy come me, o, sweet Evangelist. How desirable is it
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  Speaker 1: to us poor pilgrims. Evangelist then said Evangelist, how hath
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  Speaker 1: that fared with you, my friends, since the time of
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  Speaker 1: our last parting? What have you met with and how
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  Speaker 1: have you behaved yourselves? Then Christian and Faithful told him
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  Speaker 1: of all things that had happened to them in the
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  Speaker 1: way and how and with what difficulty they had arrived
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  Speaker 1: to that place. Right, glad Am, I said, evangelist, not
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  Speaker 1: that you have met with trials, but that you have
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  Speaker 1: been victors, And for that you have, notwithstanding many weaknesses,
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  Speaker 1: continued in the way to this very day. I say, right,
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  Speaker 1: glad Am I, of this thing, and that for mine
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  Speaker 1: own sake and yours I have sowed and you have reaped.
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  Speaker 1: And the days coming when both he that soweth and
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  Speaker 1: they that reap shall rejoice together. John four thirty six.
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  Speaker 1: That is, if you hold out, for in due season,
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  Speaker 1: ye shall reap. If ye faint not Galatians six nine.
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  Speaker 1: The crown is before you, and it is an incorruptible one.
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  Speaker 1: So run that ye may obtain it first Corinthians nine
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  Speaker 1: twenty four to twenty seven. Some there be that set
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  Speaker 1: out for this crown, and after they have gone far
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  Speaker 1: for it, another comes in and takes it from them.
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  Speaker 1: Hold fast therefore, that you have let no man take
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  Speaker 1: your crown. Revelations three eleven. You are not yet out
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  Speaker 1: of the gunshot of the devil. You have not resisted
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  Speaker 1: unto blood, striving against sin. Let the kingdom be always
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  Speaker 1: before you, and believe steadfastly concerning the things that are invisible.
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  Speaker 1: Let nothing that is on this side the other world
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  Speaker 1: get within you. And above all, look well to your
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  Speaker 1: own heart to the lust thereof, For they are deceitful
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  Speaker 1: above all things, and desperately wicked. Set your faces like
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  Speaker 1: a flint. You have all power in heaven and earth
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  Speaker 1: on your side, Christian. Then Christian thanked him for his exhortations,
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  Speaker 1: but told him withal that they would have him speak
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  Speaker 1: farther to them for their help the rest of the way,
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  Speaker 1: and the rather for that they well knew that he
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  Speaker 1: was a prophet and could tell them of things that
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  Speaker 1: might happen unto them, and also how they might resist
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  Speaker 1: and overcome them, to which request faithful also consented. So
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  Speaker 1: evangelists began, as followeth evangelist, My sons, you have heard
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  Speaker 1: in the word of the Truth of the Gospel, that
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  Speaker 1: you must, through many tribulations, enter into the Kingdom of Heaven,
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  Speaker 1: and again that in every city, bonds and afflictions abide you.
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  Speaker 1: And therefore you cannot expect that you should go long
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  Speaker 1: on your pilgrimage without them. In some sort or other,
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  Speaker 1: you have found something of the truth of these testimonies
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  Speaker 1: upon you already, and more will immediately follow. For now,
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  Speaker 1: as you see, you are almost out of this wilderness.
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  Speaker 1: And therefore you will soon come into a town that
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  Speaker 1: you will bin and by see before you. And in
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  Speaker 1: that town you will be hardly beset with enemies who
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  Speaker 1: will strain hard, but they will kill you. And be
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  Speaker 1: sure that one or both of you must seal the
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  Speaker 1: testimony which you hold with blood. But be you faithful
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  Speaker 1: unto death, and the King will give you a crown
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  Speaker 1: of life. He that shall die there, although his death
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  Speaker 1: will be unnatural and his pain perhaps great, he will
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  Speaker 1: yet have the better of his fellow, not only because
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  Speaker 1: he will be arrived at the celestial city soonest, but
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  Speaker 1: because he will escape many miseries that the other will
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  Speaker 1: meet with in the rest of his journey. But when
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  Speaker 1: you are come to the town and shall find fulfilled
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  Speaker 1: what I have here related, then remember your friend, and
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  Speaker 1: quit yourselves like men, and commit the keeping of your
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  Speaker 1: souls to God in well doing as unto a faithful creator.
