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THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. 
 
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 BEING A FAC-SIMILE REPRODUCTION 
 
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 NEW YORK: 
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Preface. 
 
 The first edition of The Pilgrim's 
 Progress, of which an exact repro- 
 duction is now placed before the 
 public, was issued by " Nath. Ponder 
 at the Peacock in the Poultrey near 
 Comhill, 1 678." For many years, 
 only one copy was known to exist, 
 viz., that in the library of R. S. Hol- 
 ford, Esq. ; it is from this that the 
 present facsimile is produced. At the 
 present time, four copies are known to 
 exist. The example from which the 
 present edition is printed is a compact 
 volume, printed on yellowish grey 
 paper, from, apparently, new type ; 
 and so perfectly has it been pre- 
 served, that it seems to be in 
 precisely the state in which it left 
 the publisher's shelves. It is a book 
 as full of material peculiarities as 
 any that ever taxed the correctness 
 of a fac-similist ; and it may not be 
 out of place to draw attention to 
 some of them. 
 
 The spelling and grammar are 
 frequently 
 
ii PREFACE. 
 
 frequently both inaccurate and in- 
 consistent, from a modern point of 
 view ; but to this, which is scarcely 
 a peculiarity, we have to add a very 
 irregular use of capital letters, the 
 greatest profusion of italics, the 
 employment now of asterisks and 
 now of letters for reference to 
 the notes, and the use of certain 
 characters differing in form from 
 modern letters, and not commonly 
 used in books of the seventeenth 
 century. The italic k and the # 
 which occur in the Introduction, 
 are examples of these obsolete 
 letters; and the \ in the word 
 P^OgtCfS, at the head of every 
 page, is of very rare occurrence. 
 
 But this edition has other charac- 
 teristics which render its interest 
 still more vital. The marginal 
 comments, which some modern 
 editors have seen fit to omit, are 
 there in all their quaint force : in 
 one case the temper of Christian, as 
 described in the text, is summarized 
 in the side- note thus : cc Christian 
 snibbeth his Fellow '* ; in another 
 place Bunyan ejaculates in the mar- 
 gin, " brave Talkative Ji \ and in 
 
 numerous 
 
PREFACE. Ill 
 
 numerous instances these notes have 
 a value of their own, either as 
 samples of the rough vernacular of 
 the author's original book, or as 
 indications of his mode of thought. 
 This first edition, more than 
 any subsequent one, is replete with 
 quaint expressions in rugged Saxon- 
 English, and with other elements of 
 style which induced Bunyan to say 
 in his fC Apology " : — 
 
 " This Book is writ in such a Dialecl 
 As may the minds of lislless men affecl." 
 
 And although the great allegorist 
 never materially changed his handi- 
 work, he did make alterations in his 
 grammar and orthography in the 
 course of the eight editions which 
 he lived to revise. Add to this 
 that his numerous editors have also 
 carried on the work of modification 
 for nearly two centuries ; and it will 
 at once be evident that it is a matter 
 of real importance for the reading 
 public of to-day to see what Bunyan 
 really wrote and issued in the first 
 instance. 
 
 To compass this end, no pains 
 have been spared. In all those 
 matters of orthography, grammar, 
 rough or quaint expression, typo- 
 graphical 
 
IV PREFACE. 
 
 graphical peculiarity, £sfo, above 
 referred to, absolute reproduction 
 has been the one aim. Indeed, as 
 regards typography, the present 
 edition is strictly a lineal descendant 
 of that of 1678 ; for the type now 
 used has been cast from moulds 
 made in 1720, which were taken 
 from the Dutch type used for that 
 first issue. The paper, too, is a close 
 imitation of that manufactured two 
 centuries ago. 
 
 The almost complete disappear- 
 ance of the first edition, all but four 
 copies, may not perhaps indicate the 
 exact measure of avidity with which 
 the book was taken up ; but the subse- 
 quent history of the work leaves no 
 doubt as to the effectual manner in 
 which the fertile ground of English 
 religious sentiment absorbed the first 
 seeds cast abroad by the homely 
 Bunyan ; and, at all events, those 
 seeds produced such a plentiful crop 
 that it were futile now to attempt 
 to compute how many millions of 
 copies of the world- renowned al- 
 legory have been read and thumbed 
 and pondered over in the course of 
 the last two centuries. 
 
THE 
 
 Pilgrim's Progrefs 
 
 FROM 
 
 THIS WORLD, 
 
 TO 
 
 That which is to come : 
 
 Delivered under the Similitude of a 
 
 DREAM 
 
 Wherein is Difcovered , 
 
 The manner of his fetting ou t 5 
 
 His Dangerous Journey; Andfafe 
 Arrival at the Defired Countrey. 
 
 / have ufed Similitudes , Hof. 12. 10. 
 
 By "John Bunyan. 
 iLtcenCctiantKEntcetiaccojtifnffto^D^tier. 
 
 LONDON, 
 
 Printed for Nat h. Ponder at the Peacock 
 in the Poultrey near Cornhil y 1678. 
 
THE 
 
 For his BOOK. 
 
 WHen at thefirjl I took, my Pen in hand, 
 Thus for to write ; I did not under/land 
 That I at all Jhould make a little Book. 
 In fuch a mode \ Nay, I had undertook 
 To mah another, which when almojl done ; 
 Before I was aware, I this begun. 
 
 And thus it was : I writing of the Way 
 And Race of Saints, in this our Gofpel-Day % 
 Fell fuddenly into an Allegory 
 About their Journey, and the way to Glory, 
 In more than twenty things, which I fet down ; 
 This done, I twenty more had in my Crown, 
 And they again began to multiply, 
 Like fp arks that from the coals of fire do fly. 
 Nay then, thought I, if that you breed fo faft^ 
 Til put you by your f elves, left you at laft 
 Should prove ad infinitum, and eat out 
 The Book that I already am about. 
 
 Well,fo I did ; but yet I did not think 
 To Jhew to all the World my Pen and Ink 
 In fuch a mode \ I only thought to make 
 I knew not what : nor did I undertake 
 Thereby to pleafe my Neighbour \ no not I ; 
 / did it mine own felf to gratifie. 
 
 Neither did I but vacant feafons fpenJ 
 In this my Scribble j nor did I intend 
 
 A 3 But 
 
The Authors Apology for his Book. 
 
 But to divert my J elf in doing this, 
 
 From worjer thoughts, which make me do amifs. 
 
 Thus 1 Jet Pen to Paper with delight, 
 And quichly had my thoughts in black and white. 
 For having now my Method by the end, 
 Still as I pull' d, it came ; and fo I penned 
 It down, until it came at lajl to be 
 For length and breadth the bignefs which you fee. 
 Well, when I had thus put mine ends together, 
 I Jhew'd them others, that I might fee whether 
 They would condemn them, or them jufiifie : 
 4nd fome faid, let them live \fome, let them die. 
 Some J aid, John, print it ; others faid, Not fo : 
 Some faid, It might do good; others faid, No. 
 
 Now was I in ajlraight, and did not fee 
 JVhich was the bejl thing to be done by me: 
 At lajl I thought, Since you are thus divided, 
 I print it will; and fo the cafe decided. 
 
 For, thought I ; Some, I fee, would have it done, 
 Though others in that Channel do not run ; 
 To prove then who advifed for the bejl, 
 Thus I thought ft to put it to the tesl. 
 
 I further thought, If now I did deny 
 Thofe that would have it thus, to gratifie, 
 I did not know but hinder them 1 might 
 Of that which would to them be great delight. 
 For thofe that were not for its coining forth , 
 I faid to them, Offend you I am loth ; 
 Tet fince your Brethren pleafed with it be, 
 Forbear to judge, till you do further fee. 
 
 v 
 
The Authors Apology for his Book. 
 
 If that thou wilt not read, let it alone ; 
 Some love the tneat, fome love to pick, the bone : 
 Tea, that I might them better palliate, 
 I did too with them thus Expojlulate. 
 
 May I not write infuch a Jlile as this ? 
 Infuch a method too, and yet not mi/s 
 Mine end, thy good? why may it not be done ? 
 Dark. Clouds bring W at ers, when the bright bring 
 Tea, darker bright, if they their Silver drops {none 
 Caufe to defend, the Earth, by yielding Crops, 
 Gives praife to both, and carpeth not at either, 
 But treafures up the Fruit they yield together : 
 Tea,fo commixes both, that in her Fruit 
 None can difinguijh this from that, they fuit 
 Her well, when hungry : but if /he be full, 
 Shefpues out both, and makes their blejjings null. 
 
 You fee the ways the Fijher-man doth take 
 To catch the Fijh ; what Engins doth he make ? 
 Behold how he ingageth all his Wits, 
 Alfo his Snares, Lines, Angles, Hooks and Nets. 
 Tet Fijh there be, that neither Hook-, nor Line, 
 Nor Snare, nor Net, nor Engin can make thine ; 
 They mujl be grop'i for, and be tickled too, 
 Or they will not be catcht, what e're you do. 
 
 How doth the Fowler feek to catch his Game, 
 By divers means, all which one cannot name? 
 His Gun, his Nets, his Lime-twigs, light, andbell: 
 He creeps, he goes, he /lands; yea who can tell 
 Of all his poflures, Tet there's none ofthefe 
 Will make him maflgr of what Fowls he pleafe. 
 A 4 Tea, 
 
The Authors Apology for his Book. 
 
 Tea, he muji Pipe, and Whiflle to catch this \ 
 Tet if he does fo, that Bird he will mifs. 
 
 If that a Pearl may in a Toads-head dwelU 
 And may be found too in an Oifler-Jhell -, 
 If things that promife nothing, do contain 
 What better is then Gold ; who will difdain. t 
 (That have an inkling of it,) there to look* 
 That they may find it. Now my little Book, 
 (Tho void of all thofe paintings that may make 
 It with this or the other Man to take>) 
 Is not without thofe things thai do excel 
 What do in brave, but empty notions dwell. 
 
 Well) yet I am not fully fatisfied, 
 That this your Bookwillfland; whenfoundly trfd 
 
 Why, whafs the matter I it is darky what tho? 
 But it is feigned. What of that I tro? 
 Some men by feigning words as dark as mine y 
 Make truth to fp angle , and its rayes to Jhine. 
 
 But they wantfolidnefs : Speak man thy mind. 
 They drown'd the weak',Metaphors make us blind. 
 
