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

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Speaker 1: Part one, the fourth stage. Then he began to go forward,
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Speaker 1: but discretion, piety, charity, and prudence would accompany him down
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Speaker 1: to the foot of the hill. So they went on together,
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Speaker 1: reiterating their former discourses, till they came to go down
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Speaker 1: the hill. Then said Christian, as it was difficult coming up,
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Speaker 1: so so far as I can see, it is dangerous
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Speaker 1: going down. Yes, said Prudence, so it is, for it
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Speaker 1: is a hard matter for a man to go down
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Speaker 1: into the valley of humiliation, as thou art now, and
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Speaker 1: to catch no slip by the way. Therefore, said they,
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Speaker 1: we are come out to accompany thee down the hill.
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Speaker 1: So he began to go down, but very wearily. Yet
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Speaker 1: he caught a slip or two. Then I saw in
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Speaker 1: my dream that these good companions, when Christian was got
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Speaker 1: down to the bottom of the hill, gave him a
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Speaker 1: loaf of bread, bottle of wine, and a cluster of raisins.
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Speaker 1: And then he went on his way. Whilst Christian is
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Speaker 1: among his godly friends, their golden mouths make him sufficient
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Speaker 1: mens for all his griefs. And when they let him go,
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Speaker 1: he's clad with northern steel from top to toe. But
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Speaker 1: now in this valley of humiliation. Poor Christian was hard
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Speaker 1: put to it, for he had gone but a little
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Speaker 1: way before he aspired a foul fiend coming over the
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Speaker 1: field to meet him. His name is Apollyon. Then did
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Speaker 1: Christian begin to be afraid, and to cast in his
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Speaker 1: mind whether to go back or to stand his ground.
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Speaker 1: But he considered again that he had no armor for
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Speaker 1: his back, and therefore thought that to turn the back
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Speaker 1: to him might give him greater advantage with ease to
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Speaker 1: pierce him with his darts. Therefore he resolved to venture
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Speaker 1: and stand his ground. For thought he had I no
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Speaker 1: more in mine eye than the saving of my life,
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Speaker 1: It would be the best way to stand. So he
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Speaker 1: went on, and Apollyon met him. Now the monster was
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Speaker 1: hideous to behold. He was clothed with scales like a fish,
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Speaker 1: and they are his pride. He had wings like a dragon,
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Speaker 1: and feet like a bear, and out of his belly
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Speaker 1: came fire and smoke, and his mouth was as the
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Speaker 1: mouth of the lion. When he was come up to Christian,
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Speaker 1: he beheld him with a disdainful countenance, and thus began
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Speaker 1: to question him, Apollyon, whence came you? And whither are
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Speaker 1: you bound? Christian? I am come from the city of Destruction,
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Speaker 1: which is the place of all evil, and I am
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Speaker 1: going to the city of Zion Apollion. By this I
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Speaker 1: perceive thou art one of my subjects. For all that
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Speaker 1: country is mine, and I am the prince and God
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Speaker 1: of it. How is it then that thou hast run
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Speaker 1: away from thy king? Were it not that I hope
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Speaker 1: thou mayst do me more service, I would strike thee
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Speaker 1: now at one blow to the ground. Christian. I was
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Speaker 1: indeed born in your dominions, but your service was hard,
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Speaker 1: and your wages such as a man could not live on,
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Speaker 1: for the wages of sin is death Romans six twenty three. Therefore,
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Speaker 1: when I was come to years, I did as other
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Speaker 1: considerate persons do look out if perhaps I might mend
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Speaker 1: myself Apollyon. There is no prince that will thus lightly
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Speaker 1: lose his subjects. Neither will I as yet lose thee.
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Speaker 1: But since thou complainest of thy service and wages, be
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Speaker 1: content to go back, and what our country will afford
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Speaker 1: I do here promise to give thee Christian. But I
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Speaker 1: have let myself to another, even to the king of princes.