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  Speaker 1: Then I saw in my dream that when they were
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  Speaker 1: got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town
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  Speaker 1: before them. And the name of that town is Vanity,
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  Speaker 1: and at the town there is a fair kept called
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  Speaker 1: Vanity Fair. It is kept all the year long. It
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  Speaker 1: beareth the name of Vanity Fair because the town where
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  Speaker 1: it is kept is lighter than vanity Psalm sixty two nine.
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  Speaker 1: And also because all that is their sould, or that
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  Speaker 1: cometh thither, is vanity, as is the saying of the Wise,
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  Speaker 1: all that cometh is vanity Ecclesiastes eleven eight. See also
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  Speaker 1: one two to fourteen, two eleven to seventeen, Isaiah forty seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: This fair is no new erected business, but a thing
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  Speaker 1: of ancient standing. I will show you the original of it.
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  Speaker 1: Almost five thousand years ago there were pilgrims walking to
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  Speaker 1: the celestial city, as these two honest persons are, and Beelzebub,
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  Speaker 1: Apollyon and Legion with their companions. Perceiving by the path
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  Speaker 1: that the pilgrims made, that their way to the city
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  Speaker 1: lay through this town of Vanity, they contrived here to
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  Speaker 1: set up a fair, a fair wherein should be sold
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  Speaker 1: all sorts of vanity, and that it should last all
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  Speaker 1: the year long. Therefore, at this fair all such merchandise
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  Speaker 1: sold as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts,
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  Speaker 1: pleasures and delights of all sorts, as harlot's wives, husbands, children, masters, servants, lives, blood, bodies, souls, silver, gold, pearls,
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  Speaker 1: precious stones, and whatnot. Moreover, at this fair there is,
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  Speaker 1: at all times to be seen jugglings, cheats, games, plays, fools, apes, naves,
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  Speaker 1: rogues and that of every kind here are to be
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  Speaker 1: seen to you, and that for nothing, thefts, murders, adulteries, falseharers,
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  Speaker 1: and that of a blood red color. And as in
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  Speaker 1: other fares of less moment, there are the several rows
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  Speaker 1: and streets under their proper names, where such and such
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  Speaker 1: wares are vended. So here likewise you have the proper places, rows, streets,
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  Speaker 1: namely countries and kingdoms, where the wares of this fair
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  Speaker 1: soonest to be found. Here is the Britain roe, the
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  Speaker 1: French roe, the Italian row, the Spanish roe, the German row,
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  Speaker 1: where several sorts of vanities are to be sold. But
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  Speaker 1: as in other fairs, some one commodity is as the
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  Speaker 1: chief of all the fair. So the where Rome and
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  Speaker 1: her merchandise as greatly promoted. In this fair. Only our
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  Speaker 1: English nation, with some others, have taken a dislike thereat. Now,
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  Speaker 1: as I said, the way to the celestial city lies
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  Speaker 1: just through this town where this lusty fair is kept.
