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15 - Part 2 - The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Part two, the seventh stage. Well, the time brew on
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  Speaker 1: that the pilgrims must go on their way. Wherefore they
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  Speaker 1: prepared for their journey. They sent for their friends. They
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  Speaker 1: conferred with them they had some time set a part
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  Speaker 1: therein to commit each other to the protection of their prince.
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  Speaker 1: There were again that brought them of such things as
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  Speaker 1: they had that were fit for the weak and the strong,
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  Speaker 1: for the women and the men, and so laden them
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  Speaker 1: with such things as were necessary Acts twenty eight ten.
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  Speaker 1: Then they set forward on their way, and their friends
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  Speaker 1: accompanying them so far as was convenient. They again committed
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  Speaker 1: each other to the protection of their king, and parted.
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  Speaker 1: They therefore that were of the pilgrim's company went on,
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  Speaker 1: and mister Greatheart went before them. Now, the women and children,
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  Speaker 1: being weakly, they were first to go as they could bear,
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  Speaker 1: by which means mister ready to halt and mister feeble
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  Speaker 1: mind had more to sympathize with their condition. When they
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  Speaker 1: were gone from the townsmen, and when their friends had
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  Speaker 1: bid them farewell, they quickly came to the place where
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  Speaker 1: Faithful was put to death. Therefore they made a stand
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  Speaker 1: and thanked him that had enabled him to bear his
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  Speaker 1: cross so well, and the rather because they now found
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  Speaker 1: that they had a benefit by such a manly suffering
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  Speaker 1: as his was. They went on therefore after this a
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  Speaker 1: good way further, talking of Christian and Faithful, and how
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  Speaker 1: Hopeful joined himself to Christian, after that Faithful was dead.
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  Speaker 1: Now they came up with the hill Lucre, where the
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  Speaker 1: silver mine was, which took Damus off from his pilgrimage,
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  Speaker 1: and into which, as some think, by ends, fell and
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  Speaker 1: pa Wherefore they considered that. But when they were come
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  Speaker 1: to the old monument that stood over against the hill Lucre,
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  Speaker 1: to wit to the pillar of salt that stood also
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  Speaker 1: within view of Sodom and its stinking lake, they marveled,
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  Speaker 1: as did Christian before, that men of such knowledge and
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  Speaker 1: ripeness of wit as they were, should be so blinded
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  Speaker 1: as to turn aside. Here. Only they considered again that
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  Speaker 1: nature is not affected with the harms that others have
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  Speaker 1: met with, especially if that thing upon which they look
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  Speaker 1: has an attracting virtue upon the foolish eye. I saw
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  Speaker 1: now that they went on till they came to the
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  Speaker 1: river that was on this side of the delectable mountains,
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  Speaker 1: to the river where the fine trees grow on both sides,
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  Speaker 1: and whose leaves, if taken inwardly, are good against surfeits.
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  Speaker 1: Where the meadows are green all the year long, and
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  Speaker 1: where they might lie down safely Psalm twenty three. By
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  Speaker 1: this riverside in the mountains there were coats and folds
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  Speaker 1: for sheep, a house built for the nourishing and bringing
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  Speaker 1: up of those lands, the baths of those women that
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  Speaker 1: go on pilgrimage. Also there was here one that was
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  Speaker 1: entrusted with them, who could have compassion, and that could
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  Speaker 1: gather these lambs with his arm and carry them in
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  Speaker 1: his bosom, and gently lead those that were with young
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews five two Isaiah forty eleven. Now to the care
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  Speaker 1: of this man. Christiana admonished her four daughters to commit
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  Speaker 1: their little ones, that by these waters they might be housed, harbored, suckered,
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  Speaker 1: and nourished, that none of them might be lacking in
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  Speaker 1: time to come. This man, if any of them go
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  Speaker 1: astray or be lost, will bring them again. He will
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  Speaker 1: also bind up that which is broken, and will strengthen
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  Speaker 1: them that are sick. Jeremiah twenty three four Ezekiel thirty
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  Speaker 1: four eleven to sixteen. Here they will never want meat, drink,
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  Speaker 1: and clothing. Here they will be kept from thieves and robbers,
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  Speaker 1: For this man will die before one of those committed
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  Speaker 1: to his trust shall be lost. Besides, here they shall
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  Speaker 1: be sure to have good nurture and admonition, and shall
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  Speaker 1: be taught to walk in right paths, And that you know,
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  Speaker 1: is a favor of no small account. Also here, as
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  Speaker 1: you see, are delicate waters, pleasant meadows, dainty flowers, variety
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  Speaker 1: of trees, and such as bear wholesome fruit. Fruit not
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  Speaker 1: like that which Matthew ate of nor fell over the
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  Speaker 1: wall out of Beelzebub's garden, but fruit that procureth health
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  Speaker 1: where there is none, and that continueth and increaseth it
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  Speaker 1: where it is. So they were content to commit their
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  Speaker 1: little ones to him, And that which was all and
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  Speaker 1: encouragement to them so to do was for that all
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  Speaker 1: this was to be at the charge of the king,
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  Speaker 1: And so was an hospital to young children and orphans.