 Solidity, indeed becomes the Pen 
 Of him that writeth things Divine to men : 
 But mufl I needs wantfolidnefs, becaufe 
 By Metaphors Ifpeaki Was not Gods Laws, 
 His Gofpel-Laws, in oldertime held forth 
 By Types, Shadows and Metaphors f Tet loth 
 Will any fob er man be to find fault 
 With them, lejl he be found for to affault 
 The high eft Wifdom. No, he rather Jloops, 
 Andfeeh to find out what by pins and loops, 
 
 By 
 
The Authors Apology for his Book. 
 
 By Calves ; and Sheep-, by Heifers, and by Rams \ 
 B) Birds, and Herbs, andby the blood of Lambs, 
 God fpeaketh to him. And happy is he 
 That finds the light, and grace that in them be. 
 
 Be not too forward therefore to conclude, 
 That I want folidnefs, that I am rude : 
 All things foil d in Jhew, not f olid be ; 
 All things in parables defpife not we, 
 Lejl things mojl hurtful lightly we receive, 
 And things that good are, of our fouls bereave, 
 
 My dark and cloudy words they do but hold 
 The Truth , as Cabinets inclofe the Gold. 
 
 The Prophets ufed much by Metaphors 
 To fet forth Truth ; Tea, who fo confiders 
 Chrifl, his Apojlles too, Jhall plainly fee, 
 That Truths to this day in fuch Alantles be. 
 
 Am I afraid to fay that holy Writ^ \Wit t 
 Which for its Stile, and Phrafe puts down all 
 Is every where fo full of all thefe things, 
 [Dark Figures, Allegories^) yet there fprmgs 
 From that fame Book that luflre, and thofe rayes 
 Of light, that turns our darkejl nights to days. 
 
 Come, let my Carper, to his Life now looky 
 And find There darker lines then in my Book 
 He findeth any. Tea, and let him know, 
 That in his beji things there are worfe lines too. 
 
 May we but sland before impartial men, 
 To his poor One, I durft adventure Ten, 
 That they will take my meaning in thefe lines 
 Far better then his Lies in Silver Shrines. 
 
 Come % 
 
The Authors Apology for his Book. 
 
 Come, Truth, although in Swadling-clouts, I fina 
 Informs the Judgement, rectifies the Mind, 
 Pleafes the Under/landing, makes the Will 
 Submit ; the Memory too it doth Jill 
 With what doth our Imagination pleafe ; 
 Likewife, it tends our troubles to appeafe. 
 
 Sound words I know Timothy is to ufe; 
 And old Wives Fables he is to refufe, 
 But yet grave Paul, him no where doth forbid 
 The ufe of Parables ; in which lay hid {were 
 That Gold,thofe Pearls, and precious flones that 
 Worth digging for; and that with greatefl care. 
 
 Let me add one word more, O ?nan of God ' 
 Art thou offended? do ft thou wijh I had 
 Put forth my matter in an other drefs, 
 Or that I had in things been more exprefs ? 
 Three things let me propound, then I fubmit 
 To thofe that are my betters, (as is ft.) 
 
 I. I find not that I am denied the ufe 
 Of this my method, fo I no abufe 
 Put on the Words, Things, Readers, or be rude 
 In handling Figure, or Similitude, 
 In application ; but, all that I may, 
 Seek the advance of Truth, this or that way : 
 Denyed, did I fay ? Nay, I have leave, 
 (Example too,and that from them that have 
 God better pleafed by their words or ways, 
 Then any man that breath eth now adays,) 
 Thus to exprefs my mind, thus to declare 
 Things unto thee, that excellentesl are. 
 
 2. / 
 
TheAuthors Apology for his Book. 
 
 2. 1 find that men (as high as Trees) will write 
 Dialogue-wife ; yet no ?nan doth them /light 
 For writing fo : Indeed if they abufe 
 Truths cur fed be they, and, the craft they ufe 
 To that intent ; But yet let Truth be free 
 To make her Salleys upon Thee, and Me, 
 Which way it pleafes God. For who knows how, 
 Better then he that taught us firjl to Plow, 
 To guide our Mind and Pens for his Dcfign ? 
 And he makes bafe things ujher in Divine. 
 
 3. I find that holy J Vrit in many places (cafes 
 Hath femblance with this method, where the 
 Doth call for one thing, to fet forth another : 
 Ufe it I ?nay then, and yet nothing f mother 
 Truths golden Beams \ Nay, by this method may 
 Make it cafi forth its rayes as light as day. 
 
 And now, before I do put up my Pen, 
 Pie Jhew the profit of my Book , and then 
 Commit both thee, and it unto that hand (/land. 
 That pulls thejlrong down, and makes weak ones 
 
 This Book it chaulketh out before thine eyes 
 The man that feeks the everlafting Prize : 
 It /hews you whence he comes, whither he goes. 
 What he leaves undone \ alfo what he does: 
 It alfo /hews you how he runs, and runs 
 Till he unto the Gate of Glory comes. 
 
 It fiews too, who fits out for life amain, 
 As if the lofting Crown they would attain : 
 Here alfo you may fee the reafon why 
 They loofe their labour, and like Fools do die. 
 
 This 
 
The Authors Apology for his Book. 
 
 This Book, will make a Travailer of thee. 
 If by its Counfel thou wilt ruled be; 
 It will direcl thee to the Holy Land, 
 If thou wilt its Directions understand: 
 Tea, it will make the fioathful, aclive be \ 
 The Blind alfo, delightful things to fee. 
 
 Art thou for fomething rare, and profitable ? 
 Wouldeft thou fee a Truth within a Fable? 
 Art thou forgetful? wouldefl thou remember 
 From New-years-day to the lafl ^December? 
 Then read my fancies, they will flick like Burs, 
 And may be to the Helplefs, Comforters. 
 
 This Book is writ infuch a Dialed, 
 As may the minds oflisllefs ?nen affecl ; 
 It feems a Novelty, and yet contains 
 Nothing but found, and honejl Gofpel-flrains. 
 
 Wouldfl thou divert thy felf from Melancholly? 
 Would f thou be pleafant, yet be far from folly ? 
 Would' ft thou read Riddles ,& 'their Explanation? 
 Or elfe be drownded in thy Contemplation ? 
 Dofl thou love picking meat ? or wouldfl thou fee 
 A man ?th Clouds, and hear himfpeak to thee? 
 Would? ft thou be in a Dream, and yet notfeep? 
 Or would 'f thou in a moment laugh, and weep ? 
 Wouldefl thou loofe thy felf , and catch no harm? 
 And find thy felf again without a charm? (what 
 Wouldefl read thy felf, and read thou know'Jl not 
 And yet know whether thou art bleft or not, 
 By reading the fame lines? O then come hither, 
 dnd lay my Book, thy Head,and Heart together. 
 
 JOHN BUNYAN. 
 
iitttfttiiiiiStts 
 
 THE 
 Pilgrims Progrefs: 
 
 In the fimilitude of a 
 
 DREAM. 
 
 3 I walk'd through 
 the wildernefs of this 
 world, I lighted on a 
 certain place, where 
 was a Denn ; And I 
 laid me down in that 
 place to fleep : And as I flept I drea- 
 med a Dream. I dreamed , and be- 
 hold I Jaw a Man * cloathed with * Ifa 6 
 Raggs, Jianding in a certain place, 6. 
 with his face from his own Houfe, a Lu.14. 33. 
 'Book in his hand, and a great burden Pf - 3 8 - 4- 
 upon his back. I looked, and faw him ^16 ** 
 open the Book, and Read therein ; 3I# 
 and as he Read, he wept and trem- 
 bled: and not being able longer to 
 
 contain, 
 
2 Cfce Pilgrims P?ogret& 
 
 contain, he brake out with a lamen 
 table cry; faying, what flo all I do? 
 
 I faw alfo that he looked this way, 
 and that way, as if he would run; 
 yet he ftood ftill , becaufe as I per- 
 ceived, he could not tell which way 
 to go. I looked then, and faw a Man 
 named Evangelift coming to him,and 
 asked, Wherefore doft thou cry ? He 
 anfwered, Sir, I perceive, by the 
 Book in my hand , that I am Con- 
 
 * Heb. 9. demned to die, and * after that to 
 27. come to Judgement ; and I find that 
 
 * job z6. J am no t * willing to do the firft, nor 
 ** %' k * a ^ e to do the fecond. 
 
 it ia ' Then faid Evangelift , Why not 
 willing to die? fince this life is atten- 
 ded with fo many evils ? The Man 
 anfwered, Becaufe I fear that this 
 burden that is upon my back, will 
 finck me lower then the Grave ; and 
 
 * ifa. 30. I mall fall into *Tophet. And Sir, if 
 3 3 ' I be not fit to go to Prifon, I am not 
 
 fit (I am fure) to go to Judgement, 
 and from thence to Execution; And 
 the thoughts of thefe things make me 
 cry. 
 
 Then faid Evangelift , If this be 
 thy condition, why ftandeft thou ftill? 
 He anfwered, Becaufe I know not 
 
 whither 
 
Cfte Pilgrims moQtm* 3 
 
 whither to go. Then he gave him 
 a Parchment-Roll , and there was 
 written within, * Fly from the wrath *», 
 to come. * Mat '^ 
 
 The Man therefore Read it, and 
 looking upon Evangelift very care- 
 fully; faid,WhithermurUfly? Then 
 faid Evangelift , pointing with his 
 finger over a very wide Field, Do 
 you fee yonder * Wicket-gate? The * Mat. 7. 
 Man faid, No. Then faid the other, Pfal - »* 
 Do you fee yonder *ihining light ? *p 5 e i 
 He faid, I think I do. Then faid Evan- * cbrifi% 
 %elift> Keep that light in your eye, the way to 
 and go up directly thereto, *fo h ' im cannot 
 (halt thou fee the Gate; at which be Mnd 
 when thou knockeft, it (hall be told ™'J%" bi 
 'hee what thou fhalt do. 
 