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  Speaker 1: And he that will go to the city and yet
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  Speaker 1: not go through this town must needs go out of
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  Speaker 1: the world. First Corinthians four ten. The Prince of Princes himself,
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  Speaker 1: when here, went through this town to his own country,
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  Speaker 1: and that upon a fair day too. Yea. And as
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  Speaker 1: I think it was Beelzebub, the chief lord of this fair,
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  Speaker 1: that invited him to buy up his vanities, yea, would
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  Speaker 1: have made him lord of the fair, would he but
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  Speaker 1: have done him reverence as he went through the town? Yea,
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  Speaker 1: Because he was such a person of honor. Beelzebub had
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  Speaker 1: him from street to street and showed him all the
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  Speaker 1: kingdoms of the world in the little time that he might,
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  Speaker 1: if possible, allure that blessed one, to cheapen and buy
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  Speaker 1: some of his vanities. But he had no mind to
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  Speaker 1: the merchandise. Matthew four eight and nine, Luke four five
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  Speaker 1: to seven. This fair, therefore, is an ancient thing of
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  Speaker 1: long standing, and a very great fair. Now, these pilgrims,
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  Speaker 1: as I said, must needs go through this fair. Well,
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  Speaker 1: So they did But behold, even as they entered into
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  Speaker 1: the fair, all the people in the fair were moved,
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  Speaker 1: and the town itself, as it were, in a hubbub
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  Speaker 1: about them. And that for several reasons. Four. First, the
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  Speaker 1: pilgrims were clothed with such kind of raiment as was
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  Speaker 1: diverse from the raiment of any that traded in that fair.
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  Speaker 1: The people therefore off the fair made a great gazing
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  Speaker 1: upon them. Some said there were fools, first Corinthians four
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  Speaker 1: nine and ten. Some there were bedlams, and some they
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  Speaker 1: were outlandishmen. Secondly, and as they wondered at their apparel,
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  Speaker 1: so they did likewise at their speech, for few could
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  Speaker 1: understand what they said. They naturally spoke the language of Canaan.
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  Speaker 1: But they that kept the fair were the men of
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  Speaker 1: this world, so that from one end of the fair
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  Speaker 1: to the other they seen barbarians each to the other,
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  Speaker 1: first Corinthians two seven and eight. Thirdly, but that which
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  Speaker 1: did not a little amuse the merchandisers was that these
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  Speaker 1: pilgrims set very light by all their wares. They cared
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  Speaker 1: not so much as to look upon them, And if
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  Speaker 1: they called upon them to buy, they would put their
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  Speaker 1: fingers in their ears and cry, turn away mine eyes
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  Speaker 1: from beholding vanity some one hundred and nineteen thirty seven,
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  Speaker 1: and look upward, signifying that their trade and traffic was
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  Speaker 1: in heaven. Philippians three twenty and twenty one. One chanced, mockingly,
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  Speaker 1: beholding the carriage of the men, to say unto them,
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  Speaker 1: what will ye buy? But they, looking gravely upon him,
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  Speaker 1: said we buy the truth Proverbs twenty three twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: At that there was an occasion taken to despise the
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  Speaker 1: men the more, some mocking, some taunting, some speaking reproachfully,
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  Speaker 1: and some calling upon others to smite them. At last
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  Speaker 1: things came to an hubbub and great stir in the fair,
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  Speaker 1: in so much that all order was confounded. Now was
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  Speaker 1: word presently brought to the great one of the fair,
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  Speaker 1: who quickly came down and deputed some of his most
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  Speaker 1: trusty friends to take those men into examination, about whom
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  Speaker 1: the fair was almost overturned. So the men were brought
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  Speaker 1: to examination, and they that sat upon them asked them
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  Speaker 1: whence they came, whither they went, and what they did
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  Speaker 1: there in such an unusual garb. The men told them
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  Speaker 1: they were pilgrims and strangers in the world, and that
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  Speaker 1: they were going to their own country, which was the
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  Speaker 1: heavenly Jerusalem Hebrews eleven thirteen to sixteen, And that they
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  Speaker 1: had given no occasion to the men of the town,
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  Speaker 1: nor yet to their merchandisers, thus to abuse them and
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  Speaker 1: to let them in their journey, except it was for that,
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  Speaker 1: when one asked them what they would buy, they said
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  Speaker 1: they would buy the truth. But they that were appointed
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  Speaker 1: to examine them did not believe them to be any
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  Speaker 1: other than bedlams and mad or else such as came
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  Speaker 1: to put all things into a confusion in the fair.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore they took them and beat them, and besmeared them
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  Speaker 1: with dirt, and then put them into the cage, that
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  Speaker 1: they might be made a spectacle to all the men
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  Speaker 1: of the fair. There Therefore they lay for some time,
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  Speaker 1: and were made the objects of any man's sport or malice,
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  Speaker 1: or revenge. The great one of the fair laughing still
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  Speaker 1: at all that befell them, but the men being patient
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  Speaker 1: and not rendering railing for railing, but contrariwise blessing and
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  Speaker 1: giving good words for bad and kindness for injuries done.