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Speaker 1: And how can I with fairness go back with THEE. Apoleon,
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Speaker 1: Thou hast done in this, according to the proverb, changed
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Speaker 1: a bad for worse. But it is ordinary for those
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Speaker 1: that have professed themselves his servants after a while to
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Speaker 1: give him the slip and return again to me. Do
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Speaker 1: thou so too, and all shall be well. Christian, I
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Speaker 1: have given him my faith and sworn my allegiance to him.
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Speaker 1: How then can I go back from this and not
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Speaker 1: be hanged as a traitor Apoleon? Thou didst the same
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Speaker 1: by me, And yet I am willing to pass by all,
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Speaker 1: if now thou wilt yet turn again and go back Christian,
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Speaker 1: what I promised THEE was in my non age. And besides,
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Speaker 1: I count that the Prince under whose banner I now
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Speaker 1: stand is able to absolve me yea, and to pardon
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Speaker 1: also what I did as my compliance with THEE. And
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Speaker 1: besides o thou destroying Apollon, to speak truth, I like
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Speaker 1: his service, his wages, his servants, his government, his company
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Speaker 1: and country better than thine. Therefore, leave off to persuade me. Father.
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Speaker 1: I am his servant, and I will follow him. Apollyon.
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Speaker 1: Consider again, when thou art in cool blood, what thou
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Speaker 1: art like to meet with in the way that thou goest.
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Speaker 1: Thou knowest that for the most part his servants come
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Speaker 1: to an ill end, because they are transgressors against me
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Speaker 1: and my ways. How many of them have been put
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Speaker 1: to shameful deaths. And besides, thou countest his service better
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Speaker 1: than mine, whereas he never yet came from the place
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Speaker 1: where he is to deliver any that served him out
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Speaker 1: of the enemy's hands. But as for me, how many times,
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Speaker 1: as all the world very well knows, have I delivered,
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Speaker 1: either by power or fraud, those that have faithfully served
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Speaker 1: me from Him and his though taken by them? And
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Speaker 1: so will I deliver thee Christian. His forbearing at present
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Speaker 1: to deliver them is on purpose to try their love
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Speaker 1: whether they will cleave to him to the end. And
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Speaker 1: as for the ill end thou sayest they come to
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Speaker 1: that is most glorious in their account, for by present
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Speaker 1: deliverance they do not much expect it, for they stay
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Speaker 1: for their glory, and then they shall have it when
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Speaker 1: their prince comes in his and the glory of the angels. Apoleon,
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Speaker 1: that hast already been unfaithful in thy service to him,
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Speaker 1: And how dost thou think to receive wages of him Christian,
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Speaker 1: wherein no Opoleon have I been unfaithful to him. Apoleon,
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Speaker 1: Thou didst faint at first setting out, when thou wast
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Speaker 1: almost choked in the gulf of despond. Thou didst attempt
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Speaker 1: wrong ways to be rid of thy burden, whereas thou
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Speaker 1: shouldst have stayed till thy Prince had taken it off.
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Speaker 1: Thou didst sinfully sleep and lose thy choice things. Thou
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Speaker 1: wast almost persuaded also to go back at the sight
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Speaker 1: of the lions. And when thou talkest of thy journey
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Speaker 1: and of what thou hast seen and heard, Thou art
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Speaker 1: inwardly desirous of vainglory in all that thou sayest or
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Speaker 1: doest Christian. All this is true, and much more which
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Speaker 1: thou hast left out. But the Prince, whom I serve
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Speaker 1: and honor, is merciful and ready to forgive. But besides,
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Speaker 1: these infirmities possessed me in thy country, for there I
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Speaker 1: suck them in, and I have grown under them, been
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Speaker 1: sorry for them, and have obtained pardon of my Prince Apoleon.
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Speaker 1: Then Napoleon broke out into a grievous rage, saying I
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Speaker 1: am an enemy to this prince. I hate his person,
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Speaker 1: his laws and people. I am come out on purpose
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Speaker 1: to withstand thee Christian. Apoleon, beware what you do, for
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Speaker 1: I am in the King's highway, the way of holiness.
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Speaker 1: Therefore take heed to yourself Apoleon. Then Napoleon, he straggled
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Speaker 1: quite over the whole breadth of the way, and said,
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Speaker 1: I am void of fear in this matter. Prepare thyself
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Speaker 1: to die, for I swear by my infernal den that
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Speaker 1: thou shalt go no farther here will I spill thy soul.