 So I faw in my Dream, that the 
 Man began to run; Now he had not 
 run far from his own door, but his 
 Wife and Children perceiving it, be- 
 gan to cry after him to return : # but * Luk. 14. 
 che Man put his fingers in his Ears, lA - 
 ind ran on crying, Life, Life, Eter- 
 lal Life: fo he looked not behind 
 11m, # but fled towards the middle x en I9 ' 
 ►f the Plain. ', 
 
 The Neighbours alfo came out to „ fr Qm £ e 
 ' : fee him run, and as he ran, fome ^rath to 
 
 mocked, come, are 
 
+ m €&e Pilgrims P?og;ret& 
 
 itocT ing t<, mocke( i> ot ^ers threatned; and fome 
 
 the world. CrlQ & a ^ ter n ^ m t0 return • Now a- 
 
 T ^r.2o.io mong thofe that did fo, there were 
 two that were refolved to fetch hint 
 back by force: The name of the one 
 was Obftinate> and the name of the 
 other Pliable, Now by this time the 
 Man was got a good diftance from 
 them ; But however they were refol- 
 ved to purfue him ; which they did, 
 and in little time they over- took him. 
 Then faid the Man, Neighbours, 
 Wherefore are you comet They faid, To 
 perfwade you to go back with us;but 
 he faid, That can by no means be : 
 You dwell, faid he, in the City of 
 Deftrutlion (the place alfo where I 
 was born,) I fee it to be fo ; and dy- 
 ing there, fooner or later, you will 
 fink lower then the Grave, into a 
 place that burns with Fire and Brim- 
 ftone ; Be content good Neighbours, 
 and go along with me. 
 nlte ° hfii *What I faid Obftinate, and leave 
 our Friends^ and our comforts behind 
 us I 
 * Chri- * Yes, faid Chrifiian f (i or that was 
 ftian * his name) becaufe that all is not 
 * 2 Cor. * worthy to be compared with a little 
 «•• l8 ' of that that I am feeking to enjoy, 
 
 and 
 
€6e Pilgrims Pjogrefo 5 
 
 and if you will go along with me, 
 you mail fare as I my felf ; for there 
 where I go, is * enough, and to fpare; *Luk. i 5 . 
 Come away, and prove my words. 
 
 Obft. What are the things you feek, 
 Cine eyouleave all the World tofind them ? 
 
 Chr. I feek an * Inheritance, //z-*iPet.i. 4 
 Corruptible , undefiled, and that fadeth 
 wt away ; and it is laid up in Heaven, 
 md faft there, to be beftowed at the * Heb. u. 
 ime appointed, on them that dili- 16. 
 gently feek it. 
 
 Ob. Tu/hy faid Obftinate, away with 
 >our Book ; will you go back with us, or 
 to ? 
 
 Ch. No, not I, faid the other ; be- 
 :aufe I have laid my hand to the 
 
 Plow. *Luk. 9 .6a 
 
 Ob. Come then, Neighbour Pliable, 
 et us turn again, and go home with- 
 out him ; There is a Company of theje 
 ^razd-headed Coxcombs, that when 
 hey take a fancy by the end, are wijer 
 p their own eyes then f even men that 
 an render a Reafon. 
 
 Pli. Then faid Pliable, Don't re- 
 rile ; if what the good Chriftian fays 
 s true, the things he looks after, are 
 setter then ours : my heart inclines 
 o go with my Neighbour. 
 
 B Obft. 
 
6 Cfte Pilgrims Piogretk 
 
 Obft. What I more Fools JIM ? be 
 ruled by me and go back ; who knows 
 whither fuch a brain-fick fellow will 
 lead you ? Go back , go back , and be 
 wife. 
 
 Ch. Come with me Neighbour 
 Pliable ; there are fuch things to be 
 had which I fpoke of, and many- 
 more Glories befides. If you believe 
 not me, read here in this Book ; and 
 for the truth of what is expreft there- 
 in, behold all is confirmed by the 
 fHeb. 13. j- blood of him that made it. 
 
 Pli. Well Neighbour Obftinate£/*W 
 Pliable) / begin to come to a pint ; / 
 intend to go along with this good man y 
 and to caft in my lot with him : But 
 my good Companion, do you know the 
 way to this defired place ? 
 
 Ch. I am directed by a man whofe 
 name is Evangelift, to fpeed me to a 
 little Gate that is before us, where 
 we mall receive inftruction about the 
 way. 
 
 Pli. Come then good Neighbour, let 
 us be going. 
 
 Then they went both together. 
 
 Obft. And I will go back to my 
 place , faid Obftinate. I will be no 
 Companion of fuch mifs-led fantafti- 
 cal Fellows. Now 
 
C6e Pilgrims Pjogrefe. 7 
 
 Now I faw in my Dream , that 
 when Obftinate was gon back, Chri- 
 ftian and Pliable went * talking over * "Talk be 
 the Plain: and thus they began their teween 
 
 it r Chriftian. 
 
 difcourfe, wp]ia ; 
 
 Chrifk. Come Neighbour Phaole^ b i e# 
 
 how do you do ? I am glad you are 
 
 perfwaded to go along with me ; and 
 
 ! had even Obftinate himfelf, but felt 
 
 what I have felt of the Powers and 
 
 ! Terrours of what is yet unfeen, he 
 
 I would not thus lightly have given us 
 
 ! the back. 
 
 Pliable. Come Neighbour Chriftian , 
 fince there is none but us two here, tell 
 me now further, what the things are> 
 and how to be enjoy ed^ whither we are 
 going ? 
 
 Ch. I can better conceive of them 
 with my Mind, then fpeak of them 
 with my Tongue : But yet fince you 
 are defirous to know, I will read of 
 them in mv Book. 
 
 PH. Anddoyouthink that the words 
 of your Book are certainly true? 
 
 Ch, Yes verily , for it was made 
 by him that j-cannot lye. f Tit. i'.». 
 
 Plia : Well /aid ; what things are 
 
 they? *if. 
 
 Ch. There is an * endlefs Kingdom ' 45> I7 
 
 B 1 to 
 
8 Cfte Pilgrims Piogrefe, 
 
 John i o. to be Inhabited, and everlafting life 
 t7> 28, 29. tQ ^ e gj ven us . tnat we ma y Inhabit 
 
 that Kingdom for ever. 
 
 Pli. Wellfaid ; ^^^/ wi>#/ <?^/£ ? 
 Chr. There are Crowns of Glory 
 f 2 Tim. 4. to be given us ; j*and Garments that 
 *• will make us mine like the Sun in the 
 
 Matth'i^ Firmament of Heaven. 
 
 Plia. This is excellent ; And what 
 elfe? 
 
 Ch. There mall be no more crying, 
 
 *ifa.25.8. * nor forrow: For he that is owner 
 
 ev. 7. 1 . Q £ t j^ p] aces 9 w [\\ w jp e a n tears 
 
 Cap. 21.4. fr° m . our eyes. 
 
 Pli. Andwhat company Jhall we have 
 there ? 
 
 Ch. There we mail be with Sera- 
 
 * ifa 6. z.phints, * and Cherubim, Creatures that 
 1 Thiir. 4. w jn J az l e y 0Ur e y es to look on them: 
 J, * There alfo you mall meet with thou- 
 
 Ktv, 7. 1 7. ■ 
 
 'fands, and ten thoufands that have 
 gone before us to that place ; none 
 of them are hurtful, but loving, and 
 holy : every one walking in the fight 
 of God ; and {landing in his prefence 
 with acceptance for ever : In a 
 f Rev. 4. 4. word, there we mail fee the j- Elders 
 with their Golden Crowns : There 
 
 * Cha. 14. we mail fee the Holy * Virgins with 
 i.*» 3, 4, 5 their Golden Harps. There we 
 
 fhall 
 
C6e Pilgrims Ipjogrefo 9 
 
 fliall fee a Men that by the World a Joh. 1% 
 were cut in pieces, burned in flames, 2 5- 
 eaten of Beafts, drownded in the 
 Seas, for the love that they bare to 
 the Lord of the place ; all well, and 
 cloathed with b Immortality, as with b 2 Cor. s 
 a Garment. 2, 3, 5. 
 
 Pli. The hearing of this is enough to 
 ravifh ones heart ; but are thefe things 
 \to be enjoyed ? how fhall we get to be 
 Sharers hereof? 
 
 Ch. The Lord, the Governour of 
 that Countrey, hath Recorded that 
 c in this Book: The fubftance of c Ifa - 55- 
 which is, If we be truly willing to ! 2 * 
 have it, he will beftow it upon us CW6.Y7 
 freely. Rev. 21. 6 
 
 Pli. Well y my good Companion, glad Cap. 2*. 17 
 am I to hear of thefe things : Come on, 
 let us mend our pace. 
 
 Ch. I cannot go fo faft as I would, 
 by reafon of this burden that is upon 
 my back. 
 
 Now I faw in my Dream, that juft 
 as they had ended this talk , they 
 drew near to a very Miry Slougbjh&t 
 was in the midft of the Plain, and 
 they being heedlefs, did both fall 
 fuddenly into the bogg. The name 
 of the Slow v/as Difpond. Here there- 
 B 3 fore 
 
io cbe Pilgrims l&ogrefo 
 
 fore they wallowed for a time, be- 
 ing grievioufly bedaubed with the 
 dirt; And Chriftian, becaufe of the 
 burden that was on his back, began 
 to fink in the Mire. 
 
 Pli. "Then/aid Pliable, Ah, Neigh- 
 hour Chriftian, where are you now ? 
 
 Ch. Truly, faid Chriftian, I do not 
 know. 
 
 Pli. At that, Pliable began to be 
 offended ; and angerly faid to his 
 Fellow, Is this the happinejs you have 
 told me all this while op. ifwehavejuch 
 ill /peed at our fir ft Jetting out, what 
 may we expett, y twixt this, and our 
 d It is not Journeys end ? d May I get out again 
 
 7° pi b°i Wlt ^° m y ^f e > y° u fi a ^ P°Jfef s t ^ )e ^ rave 
 " Country alone for me. And with that 
 
 he gave a defperate ftruggle or two, 
 and got out of the Mire, on that 
 fide of the Slough which was next to 
 his own Houfe : So away he went, 
 and Chriftian faw him no more. 
 
 Wherefore Chriftian was left to tum- 
 ble in the Slough of Difpondency alone, 
 e Chriflian but ftill he endeavoured to ftruggle 
 in trouble, to that fide of the Slough, that was ftill , 
 feeks ftill further e from his own Houfe , and s 
 
 llfr&Z' next t0 the Wicket ~g ate ; tne which j 
 
 liTowT he did > but coulci not g et ° ut > be - 
 
 Houfe. caufe 
 
C&e pilgrims P?og*efe- u 
 
 caufe of the burden that was upon 
 his back. But I beheld in my Dream, 
 that a Man came to him , whofe 
 name was Help, and asked him, What 
 he did there ? 
 
