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

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  Speaker 1: Part one, the seventh stage. Now I saw in my
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  Speaker 1: dream that Christian went not forth alone, For there was
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  Speaker 1: one whose name was Hopeful, being so made by the
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  Speaker 1: beholding of Christian, and faithful in their words and behavior
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  Speaker 1: in their sufferings. At the fair, he joined himself unto him, and,
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  Speaker 1: entering into a brotherly covenant, told him that he would
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  Speaker 1: be his companion. Thus one died to bear testimony to
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  Speaker 1: the truth, and another rises out of his ashes to
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  Speaker 1: be a companion with Christian in his pilgrimage. This Hopeful
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  Speaker 1: also told Christian that there were many more of the
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  Speaker 1: men in the fair that would take their time and
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  Speaker 1: follow after. So I saw that quickly after they were
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  Speaker 1: got out of the fair, they overtook one that was
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  Speaker 1: going before them, whose name was by Ends. So they
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  Speaker 1: said to him, what countrymen, sir? And how far go
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  Speaker 1: you this way? He told them that he came from
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  Speaker 1: the town of fair Speech, and he was going to
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  Speaker 1: the celestial city. But told them not his name from
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  Speaker 1: fair Speech, said Christian, is there any good that lives there?
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  Speaker 1: Proverbs twenty six twenty five by ens, yes, said byence,
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  Speaker 1: I hope, So Christian, pray, sir, what may I call you?
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  Speaker 1: Said Christian. By ens, I am a stranger.
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  Speaker 2: To you, and you to me.
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  Speaker 1: If you be going this way, I shall be glad
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  Speaker 1: of your company. If not, I must be content. Christian,
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  Speaker 1: this town of fair Speech, said Christian, I have heard
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  Speaker 1: of and as I remember, they say it's a wealthy place.
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  Speaker 1: Bi Ens, yes, I will assure you that it is.
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  Speaker 1: And I have many rich kindred there, Christian, pray, who
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  Speaker 1: are your kindred there? If a man may be so
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  Speaker 1: bold by ends, almost the whole town, and in particular,
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  Speaker 1: my lord turnabout, my Lord time server, my Lord fair Speech,
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  Speaker 1: from whose ancestors that town first took its name. Also
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  Speaker 1: mister Smoothman, mister facing both ways, mister anything, and the
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  Speaker 1: parson of our parish, mister Tutongues, who was my brother's
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  Speaker 1: own brother by father's side. And to tell you the truth,
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  Speaker 1: I am become a gentleman of good quality. Yet my
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  Speaker 1: great grandfather was but a waterman, looking one way and
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  Speaker 1: rowing another. And I got most of my estate by
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  Speaker 1: the same occupation. Christian, Are you.
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  Speaker 2: A married man by ends? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: And my wife is a very virtuous woman, the daughter
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  Speaker 1: of a virtuous woman. She was my Lord Feigning's daughter.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore she came of a very honorable family, and has
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  Speaker 1: arrived to such a pitch of breeding that she knows
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  Speaker 1: how to carry it to all, even to prince and peasant.
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  Speaker 1: Tis true we somewhat different religion from those of the
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  Speaker 1: stricter sort. Yet but in two small points. First, we
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  Speaker 1: never strive against wind and tide. Secondly, we are always
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  Speaker 1: most zealous when religion goes in his silver slippers. We
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  Speaker 1: love much to walk with him in the street, if
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  Speaker 1: the sun shines and the people applaud him. Then Christian
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  Speaker 1: stepped a little aside to his fellow, Hopeful, saying, it
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  Speaker 1: runs in my mind that this is one by ends
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  Speaker 1: of fair speech, and if it be he, we have
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  Speaker 1: as very a knave and out company as Dwelleth in
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  Speaker 1: all these parts. Then said Hopeful, ask him, methinks he
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  Speaker 1: should not be ashamed of his name. So Christian came
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  Speaker 1: up with him again and said, sir, you talk as
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  Speaker 1: if you knew something more than all the world doth.
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  Speaker 1: And if I take not my mark, amiss i deem,
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  Speaker 1: I have half a guess of you. Is not your name,
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  Speaker 1: mister biens of fair speech. By ends, this is not
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  Speaker 1: my name, But indeed it is a nickname that is
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  Speaker 1: given me by some that cannot abide me, and I
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  Speaker 1: must be content to bear it as a reproach, as
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  Speaker 1: other good men have borne theirs before me, Christian. But
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  Speaker 1: did you never give an occasion to men to call
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  Speaker 1: you by this name?
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  Speaker 2: By ends? Never? Never?
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  Speaker 1: The worst that ever I did to give them occasion
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  Speaker 1: to give me this name was that I had always
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  Speaker 1: the luck to jump in my judgment with the present
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  Speaker 1: way of the times, whatever it was, and my chance
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  Speaker 1: was to get thereby. But if things are thus cast
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  Speaker 1: upon me, let me count them a blessing. But let
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  Speaker 1: not the malicious load me therefore with reproach. Christian, I
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  Speaker 1: thought indeed that you were the man that I heard of,
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  Speaker 1: And to tell you what I think, I fear this
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  Speaker 1: name belongs to you more properly than and you are
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  Speaker 1: willing we should think it doth.
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  Speaker 2: By ends.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if you will thus imagine I cannot help it,
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  Speaker 1: you shall find me a fair company keeper. If you
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  Speaker 1: will still admit me your associate, Christian. If you will
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  Speaker 1: go with us, you must go against wind and tide,
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  Speaker 1: the which I perceive against your opinion. You must also
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  Speaker 1: own religion in his rags, as well as when in
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  Speaker 1: his silver slippers, and stand by him too when bound
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  Speaker 1: and irons, as well as when he walketh the streets
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  Speaker 1: with applause. By Ens, you must not impose nor lord
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  Speaker 1: it over my faith. Leave me to my liberty, and
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  Speaker 1: let me go with you, Christian, not a step farther
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  Speaker 1: unless you will do in what I propound.