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  Speaker 1: Some men in the fair that were more observing and
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  Speaker 1: less prejudiced than the rest, began to check and blame
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  Speaker 1: the base of sort for the continual abuses done by
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  Speaker 1: them to the men. They therefore, in an angry manner,
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  Speaker 1: let fly at them, again, counting them as bad as
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  Speaker 1: the men in the cage, and telling them that they
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  Speaker 1: seemed confederates and should be made partakers of their misfortunes.
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  Speaker 1: The others replied that for aught they could see, the
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  Speaker 1: men were quiet and sober, and intended nobody any harm,
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  Speaker 1: and that there were many that traded in their fair
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  Speaker 1: that were more worthy to be put into the cage
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  Speaker 1: yea and pillory too, than were the men that they
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  Speaker 1: had abused. Thus, after divers words had passed on both sides,
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  Speaker 1: the men behaving themselves all the while very wisely and
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  Speaker 1: soberly before them, they fell to some blows among themselves,
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  Speaker 1: and deterarmined one to another. Then were these two poor
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  Speaker 1: men brought before their examiners again, and were charged as
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  Speaker 1: being guilty of the late above that had been in
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  Speaker 1: the fair. So they beat them pitifully, and hanged irons
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  Speaker 1: upon them, and led them in chains up and down
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  Speaker 1: the fair for an example in terror to others, lest
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  Speaker 1: any should speak in their behalf, or join themselves unto them,
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  Speaker 1: But Christian and faithful behaved themselves yet more wisely, and
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  Speaker 1: received the ignominy and shame that was cast upon them,
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  Speaker 1: with so much meekness and patience, that at one to
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  Speaker 1: their side, though but few in comparison of the rest
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  Speaker 1: several of the men in the fair. This put the
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  Speaker 1: other party yet into a greater rage, insomuch that they
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  Speaker 1: concluded the death of these two men. Wherefore they threatened
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  Speaker 1: that neither cage nor irons should serve their turn, but
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  Speaker 1: that they should die for the abuse they had done,
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  Speaker 1: and for deluding the men of the fair. Then were
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  Speaker 1: they remanded to the cage again until further order should
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  Speaker 1: be taken with them. So they put them in and
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  Speaker 1: made their feet fast in the stocks. Here also they
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  Speaker 1: called again to mind what they had heard from their
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  Speaker 1: faithful friend evangelist, and were the more confirmed in their
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  Speaker 1: way and sufferings by what he told them would happen
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  Speaker 1: to them. They also now comforted each other that whose
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  Speaker 1: lot it was to suffer, even he should have the
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  Speaker 1: best of it. Therefore, each man secretly wished that he
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  Speaker 1: might have that preferment, But committing themselves to the all
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  Speaker 1: wise disposal of him that ruleth all things. With much content,
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  Speaker 1: they abode in the condition in which they were, until
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  Speaker 1: they should be otherwise disposed of. Then a convenient time
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  Speaker 1: being appointed, they brought them forth to their trial in
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  Speaker 1: order to their condemnation. When the time was come, they
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  Speaker 1: were brought before their enemies and arraigned. The judge's name
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  Speaker 1: was Lord Hate Good. Their indictment was one and the
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  Speaker 1: same in substance, though somewhat varying in form the contents.