 Chr. Sir, faid Chriftian, I was di- 
 rected this way by a Man called E- 
 vangelift ; who directed me alfo to 
 yonder Gate, that I might efcape 
 the wrath to come : And as I was go- 
 ing thither, I fell in here. 
 
 Help. But why did you not look for 
 Hhe fteps ? f The Pro. 
 
 Ch. Fear followed me fo hard, that mi J es - 
 I fled the next way, and fell in. 
 
 Help. Give me thy hand. So he gave 
 •him his hand, and s he drew him out, g Pf. +0 . 2 
 and fet him upon found ground, and 
 bid him go on his way. 
 
 Then I ftepped to him that pluckt 
 him out ; and faid ; Sir, Wherefore 
 (fince over this place,is the way from 
 the City of DeJiru5iion y to yonder 
 Gate) is it, that this Plat is not men- 
 ded, that poor Travellers might go 
 thither with more fecurity ? And he 
 faid unto me, this Miry Jlough is fuch 
 a place as cannot be mended : It is 
 the defcent whither the fcum and 
 filth that attends conviction for fin, 
 B 4 doth 
 
3,4- 
 
 12 €be Pilgrims l^ogrefo 
 
 continually run, and therefore is it 
 called th&Slougb ofDifpond: for ftill as 
 the finner is awakened about his loft 
 condition, there arifeth in his foul 
 many fears, and doubts, and dis- 
 couraging apprehenfions, which all 
 of them get together, and fettle in 
 this place : And this is the reafon of 
 the badnefs of this ground. 
 h Ifa. 35. i t i s no t the h pleafure of the King, 
 that this place mould remain fo bad ; 
 his Labourers alfo, have by the di- 
 rection of His Majefties Surveyors, 
 been for above this fixteen hundred 
 years, imploy'd about this patch of 
 ground, if perhaps it might have 
 been mended : yea, and to my know- 
 ledge, faith he, Here hath been fwal- 
 lowed up, at leaft Twenty thou- 
 fand Cart Loads ; Yea Millions of 
 wholefom Inftructions, that have at 
 all feafons been brought from all 
 places of the Kings Dominions ; (and 
 they that can tell, fay, they are 
 the beft Materials to make good 
 ground of the place;) If fo be it might 
 have been mended, but it is the Slough 
 ofDifpond ftill ; and fo will be, when 
 they have done what they can. 
 True, there are by the direction of 
 
 the 
 
Cfie pilgrims p?ogrefe. *3 
 
 the Law-giver, certain good and 
 fubftantiall [ Steps , placed even i The Pro- 
 through the verv midft of this Slough; mifes °f 
 but at fuch time as this place doth for ^0 
 
 , r r . , «ii and accep- 
 
 much ipue out its filth, as it doth &- tancei0 
 gainft change of weather, thefe fteps lifeby faith 
 are hardly ken ; or if they be, Men in drift. 
 through the dizinefs of their heads, 
 ftep befides ; and then they are be- 
 mired to purpofe, notwithstanding 
 the fteps be there; but the ground is 
 k good when they are once got in at k i Sa is. 
 the Gate. 23. 
 
 Now I faw in my Dream, that by 
 this time Pliable was got home to 
 his Houfe again. So his Neighbours 
 came to vifit him ; and fome of them 
 called him wife Man for coming 
 back ; and fome called him Fool, for 
 hazarding himfelf with Chrijlian; 
 others again did mock at his Cow- 
 ardlinefs ; faying, Surely iince you 
 began to venture, I would not have 
 been fo bafe to have given out for a 
 few difficulties. So Pliable fat fneak- 
 ing among them. But at laft he got 
 more confidence, and then they all 
 turned their tales, and began to de- 
 ride poor Chrifiian behind his back. 
 And thus much concerning Pliable. 
 
j 4 C&e Pilgrims p?ogrefo 
 
 By this time, Chriftian was got up 
 to the Gate. Now over the Gate 
 there was Written, Knock and it Jhall 
 I Matt.7.8. fa opened unto you. 1 He knocked 
 therefore, more then once or twice, 
 faying, 
 
 May I now enter here ? will he within 
 Open to forry ?ne^ though I have bin 
 An undeferving Rebel ? then Jhall 1 
 Not fail to fing his la/ling praife on high. 
 
 At laft there came a grave Perfon to 
 the Gate, named Good-will ^ho asked 
 Who was there? and whence he came ? 
 and what he would have ? 
 
 Ch. Hereisapoorburdenedfinner, 
 
 I come from the City of Deftruclion> 
 
 but am going to Mount Zion y that I 
 
 may be delivered from the wrath to 
 
 come ; I would therefore, Sir, fmce 
 
 I am informed that by this Gate is the 
 
 way thither, know if you are willing 
 
 to let me in. 
 
 mi 'be Gate Good-wilL m I am willing with all 
 
 will be my heart, faid he ; and with that he 
 
 opened to opened the Gate. 
 
 broken- g wnen Chriftian was ftepping in, 
 
 ear e jin- ^ e otner g ave n i m a pull; Then faid 
 
 Chriftian , what means that? The o- 
 
 ther 
 
C6e pilgrims ip?o<jtm i 5 
 
 ther told him, A little diftance from 
 this Gate, there is erected a ftrong 
 Cattle, of which" Beelzebub is the n&tfci* #*. 
 Captain : from thence both he, and wj ^0/* 
 them that are with him moot Ar- that enter 
 rows at thofe that come up to this G e J t ™ lg 
 Gate ; if happily they may dye be- 
 fore they can enter in. Then faid 
 Chrifiian, I rejoyce and tremble. So 
 when he was got in, the Man of the 
 Gate asked him, Who directed him 
 thither? 
 
 Ch, Evangelift bid me come hither 
 andknock,(asIdid;) Andhefaid,that 
 you, Sir, would tell me what I mud 
 do. 
 
 Good Will. An open Boor is Jet be- 
 fore thee^ and no man can jhut it. 
 
 Ch. Now I begin to reap the bene- 
 fits of my hazzards. 
 
 Good Will. But how is it that yon 
 came alone ? 
 
 Ch. Becaufe none of my Neigh- 
 bours faw their danger, as I faw mine. 
 
 Good Will. Did any of them know 
 of your coming ? 
 
 Ch. Yes, my Wife and Children 
 faw me at the flrft, and called after 
 me to turn again: Alfo fome of my 
 
 Neigh- 
 
s6 Cfje Pilgrims p?offtete> 
 
 Neighbours flood crying, and calling 
 after me to return ; but I put my 
 Fingers in mine Ears , and fb came 
 on my way. 
 
 Good Will. But did none of them 
 follow you, to per/wade you to go back? 
 Ch. Yes, both Obftinate, and Pli- 
 able : But when they faw that they 
 could not prevail, Obftinate went 
 railing back ; but Pliable came with 
 me a little way. 
 
 Goodwill. But why did he not come 
 through ? 
 
 Ch. We indeed came both together, 
 
 until we came at the Slow ofDifpond, 
 
 into the which, we alfo fuddenly fell. 
 
 And then was my Neighbour Pliable 
 
 difcouraged, and would not adven- 
 
 o a Man ture further. Wherefore getting out 
 
 may have again, on that fide next to his own 
 
 Company Houfe ; he told me, I mould pofTefs 
 
 •■when he ^ Drave Countrey alone for him : 
 
 Utsoutfor , . it 
 
 Heaven ^° ne went his way, and 1 came mine. 
 
 &yetgothi- He after Obftinate, and I to this Gate. 
 
 ther alone. Good Will. Then faid Good Will, 
 Alafs poor Man,is the Cceleftial Glory 
 of fo fmall efteem with him, that he 
 counteth it not worth running the 
 hazards of a few difficulties to ob- 
 tain it. Well good Chriftian y come 
 
€&e pilgrims l&ogrefo 17 
 
 a little way with me, and I will teach 
 thee about the way thou muft go. 
 Look before thee ; doft thou fee this 
 narrow way ? That is the way thou 
 muft go. It was caft up by the Patri- 
 archs, Prophets, Chrift, his Apoftles; 
 and it is as ftraight as a Rule can 
 make it:This is the way thou muft go. 
 
 Ch. But faid Chriftian, Is there no 
 turnings nor windings by which a 
 Stranger may looje the way ? 
 
 Good Will. Yes , there are many 
 ways Butt down upon this ; and they 
 are Crooked , and Wide : But thus 
 thoumay'ft diftinguifh the right from 
 the wrong, That only being ftraight 
 and narrow. 
 
 Then I faw in my Dream , That 
 Chriftian asked him further, If he 
 could not help him off with his bur- 
 den that was upon his back ; For as 
 yet he had not got rid thereof, nor 
 could he by any means get it off 
 without help. 
 
 He told him ; As to the burden, be 
 content to bear it, until 1 thou comeft p "There is 
 to the place of p Deliverance ; for no delitve ' 
 there it will fall from thy back it felf. ™<f™* 
 
 _. . . _ . . J . , the guilty 
 
 _ Then Chriftian began to gird up andhurden 
 his loins , and to addrefs himfelf to //«, but 
 
 his 
 
'8 Cfte Pilgttms iPiojjrett. 
 
 by the death Journey. Sothe other told him, that 
 & blood of by that he was gone fome diftance 
 chrift. f rom the Gate, he would come at 
 the Houfe of the Interpreter ; at 
 whofe Door he mould knock; and he 
 would mew him excellent things. 
 Then Chriftian took his leave of his 
 Friend, and he again bid him, God 
 fpeed. 
 
 Then he went on, till he came at 
 qChrlftian the Houfe of the ^ Interpreter ', where 
 comes to he knocked over and over : at laft 
 the Houfe one came to the Door, and asked 
 fJ h r e J r n - Who was there* 
 
 Ch. Sir, here is a Travailer, who 
 was bid by an acquaintance of the 
 Good-man of this Houfe, to call 
 here for my profit : I would therefore 
 fpeak with the Matter of the Houfe : 
 fo he called for the Matter of the 
 Houfe ; who after a little time came 
 to Chriftian, and asked him what he 
 would have ? 
 
 Ch. Bir, faid Chriftian , I am a 
 Man that am come from the City of 
 Deftruffion , and am going to the 
 Mount Zion> and I was told by the 
 Man that ftands at the Gate, at the 
 head of this way, That if I called 
 here, you would fhew me excellent 
 
 things 
 
€&e pilgrims H^ogrefiu 19 
 
 things , r fuch as would be an help r He is en. 
 to me in my Journey. tertah&d. 
 