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  Speaker 2: As we.
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  Speaker 1: Then said, Biens, I shall never desert my old principles,
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  Speaker 1: since they are harmless and profitable. If I may not
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  Speaker 1: go with you, I must do as I did before
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  Speaker 1: you overtook me, even go by myself until some overtake me.
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  Speaker 2: That will be glad of my company. Now I saw
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  Speaker 2: in my.
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  Speaker 1: Dream that Christian and Hopeful forsook him and kept their
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  Speaker 1: distance before him. But one of them, looking back, saw
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  Speaker 1: three men following mister Byan's and behold, as they came
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  Speaker 1: up with him, he made them a very low conji,
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  Speaker 1: and they also gave.
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  Speaker 2: Him a compliment.
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  Speaker 1: The men's names were mister Hold the World, Mister Money Love,
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  Speaker 1: and mister Save, all men that mister Byans had formerly
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  Speaker 1: been acquainted with, for in their minority they were schoolfellows
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  Speaker 1: and taught by one mister gright Man, a schoolmaster in
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  Speaker 1: Love Gain, which is a market town in the County
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  Speaker 1: of Coveting in the north. The schoolmaster taught them the
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  Speaker 1: art of getting either by violence, cousinage, flattering, lying, or
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  Speaker 1: by putting on a guise of religion. And these four
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  Speaker 1: gentlemen had attained much of the art of their master,
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  Speaker 1: so that they could each of them have kept such
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  Speaker 1: a school themselves well when they had, as I said,
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  Speaker 1: thus saluted each other. Mister Moneylove said to mister Biens,
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  Speaker 1: who are they upon the road before us? For Christian
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  Speaker 1: and hopeful were yet within view? Biens, they are a
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  Speaker 1: couple of far countrymen, that, after their mode, are going
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  Speaker 1: on pilgrimage. Mister Moneylove, alas, why did they not stay
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  Speaker 1: that we might have had their good company? For they
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  Speaker 1: and we and you, sir, I hope, are all going
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  Speaker 1: on pilgrimage by ends. We are so, indeed, But the
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  Speaker 1: men before us are so rigid and love so much
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  Speaker 1: their own notions, and do also so lightly assume their
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  Speaker 1: opinions of others. That let a man be ever so godly,
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  Speaker 1: Yet if he jumps not with them in all things,
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  Speaker 1: they thrust him quite out of their company.
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  Speaker 2: Mister say that is bad.
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  Speaker 1: But we read of some that are righteous over much,
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  Speaker 1: and such men's rigidness prevails with them to judge and
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  Speaker 1: condemn all but themselves. But I pray, what and how
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  Speaker 1: many were the things wherein you differed?
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  Speaker 2: By ends?
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  Speaker 1: Why they, after their hate strong manner, conclude that it
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  Speaker 1: is their duty to rush on their journey or weathers.
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  Speaker 1: And I am for waiting for wind and tide. They
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  Speaker 1: are for hazarding all for God at a clap, And
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  Speaker 1: I am for taking all advantages to secure my.
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  Speaker 2: Life and a state.
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  Speaker 1: They are for holding their notions, though all other men
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  Speaker 1: be against them. But I am for religion and what
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  Speaker 1: and so far as the times and my safety will
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  Speaker 1: bear it. They are for religion when in rags and contempt,
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  Speaker 1: But I am for him when he walks in his
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  Speaker 1: silver slippers in the sunshine, and with applause, mister hold
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  Speaker 1: the world, aye, and hold you there still, good mister, byends,
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  Speaker 1: For for my part I can count him but a fool, that,
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  Speaker 1: having the liberty to keep what he has, shall be
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  Speaker 1: so unwise as to lose it. Let us be wise
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  Speaker 1: as serpents. It is best to make hay while the
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  Speaker 1: sun shines. You see how the bee lieth still in
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  Speaker 1: winter and bestirs her only when she can have profit
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  Speaker 1: with pleasure. God's sends sometimes rain and sometimes sunshine. If
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  Speaker 1: they be such fools to go through the first yet,
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  Speaker 1: let us be content to take fair weather along with us.
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  Speaker 1: For my part, I like that religion best that will
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  Speaker 1: stand with the security of God's good blessings unto us,
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  Speaker 1: For who can imagine that is ruled by his reason?
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  Speaker 1: Since God has bestowed upon us the good things of
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  Speaker 1: this life, but that he would have us keep them.
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  Speaker 2: For his sake.
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  Speaker 1: Abraham and Solomon grew rich in religion, and Job says
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  Speaker 1: that a good man shall lay up gold as dust,
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  Speaker 1: but he must not be such as the men before us,
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  Speaker 1: if they be as you have described them. Mister save All,
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  Speaker 1: I think that we are all agreed in this matter,
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  Speaker 1: and therefore there needs no more words about it. Mister Moneylove, No,
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  Speaker 1: there needs no more words about this matter. Indeed, for
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  Speaker 1: he that believes neither scripture nor reason, and you see
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  Speaker 1: we have both on our side, neither knows his own
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  Speaker 1: liberty nor seeks his own safety. Biens, my brethren, we are,
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  Speaker 1: as you see, going all on pilgrimage and for our
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  Speaker 1: better diversion from things that are bad, give me leave
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  Speaker 1: to propound unto you this question. Suppose a man, a minister,
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  Speaker 1: or a tradesman, et cetera, should have an advantage to
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  Speaker 1: lie before him to get the good blessings of this life.
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  Speaker 1: Yet so as that he can by no means come
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  Speaker 1: by them, except in appearance, at least he becomes extraordinarily
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  Speaker 1: zealous in some points of religion that he meddled not
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  Speaker 1: with before. May he not use this means to attain
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  Speaker 1: his end, and yet be a right honest man. Mister
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  Speaker 1: money Love, I see the bottom of your question, and
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  Speaker 1: with these gentlemen's good leave, I will endeavor to shape
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  Speaker 1: you an answer, and first to speak to your question
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  Speaker 1: as it concerneth a minister himself. Suppose a minister a
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  Speaker 1: worthy man, possessed but of a very small benefice, and
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  Speaker 1: has in his eye a greater more fat and plump
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  Speaker 1: by far, he has also now an opportunity of getting it.
