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

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  Speaker 1: Part two, the third stage. The interpreter then called for
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  Speaker 1: a man servant of his one great Heart, and bid
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  Speaker 1: him take a sword and helmet and shield, and take
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  Speaker 1: these my daughters. Said. He conduct them to the house
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  Speaker 1: called Beautiful, at which place they will rest next. So
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  Speaker 1: he took his weapons and went before them, and the
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  Speaker 1: interpreter said, God speed. Those also that belonged to the
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  Speaker 1: family sent them away with many a good wish. So
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  Speaker 1: they went on their way and sang, this place hath
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  Speaker 1: been our second stage. Here we have heard and seen
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  Speaker 1: those good things that from age to age to others.
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  Speaker 1: He'd have been the dunghill, raker spider. Hen the chicken too,
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  Speaker 1: to me have taught a lesson. Let me then conformed
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  Speaker 1: to it be the butcher garden and the field, the
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  Speaker 1: robin and his bate. Also the rotten tree doth yield
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  Speaker 1: me argument of weight to move me for to watch
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  Speaker 1: and pray, to strive, to be sincere, to take my
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  Speaker 1: cross up day by day and serve the Lord with fear.
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  Speaker 1: Now I saw in my dream that they went on,
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  Speaker 1: and great Heart before them. So they went and came
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  Speaker 1: to the place where Christian's burden fell off his back,
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  Speaker 1: and tumbled into a sepulcher. Here then they made a pause,
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  Speaker 1: and here also they blessed God. Now said Christiana, it
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  Speaker 1: comes to my mind what was said to us at
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  Speaker 1: the gate, to wit that we should have pardon by
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  Speaker 1: word and deed by word, that is, by the promise
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  Speaker 1: by deed, to wit in the way it was obtained.
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  Speaker 1: What the promise is of that? I know something? But
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  Speaker 1: what is it to have pardoned by deed or in
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  Speaker 1: the way that it was obtained? Mister great But I
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  Speaker 1: suppose you know? Wherefore, if you please let us hear
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  Speaker 1: your discourse thereof mister Greatheart, pardon by the deed done
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  Speaker 1: is pardon obtained by someone for another that hath need thereof,
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  Speaker 1: not by the person pardoned, but in the way saith
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  Speaker 1: another in which I have obtained it. So then, to
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  Speaker 1: speak to the question more at large, the pardon that
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  Speaker 1: you and Mercy and these boys have attained was obtained
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  Speaker 1: by another, to wit, by him that let you in
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  Speaker 1: at the gate, And he hath obtained it in this
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  Speaker 1: double way. He hath performed righteousness to cover you, and
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  Speaker 1: spilt his blood to wash you in. Christiana. But if
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  Speaker 1: he parts with his righteousness to us, what will he
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  Speaker 1: have for himself, mister Greatheart, he has more righteousness than
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  Speaker 1: you have need of, or than he need needeth himself. Christiana,
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  Speaker 1: pray make that appear, mister great Heart, with all my heart.
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  Speaker 1: But first I must premise that he of whom we
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  Speaker 1: are now about to speak, is one that has not
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  Speaker 1: his fellow. He has two natures in one person, plain
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  Speaker 1: to be distinguished, impossible to be divided. Unto each of
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  Speaker 1: these natures, a righteousness belongeth, and each righteousness is essential
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  Speaker 1: to that nature, so that one may as easily cause
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  Speaker 1: that nature to be extinct as to separate its justice
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  Speaker 1: or righteousness from it. Of these righteousness, as therefore we
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  Speaker 1: are not made partakers, so as that they, or any
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  Speaker 1: of them, should be put upon us, that we might
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  Speaker 1: be made just and live thereby. Besides these there is
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  Speaker 1: a righteousness which this person has, as these two natures
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  Speaker 1: are joined in one. And this is not the righteousness
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  Speaker 1: of the Godhead as distinguished from the manhood, nor the
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  Speaker 1: righteousness of the manhood as distinguished from the god Head,
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  Speaker 1: but a righteousness which standeth in the union of both natures,
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  Speaker 1: and may properly be called the righteousness that is essential
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  Speaker 1: to his being prepared of God to the capacity of
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  Speaker 1: the mediatory office which he was to be entrusted with.