 Inter. Then faid the Interpreter, 
 f Come in, I will mew thee that which „ at j „ 
 will be profitable to thee. So he com- 
 manded his Man to light the Candle, 
 and bid Chriftian follow him ; fo he 
 had him into a private Room, and 
 bid his Man open a Door ; the which 
 when he had done, ' Chriftian faw a'^ riftian 
 Picture of a very grave Perfon hang ^ r ^, 
 up againft the Wall, and this was the Pifiure. 
 fafhion of it. u // had eyes lift up to uTbe/a/bi- 
 Heaven, the beft of Books in its hand, on °f the 
 the Law of 'Truth was written upon its ?%aure - 
 lips, the Worldwas behind his back; it 
 flood as if it Pleaded with Men, and a 
 Crown of Gold did hangover its head. 
 Ch. Then/aid Chriftian, What means 
 this ? 
 
 Inter. The Man whofe Picture this xCor.4.15 
 is, is one of a thoufand, he can x be- 
 get Children, Travel in birth with 
 Children, and v Nurfe them himfelf, yGal.4.19, 
 when they are born. And whereas 
 thou feeft z him with eyes lift up to » Thefi. 
 Heaven, the beftof Booksin his hand, z - 7- 
 and the Law of Truth writ on his 
 lips : it is to mew thee, that his work 
 is to know and unfold dark things 
 
 to 
 
20 cfie pilgrims Pjogtefe; 
 
 kTbe mea- to fi nn ers ; even as alfo thou feeft 
 
 n pi'aure tbe a him ftand aS lf he Pleaded With 
 
 Men : And whereas thou feeft the 
 World as caft behind him, and that a 
 Crown hangs over his head ; that is, 
 to fhew thee that flighting and de- 
 fpifing the things that are prefent , 
 for the love that he hath to his Ma- 
 ilers fervice, he is fure in the World 
 that comes next to have Glory for 
 his Reward : Now, faid the Interpre- 
 hWhh ier > " nave Shewed thee this Picture, 
 (bewedhim ^ r ^ b becaufe the Man whofe Pi&ure 
 the Piaure this is, is the only Man, whom the 
 fi r/ ?. Lord of the Place whither thou art 
 
 going, hath Authorized , to be thy 
 Guide in all difficult places thou 
 mayeft meet with in the way: where- 
 fore take good heed to what I have 
 fhewed thee, and bear well in thy 
 mind what thou haft feen ; left in thy 
 Journey, thou meet with fome that 
 pretend to lead thee right, but their 
 way goes down to death. 
 
 Then he took him by the hand, and 
 led him into a very large Parlour 
 that was full of duft, becaufe never 
 fwept ; the which, after he had re- 
 viewed a little while, the Interpreter 
 called for a man to fweep : Now 
 
 when 
 
Cfie Pilgrims p?ogrcf& 21 
 
 when he began to fweep, the duft be- 
 gan fo abundantly to fly about, that 
 Chriftian had aim oft therewith been 
 choaked : Then faid the Interpreter to 
 a Dam/el that ftood by, Bring hither 
 Water,andfprinkle the Room; which 
 when fhe had done, was fwept and 
 cleanfed with pleafure. 
 
 Ch.Then/aid Chriftian, What means 
 this? 
 
 In. The Interpreter anfwered ; 
 this Parlor is the heart of a Man 
 that was never fanctified by the fweet 
 Grace of the Gofpel : The duft 3 is 
 his Original Sin, and inward Corrup- 
 tions that have defiled the whole 
 Man ; He that began to fweep at 
 flrft, is the Law ; but She that brought 
 water, and did fprinkle it, is the Go- 
 fpel : Nov/, whereas thou faweft that 
 fo foon as the firft began to fweep,the 
 duft did fo fly about that the 
 Room by him could not be cleanfed, 
 but that thou waft almoft choaked 
 therewith. This is to fhew thee, that 
 the Law, inftead of cleanfing the 
 heart ( by its working) from fin, d dRom.7.6. 
 doth revive, put e ftrength into, and eiCor * 15 ' 
 f increafe it in the foul, as it doth ? ' 
 
 c dif- fRo - 5 - 20< 
 
22 cfte Pilgrims p?og;tef& 
 
 difcover and forbid it, but doth not 
 give power to fubdue. 
 
 Again, as thou faweft the Dam/el 
 fprinkle the Room with Water, upon 
 which it was cleanfed with pleafure : 
 This is to mew thee, that when the 
 Gofpel comes in the fweet and pre- 
 cious influences thereof to the heart, 
 then I fay, even as thou faweft the 
 Damfel lay the duft by fprinkling 
 the Floor with Water, fo is fin van- 
 gjoh.15.3. quifhed and fubdued , and the foul 
 Eph. 5.26. made clean, through the Faith of it; 
 Act. 159. anc L con f e q uent iy g fi t f or tne King of 
 
 Rom. 16. ^, > , , J & 
 
 25, 2 6. Glor y t0 inhabit. 
 
 Joh. 15. I faw moreover in my Dream, h 
 
 T 3- that the Interpreter took him by the 
 
 h f? e hand,and had him into a little Room; 
 
 Pattern l ® wnere ^ at two ^tt\e Children, each 
 
 Patience. one m his Chair : The name of the 
 
 eldeft was Paffion, and of the other 
 
 Patience ; Pqffion feemed to be much 
 
 difcontent, but Patience was very 
 
 quiet. Then Chriftian asked, What 
 
 Paflion i s the reafon of the difcontent of 
 
 ZlUoZ* Pa $ on ? The Interpreter anfwered , 
 The Governour of them would have 
 him flay for his beft things till the 
 i Patience beginning of the next year ; but he 
 is for wai- will have all now : * But Patience is 
 ting. willing to wait. Then 
 
C&e plgrtms PjogteCk 23 
 
 Then I faw that one came to k Pa/- k Paflion 
 /ton, and brought him a Bag of Trea- has hts de 
 fare, and poured it down at his feet -,' 
 the which he took up, and rejoyced 
 therein ; and withall , laughed Pa- 
 tience to fcorn : But I beheld but a 
 while, and he had l lavifhed all a- * And 
 way , and had nothing left him but l ui f y la \ 
 
 ~ 7 ' b 1/1/bes a/1 
 
 Ra g S ' . . away. 
 
 Ch. Then/aid ChnQaan to /Winter- m 77^ 
 preter, m Expound this matter more matter ex- 
 fully to me. pounded. 
 
 In. So he faid, Thefe two Lads are 
 Figures ; PaJ/ion, of the Men of this 
 World ; and Patience, of the Men of 
 that which is to come : For as here 
 thou feeft, PaJJion will have all now, 
 thisyear; thatistofay,in/to World; 
 So are the Men of this World : they 
 muft have all their good things now, 
 they cannot flay till next Tear ; that 
 is, untill the next World, for their 
 Portion of good. That Proverb, A _. 
 
 n Bird in the Hand is worth two in the World i 
 Bu/h , is of more Authority with Man for a 
 them, then are all the Divine Tefti- Bird in the 
 monies of the good of the World to hat ^ d - 
 come. But as thou faweft, that he 
 had quickly lavifhed all away, and 
 had prefently left him, nothing but 
 C 1 Raggs; 
 
H Cfie Pilgrims P?ogref& 
 
 Raggs ; So will it be with all fuch 
 
 Men at the end of this World. 
 
 Ch. Then/aid Chriftian, Now I fee 
 
 o Patience that Patience has the beft ° Wijdom ; 
 
 had the beji a nd that upon many accounts, i . Be- 
 
 Wifdom. cm j e h e ji a y S f or t he foft things. 2 . And 
 
 alfo becaufe he will have the Glory of 
 
 His, when the other hath nothing but 
 
 Raggs. 
 
 In. Nay , you may add another ; 
 to wit, The glory of the next World 
 will never wear out ; but thefe are 
 fuddenlygone. Therefore P 'aj/ionhzd 
 not fo much reafon to laugh at Pa- 
 tience, becaufe he had his good things 
 firft, as Patience will have to laugh 
 Things that at P&Jfion > p becaufe he had his beft 
 arefirji things I aft ; forftrft muft give place to 
 muft give loft , becaufe loft muft have his time 
 place , but to come? Du t l a ft gives place to no- 
 t mgsuat t fc n £ or t h ere i s not another to fuc- 
 
 arelajt^are p » _ m 
 
 lading. cee d : ne therefore that hath his Por- 
 tion ftrft, muft needs have a time to 
 fpend it ; but he that has his Portion 
 lofty muft have it laftingly. There- 
 q Luk. 1 6. f° r e it is faid of i Dives, In thy life- 
 Dives had time thou hadeft , or receivedeft thy 
 hs good good things y and likewife Lazarus evil 
 wings fr, . ffrjgg S . £ u t now h e i s comforted, and 
 
 thou art tormented. 
 
 Ch. 
 
Cfte pilgrims P?og;ref0, 25 
 
 Ch. Then 1 perceive, 'tis not beft to 
 covet things that are now ; but to wait 
 for things to come. 
 
 In. You fay the Truth ; r For the 2 cor >4 .. 18 
 things that arejeen, are Temporal; but Thefirji 
 the things that are no tfeen,are Eternal : things art 
 But though this be fo;yet fince things but?™? 
 prefent, and our flefhly appetite, are ra ' 
 fuch near Neighbours one to another ; 
 and again, becaufe things to come , 
 and carnal fenfe, are fuch ftrangers 
 one to another : therefore it is, that 
 the firft of thefe fo fuddenly fall into 
 amity, and that diftance is fo con- 
 tinued between the fecond. 
 
 Then I faw in my Dream, that the 
 Interpreter took Chriftian by the 
 hand , and led him into a place, 
 where was a Fire burning againft a 
 Wall, and one (landing by it always, 
 cafting much Water upon it to quench 
 it : Yet did the Fire burn higher and 
 hotter. 
 
 'Then/aid Chriftian, What means 
 this? 
 