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  Speaker 1: Yet so as by being more studious, by preaching more
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  Speaker 1: frequently and zealously, and because the temper of the people
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  Speaker 1: requires it, by altering off some of his principles. For
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  Speaker 1: my part, I see no reason why a man may
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  Speaker 1: not do this, provided he has a call, aye, and
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  Speaker 1: more a great deal besides, and yet be an honest man.
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  Speaker 1: For why one, his desire of a greater benefice is lawful.
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  Speaker 1: This cannot be contradicted, since it is set before him
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  Speaker 1: by providence, so that he may get it if he can,
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  Speaker 1: making no question for conscience sake. Two. Besides, his desire
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  Speaker 1: after that benefice makes him more studious, a more zealous preacher, etc.
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  Speaker 1: And so makes him a better man. Yea, makes him
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  Speaker 1: better improve his parts, which is according to the mind
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  Speaker 1: of God.
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  Speaker 2: Three.
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  Speaker 1: Now, as for his complying with the temper of his
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  Speaker 1: people by deserting to serve them some of his principles,
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  Speaker 1: this algorith one that he is of a self denying temper,
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  Speaker 1: two of a sweet and winning deportment, and three so
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  Speaker 1: more fit for the ministerial function. Four. I conclude, then,
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  Speaker 1: that a minister that changes as small for a great
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  Speaker 1: should not for so doing be judged as covetous, but rather,
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  Speaker 1: since he is improved in his parts and industry, thereby
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  Speaker 1: be counted as one that pursues his call and the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity put into his hand to do good. And now
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  Speaker 1: to the second part of the question, which concerns the
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  Speaker 1: tradesman you mentioned. Suppose such an one to have but
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  Speaker 1: a poor employing the world. But by becoming religious he
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  Speaker 1: may ment his market, perhaps get a rich wife, or
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  Speaker 1: more and far better customers to his shop. For my part,
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  Speaker 1: I see no reason but this may be lawfully done.
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  Speaker 1: For why one to become religious is a virtue? By
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  Speaker 1: what means soever a man becomes so? Two, Nor is
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  Speaker 1: it unlawful to get a rich wife or more custom
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  Speaker 1: to my shop.
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  Speaker 2: Three.
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  Speaker 1: Besides, the man that gets these by becoming religious, gets
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  Speaker 1: that which is good of them that are good by
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  Speaker 1: becoming good himself. So then here is a good wife,
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  Speaker 1: and good customers, and good gain, and all these by
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  Speaker 1: becoming religious, which is good. Therefore, to become religious to
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  Speaker 1: get all these is a good and profitable design. This answer,
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  Speaker 1: thus made by mister Moneylove to mister Bayen's question, was
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  Speaker 1: highly applauded by them all. Wherefore they concluded upon the
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  Speaker 1: whole that it was most wholesome and advantageous. And because
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  Speaker 1: as they thought, no man was able to contradict it,
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  Speaker 1: and because Christian and Hopeful were yet within call, they
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  Speaker 1: jointly agreed to assault them with the question as soon
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  Speaker 1: as they overtook them, and the rather because they had
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  Speaker 1: opposed mister Byence before. So they called after them, and
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  Speaker 1: they stopped and stood still till they came up to them.
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  Speaker 1: But they concluded as they went that not mister Byens,
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  Speaker 1: but old mister hold the World should propound the question
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  Speaker 1: to them, because, as they supposed, their answer to him
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  Speaker 1: would be without the remainder of that heat that was
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  Speaker 1: kindled betwixt mister Biens and them at their party.
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  Speaker 2: A little before.
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  Speaker 1: So they came up to each other, and after a
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  Speaker 1: short salutation, mister hold the World propounded the question to
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  Speaker 1: Christian and his fellow, and then bid them to answer
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  Speaker 1: if they could. Then, said Christian, even a babe in
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  Speaker 1: religion may answer ten thousand such questions.
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  Speaker 2: For if it be.
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  Speaker 1: Unlawful to follow Christ for lows as it is John
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  Speaker 1: six twenty six, how much more abominable is it to
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  Speaker 1: make of him and religion a stalking horse to get
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  Speaker 1: and enjoy the world. Nor do we find any other
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  Speaker 1: than heathens, hypocrites, devils, and wizards that are of this
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  Speaker 1: opinion one heathens. For when Haymour and Shechem had a
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  Speaker 1: mind to the daughter and cattle of Jacob they saw
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  Speaker 1: that there was no way for them to come at them,
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  Speaker 1: but by being circumcised. They said to their companions, if
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  Speaker 1: every male of us be circumcised, as they are circumcised,
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  Speaker 1: shall not their cattle and their substance, and every beast
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  Speaker 1: of theirs be ours. Their daughters and their cattle were
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  Speaker 1: that which they sought to obtain, and their religion the
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  Speaker 1: stalking horse they made use of to come at them.
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  Speaker 1: Read the whole story Genesis thirty four twenty to twenty
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  Speaker 1: four two. The hypocritical Pharisies were also of this religion.
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  Speaker 1: Long prayers were their pretense, but to get the widow's
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  Speaker 1: houses was their intent, and greater damnation was from God
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  Speaker 1: their judgment Luke twenty forty six and forty seven.
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  Speaker 2: Three.
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  Speaker 1: Judas the Devil was also of this religion. He was
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  Speaker 1: religious for the bag, that he might be possessed of
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  Speaker 1: what was put therein, but he was lost, cast away,
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  Speaker 1: and the very son of Perdition.
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  Speaker 2: Four.