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  Speaker 1: If he parts with his first righteousness, he parts with
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  Speaker 1: his Godhead. If he parts with his second righteousness, he
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  Speaker 1: parts with the purity of his manhood. If he parts
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  Speaker 1: with his third, he parts with that perfection that capacitates
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  Speaker 1: him to the office of mediation. He has therefore another righteousness,
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  Speaker 1: which standeth in performance or obedience to a revealed will.
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  Speaker 1: And that is what he puts upon sinners, and that
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  Speaker 1: by which their sins are covered. Wherefore he saith, as
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  Speaker 1: by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by
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  Speaker 1: the obedience of one shall many be made righteous Romans five,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen Christiana. But are the other righteousnesses of no use
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  Speaker 1: to us, mister Greatheart, Yes, For though they are essential
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  Speaker 1: to his natures and office, and cannot be communicated unto another.
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  Speaker 1: Yet it is by virtue of them that the righteousness
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  Speaker 1: that justifies is for that purpose efficacious. The righteousness of
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  Speaker 1: his Godhead gives virtue to his obedience. The righteousness of
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  Speaker 1: his manhood giveth capability to his obedience to justify. And
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  Speaker 1: the righteousness that standeth in the union of these two
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  Speaker 1: natures to his office, giveth authority to that righteousness to
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  Speaker 1: do the work for which it was ordained. So then
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  Speaker 1: here is a righteousness that Cries as God has no
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  Speaker 1: need of, for he is God. Without it. Here is
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  Speaker 1: a righteousness that Christ as man has no need of,
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  Speaker 1: to make him so, for he is perfect man without it. Again,
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  Speaker 1: here is a righteousness that Christ, as god man has
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  Speaker 1: no need of, for he is perfectly so without it.
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  Speaker 1: Here then is a righteousness that Christ, as God and
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  Speaker 1: as god Man, has no need of with reference to himself,
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  Speaker 1: and therefore he can spare it, a justifying righteousness that
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  Speaker 1: he for himself wanteth not, and therefore giveth it away.
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  Speaker 1: Hence it is called the gift of righteousness. This righteousness,
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  Speaker 1: since Christ Jesus the Lord, has made himself under the law,
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  Speaker 1: must be given away. For the Law doth not only
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  Speaker 1: bide him that is under it to do justly, but
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  Speaker 1: to use charity Romans five seventeen. Wherefore he must or
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  Speaker 1: ought by the law. If he hath two coats, give
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  Speaker 1: one to him that hath none. Now, our Lord indeed
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  Speaker 1: hath two coats, one for himself and one to spare.
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  Speaker 1: Wherefore he freely bestows one upon those that have none.
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  Speaker 1: And thus, Christiana, and Mercy and the rest of you
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  Speaker 1: that are here, doth your pardon come by deed or
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  Speaker 1: by the work of another man? Your Lord christ is
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  Speaker 1: he that worked and hath given away what he wrought
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  Speaker 1: for to the next poor beggar he meets. But again,
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  Speaker 1: in order to pardon by deed, there must be something
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  Speaker 1: be paid to God as a price, as well as
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  Speaker 1: something prepared to cover us withal Sin has delivered us
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  Speaker 1: up to the just curse of a righteous law. Now
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  Speaker 1: from this curse we must be justified by way of redemption,
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  Speaker 1: a price being paid for the harms we have done.
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  Speaker 1: And this is by the blood of your Lord, who
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  Speaker 1: came and stood in your place instead, and died your
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  Speaker 1: death for your transgressions. Thus has He ransomed you from
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  Speaker 1: your transgressions by blood and covered your polluted and deformed
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  Speaker 1: souls with righteousness Romans eight thirty four, for the sake
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  Speaker 1: of which God passeth by you and will not hurt
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  Speaker 1: you when he comes to judge the world Galatians three thirteen. Christiana,
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  Speaker 1: this is brave. Now I see that there was something
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  Speaker 1: to be learned by our being pardoned by word and deed,
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  Speaker 1: good mercy, let us labor to keep this in mind.