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Speaker 1: And with that he threw a flaming dart at his breast,
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Speaker 1: But Christian had a shield in his hand, with which
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Speaker 1: he caught it and so prevented the danger of that.
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Speaker 1: Then did Christian draw, for he saw it was time
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Speaker 1: to bestir him, and Apollyon as fast made at him,
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Speaker 1: throwing darts as thick as hail by the witch. Notwithstanding
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Speaker 1: all that Christian could do to avoid it, Apollyon wounded
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Speaker 1: him in his head, his hand, and foot. This made
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Speaker 1: Christian give a little back. Apollyon therefore followed his work
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Speaker 1: a main and Christian again took courage and resisted as
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Speaker 1: manfully as he could. This sore combat lasted for above
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Speaker 1: half a day, even till Christian was almost quite spent.
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Speaker 1: For ye must know that Christian, by reason of his wounds,
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Speaker 1: must needs grow weaker and weaker. Then Napoleon, espying his opportunity,
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Speaker 1: began to gather up close to Christian, and wrestling with him,
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Speaker 1: gave him a dreadful fall, and with that Christian's sword
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Speaker 1: flew out of his hand. Then said Napoleon, I am
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Speaker 1: sure of thee now, And with that he had almost
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Speaker 1: pressed him to death, so that Christian began to despair
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Speaker 1: of life. But as God would have it, while Napoleon
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Speaker 1: was fetching his last blow thereby to make a full
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Speaker 1: end of this good man, Christian nimbly reached out his
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Speaker 1: hand for his sword and caught it, saying, we joice
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Speaker 1: not against me, O, mine enemy. When I fall, I
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Speaker 1: shall arise Micah seven eight. And with that gave him
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Speaker 1: a deadly thrust, which made him give back as one
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Speaker 1: that had received his mortal wound. Christian, perceiving that, made
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Speaker 1: at him again, saying, nay, in all these things we
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Speaker 1: are more than Ancherus through him that loved us Romans
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Speaker 1: eight thirty seven and with that, Apoleon spread forth his
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Speaker 1: dragon wings and sped him away. That Christian saw him
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Speaker 1: no more James four seven. In this combat, no man
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Speaker 1: can imagine unless he had seen and heard as I did,
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Speaker 1: what yelling and hideous roaring Apoleon made all the time
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Speaker 1: of the fight. He spake like a dragon, And on
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Speaker 1: the other side, what sighs and groans bursts from Christian's heart.
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Speaker 1: I never saw him, all the while give so much
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Speaker 1: as one pleasant look till he perceived he had wounded
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Speaker 1: Apollon with his two edged sword. Then indeed he did
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Speaker 1: smile and look upward. But it was the dreadfulest sight
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Speaker 1: that ever I saw. So when the battle was over,
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Speaker 1: Christian said, I will here give thanks to him that
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Speaker 1: had delivered me out of the mouth of the Lion,
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Speaker 1: to him that did help me against Apollon. And so
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Speaker 1: he did, saying, Great Beelzebub, the captain of this fiend,
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Speaker 1: designed my ruin. Therefore to this end he sent him
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Speaker 1: harnessed out, and he, with rage that hellish was, did
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Speaker 1: fiercely me engage. But blessed Michael helped me, and I,
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Speaker 1: by Dinto's sword, did quickly make him fly. Therefore to
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Speaker 1: him let me give lasting praise and thank and bless
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Speaker 1: his holy name always. Then there came to him a
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Speaker 1: hand with some of the leaves of the Tree of life.
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Speaker 1: The rich Christian took and applied to the wounds that
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Speaker 1: he had received in the battle, and was healed immediately.
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Speaker 1: He also sat down in that place to eat bread
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Speaker 1: and to drink of the bottle that was given him
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Speaker 1: a little before. So, being refreshed, he addressed himself to
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Speaker 1: his journey, with his sword drawn in his hand, for
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Speaker 1: he said, I know not, but some other enemy may
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Speaker 1: be at hand. But he met with no other affront
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Speaker 1: from Apollion quite through this valley. Now at the end
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Speaker 1: of this valley was an called the valley of the
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Speaker 1: Shadow of Death, and Christian must needs go through it,
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Speaker 1: because the way to the celestial city lay through the
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Speaker 1: midst of it. Now this valley is a very solitary place.