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  Speaker 1: Simon the Wizard was of this religion, too, for he
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  Speaker 1: would have had the holy ghost that he might have
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  Speaker 1: got money there. And his sentence from Peter's mouth was
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  Speaker 1: according Acts eight nineteen to twenty two, neither will it
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  Speaker 1: go out of my mind that that man who takes
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  Speaker 1: aut religion for the world will throw away religion for
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  Speaker 1: the world.
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  Speaker 2: For so surely as.
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  Speaker 1: Judas designed the world in becoming religious, so surely did
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  Speaker 1: he also sell religion and his master for the same.
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  Speaker 1: To answer the question therefore affirmatively as I perceive you
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  Speaker 1: have done, and to accept of as authentic such answer
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  Speaker 1: as heathenish, hypocritical, and devilish, and your reward will be
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  Speaker 1: according to your works. Then they stood staring one upon another,
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  Speaker 1: but had not wherewith to answer. Christian Hopeful also approve
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  Speaker 1: of the soundness of Christian's answer, So there was a
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  Speaker 1: great silence among them. Mister Byens and his company also
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  Speaker 1: staggered and kept behind, that Christian and Hopeful.
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  Speaker 2: Might outgo them.
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  Speaker 1: Then said Christian to his fellow, if these men cannot
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  Speaker 1: stand before the sentence of men, what will they do
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  Speaker 1: with the sentence of God? And if they are mute
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  Speaker 1: when dealt with by vessels of clay, what will they
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  Speaker 1: do when they shall be rebuked by the flames of
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  Speaker 1: a devouring fire. Then Christian and Hopeful outwent them again
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  Speaker 1: and went to They came at a delicate plane called
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  Speaker 1: ease where they went with much content. But that plane
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  Speaker 1: was narrow, so they were quickly got over it. Now
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  Speaker 1: at the farther side of that plain was a little
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  Speaker 1: hill called Lucre, and in that hill a silver mine,
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  Speaker 1: which some of them that had formerly gone that way,
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  Speaker 1: because of the rarity of it, had turned aside to see.
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  Speaker 1: But going too near the brim of the pit, the ground,
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  Speaker 1: being deceitful under them, broke, and they were slain. Some
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  Speaker 1: also had been made then could not, to their dying
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  Speaker 1: day be their own men again. Then I saw in
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  Speaker 1: my dream that a little off the road, over against
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  Speaker 1: the silver mine stood Demas gentlemanlike to call passengers to
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  Speaker 1: come and see, who said to Christian and his fellow,
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  Speaker 1: ho turn aside hither, and I will show you a thing, Christian,
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  Speaker 1: what thing so deserving as to turn us out of
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  Speaker 1: the way to see it? Demus, here is a silver mine,
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  Speaker 1: and some digging in it for treasure. If you'll come
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  Speaker 1: with the little pens, you may richly provide for yourselves. Hopeful, then,
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  Speaker 1: said Hopeful, let us go see, Christian. Not, I said, Christian,
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  Speaker 1: I have heard of this place before now, and how
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  Speaker 1: many they have been slain? And Besides, that treasure is
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  Speaker 1: a snare to those that seek it, for it hindereth
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  Speaker 1: them in their pilgrimage. Then Christian called to Damas, saying,
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  Speaker 1: is not the place dangerous? Hath it not hindered many
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  Speaker 1: in their pilgrimage Hoseiah nine six, Demus, not very dangerous,
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  Speaker 1: except to those that are careless. But with all he
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  Speaker 1: blushed as he spake. Christian then said Christian, to hopeful,
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  Speaker 1: let us not stir a step, but still keep on
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  Speaker 1: our way. Hopeful, I will warnd you when Bayans comes up.
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  Speaker 1: If he hath the same invitation as we, he will
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  Speaker 1: turn in thither to see Christian, no doubt thereof, for
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  Speaker 1: his principles lead him that way, and a hundred to one,
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  Speaker 1: but he dies there.
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  Speaker 2: Demus.
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  Speaker 1: Then Demus called again, saying, but will you not come over.
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  Speaker 2: And see Christian.
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  Speaker 1: Then Christian roundly answered, saying, deemest thou art an enemy
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  Speaker 1: to the right ways of the Lord of this way,
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  Speaker 1: and hast been already condemned for thine own turning aside
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  Speaker 1: by one of His Majesty's judges SAWO Timothy four ten.
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  Speaker 1: And why seekest thou to bring us into the light condemnation. Besides,
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  Speaker 1: if we at all turn aside our lord, the King
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  Speaker 1: will certainly hear thereof, and will there put us to shame.
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  Speaker 1: Where we would stand with boldness before him. Deimus cried
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  Speaker 1: again that he also was one of their fraternity, and
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  Speaker 1: that if they would tarry a little, he also himself
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  Speaker 1: would walk with them. Christian then said Christian, what is
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  Speaker 1: thy name? Is it not the same by which I
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  Speaker 1: have called thee Demus? Yes, my name is Demus. I
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  Speaker 1: am the son of Abraham.
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  Speaker 2: Christian. I know you.
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  Speaker 1: Gehazi was your great grandfather, and Judas your father, and
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  Speaker 1: you have trod in their steps. It is but a
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  Speaker 1: devilish prank that thou usest thy father was hanged for
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  Speaker 1: a traitor, and thou deservest no better reward. Second Kings
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  Speaker 1: five twenty to twenty seven, Matthew twenty six, fourteen, and
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  Speaker 1: fifteen twenty seven three to five. Assure thyself that when
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  Speaker 1: we come to the King, we will tell him of
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  Speaker 1: this thy behavior. Thus they went their way, by this
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  Speaker 1: time by ends, and his companions were come again within sight,
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  Speaker 1: and they at the first beck went over to Demas. Now,
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  Speaker 1: whether they fell into the pit by looking over the
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  Speaker 1: brink thereof, or whether they went down to dig, or
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  Speaker 1: whether they were smothered in the bottomed by the damps
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  Speaker 1: that commonly arise. Of these things, I am not certain.
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  Speaker 1: But this I observed that they were never seen again
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  Speaker 1: in the way. Then sang Christian Bayans and silver Demus.