 The Interpreter anfwered , This 
 fire is the work of Grace that is 
 wrought in the heart ; he that cafts 
 Water upon it, to extinguim and put 
 it out, is the Devil: but in that thou 
 C 3 feeft 
 
26 c&e pilgrims p?ogref& 
 
 feeft the fire notwithftanding burn 
 higher and hotter , thou fhalt alfo 
 fee the reafon of that : So he had him 
 about to the back fide of the Wall, 
 where he faw a Man with a Veffel of 
 Oyl in his hand, of the which he did 
 alfo continually caft, but fecretly, in- 
 to the fire. Then faid Chriftian, What 
 means this ? The Interpreter anfwer- 
 ed, This is Chrift, who continually 
 with the Oyl of his Grace, maintains 
 the work already begun in the heart; 
 By the means of which, notwith- 
 ftanding what the Devil can do , the 
 iCor.iz. 9 fouls of his People prove gracious 
 ftill. And in that thou faweft, that 
 the Man ftood behind the Wall to 
 maintain the fire ; this is to teach 
 thee, that it is hard for the tempted 
 to fee how this work of Grace is 
 maintained in the foul. 
 
 I faw alfo that the Interpreter took 
 him again by the hand, and led him 
 into a pleafant place, where was 
 builded a lately Palace, beautiful to 
 behold ; at the fight of which, Chri- 
 ftian was greatly delighted ; he faw 
 alfo upon the top thereof, certain 
 Perfons walked, who were cloathed 
 all in Gold. Then faid Chriftian, May 
 
 we 
 
Cfje pilgrims p?ogrcf& 27 
 
 we go in thither? Then the Interpre- 
 ter took him , and led him up to- 
 ward the door of the Palace ; and 
 behold , at the door flood a great 
 Company of men, as defirous to go 
 in, but durft not. There alfo fat a 
 Man , at a little diftance from the 
 door, at a Table-fide, with a Book, 
 and his Inkhorn before him, to take 
 the Name of him that mould enter 
 therein: He faw alfo that in the door- 
 way, flood many Men in Armour to 
 keep it ; being refolved to do to the 
 Man that would enter, what hurt and 
 mifchief they could. Now was Chri- 
 ftian fomwhat in a mufe : at laft,when 
 every Man flarted back for fear of the 
 Armed Men ; Chriftian faw a Man of 
 a very flout countenance come up to 
 the Man that fat there to write ; fay- 
 ing,Set down my name,Sir ; the which 
 when he had done, he faw the Man 
 draw his Sword, and put an Helmet 
 upon his Head, and rufh toward the 
 door upon the Armed Men, who laid 
 upon him with deadly force; but the 
 Man, not at all difcouraged , fell to 
 cutting and hacking mofl fiercely;fo, 
 after he had u received and given Aa.i 4j2 2 
 many wounds to thofe that attempt- 
 C 4 ed 
 
28 c&e Pilgrims H??og;refo 
 
 ted to keep him out , he cut his way 
 through them all , and prefTed for- 
 ward into the Palace ; at which there 
 was a pleafant voice heard from 
 thofe that were within, even of the 
 Three that walked upon the top of 
 the Palace. 
 
 Come in, Come in; 
 
 Eternal Glory thou Jhalt win. 
 
 So he went in, and was cloathed with 
 fuch Garments as they. Then Chri- 
 ftian fmiled, and faid, I think verily I 
 know the meaning of this. 
 
 Now, faid Chriftian , let me go 
 hence : Nay ftay (faid the Interpre- 
 ter,) till I have me wed thee a little 
 more, and after that thou fhalt go 
 on thy way. So he took him by the 
 hand again, and led him into a very 
 x ejpmr fafe R om, where there fat a Man 
 
 like an Iron . * 
 
 Cage. ln an iron x Cage. 
 
 Now the Man, to look on, feem- 
 ed very fad: he fat with his eyes look- 
 ing down to the ground, his hands 
 folded together ; and he fighed as if 
 he would break his heart. Then faid 
 Chriftian, What means this ? At which 
 the Interpreter bid him talk with the 
 Man. 
 
 Chr. Then faid Chriftian to the 
 
 Man, 
 
C6e Pilgrims p?og;reC& 29 
 
 Man, What art thou ? The Man an- 
 fwered, I am what I was not once. 
 
 Chr. What waft thou once ? 
 
 Man. The Man faid, I was once 
 a fair and flourifhing Profeffor, both 
 in mine own eyes, and alfo in the 
 eyes of others : I once was , as I 
 thought, fair for the Cceleftial City, 
 and had then even joy at the thoughts 
 that I mould get thither. 
 
 Chr. Welly but what art thou now} 
 
 Man, I am now a Man of Defpair, 
 and am fhut up in it, as in this Iron 
 Cage. I cannot get out ; O now I 
 cannot. 
 
 Chr. But how cameft thou in this 
 condition ? 
 
 Man. I left off to watch, and be 
 fober ; I laid the reins upon the neck 
 of my lufts ; I finned againft the light 
 of the Word, and the goodnefs of 
 God : I have grieved the Spirit, and 
 he is gone ; I tempted the Devil, and 
 he is come to me ; I have provoked 
 God to anger, and he has left me ; J 
 have fo hardened my heart, that 1 
 cannot repent. 
 
 Then faid Chriftian to the Interpre- 
 ter, But is there no hopes for such a 
 Man as this ? Ask him, faid the In- 
 
 ter- 
 
jo c&e Pilgrims p^ogrefs, 
 
 terpreter ? Nay, faid Chriftian> pray 
 Sir, do you. 
 
 Inter. Then faid the Interpreter y 
 Is there no hope but you mujl be kept in 
 this Iron Cage of Be/pair ? 
 Man. No, none at all. 
 Inter. Why} the Son of the Blejfed 
 is very pitiful. 
 Heb 6 6 Man. I have y Crucified him to my 
 z Luke 19. felf, a frefh. I have defpifed z his Per- 
 *4- fon,I havedefpifed his Righteoufnefs, 
 
 I have counted his Blood an unholy 
 a Heb. 10. thing, I have done defpite a to the 
 *s, 29. Spirit of Grace : Therefore I have 
 mut my felf out of all the Promifes; 
 and there now remains to me nothing 
 but threatnings, dreadful threatnings, 
 faithful threatnings of certain Judge- 
 ment, which mail devour me as an 
 Adverfary. 
 
 Inter. For what did you bring your 
 I elf into this condition ? 
 
 Man. For the Lufr.s,Pleafures,and 
 Profits of this World ; in the injoy- 
 ment of which , I did then promife 
 my felf much delight : but now even 
 every one of thofe things alfo bite 
 me, and gnaw me like a burning 
 worm. 
 
 In- 
 
C&e Pilgrims Pjogrcfe, 3* 
 
 Inter. But canft thou not now repent 
 and turn ? 
 
 Man. God hath denied me repen- 
 tance ; his Word gives me no encou- 
 ragement to believe ; yea, himfelf 
 hath fhut me up in this Iron Cage; 
 nor can all the men in the World let 
 me out. O Eternity ! Eternity! how 
 mail I grapple with the mifery that I 
 mutt meet with in Eternity ! 
 
 Inter. Then faid the Interpreter to 
 Chriftian, Let this mans mifery be 
 remembered by thee, and be an ever- 
 lafting caution to thee. 
 
 Chr. Well, faid Chriftian, this is 
 fearful ; God help me to watch -and 
 be fober ; and to pray, that I may 
 fhun the caufes of this mans mifery. 
 Sir, is it not time for me to go on my 
 way now ? 
 
 Inter. Tarry till I fhall ihew thee 
 one thing more, and then thou fhalt 
 go on thy way. 
 
 So he took Chriftian by the hand a- 
 gain, and led him into a Chamber, 
 where there was one a rifing out of 
 Bed ; and as he put on his Rayment, 
 he fhook and trembled. Then faid 
 Chriftian, W T hy doth this Man thus 
 tremble ? The Interpreter then bid 
 
 him 
 
32 €&e pilgrims Pjogrefo 
 
 him tell to Chriftian the reafon of his 
 fo doing, So he began, and faid: This 
 night as I was in my fleep,I Dreamed, 
 and behold the Heavens grew ex- 
 ceeding black ; alfo it thundred and 
 lightned in moft fearful wife, that it 
 i Cor. 15. P ut me mt0 an Agony. So I looked 
 1 Theff. 4. up in my Dream, and faw the Clouds 
 Jude 1 5. ra ck at an unufual rate ; upon which 
 aThef.i.8. j h earc [ a g re at found of a Trumpet, 
 
 Rev 20*11 anc ^ ^ aw ° a Man ^ t u P on a Cloud, 
 12, \ 3, 14. attended with the thoufands of Hea- 
 If. 26. 21. ven; they were all in flaming fire, alfo 
 Mic. 7.16, the Heavens was on a burning flame. 
 7 ' I heard then a voice, faying, Arife ye 
 
 Dan V 10 Dead, and come to Judgement ; and 
 with that,the Rocks rent, the Graves 
 opened, & the Dead that were there- 
 in, came forth ; fome of them were 
 exceeding glad, and looked upward; 
 and fome fought to hide themfelves 
 under the Mountains : Then I faw 
 the Man that fat upon the Cloud, 
 open the Book ; and bid the World 
 draw near. Yet there was by reafon 
 of a Fiery flame that irTued out and 
 came from before him, a convenient 
 diftance betwixt him and them, as 
 betwixt the Judge and the Prifoners 
 at the Bar. I heard it alfo proclaimed 
 
 to 
 
Cfte pilgrims l&ogrefo 33 
 
 to them that attended on the Man cMat, 3 .ia 
 that fat on the Cloud; ^Gather toge- ^j 13 ' 3 ^' 
 ther the Tares, the Chaff, and Stubble, 
 and caft them into the burning Lake; 
 and with that, the Bottomlefs pit o- 
 pened, juft whereabout I flood ; out 
 of the mouth of which there came in 
 an abundant manner Smoak, and 
 Coals of fire, with hideous noifes. It 
 was alfo faid to the fame perfons ; 
 Gather my Wheat into my Garner, d Th f 
 And with that I faw many catch't up l6y , 7> ' 
 d and carried away into the Clouds, 
 but I was left behind. I alfo fought 
 to hide my felf, but I could not ; for 
 the Man that fat upon the Cloud,ftill Ro 
 kept his eye upon me : my fins alfo I5 
 came into mind, and my Confcience 
 did accufe me on every fide. Upon 
 this I awaked from my fleep. 
 
 Chr. But what was it that made you 
 fo fraid of this fight ? 
 