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Speaker 1: The prophet Jeremiah thus describes it a wilderness, a land
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Speaker 1: of deserts and pits, a land of drought and of
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Speaker 1: the shadow of death, a land that no man but
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Speaker 1: a Christian passeth through, and where no man dwelt Jeremiah
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Speaker 1: two six. Now Here Christian was worse put to it
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Speaker 1: than in his fight with Apollion, as by the sequel
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Speaker 1: you shall see. I saw then in my dream that
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Speaker 1: when Christian was got to the borders of the Shadow
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Speaker 1: of Death, there met him two men, children of them
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Speaker 1: that brought up an evil report of the good land
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Speaker 1: numbers thirteen thirty two, making haste to go back, to
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Speaker 1: whom Christians spake, as follows, Christian, whither are you going?
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Speaker 1: The two men? They said, back back, and we would
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Speaker 1: have you do so too, if either life or peace
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Speaker 1: is prized by you. Christian, Why, what's the matter, said Christian?
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Speaker 1: The two men matter, said they. We were going that
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Speaker 1: way as you are going, and went as far as
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Speaker 1: we just, and indeed we were almost past coming back,
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Speaker 1: for had we gone a little further, we had not
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Speaker 1: been here to bring the news to thee Christian. But
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Speaker 1: what have you met with, said Christian? The two men, Why,
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Speaker 1: we were almost in the valley of the shadow of Death.
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Speaker 1: But that, by good hap, we looked before us and
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Speaker 1: saw the danger before we came to it Psalm forty four,
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Speaker 1: nineteen one hundred and seven nineteen. Christian, But what have
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Speaker 1: you seen, said Christian the two men scene. Why the
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Speaker 1: valley it s, which is as dark as pitch. We
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Speaker 1: also saw there the hobgoblins, the satters, and dragons of
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Speaker 1: the pit. We heard also in that valley a continual
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Speaker 1: howling and yelling, as of a people under unutterable misery,
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Speaker 1: who there sat bound in affliction and irons. And over
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Speaker 1: that valley hung the discouraging clouds of confusion. Death also
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Speaker 1: doth always spread his wings over it. In a word,
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Speaker 1: it is every whit dreadful, being utterly without order Job
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Speaker 1: three five ten twenty two. Christian then said, Christian, I
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Speaker 1: perceive not yet by what you have said, but that
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Speaker 1: this is my way to the desired haven Psalm forty
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Speaker 1: four eighteen and nineteen Jeremiah two six. The two men
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Speaker 1: be it thy way, we will not choose it for hours.
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Speaker 1: So they parted, and Christian went on his way, but
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Speaker 1: still with his sword drawn in his hand, for fear
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Speaker 1: les he should be assaulted. I saw then in my dream,
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Speaker 1: so far as this valley reached, there was on the
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Speaker 1: right hand a very deep ditch. That ditch is it
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Speaker 1: into which the blind have led the blind in all ages,
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Speaker 1: and have both there miserably perished. Again, behold, on the
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Speaker 1: left hand there was a very dangerous quag, into which
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Speaker 1: if even a good man falls, he finds no bottom
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Speaker 1: for his foot to stand on. Into that quag, King
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Speaker 1: David once did fall, and had no doubt therein been smothered,
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Speaker 1: had not he that is able, plucked him out Psalm
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Speaker 1: sixty nine fourteen. The pathway was here also exceeding narrow,
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Speaker 1: and therefore good Christian was the more put to it,
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Speaker 1: for when he sow it in the dark to shun
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Speaker 1: the ditch, on the one hand, he was ready to
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Speaker 1: tip over into the mire. On the other, also, when
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Speaker 1: he sought to escape the mire without great carefulness, he
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Speaker 1: would be ready to fall into the ditch. Thus he
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Speaker 1: went on, and I heard him here sigh bitterly. For
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Speaker 1: besides the danger engined above, the pathway was here so