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  Speaker 1: Both agree, one calls the other runs that he may
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  Speaker 1: be a sharer in his lucre. So these two take
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  Speaker 1: up in this world, and no farther go. Now I
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  Speaker 1: saw that just on the other side of this plain,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: the pilgrims came to a place where stood an old
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  Speaker 1: monument hard by the highway side, at the sight of
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  Speaker 1: which they were both concerned because of the strangeness of
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  Speaker 1: the form thereof, for it seemed to them as if
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  Speaker 1: it had been a woman transformed into the shape of
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  Speaker 1: a pillar. Here therefore they stood looking and looking upon it,
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  Speaker 1: but could not for a time tell what they should
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  Speaker 1: make thereof. At last, hopeful a spire written upon the
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  Speaker 1: head thereof a writing in an unusual hand. But he,
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  Speaker 1: being no scholar, called to Christian, for he was learned
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  Speaker 1: to see if he could pick out the meaning. So
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  Speaker 1: he came, and after a little laying of letters together,
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  Speaker 1: he found the same to be this, remember Lot's wife,
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  Speaker 1: so he read it to his fellow, after which they
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  Speaker 1: both concluded that that was the pillar of salt into
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  Speaker 1: which Lot's wife was churned, for her looking back with
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  Speaker 1: a comfortous heart when she was going from Sodom for
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  Speaker 1: safety Genesis nineteen twenty six, which sudden and amazing sight
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  Speaker 1: gave them occasion for this discourse. Christian, Ah, my brother,
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  Speaker 1: this is a seasonable sight. It came opportunely to us
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  Speaker 1: after the invitation which Demus gave us to come over
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  Speaker 1: to view the hill Lucre. And had we gone over
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  Speaker 1: as he desired us, and as thou wast inclined to do,
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  Speaker 1: my brother, we had for aught, I know, been made
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  Speaker 1: like this woman, a spectacle for those that shall come
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  Speaker 1: after to behold hopeful. I am sorry that I was
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  Speaker 1: so foolish, and are made to wonder that I am
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  Speaker 1: not now as Lot's wife, For wherein was the difference
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  Speaker 1: betwixt her sin and mine? She only looked back, and
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  Speaker 1: I had a desire to go see. Let grace be adored,
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  Speaker 1: and let me be ashamed that ever such a thing
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  Speaker 1: should be in mine heart. Christian, let us take notice
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  Speaker 1: of what we see here for our help from time
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  Speaker 1: to come. This woman escaped one judgment, for she fell
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  Speaker 1: not by the destruction of sodom, yet she was destroyed
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  Speaker 1: by another. As we see, she is turned into a
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  Speaker 1: pillar of salt, hopeful true. And she may be to
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  Speaker 1: us both caution and example, caution that we should shun
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  Speaker 1: her sin, or a sign of what judgment will overtake,
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  Speaker 1: such as shall not be prevented by this caution. So Cora,
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  Speaker 1: Dathan and Abraam, with the two hundred and fifty men
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  Speaker 1: that perished in their sin, did also become a sign
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  Speaker 1: or example to others to beware number sixteen, thirty one
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  Speaker 1: and thirty two, twenty six, nine and ten. But above all,
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  Speaker 1: I muse at one thing to wit how Demus and
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  Speaker 1: his fellows can stand so confidently yonder to look for
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  Speaker 1: that treasure which this woman, but for looking behind her
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  Speaker 1: after for we read not that she stepped one foot
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  Speaker 1: out of the way, was turned into a pillar of salt,
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  Speaker 1: Especially since the judgment which overtook her did make her
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  Speaker 1: an example within sight of where they are, For they
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  Speaker 1: cannot choose but see her, did they but lift up
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  Speaker 1: their eyes? Christian, it is a thing to be wondered at,
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  Speaker 1: and it argued that their hearts are grown desperate in
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: the case. And I cannot tell who to compare them
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  Speaker 1: to so fitly as to them that pickpockets in the
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  Speaker 1: presence of the judge, or that will cut purses under
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  Speaker 1: the gallows. It is said of the men of Sodom
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  Speaker 1: that they were sinners exceedingly because they were sinners before
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, that is in his eyesight, and notwithstanding the
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  Speaker 1: kindnesses that he had shown them, for the land of
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  Speaker 1: Sodom was now like the garden of Eden, as heretofore
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  Speaker 1: Genesis thirteen ten to thirteen. This therefore provoked him the
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  Speaker 1: more to jealousy, and made their plague as hot as
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  Speaker 1: the fire of the Lord out of heaven could make it.
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  Speaker 1: And it is most rationally to be concluded that such
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  Speaker 1: even such as these are, that shall sin in the
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  Speaker 1: sight Yea, and that too, in despite of such examples
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  Speaker 1: that are set continually before them. To caution them to
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  Speaker 1: the contrary, must be Partacus of severest judgments. Hopeful, doubtless
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  Speaker 1: thou hast said the truth. But what a mercy is
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  Speaker 1: it that neither thou, but especially I am not made
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  Speaker 1: myself this example this minister hath occasion to us to
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  Speaker 1: thank God, to fear before him, and always to remember
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  Speaker 1: Lot's wife. I saw then that they went on their
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  Speaker 1: way to a pleasant river, which David the King called
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  Speaker 1: the river of God, but John the river of the
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  Speaker 1: water of Life Psalm sixty five nine, Revelations twenty two
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  Speaker 1: one Ezekiel forty seven one to nine. Now their way
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  Speaker 1: lay just upon the bank of this river. Here therefore
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  Speaker 1: Christian and his companion walked with great delight. They drank
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  Speaker 1: also over the water of the river, which was pleasant
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  Speaker 1: and enlivening to their weary spirits. Besides, on the banks
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  Speaker 1: of this river, on either side were green trees with
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  Speaker 1: all manner of fruit and the leaves they ate to
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  Speaker 1: prevent surfeits and other diseases that are incident to those
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  Speaker 1: that heat their blood by travel. On either side of
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  Speaker 1: the river was also a meadow, curiously beautified with lilies,
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  Speaker 1: and it was green all the year long. In this
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  Speaker 1: meadow they lay down and slept, for here they might
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  Speaker 1: lie down safely Psalm twenty three two Isaiah fourteen thirty.