 Man. Why I thought that the day 
 of Judgement was come, and that I 
 was not ready for it : but this frighted 
 me moftj that the Angels gathered 
 up feveral, and left me behind ; alfo 
 the pit of Hell opened her mouth 
 juft where I ftood:my Confcience too 
 within afflicted me; and as I thought, 
 
 the 
 
34 Cf)e Pilgrims l^ogrefe, 
 
 the Judge had always his eye upon 
 me, mewing indignation in his coun- 
 tenance. 
 
 Then faid the Interpreter to Chri- 
 ftian, Haft thou confidered all theje 
 things ? 
 
 Chri. Yes, and they put me in 
 hope and fear. 
 
 Inter, Well, keep all things fo in thy 
 mind, that they may be as a Goad in 
 thy fides,to prick thee forward in the 
 way thou muft go. Then Chriftian 
 began to gird up his loins, and to ad- 
 drefs himfelf to his Journey. Then 
 faid the Interpreter, The Comforter 
 be always with thee good Chriftian, 
 to guide thee in the way that leads 
 to the City. 
 
 So Chriftian went on his way, fay ing, . 
 
 Here I have feen things rare, and pro*- 
 fitable ; 
 
 Things plea/ant, dreadful, things tat 
 make me (table 
 
 In what I have began to take in hand : 
 
 Then let me think on them, and under- 
 stand 
 
 Wherefore they Jhewed me was, and let\ 
 me be 
 
 Thankful, O good Interpreter, to thee. 
 
 Now 
 
€&e Pilgrims li^ogrefo 35 
 
 Now I faw in my Dream , that 
 the high way up which Chriftian was 
 to go, was fenced on either fide with 
 a Wall, and that Wall is called Sul- 
 fation, Up this way therefore did 
 burdened Chriftian run, but not with- 
 out great difficulty, becaufe of the 
 load on his back. 
 
 He ran thus till he came at a place 
 fomewhat afcending ; and upon that 
 place flood a Cro/s, and a little be- 
 low in the bottom, a Sepulcher. So 
 I faw in my Dream , that juft as 
 Chriftian came up with the Crofs, his 
 ,burden loofed from off his Shoulders, 
 |and fell from off his back ; and be- 
 gan to tumble , and fo continued to 
 do, till it came to the mouth of the 
 Sepulcher , where it fell in, and I faw 
 it no more. 
 
 Then was Chriftian glad e and e When 
 lightfom,and faid with a merry heart, God re ~ 
 He hath given me reft, by his for row ; a -* es us , 
 2nd life, by his death. Then he flood anc i y ur . 
 /bill a while, to look and wonder ; for den^eart 
 t was very furprizing to him, that &* tho f e 
 :he fight of the Crofs mould thus '^ ** 
 >afe him of his burden. He looked ^ 
 Therefore , and looked again , even 
 :ill the fprings that were in his head 
 
 fent 
 
3 6 CDe pilgrims Piogtefs. 
 
 fZech. 12. fent the f waters down his cheeks. 
 
 10. Now as he flood looking and weep- 
 
 ing, behold three mining ones came 
 to him, and faluted him, with Peace 
 be to thee : fothenrftfaidtohim, Thy 
 fins be forgiven. The fecond, ftript 
 him of his Rags, and cloathed him 
 with change of Raiment. The third 
 alfo fet a mark in his fore-head, 
 and gave him a Roll with a Seal up- 
 on it, which he bid him look on as he 
 ran, and that he mould give it in at 
 the Cceleftial Gatetfo they went their 
 way. Then Chriftian gave three 
 leaps for joy, and went out ringing, 
 
 tan r f n tan Thus f ar did T come loaden with m yf m > 
 
 Oo aLe, Nor COuld 0U £ ht ea fi the % rie f that 1 
 
 -when God WtfJ Iff, 
 
 doth gi<ve Till I came hither : What a place is 
 
 bim the joy this! 
 
 ofhisbeart. Muff hgre be fhe beg l nning f my frfy f 
 
 Musi here the burden fall from off my 
 back? 
 
 Musi here the firings that bound it to 
 me^ crack.? 
 
 Bleji Crofsf blefi Sepulcher ! blefi ra- 
 ther be 
 
 The Man that there was put to Jhamefor 
 me, 
 
 I 
 
C&e pilgrims Ipjogtefe. 31 
 
 I faw then in my Dream that 
 he went on thus , even untill he 
 came at a bottom, where he faw, 
 a little out of the way, three Men 
 faft afleep with Fetters upon their 
 heels. The name of the one was 
 a Simple, another Sloth, and the third * s t im * u \ 
 
 n / 5 . ' Sloth, and 
 
 Presumption. _ _ P^^- 
 
 Chriftian then feeing them lye in o;; , 
 this cafe, went to them, if perad- 
 venture he might awake them. And 
 cryed, You are like them that fleep 
 on the top of a Maft, for the dead 
 Sea is under you, a Gulf that hath 
 no bottom : Awake therefore and 
 come away, be willing alfo, and I 
 willhelpyou off with your Irons. He 
 alfo told them, If he thatgoethabout 
 like a roaring Lion comes by, you 
 will certainly become a prey to his 
 .teeth. With that they lookt upon 
 'him, and began toreply in this fort: 
 b Simple faid, I fee no danger ; Sloth b frheret5 
 /aid, let alittle more fleet : and Pre- "°P< r f™ a 
 
 3 J *- /ion njoiu 
 
 fumption faid, Every Fatt muft ft and do ^ ^ God 
 upon his own bottom, what is the an- openew 
 fwer elfe that I floould give thee ? And fo not the eyes. 
 •J bey lay down to fleep again, and 
 Chriftian went on his way. 
 
 D Yet 
 
38 cfje Pilgrims p?ogtet& 
 
 Yet was he troubled to think, That 
 men in that danger mould fo little 
 efteem the kindnefs of him that fo 
 freely offered to help them ; both by 
 awakening of them, counfelling of 
 them, and proffering to help them off 
 with their Irons. And as he was 
 troubled there-about, he efpied two 
 Men come tumbling over the Wall, 
 on the left hand of the narrow way ; 
 and they made up a pace to him. The 
 name of the one was Formalift, and 
 the name of the other Hypocrifie. So, 
 as I faid, they drew up unto him, 
 who thus entered with them into dif- 
 courfe. 
 
 Chr. Gentlemen, Whence came you, 
 and whither do you go ? 
 
 Form, and Hyp. We were born in 
 the Land of Vain -glory , and are go- 
 ing for praife to Mount Sion. 
 
 Chr. Why came you not in at the 
 Gate which jlandeth at the beginning 
 of the way ? Know you not that it is 
 ° 10#I * written. c 'That he that cometh not in K 
 by the door, but climbeth up fome o- 
 ther way , the fame is a thief and a 
 robber ? 
 
 Form, and Hyp. They faid, That 
 to go to the Gate for entrance, was 
 
 by 
 
€f)e Pilgrims l^ogrets, 39 
 
 by all their Countrey-men counted 
 too far about ; and that therefore 
 their ufual way was to make a fhort 
 cut of it, and to climb over as they 
 had done. 
 
 Chr. But will it not be counted a 
 Trefpa/s, againftthe Lord of the City 
 whither we are bound, thus to violate 
 his revealed will ? 
 
 Form, and Hyp, They told him, 
 d That as for that, he needed not to 
 trouble his head thereabout : for what (1 qhcy . thai 
 they did, they had cuftom for ; and the w 
 could produce, if need were, Tefti-^„ /^ 
 mony that would witnefs it, for the door, 
 more then a thoufand years. lhlnk tbat 
 
 Chr. ButJaidChxitiazn, Wil hoiir th ' y c ™ 
 Practice ft and a 'Trial at Law ? th - \ n 
 
 Form. & Hyp.They told him, That <vindkati- 
 Cuftom, it being of fo long a ftand- on oftbeit 
 ing , as above a thoufand years , °™ n Vra ' 
 would doubtlefs now be admitted as^^' 
 a thing legal,by any Impartial Judge. 
 And befides, faid they, fo be we get 
 into the way, what's matter which 
 way we get in; if we are in, we are 
 in : thou art but in the way , who, 
 as we perceive, came in at the Gate ; 
 and we are alfo in the way, that came 
 ]j 2 turn- 
 
4o cbe Pilgrims Piogrcft, 
 
 tumbling over thewall: Whereinnow 
 is thy condition better then ours ? 
 
 Cbr. I walk by the Rule of my 
 Matter, you walk by the rude work- 
 ing of your fancies. You are counted 
 thieves already, by the Lord of the 
 way; therefore I doubt you will 
 not be found true men at the end of 
 the way. You come in by your felves 
 without his direction , and mall go 
 out by your felves without his mercy. 
 To this they made him but little 
 anfwer ; only they bid him look to 
 himfelf. Then I {aw that they went 
 on every man in his way, without 
 much conference one with another ; 
 fave that thefe two men told Cbri- 
 ftian ,That, as to Laws and Ordinances, 
 they doubted not but they mould as 
 confcientioufly do them as he. There- 
 fore faid they, We fee not wherein 
 thou differed from us, but by the 
 Coat that is on thy back, which was, 
 as we tro , given thee by fome of thy 
 Neighbours, to hide the fhame of 
 eGaL2.16.thy nakednefs. 
 
 Chr. By e Laws and Ordinances, 
 you will not be faved, {ince you came 
 not in by the door. And as for this 
 Coat that is on my back, it was given 
 
 me 
 
me by the Lord of the place whither 
 
 I go ; and that, as you fay, to cover 
 
 my nakednefs with. And I take it as 
 
 a token of his kindnefs to me , for J 
 
 had nothing but rags before. And 
 
 befides, f thus I comfort my felf as I 
 
 go : Surely, think I, when I come to f chriftian 
 
 the Gate of the City, the Lord there- bM f tb " 
 
 r • 11 1 r 1 /• t Lords Coat 
 
 or will know me for good, fince l nhisback, 
 have his Coat on my back; a QoBtandiscom- 
 that he gave me freely in the day that f° rted 
 he ftript me of my rags. I have more- therecwith i 
 over a mark in my forehead, of^J^Z 
 which perhaps you have taken no ^ his ° 
 notice, which one of my Lords mofh Marfan/ 
 intimate AiTociates, fixed there in the to Ro/l - 
 day that my burden fell off my 
 moulders. I will tell you moreover, 
 that I had then given me a Roll fealed 
 to comfort me by reading, as I go in 
 the way ; I was alfo bid to give it in 
 at the Coeleftial Gate , in token of 
 my certain going in after it : all 
 which things I doubt you want, and 
 want them, becaufe you came not 
 in at the Gate. 
 
