Pilgrim's Progress (Volume 15) (Paperback)

Pilgrim's Progress (Volume 15) Book Description

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1909. Excerpt: ... Thus by the Shepherds Secrets are reveal'd: Which from all other men are kept conceal'd Come to the Shepherds then if you would see Things deep, things hid, and that mysterious be. When they were about to depart, one of the Shepherds gave them a Note of the way. Another of them bid them beware of the Flatterer. The third bid them take heed that they sleep not on the Inchanted Ground. And the fourth bid them Godspeed. So I awoke from my Dream. And I slept, and Dreamed again, and saw the same two Pilgrims going down the Mountains along the High-way towards the City. Now a little below these Mountains, on the left hand lieth the Country of Conceit; from which Country there comes into the way in which the Pilgrims walked, a little crooked Lane. Here therefore they met with a very brisk Lad, that came out of that Country; and his name was Ignorance. So Christian asked him From what parts he came, and whither he was going? Ignor. Sir, I was born in the Country that lieth off there a little on the left hand, and I am going to the Ccelestial City. Chr. But how do you think to get in at the Gate, for you may find some difficulty there? Ignor. As other good people do, said he. Chr. But what have you to shew at that Gate, that may cause that the Gate should be opened to you? Ignor. I know my Lord's will, and I have been a good liver; I pay every man his own; I Pray, Fast, pay Tithes, and give Alms, and have left my Country for whither I am going. Chr. But thou eamest not in at the Wicket-Gate that is at the head of this way; thou eamest in hither through that same crooked Lane, and therefore I fear, however thou mayest think of thyself, when the reckoning day shall come, thou wilt have laid to thy charge that thou art a Thief and a Robber, instead of getting admittance into the City. Ignor. Ge...

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John Bunyan has contributed to Pilgrim's Progress (Volume 15) as an author. John Bunyan (1628-1688) was a Puritan preacher and writer born in Elstow, England. He wrote Pilgrim's Progress during his twelve-year imprisonment in Bedford jail. Upon his release, he became the pastor of a church in Bedford, England.

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