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  Speaker 1: Now they went on, and when they were come to
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  Speaker 1: bypath meadow to the style over which Christian went with
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  Speaker 1: his fellow hopeful, when they were taken by giant despair
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  Speaker 1: and put into doubting castle, they sat down and consulted
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  Speaker 1: what was best to be done to wit. Now they
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  Speaker 1: were so strong and had got such a man as
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  Speaker 1: mister Greatheart for their conductor, whether they had not best
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  Speaker 1: to make an attempt upon the giant demolish his castle,
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  Speaker 1: and if there were any pilgrims in it, to set
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  Speaker 1: them at liberty before they went any further. So one
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  Speaker 1: said one thing, and another said the contrary. One questioned
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  Speaker 1: if it was lawful to go about on consecrated ground.
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  Speaker 1: Another said they might, provided their end was good. But
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  Speaker 1: mister Greatheart said, though that assertion offered last cannot be
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  Speaker 1: universally true. Yet I have a commandment to resist sin,
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  Speaker 1: to overcome evil, to fight the good fight of faith.
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  Speaker 1: And I pray with whom should I fight this good fight?
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  Speaker 1: If not with giant despair. I will therefore attempt the
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  Speaker 1: taking away of his life and the demolishing of doubting castle.
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  Speaker 1: Then said he who will go with me? Then said
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  Speaker 1: old honest I will, and so will we too, said
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  Speaker 1: Christiana's four sons, Matthew, Samuel, Joseph, and James, for they
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  Speaker 1: were young men and strong, first John two thirteen and fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: So they left the women in the road, and with them,
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  Speaker 1: mister Feeblemind and mister Ready to halt with his crutches
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  Speaker 1: to be their guard until they came back, For in
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  Speaker 1: that place the giant Despair dwelt so near in the
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  Speaker 1: road a little child might lead them Isaiah eleven six.
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  Speaker 1: So mister Greatheart, old Honest and the four young men
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  Speaker 1: went to go up to Doubting Castle to look for
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  Speaker 1: Giant Despair. When they came at the castle gate, they
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  Speaker 1: knocked for entrance with an unusual noise. At that the
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  Speaker 1: old giant comes to the gate, and diffidence his wife follows.
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  Speaker 1: Then said he who and what is he that is
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  Speaker 1: so hardy as after this manner to molest the giant despair.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Greatheart replied, it is I, great Heart, one of
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  Speaker 1: the king of the celestial Country's conductors of pilgrims to
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  Speaker 1: their place. And I demand of thee that thou open
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  Speaker 1: thy gates for my entrance. Prepare thyself also to fight,
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  Speaker 1: for I am come to take away thy head and
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  Speaker 1: to demolish Doubting Castle. Now giants, because he was a giant,
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  Speaker 1: thought no man could overcome him. And again thought he,
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  Speaker 1: since heretofore I have made a conquest of angels, shall
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  Speaker 1: Great Heart make me afraid? So he harnessed himself and
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  Speaker 1: went out. He had a cap of steel upon his head,
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  Speaker 1: a breastplate of fire girded to him, and he came
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  Speaker 1: out in iron shoes, with a great club in his hand.