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  Speaker 1: When they awoke, they gathered again of the fruit of
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  Speaker 1: the trees, and drank again of the water of the river,
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  Speaker 1: and then lay down again to sleep. Thus they did
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  Speaker 1: several days and nights. Then they sang, behold, ye, how
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  Speaker 1: these crystal streams do glide to comfort pilgrims by their
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  Speaker 1: highwayside the meadows green. Besides their fragrance smell ye'll dainties
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  Speaker 1: for them. And he that can tell what pleasant fruit
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  Speaker 1: yea leaves these trees do yield, will soon sell all
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  Speaker 1: that he may buy this field. So, when they were
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  Speaker 1: disposed to go on, for they were not as yet
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  Speaker 1: at their journey's end, they ate and drank and departed.
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  Speaker 1: Now I beheld in my dream that they had not
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  Speaker 1: journeyed far, but the river and the way for a
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  Speaker 1: time parted, at which they were not a little sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Yet they durst not go out of the way. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the way from the river was rough, and their feet
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  Speaker 1: tender by reason of their travels. So the souls of
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  Speaker 1: the pilgrim were much discouraged because of the way numbers
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  Speaker 1: twenty one four. Wherefore, still as they went on, they
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  Speaker 1: wished for a better way. Now, a little before them
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  Speaker 1: there was on the left hand of the road a
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  Speaker 1: meadow and a style to go over into it. And
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  Speaker 1: that meadow is called by path meadow. Then said Christian
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  Speaker 1: to his fellow. If this meadow lieth along by our wayside,
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  Speaker 1: let's go over into it. Then he went to the
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  Speaker 1: stile to see, and behold a path lay along by
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  Speaker 1: the way on the other side of the fence. It
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  Speaker 1: is according to my wish, said Christian, here is the
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  Speaker 1: easiest going. Come good, hopeful, and let us go over.
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  Speaker 2: Hopeful.
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  Speaker 1: But how this path should lead us out of the way? Christian,
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  Speaker 1: that is not likely, said the other. Look, doth it
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  Speaker 1: not go along by the wayside. So Hopeful, being persuaded
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  Speaker 1: by his fellow, went after him over the stile. When
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  Speaker 1: they were gone over and were got into the path,
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  Speaker 1: they found it very easy for their feet and withal.
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  Speaker 1: They looking before them, as spied a man walking as
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  Speaker 1: they did, and his name was vain Confidence. So they
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  Speaker 1: called after him and asked him whither that way led?
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  Speaker 1: He said to the celestial gate. Look, said Christian, did
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  Speaker 1: not I tell you? So?
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  Speaker 2: By this? Ye may see we are right.
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  Speaker 1: So they followed, and he went before them. But behold,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: the night came on, and it grew very dark, so
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  Speaker 1: that they that went behind lost the sight of him
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  Speaker 1: that went before. He therefore that went before vain confidence
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  Speaker 1: by name, not seeing the way before him, fell into
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: a deep pit, which was on purpose there made by
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  Speaker 1: the Prince of those grounds to catch vainglorious fools withal,
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  Speaker 1: and was dashed in pieces with his form Isaiah nine sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: Now Christian and his fellow heard him fall, so they
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  Speaker 1: called to know the matter, but there was no answer.
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  Speaker 1: Only they heard a groaning, then said, Hopeful, where are
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: we now? Then was his fellow silent, as mistrusting that
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  Speaker 1: he had led him out of the way. And now
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: it began to rain and thunder enlighten in a most
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: dreadful manner, and the water rose Amain. Then Hopeful groaned
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: in himself, saying, oh, that I had kept on my
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: way Christian, who could have thought that this path should
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: have led us out of the way? Hopeful, I was
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  Speaker 1: afraid aunt at the very first, and therefore gave you
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  Speaker 1: that gentle caution. I would have spoke plainer, but that
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: you are older than I. Christian, good brother, be not offended.
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  Speaker 1: I am sorry I have brought thee out of the way,
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  Speaker 1: and that I have put THEE into such imminent danger. Pray,
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  Speaker 1: my brother, forgive me. I did not do it of
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  Speaker 1: an evil intent. Hopeful, be comforted, my brother, for I
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  Speaker 1: forgive thee and believe too that this shall be for
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  Speaker 1: our good Christian. I am glad I have with me
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  Speaker 1: a merciful brother. But we must not stand here. Let
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  Speaker 1: us try to go back again. Hopeful, but good brother,
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  Speaker 1: let me go before Christian. No, if you please let
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  Speaker 1: me go first, that if there be any danger, I
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: may be first therein, because by my means we are
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: both gone out.
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  Speaker 2: Of the way.
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  Speaker 1: Hopeful, No, said, Hopeful, you shall not go first, for
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  Speaker 1: your mind, being troubled, may lead you out of the
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  Speaker 1: way again. Then, for their encouragement, they heard the voice
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  Speaker 1: of one saying, let thine heart be toward the highway,
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  Speaker 1: even the way that thou wentest turn again Jeremiah thirty one,
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  Speaker 1: twenty one. But by this time the waters were greatly
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  Speaker 1: risen by reason of the witch. The way of going
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  Speaker 1: back was very dangerous. Then I thought that it is
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: easier going out of the way when we are in
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: than going in when we are out. Yet they had
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: ventured to go back, but it was so dark and
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: the flood was so high, that in their going back
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  Speaker 1: they had liked to have been drowned nine or ten times.
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  Speaker 1: Neither could they, with all the skill they had, get
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  Speaker 1: again to the style that night. Wherefore, at last, lighting
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: under a little shelter, they sat down there till the daybreak,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: but being weary, they fell asleep. Now there was not
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: far from the place where they lay a castle called
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Doubting Castle. The owner were of was Giant Despair, and
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: it was in his grounds they now were sleeping.