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  Speaker 1: Whereof was this that there were enemies too, and disturbers
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  Speaker 1: of the trade, that they had made commotions and divisions
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  Speaker 1: in the town, and had won a party to their
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  Speaker 1: own most dangerous opinions in contempt of the law of
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  Speaker 1: their prince. Then Faithful began to answer that he had
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  Speaker 1: only set himself against that which had set itself against
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  Speaker 1: him that is higher than the highest, and said he,
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  Speaker 1: as for disturbance, I make none, being myself a man
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  Speaker 1: of peace. The parties that were worn to us were
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  Speaker 1: won by beholding our truth and innocence, and they are
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  Speaker 1: only turned from the worst to the better. And as
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  Speaker 1: to the king you talk of, since he is Beelzebub,
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  Speaker 1: the enemy of our lord, I defy him and all
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  Speaker 1: his angels. Then proclamation was made that they that had
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  Speaker 1: ought to say for their lord the King against the
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  Speaker 1: prisoner at the bar, should forthwith appear and give in
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  Speaker 1: their evidence. So they came in three witnesses to wit, envy, superstition,
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  Speaker 1: and pickthank. They were then asked if they knew the
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  Speaker 1: prisoner at the bar, and what they had to say
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  Speaker 1: for their lord the King against him. Then stood forth
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  Speaker 1: envy and said to this effect, my Lord, I have
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  Speaker 1: known this man a long time, and will attest upon
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  Speaker 1: my oath before this honorable bench that he is judge.
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  Speaker 1: Hold give him his oath. So they swear him. Then
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  Speaker 1: he said, my Lord, this man, notwithstanding his plausible name,
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  Speaker 1: is one of the vilest men in our country. He
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  Speaker 1: neither regardeth prince, nor people, law nor custom, but do
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  Speaker 1: with all that he can to possess all men with
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  Speaker 1: certain of his disloyal notions, which he in the general
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  Speaker 1: calls principles of faith and holiness. And in particular I
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  Speaker 1: heard him once myself affirm that Christianity and the customs
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  Speaker 1: of our town of Thesanity were diametrically opposite and could
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  Speaker 1: not be reconciled, by which, saying, my lord, he doth
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  Speaker 1: at once not only condemn all our laudable doings, but
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  Speaker 1: us in the doing of them. Then did the judge
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  Speaker 1: say to him, hast thou any more to say? Envy?
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  Speaker 1: My Lord? I could say much more, only I would
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  Speaker 1: not be tedious to the court. Yet, if need be,
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  Speaker 1: when the other gentlemen have given in their evidence, rather
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  Speaker 1: than anything shall be wanting that will despatch him, I
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  Speaker 1: will enlarge my testimony against him. So he was bid
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  Speaker 1: to stand by. Then they called superstition and bid him
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  Speaker 1: look upon the prisoner. They also asked what he could
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  Speaker 1: say for their lord, the King against him. Then they
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  Speaker 1: swear him. So he began superstition. My Lord, I have
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  Speaker 1: no great acquaintance with this man, nor do I desire
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  Speaker 1: to have further knowledge of him. However, this I know
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  Speaker 1: that he is a very pestile fellow, from some discourse
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  Speaker 1: that I had with him the other day in this town.
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  Speaker 1: For then, talking with him, I heard him say that
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  Speaker 1: our religion was naught and such by which a man
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  Speaker 1: could by no means please God, which saying of his
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  Speaker 1: my lord, your lordship very well knows what necessarily, thence
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  Speaker 1: will follow to wit that we still do worship in vain,
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  Speaker 1: are yet in our sins, and finally shall be damned.
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  Speaker 1: And this is that which I have to say. Then
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  Speaker 1: was Pick, thank sworn, and bid say what he knew
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  Speaker 1: in the behalf of their lord, the king against the
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  Speaker 1: prisoner at the bar. Pick, thank, my lord, and you, gentleman.