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  Speaker 1: Then these six men made up to him and beset
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  Speaker 1: him behind. And before also when Diffidence the Giantess came
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  Speaker 1: up to help him, old mister Honest cut her down
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  Speaker 1: at one blow. Then they fought for their lives, and
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  Speaker 1: Giant Despair was brought down to the ground, but was
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  Speaker 1: very loth die. He struggled hard and heard, as they say,
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  Speaker 1: as many lives as a cat. But great Heart was
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  Speaker 1: his death, for he left him not till he had
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  Speaker 1: severed his head from his shoulders. Then they felt a demolishing,
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  Speaker 1: doubting cart, and that, you know, might with ease be done.
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  Speaker 1: Since Giant Despair was dead, there were seven days in
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  Speaker 1: destroying of that and in it of pilgrims. They found
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  Speaker 1: one mister Despondency, almost stafter death, and one much afraid
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  Speaker 1: his daughter. These two they saved alive. But it would
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  Speaker 1: have made you wonder to have seen the dead bodies
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  Speaker 1: that lay here and there in the castle yard, and
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  Speaker 1: how full of dead men's bones the dungeon was. When
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  Speaker 1: mister Greatheart and his companions had performed this exploit, they
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  Speaker 1: took mister Despondency and his daughter, much afraid, into their protection,
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  Speaker 1: for they were honest people, though they were prisoners in
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  Speaker 1: doubting castle, to that tyrant giant Despair. They therefore, I say,
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  Speaker 1: took with them the head of the giant, for his
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  Speaker 1: body they had buried under a heap of stones, and
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  Speaker 1: down to the road, and to their companion they came
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  Speaker 1: and showed them what they had done. Now, when feeble
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  Speaker 1: mind and ready to halt, saw that it was the
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  Speaker 1: head of Giant Despair. Indeed, they were very jocunde and merry.
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  Speaker 1: Now Christiana, if need was, could play upon the viole,
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  Speaker 1: and her daughter Mercy upon the lute. So since they
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  Speaker 1: were so merry disposed, she played them a lesson, and
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  Speaker 1: ready to halt, would dance. So he took Despondency's daughter,
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  Speaker 1: much Afraid, by the hand, and to dancing they went
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  Speaker 1: in the road. True, he could not dance without one
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  Speaker 1: crutch in his hand, but I promise you he footed
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  Speaker 1: it well. Also, the girl was to be commended for
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  Speaker 1: she answered the music handsomely. As for mister Despondency, the
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  Speaker 1: music was not so much to him. He was for
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  Speaker 1: feeding rather than dancing. For that he was almost starved.
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  Speaker 1: So Christiana gave him some of her bottle of spirit
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  Speaker 1: for present relief, and then prepared him something to eat.
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  Speaker 1: And in a little time the old gentleman came to
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  Speaker 1: himself and began to be finely revived. Now I saw
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  Speaker 1: in my dream, when all these things were finished, mister
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  Speaker 1: Greatheart took the head of Giant Despair and set it
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  Speaker 1: upon a pole by the highwayside, right over against the
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  Speaker 1: pillar that Christian erected for a caution to pilgrims that
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  Speaker 1: came after to take heed of entering into his grounds.
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  Speaker 1: Then he writ under it upon a marble stone these
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  Speaker 1: verses following, This is the head of him whose name
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  Speaker 1: only in former times did pilgrims terrify his castles down
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  Speaker 1: and diffidence. His wife brave, mister Greatheart has bereft of life, Despondency,
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  Speaker 1: his daughter much afraid great Heart for them. Also the
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  Speaker 1: man has played who hereof doubts. If Hilbert Cassa's eye up,
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  Speaker 1: hither may his scrup or satisfy this head. Also, when
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  Speaker 1: doubting cripples dance, thus show from fears, they have deliverance.
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  Speaker 1: When these men had thus bravely showed themselves against doubting castle,
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  Speaker 1: and had slain giant despair, they went forward and went
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  Speaker 1: on till they came to the electable mountains, where Christian
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  Speaker 1: and Hopeful refreshed themselves with the varieties of the place.