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  Speaker 2: Wherefore, he, getting.
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  Speaker 1: Up in the morning early and walking up and down
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  Speaker 1: in his fields, called Christian and hope for asleep in
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: his grounds. Then, with a grim and surly voice, he
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: bid them awake and asked them whence they were and
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: what they did in his grounds. They told him they
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: were pilgrims, and that they had lost their way. Then
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: said the giant you have this night trespassed on me
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  Speaker 1: by trampling in and lying on my grounds, and therefore
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  Speaker 1: you must go along with me. So they were forced
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: to go, because he was stronger than they. They also
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: had but little to say, for they knew themselves in
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: a fault. The giant therefore drove them before him and
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: put them into his castle, into a very dark dungeon,
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  Speaker 1: nasty and sinking to the spirits of these two men.
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  Speaker 2: Here.
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  Speaker 1: Then they lay from Wednesday morning till Saturday night, without
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: one bit of bread, or drop of drink, or light,
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  Speaker 1: or any to ask how they did. They were therefore
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  Speaker 1: here in evil case, and were far from friends and
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: acquaintance Psalm eighty eight eighteen. Now in this place Christian
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  Speaker 1: had double sorrow because it was through his unadvised counsel
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  Speaker 1: that they were brought into this distress. Now, Giant Despair
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: had a wife, and her name was Diffidence. So when
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  Speaker 1: he was gone to bed, he told his wife what
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: he had done to wit, that he had taken a
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: couple of prisoners and cast them into his dungeon for
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: trespassing on his grounds. Then he asked her also what
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: he had best do further to them. So she asked
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: him what they were, whence they came, and whither they
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: were bound, And he told her. Then she counseled him
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: that when he arose in the morning, he should beat
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: them without mercy. So when he arose, he gethereth him
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: a grievous crabtree cudgel, and goes down into the dungeon
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  Speaker 1: to them, and their first forced rating of them as
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: if they were dogs, although they gave him never a
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: word of distaste.
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  Speaker 2: Then he falls.
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  Speaker 1: Upon them and beats them fearfully in such sort that
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: they were not able to help themselves or to turn
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: them upon the floor. This done, he withdraws and leaves
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: them there, to condole their misery and to mourn under
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: their distress. So all that day they spent the time
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: in nothing but size and bitter lamentations. The next night,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: she talking with her husband further about them, and, understanding
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: that they were yet alive, did advise him to counsel
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: them to make away with themselves. So when morning was come,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: he goes to them in a surly manner as before, and,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: perceiving them to be very sore with the stripes that
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: he had given them the day before, he told them
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: that since there were never like to come out of
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: that place, the only way would be forthwith to make
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: an end of themselves, either with knife, halter or poison.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: For why said he should you choose to live, seeing
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: it is attended with so much bitterness, But they desired
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: him to let them go. With that, he looked ugly
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: upon them, and rushing to them, had doubtless made an
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: end of them himself. But that he fell into one
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: of his fits, For he sometimes, in sunshiny weather, fell
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: into fits and lost for a time the use of
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: his hands. Wherefore he withdrew and left them as before
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: to consider what to do. Then did the prisoners consult
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: between themselves whether it was best to take his counsel
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: or no. And thus they began to discourse. Christian brother
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: said Christian, what shall we do? The life that we
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: now live is miserable. For my part, I know not
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: whether it is best to live thus or to die
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: out of hand. My soul chooseth strangling rather than life,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: and the grave is more easy for me than this
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: dungeon Job seven fifteen. Shall we be ruled by this
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: giant hopeful? Indeed, our present condition is dreadful, and death
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: would be far more welcome to me than thus forever
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: to abide. But yet, let us consider the lord of
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: the country to which we are going. Hath said, thou
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: shalt do no murder, No, not to another man's person,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: much more than are we forbidden to take his counsel
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: to kill ourselves. Besides, he that kills another can but
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: commit murder upon his body. But for one to kill
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: himself is to kill body and soul at once. And moreover,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: my brother, thou talkest of ease in the grave, but
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: hast thou forgotten the hell? Whither for certain the murderers go,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: for no murderer hath eternal life, et cetera. And let
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: us consider again that all the law is not in
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: the hand of Giant Despair. Others, so far as I
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: can understand, have been taken by him as well as we,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: and yet have escaped out of his hands. Who knows
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: but that God who made the world may cause that
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Giant Despair may die, or that at some time or
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: other he may forget to lock us in, or that
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: he may in a short time have another of his
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: fits before us, and may lose the use of his limbs.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: And if ever that should come to pass again, for
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: my part, I am resolved to pluck up the heart
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  Speaker 1: of a man, and to try my utmost to get
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  Speaker 1: from under his hand. I was a fool that I
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  Speaker 1: did not try to do it before. But however, my brother,
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  Speaker 1: let us be patient and endure a while. The time
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  Speaker 1: may come that may give us a happy release. But
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  Speaker 1: let us not be our own murderers with these words
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  Speaker 1: hopeful at present it moderate the mind of his brother.
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  Speaker 1: So they continued together in the dark that day, in
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  Speaker 1: their sad and doughful condition. Well towards evening, the Giant
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  Speaker 1: goes down into the dungeon again to see if his
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  Speaker 1: prisoners had take in his council.
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  Speaker 2: But when he.
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  Speaker 1: Came there, he found them alive, and truly alive. Was
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  Speaker 1: all for now, what for want of bread and water,
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  Speaker 1: and by reason of the wounds they had received when
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  Speaker 1: he beat them, they could do little but breathe. But
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  Speaker 1: I say he found them alive, at which he fell
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  Speaker 1: into a grievous rage, and told them that, seeing they
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  Speaker 1: had disobeyed his counsel, it should be worse with them
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  Speaker 1: than if they had never been born. At this they
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  Speaker 1: trembled greatly, and I think that Christian fell into a swoon.