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  Speaker 1: All this fellow I have known of a long time,
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  Speaker 1: and have heard him speak things that ought not to
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  Speaker 1: be spoken, For he hath railed on our noble prince Beelzebub,
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  Speaker 1: and hath spoken contemptibly of his honorable friends, whose names
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  Speaker 1: are the Lord old Man, the Lord carnal Delight, the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Luxurious, the Lord of Vainglory, my old Lord letchery sir,
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  Speaker 1: having greedy with all the rest of our nobility. And
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  Speaker 1: he had said moreover that if all men were of
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  Speaker 1: his mind, if possible, there is not one of these
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  Speaker 1: noblemen should have any longer a being in this town. Besides,
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  Speaker 1: he hath not been afraid to rail on you, my lord,
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  Speaker 1: who are now appointed to be his judge, calling you
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  Speaker 1: an ungodly villain, with many other suchlike vilifying terms with
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  Speaker 1: which he had to be spattered. Most of the gentry
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  Speaker 1: of our town. When this pickthank had told his tale,
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  Speaker 1: the judge directed his speech to the prisoner at the bar, saying,
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  Speaker 1: thou Renegate, heretic and traitor, hast thou heard what these
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  Speaker 1: honest gentlemen had witnessed against thee faithful? May I speak
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  Speaker 1: a few words in my own defense, judge, Sirrah, Sirrah,
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  Speaker 1: thou deservest to live no longer, but to be slain
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  Speaker 1: immediately upon the place. Yet that all to men may
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  Speaker 1: see our gentleness towards thee, let us hear what thou
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  Speaker 1: thou Renegate hast to say. Faithful one, I say, then,
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  Speaker 1: in answer to what mister Envy hath spoken, I never said, aught,
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  Speaker 1: but this, that what rule or laws, or custom or
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  Speaker 1: people will flat against the Word of God are diametrically
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  Speaker 1: opposite to Christianity. If I have said amiss in this,
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  Speaker 1: convince me of my error. And I am ready here
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  Speaker 1: before you to make my recantation. Two. As to the second,
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  Speaker 1: to wit mister Superstition and his charge against me, I
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  Speaker 1: said only this, that in the worship of God there
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  Speaker 1: is required a divine faith. But there can be no
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  Speaker 1: divine faith without a divine revelation. Of the will of God. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: whatever is thrust into the worship of God that is
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  Speaker 1: not agreeable to divine revelation cannot be done but by
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  Speaker 1: a human faith, which faith will not be profitable to
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  Speaker 1: eternal life. Three. As to what mister pickthank Hath said,
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  Speaker 1: I say, avoiding terms, as that I am said to
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  Speaker 1: Rail and the like, that the Prince of this town,
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  Speaker 1: with all the rabblement his attendants, by this gentleman named,
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  Speaker 1: are more fit for a being in hell than in
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  Speaker 1: this town and country. And so the Lord have mercy
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  Speaker 1: upon me. Then the judge called to the jury, who
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  Speaker 1: all this while stood by to hear and observe. Gentlemen
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  Speaker 1: of the jury, you see this man about whom so
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  Speaker 1: great an uproar hath been made in this town. You
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  Speaker 1: have also heard what these worthy gentlemen have witnessed against him.
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  Speaker 1: Also you have heard his reply and confession. It life
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  Speaker 1: now in your breast to hang him or save his life.
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  Speaker 1: But yet I think meet to instruct you in our law.
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  Speaker 1: There was an act made in the days of Pharaoh,
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  Speaker 1: the great servant to our Prince, that let those of
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  Speaker 1: a contrary religion should multiply and grow too strong for him,
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  Speaker 1: their male should be thrown into the river Exodus one
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  Speaker 1: twenty two. There was also an act made in the
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  Speaker 1: days of Nebucenezza the Great, another of his servants, that
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  Speaker 1: whoever would not fall down and worship his golden image
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  Speaker 1: should be thrown into a fiery furnace Daniel three six.