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Speaker 1: dark that ofttimes, when he lifted up his foot to
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Speaker 1: go forward, he knew not where or upon what he
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Speaker 1: should set it. Next, about the midst of this valley
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Speaker 1: I perceived the mouth of Hell to be, and it
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Speaker 1: stood also hard by the wayside. Now thought Christian, what
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Speaker 1: shall I do? And ever and anon the flame and
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Speaker 1: smoke would come out in such abundance with sparks and
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Speaker 1: hideous noises, things that cared not for Christian's sword, as
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Speaker 1: did Apollon before that he was forced to put up
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Speaker 1: his sword and betake himself to another weapon, caught cold
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Speaker 1: or prayer Ephesians six eighteen. So he cried in my hearing,
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Speaker 1: O Lord, I beseech THEE deliver my soul, Psalm one
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Speaker 1: hundred and sixteen four. Thus he went on a great while,
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Speaker 1: Yet still the flames would be reaching towards him. Also
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Speaker 1: he heard doleful voices and rushings to and fro, so
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Speaker 1: that sometimes he thought he should be torn in pieces,
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Speaker 1: or trodden down like Maya in the streets. This frightful
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Speaker 1: sight was seen, and these dreadful noises were heard by
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Speaker 1: him for several miles together, and coming to a place
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Speaker 1: where he thought he heard a company of fiends coming
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Speaker 1: forward to meet him, he stopped and began to muse
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Speaker 1: what he had best to do. Sometimes he had half
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Speaker 1: a thought to go back. Then again he thought he
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Speaker 1: might be halfway through the valley. He remembered also how
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Speaker 1: he had already vanquished many a danger, and that the
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Speaker 1: danger of going back might be much more than for
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Speaker 1: to go forward. So he resolved to go on. Yet
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Speaker 1: the fiends seemed to come nearer and nearer. But when
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Speaker 1: they were come even almost at him, he cried out
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Speaker 1: with a most vehement voice, I will walk in the
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Speaker 1: strength of the Lord God. So they gave back and
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Speaker 1: came no farther. One thing I would not let slip.
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Speaker 1: I took notice that now poor Christian was so confounded
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Speaker 1: that he did not know his own voice, and thus
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Speaker 1: I perceived it. Just when he was come over against
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Speaker 1: the mouth of the burning pit, one of the wicked
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Speaker 1: ones got behind him and stepped up softly to him
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Speaker 1: and whisperingly suggested many grievous blasphemies to him, which he
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Speaker 1: verily thought had proceeded from his own mind. This put
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Speaker 1: Christian more to it than anything that he had met
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Speaker 1: with before. Even to think that he should now blaspheme
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Speaker 1: him that he loved so much before. Yet if he
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Speaker 1: could have helped it, he would not have done it.
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Speaker 1: But he had not the discretion either to stop his
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Speaker 1: ears or to know from whence these blasphemies came. When
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Speaker 1: Christian had traveled in this disconsolate condition some considerable time,
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Speaker 1: he thought he heard the voice of a man as
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Speaker 1: going before him, saying, though I walk through the valley
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Speaker 1: of the shadow of Death. I will fear no evil,
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Speaker 1: for thou art with me Psalm twenty three four. Then
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Speaker 1: he was glad, and that for these reasons. First because
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Speaker 1: he gathered from thence that some who feared God were
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Speaker 1: in this valley as well as himself. Secondly, for that
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Speaker 1: he perceived God was with them, though in that dark
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Speaker 1: and dismal state. And why not thought he with me,
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Speaker 1: though by reason of the impediment that attends this place,
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Speaker 1: I cannot perceive it Job nine eleven. Thirdly, for that
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Speaker 1: he hoped, could he overtake them to have company by
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Speaker 1: and by? So he went on and called to him
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Speaker 1: that was before, But he knew not what to answer.