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  Speaker 1: They also acquainted themselves with the shepherds there, who welcomed
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  Speaker 1: them as they had done Christian before, unto the delectable mountains.
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  Speaker 1: Now the shepherds, seeing so great a train, follow mister Greatheart,
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  Speaker 1: for with him they were well acquainted. They said, unto him,
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  Speaker 1: good sir, you have got a goodly company here. Pray
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  Speaker 1: where did you find all these? Then mister Greatheart replied, First,
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  Speaker 1: here is Christiana, and her train has sons and her
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  Speaker 1: son's wives, who like the wain, keep by the pole
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  Speaker 1: and do by compass steer from sin to grace. Else
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  Speaker 1: they had not been here. Next, here is old honest
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  Speaker 1: Come on pilgrimage, ready to halt too. Who I dare
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  Speaker 1: engage true hearted is and so is feeble mind, who
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  Speaker 1: willing was not to be left behind despondency, good man
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  Speaker 1: is come after, and so also is much afraid his daughter.
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  Speaker 1: May we have entertainment here, or must we further go?
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  Speaker 1: Let's know whereon to trust. Then said the shepherds, this
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  Speaker 1: is a comfortable company. You are welcome to us, for
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  Speaker 1: we have for the feeble as well as for the strong.
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  Speaker 1: Our Prince has an eye to what is done to
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  Speaker 1: the least of these. Therefore infirmity must not be a
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  Speaker 1: block to our entertainment Matthew twenty five forty. So they
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  Speaker 1: had them to the palacetine all and then said unto them,
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  Speaker 1: come in, mister feeble mind, come in, mister ready to halt,
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  Speaker 1: Come in, mister despondency, and missus much afraid his daughter. These,
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  Speaker 1: mister Greatheart, said the shepherds to the guide we call
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  Speaker 1: in by name, for that they are most subject to
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  Speaker 1: draw back. But as for you and the rest that
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  Speaker 1: are strong, we leave you to your wonted liberty. Then
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  Speaker 1: said mister Greatheart, this day I see that grace doth
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  Speaker 1: shine in your faces, and that you are my Lord's shepherds. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: for that you have not pushed these diseased, neither with
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  Speaker 1: side nor shoulder, but have rather strewed their way into
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  Speaker 1: the palace with flowers, as ye should Ezekiel thirty four
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  Speaker 1: twenty one. So the feeble and weak went in, and
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  Speaker 1: mister Greatheart and the rest did follow. When they were
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  Speaker 1: also set down, the shepherd said to those of the
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  Speaker 1: weaker sort, what is it that you would have? For?
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  Speaker 1: Said they, all things must be managed here to the
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  Speaker 1: supporting of the week, as well as to the warning
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  Speaker 1: of the unruly. So they made them a feast of
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  Speaker 1: things easy of digestion and that were pleasant to the
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  Speaker 1: pallate and nourishing, the which when they had received, they
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  Speaker 1: went to their rest, each one respectively unto his proper place.
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  Speaker 1: When morning was come, because the mountains were high and
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  Speaker 1: the day clear, and because it was the custom of
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  Speaker 1: the shepherds to show the pilgrims before their departure some rarities. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: after they were ready and had refreshed themselves, the shepherds
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  Speaker 1: took them out into the fields and showed them first
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  Speaker 1: what they had shown to Christian before. Then they had
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  Speaker 1: them to some new places. The first was Mount Marvel,
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  Speaker 1: where they looked and beheld a man at a distance
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  Speaker 1: that tumbled the hills about with words. Then they asked
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  Speaker 1: the shepherds what that should mean. So they told them
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  Speaker 1: that that man was the son of one mister Great Grace,
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  Speaker 1: of whom you read in the first part of the
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  Speaker 1: records of the Pilgrim's Progress, And he is set there
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  Speaker 1: to teach pilgrims how to believe down or to tumble
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  Speaker 1: out of their ways, what difficulties they should meet with
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  Speaker 1: by faith Mark eleven, twenty three and twenty four. Then
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  Speaker 1: said mister Greatheart, I know him. He is a man
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  Speaker 1: above many. Then they had them to another place called
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  Speaker 1: Mount Innocence, and there they saw a man clothed all
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  Speaker 1: in white, and two men prejudice and ill will, continually
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  Speaker 1: casting dirt upon him. Now, behold, the dirt whatsoever they
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  Speaker 1: cast at him, would in a little time fall off again,
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  Speaker 1: and his garment would look as clear as if no
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  Speaker 1: dirt had been cast thereat, Then, said the pilgrims. What
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  Speaker 1: means this? The shepherds answered, this man is named godly man,
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  Speaker 1: and this garment is to show the innocency of his life.