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  Speaker 1: And my children, do you remember it also? But sir,
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  Speaker 1: was not this it that made my good Christian's burden
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  Speaker 1: fall from off his shoulder, and that made him give
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  Speaker 1: three leaps for joy, mister Greatheart. Yes, it was the
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  Speaker 1: belief of this that cut those strings that could not
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  Speaker 1: be cut by other means. And it was to give
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  Speaker 1: him a proof of the virtue of this that he
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  Speaker 1: was suffered to carry his burden to the cross. Christiana,
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  Speaker 1: I thought so, For though my heart was lightsome and
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  Speaker 1: joyous before, yet it is ten times more lightsome and
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  Speaker 1: joyous now. And I am persuaded by what I have felt,
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  Speaker 1: though I have felt but little as yet, that if
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  Speaker 1: the most burdened man in the world was here and
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  Speaker 1: did see and believe as I now do, it would
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  Speaker 1: make his heart the more merry and blithe. Mister Greatheart.
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  Speaker 1: There is not only comfort and the ease of a
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  Speaker 1: burden brought to us by the sight and consideration of these,
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  Speaker 1: but an endeared affection begotten us by For who can
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  Speaker 1: if he doth but once think that pardon comes not
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  Speaker 1: only by promise, but thus but be affected with the
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  Speaker 1: way and means of his redemption, and so with the
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  Speaker 1: man that hath wrought it for him. Christiana, true methinks
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  Speaker 1: it makes my heart bleed to think that he should
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  Speaker 1: bleed for me, O, thy loving one, O, thou blessed one,
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  Speaker 1: thou deservest to have me, Thou hast brought me, Thou
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  Speaker 1: deservest to have me all thou hast paid for me
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  Speaker 1: ten thousand times more than I am worth. No marvel
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  Speaker 1: that this made the tears stand in my husband's eyes,
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  Speaker 1: and that it made him trudge so nimbly on I
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  Speaker 1: am persuaded. He wished me with him, But thou wretch
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  Speaker 1: that I was, I let him come all alone, O mercy,
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  Speaker 1: that thy father and mother were here, yea, and missus
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  Speaker 1: Timoreus also, Nay, I wished now with all my heart
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  Speaker 1: that here was Madame Wanton too. Surely surely their hearts
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  Speaker 1: would be affected, Nor could the fear of the one
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  Speaker 1: nor the powerful lusts of the other prevail with them
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  Speaker 1: to go home again and to refuse to become good pilgrims.
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  Speaker 1: Mister greatheart, you speak now in the warmth of your affections,
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  Speaker 1: Will it think you be always thus with you Besides,
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  Speaker 1: this is not communicated to every one, nor to every
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  Speaker 1: one that did see your Jesus bleed. There were that
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  Speaker 1: stood by, and that saw the blood run from the
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  Speaker 1: heart to the ground, And yet were so far off
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  Speaker 1: this that instead of lamenting, they laughed at him, and
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  Speaker 1: instead of becoming his disciples, did harden their hearts against him.
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  Speaker 1: So that all you have, my daughters, you have by
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  Speaker 1: peculiar impression made by divine contemplating upon what I have
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  Speaker 1: spoken to you. Remember that twas told you that the hen,
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  Speaker 1: by her common call, gives no meat to her chickens.
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  Speaker 1: This you have, therefore by a special grace. Now I
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  Speaker 1: saw in my dream that they went on until they
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  Speaker 1: were come to the place that simple and sloth and
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  Speaker 1: presumption lay and slept in. When Christian went by on pilgrimage,
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  Speaker 1: and behold they were hanged up in irons, a little
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  Speaker 1: way off on the other side. Mercy then said, Mercy
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  Speaker 1: to him that was their guide and conductor. What are
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  Speaker 1: these three men? And for what are they hanged there?
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  Speaker 1: Mister greatheart, These three men were men of very bad qualities.
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  Speaker 1: They had no mind to be pilgrims themselves, and whomsoever
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  Speaker 1: they could they hindered, They were sloth and folly themselves.
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  Speaker 1: And whom service they could persuade, they made so too,
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  Speaker 1: and withal taught them to presume that they should do well.