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  Speaker 1: There was also an act made in the days of Darius,
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  Speaker 1: that whoso, for some time called upon any god but
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  Speaker 1: him should be cast into the lions den Daniel six seven.
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  Speaker 1: Now the substance of these laws, this rebel has broken
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  Speaker 1: not only in thought, which is not to be borne,
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  Speaker 1: but also in word and deed, which must therefore needs
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  Speaker 1: be intolerable. For that of Pharaoh. His law was made
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  Speaker 1: upon his supposition to prevent mischief, no crime being yet apparent.
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  Speaker 1: But here is a crime. For the second and third
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  Speaker 1: you see, he disputeth against our religion, and for the
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  Speaker 1: treason that he hath already confessed, he deserveth to die
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  Speaker 1: the death. Then went the jury out, whose names were
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  Speaker 1: mister blind man, mister nogood, mister malice, mister lovelust, mister liveloose,
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  Speaker 1: mister heady, mister high mind, mister enmity, mister liar, mister Cruelty,
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  Speaker 1: mister Hatelight, and mister Implacable, who every one gave in
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  Speaker 1: his private verdict against him among themselves, and afterwards unanimously
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  Speaker 1: concluded to bring him in guilty before the judge. And
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  Speaker 1: first among themselves, mister Blindman, the foreman, said, I see
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  Speaker 1: clearly that this man is a heretic. Then said mister
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  Speaker 1: Nogood Away with such a fellow from the earth. Aye,
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  Speaker 1: said mister Malice, for I hate the very looks of him, then,
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  Speaker 1: said mister Lovelust. I could never endure him, nor I
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  Speaker 1: said mister Liveloose, for he would always be condemning my way.
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  Speaker 1: Hang him, Hang him, said mister Heady, A sorry scrub,
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  Speaker 1: said mister high Mind. My heart riseth against him, said
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  Speaker 1: mister Enmity. He is a rogue, said mister Liar. Hanging
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  Speaker 1: is too good for him, said mister Cruelty. Let us
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  Speaker 1: despatch him out of the way, said mister Hatelight. Then
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  Speaker 1: said mister Implacable, Might I have all the world given me?
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  Speaker 1: I could not be reconciled to him. Therefore, let us
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  Speaker 1: forthwith bring him in guilty of death. And so they did.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore he was presently condemned to be had from the
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  Speaker 1: place where he was to the place from whence he came,
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  Speaker 1: and there to be put to the most cruel death
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  Speaker 1: that could be invented. They therefore brought him out to
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  Speaker 1: do with him according to their law. And first they
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  Speaker 1: scorged him, then they buffeted him. Then they lanced his
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  Speaker 1: flesh with knives. After that they stoned him with stones,
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  Speaker 1: then pricked him with their swords, and last of all
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  Speaker 1: they burnt into ashes at the stake. Thus came Faithful
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  Speaker 1: to his end. Now I saw that there stood behind
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  Speaker 1: the multitude a chariot and a couple of horses, waiting
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  Speaker 1: for Faithful, who, so soon as his adversaries had despatched him,
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  Speaker 1: was taken up into it, and straightway was carried up
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  Speaker 1: through the clouds, with sound of trumpet, the nearest way
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  Speaker 1: to the celestial gate. But as for Christian, he had
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  Speaker 1: some respite and was remounded back to prison. So he
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  Speaker 1: there remained for a space. But he who overrules all things,
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  Speaker 1: having the power of their rage in his own hand,
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  Speaker 1: so wrought it about that Christian for that time escaped
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  Speaker 1: them and went his way. And as he went he sang, saying,
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  Speaker 1: well faithful, Thou hast faithfully professed until thy Lord, with
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  Speaker 1: whom thou shalt be blest. When faithless ones with all
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  Speaker 1: their vain delights are crying out under their hellish plights, Sing, faithful, Sing,
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  Speaker 1: and let thy name survive. For though they killed THEE,
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  Speaker 1: thou art yet alive. End Part one, the sixth Stage