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  Speaker 1: Now those that throw dirt at him are such as
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  Speaker 1: hate his well doing. But as you see, the dirt
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  Speaker 1: will not stick upon his clothes, so it shall be
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  Speaker 1: with him that liveth innocently in the world, whoever they
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  Speaker 1: be that would make such men dirty. They labor all
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  Speaker 1: in vain, for God, by that a little time is
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  Speaker 1: spent will cause that their innocence shall break forth as
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  Speaker 1: the light, and their righteousness as the noonday. Then they
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  Speaker 1: took them and had them to Melcharity, where they showed
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  Speaker 1: them a man that had a bundle of cloth lying
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  Speaker 1: before him, out of which he cut coats and garments
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  Speaker 1: for the poor that stood about him. Yet his bundle
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  Speaker 1: or roll of cloth was nevertheless, then said they, what
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  Speaker 1: should this be? This is, said the shepherds, to show
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  Speaker 1: you that he who has a heart to give of
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  Speaker 1: his labor to the poor shall never want, wherewithal he
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  Speaker 1: that water with shall be watered himself. And the cake
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  Speaker 1: that the widow gave to the prophet did not cause
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  Speaker 1: that she had the less in her barrel. They had
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  Speaker 1: them also to the place where they saw one fool
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  Speaker 1: and one want wit washing in Ethiopian, with intention to
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  Speaker 1: make him white. But the more they washed him, the
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  Speaker 1: blacker he was. Then they asked the shepherds what that
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  Speaker 1: should mean. So they told them, saying, thus it is
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  Speaker 1: with the vile person. All means used to get such
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  Speaker 1: a one a good name shall in conclusion tend but
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  Speaker 1: to make him more abominable. Thus it was with the Pharisees,
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  Speaker 1: and so it shall be with all hypocrites. Then said Mercy,
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  Speaker 1: the wife of Matthew, to Christiana, her mother mother, I would,
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  Speaker 1: if it might be, see the hole in the hill,
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  Speaker 1: or that commonly called the byeway to hell. So her
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  Speaker 1: mother break her mind to the shepherds. Then they went
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  Speaker 1: to the door. It was on the side of an hill,
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  Speaker 1: and they opened it and bid Mercy hearken. Awhile, so
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  Speaker 1: she hearkened, and heard one saying, cursed be my father
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  Speaker 1: for holding of my feet back from the way of
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  Speaker 1: peace and life. Another said, oh, that I had been
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  Speaker 1: torn in pieces before I had to save my life,
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  Speaker 1: lost my soul. And another said, if I were to
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  Speaker 1: live again, how would I deny myself rather than come
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  Speaker 1: to this place. Then there was as if the very
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  Speaker 1: earth groaned and quaked under the feet of this young
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  Speaker 1: woman for fear. So she looked white and came trembling away, saying,
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  Speaker 1: blessed be he and she that is delivered from this place. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when the shepherds had shown them all these things. Then
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  Speaker 1: they had them to the palace and entertained them with
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  Speaker 1: what the house would afford. But Mercy, being a young
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  Speaker 1: and married woman, longed for something that she saw there,
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  Speaker 1: but was ashamed to ask. Her mother in law then
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  Speaker 1: asked her what she ailed for. She looked as one
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  Speaker 1: not well. Then said Mercy, there is a looking glass
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  Speaker 1: hangs up in the dining room of which I cannot
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  Speaker 1: take my mind. If therefore I have it not, I
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  Speaker 1: think I shall miscarry. Then said her mother, I will
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  Speaker 1: mention thy wants to the shepherds, and they will not
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  Speaker 1: deny thee. But she said, I am ashamed that these
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  Speaker 1: men should know that I longed. Nay, my daughter, said she.