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Speaker 1: For that, he also thought himself to be alone, and
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Speaker 1: by and by the day broke, Then said Christian. He
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Speaker 1: had turned the shadow of death into the morning Amos
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Speaker 1: five eight. Now morning being calme, he looked back, not
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Speaker 1: out of desire to return, but to see by the
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Speaker 1: light of the day what hazard he had gone through
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Speaker 1: in the da dark. So he saw more perfectly the
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Speaker 1: ditch that was on the one hand, and the quag
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Speaker 1: that was on the other. Also, how narrow the way was,
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Speaker 1: which led betwixt them both. Also now he saw the
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Speaker 1: hobgoblins and satters and dragons of the pit, but all
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Speaker 1: afar off, for after break of day they came not nigh.
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Speaker 1: Yet they were discovered to him. According to that which
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Speaker 1: is written, He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and
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Speaker 1: bringeth out to light the shadow of Death Job twelve
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Speaker 1: twenty two. Now was Christian much affected with this deliverance
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Speaker 1: from all the dangers of his solitary way, which dangers,
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Speaker 1: though he feared them much before, yet he saw them
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Speaker 1: more clearly now, because the light of the day made
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Speaker 1: them conspicuous to him. And about this time the sun
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Speaker 1: was rising. And this was another mercy to Christian. For
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Speaker 1: you must note that though the first part of the
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Speaker 1: valley of the Shadow of Death was dangerous, yet the
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Speaker 1: second part, which he was yet to go, was, if possible,
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Speaker 1: far more dangerous. For from the place where he now stood,
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Speaker 1: even to the end of the valley, the way was
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Speaker 1: all along set, so full of snares, traps, jins and
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Speaker 1: nets here, and so full of pits, pitfalls, deep holes
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Speaker 1: and shelvings down there, that had it now been dark
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Speaker 1: as it was when he came the first part of
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Speaker 1: the way. Had he had a thousand souls, they hadn't
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Speaker 1: reason been cast away. But as I said, just now
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Speaker 1: the sun was rising. Then said he his candle shineth
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Speaker 1: on my head, and by his light I go through
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Speaker 1: darkness Joe twenty nine three. In this light, therefore he
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Speaker 1: came to the end of the valley. Now I saw
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Speaker 1: in my dream that at the end of the valley
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Speaker 1: lay blood, bones, ashes, and mangled bodies of men, even
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Speaker 1: of pilgrims that had gone this way formerly. And while
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Speaker 1: I was musing what should be the reason, I spied
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Speaker 1: a little before me a cave where two giants, Pope
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Speaker 1: and Pagan dwelt in old times, by whose power and tyranny.
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Speaker 1: The men whose bones, blood, ashes, etc. Lay there were
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Speaker 1: cruelly put to death. But by this place Christian went
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Speaker 1: without much danger. Whereat I somewhat wondered. But I have
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Speaker 1: learnt since that Pagan had been dead many a day.
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Speaker 1: And as for the other, though he be yet alive,
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Speaker 1: he is by reason of age, and also of the
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Speaker 1: many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger days,
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Speaker 1: grown so crazy and stiff in his joints, that he
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Speaker 1: can now do little more than sit in his cave's mouth,
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Speaker 1: grinning at pilgrim's as they go by, and biting his
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Speaker 1: nails because he cannot come at them. So I saw
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Speaker 1: that Christian went on his way. Yet at the sight
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Speaker 1: of the old man that sat at the mouth of
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Speaker 1: the cave, he could not tell what to think, especially
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Speaker 1: because he spoke to him, though he could not go
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Speaker 1: after him, saying, you will never mend to more of
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Speaker 1: you be burned. But he held his peace and set
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Speaker 1: a good face on it, and so went by and
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Speaker 1: catched no hurt. Then, sang Christian, O world of wonders,
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Speaker 1: I can say no less that I should be preserved
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Speaker 1: in that distress that I have met with here. Oh,
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Speaker 1: blessed be that hand that from it hath delivered me.
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Speaker 1: Dangers and darkness, devils, hell and sin did compass me
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Speaker 1: while I this veil was in yea. Snares and pits
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Speaker 1: and traps and nets did lie my path about that
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Speaker 1: worthless silly eye might have been catched and tangled and
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Speaker 1: cast down. But since I live, let Jesus wear the crown.
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Speaker 1: End Part one, the fourth stage