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  Speaker 1: But coming a little to himself again, they renewed their
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  Speaker 1: discourse about the Giant's council and whether yet they had
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  Speaker 1: best take it or no. Now Christian again seemed for
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  Speaker 1: doing it, but Hopeful made his second replies followeth Hopeful,
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  Speaker 1: my brother said, he rememberest thou not how valiant thou
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  Speaker 1: hast been. Heretofore Apollyon could not crush thee, nor could
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  Speaker 1: all that thou didst hear, or see or feel in
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  Speaker 1: the valley of the shadow of death? What hardship, terror,
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  Speaker 1: and amazement hast thou already gone through? And art thou
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  Speaker 1: now nothing but fears. Thou seest that I am in
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  Speaker 1: the dungeon with thee, a far weaker man by nature
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  Speaker 1: than thou art. Also this giant hath wounded me as
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  Speaker 1: well as thee, and hath also cut off the bread
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  Speaker 1: and water for my mouth, And with thee I mourn
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  Speaker 1: without the light. But let us exercise a little more patience.
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  Speaker 1: Remember how thou plait'st the man at Vanity fair, and
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  Speaker 1: was neither afraid of the chain nor cage, nor yet
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  Speaker 1: of bloody death. Wherefore let us at least to avoid
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  Speaker 1: the shame that it becomes not a Christian to be
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  Speaker 1: found in. Bear up with patience as well as we can. Now,
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  Speaker 1: night being come again, and the Giant and his wife
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  Speaker 1: being in bed, she asked him concerning the prisoners and
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  Speaker 1: if they had taken his counsel, to which he replied,
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  Speaker 1: they are sturdy rogues. They choose rather to bear all
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  Speaker 1: hardships than to make away with themselves. Then said g
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  Speaker 1: take them into the castle yard tomorrow, and show them
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  Speaker 1: the bones and skulls of those that thou hast already dispatched,
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  Speaker 1: and make them believe ere week comes to an end,
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  Speaker 1: thou wilt tear them in pieces, as thou hast done
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  Speaker 1: their fellows before them. So when the morning was come,
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  Speaker 1: the Giant goes to them again and takes them into
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  Speaker 1: the castle yard and shows them as his wife.
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  Speaker 2: Had bidden him.
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  Speaker 1: These said he were pilgrims as you are once, and
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  Speaker 1: they trespassed on my grounds as you have done. And
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  Speaker 1: when I thought fit, I tore them in pieces. And
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  Speaker 1: so within ten days I will do you get you
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  Speaker 1: down to your den again. And with that he beat
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  Speaker 1: them all the way Thither They lay therefore all day
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday in a lamentable case, as before now, when
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  Speaker 1: night was calm, and when missus Diffidence and her husband,
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  Speaker 1: the Giant, was got to bed, they began to renew
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  Speaker 1: their discourse of their pre and with all the old
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  Speaker 1: giant wondered that he could neither buy his blows nor
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  Speaker 1: counsel bring them to an end. And with that his
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  Speaker 1: wife replied, I fear, said she that they live in
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  Speaker 1: hopes that some will come to relieve them, or that
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  Speaker 1: they have picklocks about them, by the means of which
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  Speaker 1: they hope to escape. And sayest thou so, my dear,
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  Speaker 1: said the giant. I will therefore search them in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Well on Saturday, about midnight they began to pray, and
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  Speaker 1: continued in prayer till almost break of day, now a
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  Speaker 1: little before it was day. Good Christian, as one half amazed,
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  Speaker 1: break out into this passionate speech.
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  Speaker 2: What a fool quoth he am?
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  Speaker 1: I thus to lie in a stinking dungeon when I
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  Speaker 1: may as well walk at liberty. I have a key
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  Speaker 1: in my bosom, called promise that will I am persuaded
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  Speaker 1: open any lock in doubting castle? Then said, hopeful, that
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  Speaker 1: is good news, good brother, pluck it out of thy
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  Speaker 1: bosom and try. Then Christian pulls it out of his
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  Speaker 1: bosom and began to try at the dungeon door, whose bolt.
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  Speaker 1: As he turned the key gave back, and the door
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  Speaker 1: flew open. With ease, and Christian and Hopeful both came out.
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  Speaker 1: Then he went to the outward door that leads into
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  Speaker 1: the castle yard, and with his key opened that door.
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  Speaker 1: Also after he went to the iron gate, for that
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  Speaker 1: must be open too. But that lock went desperately hard,
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  Speaker 1: yet the key did open it. They then thrust open
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  Speaker 1: the gate to make their escape with speed. But that gate,
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  Speaker 1: as it opened, made such a creaking that it waked
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  Speaker 1: Giant Despair, who, hastily rising to pursue his prisoners, felt
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  Speaker 1: his limbs to fail, for his fits took him again,
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  Speaker 1: so that he could by no means go after them.
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  Speaker 1: Then they went on and came to the King's highway,
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  Speaker 1: and so was safe because they were out of his jurisdiction. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when they were gone over the star, they began to
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  Speaker 1: contrived with themselves what they should do at that style
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  Speaker 1: to prevent those that shall come after from falling into
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  Speaker 1: the hands.
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  Speaker 2: Of Giant Despair.
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  Speaker 1: So they consented to erect their pillar and to engrave
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  Speaker 1: upon the side thereof this sentence. Over the style is
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  Speaker 1: their way to doubting castle, which is kept by Giant Despair,
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  Speaker 1: who despiseth the King of the celestial country, and seeks
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  Speaker 1: to destroy his holy pilgrims. Many therefore that followed after
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  Speaker 1: read what was written, and escape the danger. This done,
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  Speaker 1: they sang, as follows, out of the way we went,
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  Speaker 1: and then we found what was to tread upon forbidden ground,
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  Speaker 1: and let them that come after have a care least
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  Speaker 1: heedlessness makes them as we to fare lest therefore trespassing
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  Speaker 1: His prisoners are, whose castles doubting, and whose.
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  Speaker 2: Names despair
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  Speaker 1: End Part one the Seventh Stage