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  Speaker 1: It is no shame, but a virtue to long for
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  Speaker 1: such a thing as that. So Mercy said, then, mother,
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  Speaker 1: if you please ask the shepherds if they are willing
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  Speaker 1: to sell it. Now the glass was one of a thousand.
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  Speaker 1: It would present a man one way with his own
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  Speaker 1: features exactly, and turn it but another way, and it
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  Speaker 1: would show one the very face and similitude of the
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  Speaker 1: Prince of Pilgrims himself. Yes, I have talked with them
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  Speaker 1: that can tell, and they have said that they have
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  Speaker 1: seen the very crown of thorns upon his head by
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  Speaker 1: looking in that glass. They have therein also seen the
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  Speaker 1: holes in his hands, his feet, and his side. YEA,
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  Speaker 1: such an excellency is there in this glass, that it
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  Speaker 1: will show him to one where they have a mind
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  Speaker 1: to see him, whether living or dead, whether in earth
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  Speaker 1: or in heaven, whether in a state of humiliation or
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  Speaker 1: in his exaltation, whether coming to suffer or coming to
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  Speaker 1: rain James one, twenty three, First Corinthians thirteen twelve, Second
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  Speaker 1: Corinthians three eighteen. Christiana therefore went to the sheps apart.
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  Speaker 1: Now the names of the shepherds were Knowledge, Experience, Watchful,
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  Speaker 1: and Sincere, and said unto them, there is one of
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  Speaker 1: my daughters, a breeding woman, that I think doth long
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  Speaker 1: for something that she hath seen in this house. And
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  Speaker 1: she thinks that she shall miscarry if she should, by
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  Speaker 1: you be denied. Experience, call her, call her, she shall
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  Speaker 1: assuredly have what we can help her to. So they
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  Speaker 1: called her and said to her, mercy, what is that
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  Speaker 1: thing thou wouldst have? Then she blushed and said, the
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  Speaker 1: great glass that hangs up in the dining room. So
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  Speaker 1: Sincere ran and fetched it, and with a joyful consent
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  Speaker 1: it was given her. Then she bowed her head and
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  Speaker 1: gave thanks, and said, by this I know that I
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  Speaker 1: have obtained favor in your eyes. They also gave to
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  Speaker 1: the other young women such things as they desired, and
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  Speaker 1: to their husbands great commendations, for that they had joined
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  Speaker 1: with mister Greatheart in the slaying of Giant Despair and
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  Speaker 1: the demolishing of Doubting Castle. About Christiana's neck the shepherds
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  Speaker 1: put a bracelet, and so did they about the necks
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  Speaker 1: of her four daughters. Also they put earrings in their ears,
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  Speaker 1: and jewels on their foreheads when they were minded to go. Hence,
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  Speaker 1: they let them go in peace, but gave not to
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  Speaker 1: them those certain cautions which before were given to Christian
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  Speaker 1: and his companion. The reason was for that these had
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  Speaker 1: great Heart to be their guide, who was one that
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  Speaker 1: was well acquainted with things, and so could give them
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  Speaker 1: their cautions more seasonably to wit, even when the danger
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  Speaker 1: was nigh the approaching. What cautions Christian and his companion
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  Speaker 1: had received of the shepherds, they had also lost. By
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  Speaker 1: that the time was come that they had need to
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  Speaker 1: put them in practice. Wherefore he was the advantage that
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  Speaker 1: this company had over the other. From thence they went
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  Speaker 1: on singing, and they said, behold, how fitly are the
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  Speaker 1: stages set for their relief that pilgrims are become, And
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  Speaker 1: how they us receive without one let that make the
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  Speaker 1: other life our mark and home. What novelties they have
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  Speaker 1: to us they give, that we, though pilgrims, joyful lives,
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  Speaker 1: may live. They do upon us too, such things bestow
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  Speaker 1: that show we pilgrims are where'er we go? End Part two,
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  Speaker 1: The seventh Stage