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  Speaker 1: At last they were asleep when Christian went by, and
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  Speaker 1: now you go by. They are hanged mercy. But could
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  Speaker 1: they persuade any to be of their opinion, mister Greatheart, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: they turned several out of the way. There was slow
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  Speaker 1: pace that they persuaded to do as they. They also
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  Speaker 1: prevailed with one short wind, with one no heart, with
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  Speaker 1: one linger after lust, and with one sleepy head, and
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  Speaker 1: with a young woman her name was Dull, to turn
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  Speaker 1: out of the way and become as they. Besides, they
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  Speaker 1: brought up an ill report of your Lord, persuading others
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  Speaker 1: that he was a hard taskmaster. They also brought up
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  Speaker 1: an evil report of the good land, saying it was
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  Speaker 1: not half so good as some pretended was. They also
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  Speaker 1: began to vilify his servants and to count the best
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  Speaker 1: of their meddlesome, troublesome, busy bodies. Further, they would call
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  Speaker 1: the bread of God husks, the comforts of his children, fancies,
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  Speaker 1: the travel and labor of pilgrims, things to no purpose, Christiana. Nay,
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  Speaker 1: said Christiana, if they were such, they shall never be bewailed
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  Speaker 1: by me. They have but what they deserve. And I
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  Speaker 1: think it is well that they stand so near the
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  Speaker 1: highway that others may see and take warning. But had
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  Speaker 1: it not been well if their crimes had been engraven
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  Speaker 1: in some plate of iron or brass, and left here
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  Speaker 1: where they did their mischiefs, for a caution to other
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  Speaker 1: bad men, Mister greatheart, So it is as you may
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  Speaker 1: well perceive, if you will go a little to the
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  Speaker 1: wall mercy. No, no, let them hang, and their names rot,
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  Speaker 1: and their crimes live forever against them. I think it
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  Speaker 1: a high favor that they were hanged before we came hither.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows else what they might have done to such
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  Speaker 1: poor women as we are. Then she turned it into
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  Speaker 1: a song, saying, now, then, ye three, hang there, and
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  Speaker 1: be a sign to all that shall against the truth. Combine,
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  Speaker 1: and let him that comes after fear this end. If
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  Speaker 1: unto pilgrims, he is not a friend. And thou, my soul,
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  Speaker 1: of all such men, beware that unto holiness opposes are.
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  Speaker 1: Thus they went on till they came to the foot
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  Speaker 1: of the hill, difficulty, where again the good mister Greatheart
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  Speaker 1: took an occasion to tell them what happened there when
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  Speaker 1: Christian himself went by. So he had them first to
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  Speaker 1: the spring lo saith he this is the spring that
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  Speaker 1: Christian drank of before he went up this hill, and
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  Speaker 1: then it was clear and good. But now it is
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  Speaker 1: dirty with the feet of some that are not desirous
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  Speaker 1: that pilgrims here should quench their thirst Ezekiel thirty four
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  Speaker 1: eighteen and nineteen. There at Mercy said, and why so
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  Speaker 1: envious Troe, but said their guide. It will do if
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  Speaker 1: taken up and put into a vessel that is sweet
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  Speaker 1: and good, for then the dirt will sink to the bottom,
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  Speaker 1: and the water come out by itself more clear. Thus
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  Speaker 1: therefore Christiana and her companions were compelled to do. They
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  Speaker 1: took it up and put it into an earthen pot,
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  Speaker 1: and so let it stand till the dirt was gone
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  Speaker 1: to the bottom, and then they drank thereof. Next, he
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  Speaker 1: showed them the two by ways that were at the
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  Speaker 1: foot of the hill, where formality and hypocrisy lost themselves,
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  Speaker 1: and said he these are dangerous paths. Two were here
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  Speaker 1: cast away when Christian came by, and although as you see,
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  Speaker 1: these ways are since stopped up with chains, purses, and
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  Speaker 1: a ditch, yet there are those that will choose to
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  Speaker 1: adventure here, rather than take the pains to go up
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  Speaker 1: this hill. Christiana, the way of transgressors is hard Proverbs
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  Speaker 1: thirteen fifteen. It is a wonder that they can get
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  Speaker 1: into these ways without danger of breaking their necks, Mister Greatheart,
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  Speaker 1: they will venture, yea if at any time any of
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  Speaker 1: the King's servants do happen to see them, and do
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  Speaker 1: call upon them and tell them that they are in
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  Speaker 1: the wrong way, and do bid them beware of the danger,
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  Speaker 1: then they railingly return them answer and say, as for
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  Speaker 1: the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the
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  Speaker 1: name of the King, we will not hearken unto thee,
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  Speaker 1: but we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth out of
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  Speaker 1: our own mouths Jeremiah forty four, sixteen and seventeen. Nay,
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  Speaker 1: if you look a little further, you shall see that
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  Speaker 1: these ways are made cautionary enough, not only by these
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  Speaker 1: posts and ditch and chain, but also by being hedged up.
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  Speaker 1: Yet they will choose to go there, Christiana. They are idle.
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  Speaker 1: They love not to take pains up hill. Way is
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  Speaker 1: unpleasant to them, so it is fulfilled unto them. As
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  Speaker 1: it is written, the way of the slothful man is
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  Speaker 1: full of thorns Proverbs fifteenth, nineteen. YEA, they will rather
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  Speaker 1: choose to walk upon a snare than to go up
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  Speaker 1: this hill and the rest of this way to the city.
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  Speaker 1: Then they set forward and began to go up the hill.
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  Speaker 1: And up the hill they went. But before they got
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  Speaker 1: to the top, Christiana began to pant, and said, I
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  Speaker 1: dare say this is a breathing hill, no marvel of
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  Speaker 1: they that loved their ease more than their souls choose
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  Speaker 1: to themselves a smoother way. Then said Mercy, I must
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  Speaker 1: sit down. Also, the least of the children began to cry, Come, Come,
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  Speaker 1: said Greatheart, sit not down here, for a little above
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  Speaker 1: is the prince's arbor. Then he took the little boy
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  Speaker 1: by the hand and led him up there too. When
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  Speaker 1: they were come to the arbor, they were very willing
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  Speaker 1: to sit down, for they were all in a pelting heat.
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  Speaker 1: Then said Mercy, how sweet is rest to them that
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  Speaker 1: labor Matthew eleven twenty eight. And how good is the
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  Speaker 1: prince of pilgrims to provide such resting places for them.
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  Speaker 1: Of this arbor I have heard much, but I never
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  Speaker 1: saw it before. But here let us beware of sleeping,
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  Speaker 1: for as I have heard it cost poor Christian. Dear,
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  Speaker 1: then said miss the great Heart to the little ones. Come,
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  Speaker 1: my pretty boys, how do you do? What think you
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  Speaker 1: now of going on pilgrimage? Sir said the least. I
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  Speaker 1: was almost beat out of heart, But I thank you
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  Speaker 1: for lending me a hand at my need. And I
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  Speaker 1: remember now what my mother hath told me, namely that
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  Speaker 1: the way to heaven is as a ladder, and the
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  Speaker 1: way to hell is as down a hill. But I
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  Speaker 1: had rather go up the ladder to life than down
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  Speaker 1: the hill to death. Then said Mercy. But the proverb
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  Speaker 1: is to go down the hill is easy, But James said,
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  Speaker 1: for that was his name the day's coming, when, in
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  Speaker 1: my opinion, when going down the hill will be the
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  Speaker 1: hardest of all. Tis a good boy, said his master,
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  Speaker 1: thou hast given her a right answer. Then Mercy smiled,
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  Speaker 1: but the little boy did blush. Christiana, Come, said Christiana,
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  Speaker 1: Will you eat a bit to sweeten your mouths while
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  Speaker 1: you sit here to rest your legs? For I have
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  Speaker 1: here a piece of pomegranate, which mister Interpreter put into
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  Speaker 1: my hand. Just when I came out of his door.
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  Speaker 1: He gave me also a piece of an honeycomb, and
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  Speaker 1: a little bottle of spirits. I thought he gave you something,
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  Speaker 1: said Mercy, because he called you aside. Yes, so he did,
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  Speaker 1: said the other. But said Christiana, it shall be still
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  Speaker 1: as I said it should when at first we came
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  Speaker 1: from home. Thou shalt be a sharer in all the
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  Speaker 1: good that I have, because thou so willingly didst become
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  Speaker 1: my companion. Then she gave to them, and they did eat,
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  Speaker 1: both Mercy and the boys. And said Christiana to mister Greatheart, sir,
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  Speaker 1: will you do as we But he answered, you are
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  Speaker 1: going on pilgrimage, and presently I shall return much good.
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  Speaker 1: May what you have do you at home? I eat
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  Speaker 1: the same every day. And Part two the third stage