 To thefe things they gave him no 
 
 anfwer, only they looked upon each 
 
 other and laughed. Then I faw that 
 
 they went on all, fave that Chriftian 
 
 D 3 kept 
 
4* Cfce Pilgrims p?ogre&, 
 
 kept before, who had no more talk 
 but with himfelf, and that fomtimes 
 fighingly,and fomtimes comfortably : 
 alfo he would be often reading in the 
 Roll that one of the mining ones 
 gave him , by which he was refrefhed. 
 I beheld then, that they all went 
 on till they came to the foot of an 
 Hill, 8 at the bottom of which was a 
 g He comes Spring. There was alfo in the fame 
 \o the Ml p} ace two other ways befides that 
 ■ y ' which came ftraight from the Gate ; 
 one turned to the left hand, and the 
 other to the right, at the bottom of 
 the Hill : but the narrow way lay 
 right up the Hill (and the name of 
 the going up the fide of the Hill, is 
 called Difficulty. ) Cbriftiannow went 
 to the Spring and drank thereof to 
 refrefh himfelf, and then began to go 
 up the Hill ; faying, 
 
 This Hill though high ,/ covet to afcend\ 
 The difficulty will not me offend ; 
 For 1 perceive the way to life lies here ; 
 Come^ pluck. up^Heart; lets neither faint 
 
 nor fear : 
 Better^ tho difficulty th' Wight way to go, 
 Then wrong, though eafie, where the end 
 
 is wo. 
 
 The 
 
 
The other two alfo came to the foot 
 of the Hill. But when they faw that 
 the Hill was fteep and high, and that 
 there was two other ways to go ; and 
 fuppofing alfo, that thefe two ways 
 might meet again,with that up which 
 Chriftian went, on the other fide of 
 the Hill : Therefore they were re- 
 folved to go in thofe ways (now the 
 name of one of thofe ways was 
 Danger •, and the name of the other 
 Deftruffion.) So h the one took thehT^rfa«- 
 way which is called Danger, which g er °f 
 led him into a great Wood; and the'* 1 ™** 
 
 1 1 t 01 1 -^ out of the 
 
 other took direclly up the way to De- ^^ 
 ftruffion, which led him into a wide 
 field full of dark Mountains, where 
 he {tumbled and fell, and rife no 
 more. 
 
 I looked then after Chriftian, to fee 
 him go up the Hill, where I perceived 
 he fell from running to going, and 
 from going to clambering upon his 
 hands and his knees, becaufe of the 
 fteepnefs of the place. Now about 
 the midway to the top of the Hill, 
 was a pleafant • Arbour , made by\ A ward 
 the Lord of the Hill, for the refrefh- '/*""• 
 ment of weary Travailers. Thither 
 therefore Chriftian got, where alfo 
 D 4 he 
 
44 cjie Pilgrims P?ogte&; 
 
 he fat down to reft him. Then he 
 pulPd his Roll out of his bofom and 
 read therein to his comfort ; he alfo 
 now began afrefh to take a review 
 of the Coat or Garment that was 
 given him as he ftood by the Crofs. 
 Thus pleafing himfelf a while, he at 
 laft fell into a flumber, and thence 
 into a faft fleep, which detained him 
 
 \ lie that™ that place unti11 lt was alm °ft 
 fleeps is a ni £ ht > a ? d in his deep his » Roll fell 
 lofer. p u t of his hand. Now as he was Sleep- 
 ing, there came one to him & awaked 
 him faying, Go to the Ant, thoujlug- 
 gard } confider her ways and be wife : 
 and with that Chriftian fuddenly ftar- 
 ted up , and fped him on his way, 
 and went a pace till he came to the 
 top of the Hill. 
 
 Now when he was got up to the 
 top of the Hill, there came two Men 
 running againft him amain ; thename 
 of the one was fimorus&rA the name 
 of the other Miftruft. To whom 
 Chriftian faid, Sirs, what's the matter 
 you run the wrong way ? Timorus 
 anfwered, That they were going to 
 the City of Zion , and had got up 
 that difficult place ; but, faid he, the 
 further we go, the more danger we 
 
 meet 
 
Cfje Pilgrims Piogrefeu 45 
 
 meet with, wherefore we turned, and 
 are going back again. 
 
 Yes, (aid Miftruft, forjuft before 
 us lye a couple of Lyons in the 
 v/ay , whether fleeping or wake- 
 ing we know not; and we could not 
 think , if we came within reach, but 
 they would prefently pull us in pieces. 
 Chr. Then fa\&Chriftian y You make 
 me afraid, but whither mail I fly to 
 be fafe ? If I go back to mine own 
 Countrey, c That is prepared for Fire 
 and Brimftone ; and I fhall certainly 
 perifh there. If I can get to the Coe- 
 leftial City, I am fure to be in fafety 
 there. I mud venture : To go back 
 is nothing but death, to go forward 
 is fear of death, and life everlafting 
 beyond it. I will yet go forward. So 
 Miftruft and 'Timorus ran down 
 the Hill ; and Chriftian went on his 
 way. But thinking again of what he 
 heard from the men,he felt in his bo- 
 fom for his Roll, that he might read 
 therein and be comforted ; but he 
 feltand k founditnot. ThenwasC^r/- kChriftian 
 ftian in great diftrefs , and knew not ™(f edh ' ls 
 what to do, for he wanted that which V • » 
 ufed to relieve him, and that which u r ed t0 
 mould have been his Pafs into the take Com- 
 
 Cceleftial>r/. 
 
46 Cf)e Pilgrims p?ogrefe 
 
 leftial City. Here therefore he be- 
 gan to be much perplexed, and knew 
 not what to do ; at laft he bethought 
 himfelf that he had flept in the Ar- 
 bour that is on the ride of the Hill : 
 and falling down upon his knees, he 
 asked God forgivenefs for that his 
 foolifh FacT: ; and then went back to 
 look for his Roll. But all the way 
 he went back, who can fufficiently 
 fet forth the forrow of Chriftians 
 heart ? fomtimes he fighed, fomtimes 
 he wept, and often times he chid 
 himfelf, for being fo foolifh to 
 fall afleep in that place which was 
 erected only for a little refrefhment 
 from his wearinefs. Thus therefore 
 he went back ; carefully looking on 
 this fide , and on that, all the way 
 as he went , if happily he might find 
 his Roll, that had been his comfort 
 fo many times in his Journey. He 
 went thus till he came again within 
 fight of the Arbour , where he fat 
 and flept; but that fight renew- 
 Chriftian ed J his forrow the more, by bringing 
 bewails again, even a frefh, his evil of fleep- 
 bisfoolijb j n g j nt0 kj s m ind. Thus therefore 
 
 Re f" 2 ^ e now went on bewailing his finful 
 fleep, faying, O wretched man that 1 
 
 
Cfjc Pilgrims Ipjogrcfo 47 
 
 am, that I fhould fleep in the day- 
 time ! that I mould fleep in the midft 
 of difficulty ! that I mould fo indulge 
 the flefh, as to ufe that reft for eafe 
 to my flem , which the Lord of the 
 Hill hath erecled only for the relief 
 of the fpirits of Pilgrims ! How many 
 fteps have I took in vain ! (Thus it 
 happened to Jfrael for their fin, they 
 were fent back again by the way of 
 the Red-Sea) and I am made to tread 
 thofe fteps with forrow, which I 
 might have trod with delight, had it 
 not been for this finful fleep. How 
 far might I have been on my way by 
 this time ! I am made to tread thofe 
 fteps thrice over, which I needed 
 not to have trod but once : Yea now 
 alfo I am like to be benighted , for 
 the day is almoft fpent. O that I had 
 not flept ! Now by this time he was 
 come to the Arbour again , where 
 for a while he fat down and wept,but 
 at laft (as Chriftian would have it) 
 looking forrowfully down under the 
 Settle, there he efpied his Roll ; the 
 which he with trembling and hafte 
 catch't up, and put it into his bofom ; 
 but who can tell howjoyful this Man 
 was, when he had gotten his Roll a- 
 
 gain \ 
 
48 €f)e pilgrims Pjogre©- 
 
 gain ! For this Roll was the aflurance 
 of his life and acceptance at the de- 
 fired Haven. Therefore he laid it 
 up inhisbofom, gave thanks to God 
 for directing his eye to the place 
 where it lay , and with joy and tears 
 betook him felf again to his Journey. 
 But Oh how nimbly now, did he go 
 up the reft of the Hill ! Yet before 
 he got up, the Sun went down upon 
 Chriftian ; and this made him again 
 recall the vanity of his fleeping to his 
 remembrance, and thus he again be- 
 gan to condole with himfelf : Ah thou 
 finfuljleep ! howfor thy fake am Hike to 
 be benighted in my Journey I I muft 
 walk without the Sun , darknejs muft 
 cover the path of my feet, and I muft 
 hear the noife of doleful Creatures , be- 
 . caufe of my finful fleep ! Now alfo he 
 remembered the ftory that Miftruft 
 and 'Timorus told him of, how they 
 were frighted with the fight of the 
 Lions. Then faid Chriftian to him- 
 felf again, Thefe Beafts range in the 
 night for their prey,and if they mould 
 meet with me in the dark,how mould 
 I ihift them ! how mould I efcape be- 
 ing by them torn pieces ? Thus he 
 went on his way, but while he was 
 
 thus 
 
Coe pilgrims IPiogreft, 49 
 
 thus bewayling his unhappy mifcar- 
 riage , he lift up his eyes, and behold 
 there was a very {lately Palace be- 
 fore him , the name whereof was 
 Beautiful y and. it flood juft by the 
 High-way fide. 
 
 So I faw in my Dream, that he 
 made hafte and went forward,that if 
 pofTible he might get Lodging there ; 
 now before he had gone far, he en- 
 tered into a very narrow paffage, 
 which was about a furlong off of the 
 Porters Lodge , and looking very 
 narrowly before him as he went, he 
 efpied two Lions in the way. Now, 
 thought he, I fee the dangers that 
 Miftruft and Timorus, were driven 
 back by. (The Lions were Chained, 
 but he faw not the Chains) Then he 
 was afraid, and thought alfo himfelf 
 to go back after them,for he thought 
 nothing but death was before him : 
 But the Porter at the Lodge, whofe 
 Name is m Watchful^ perceiving that m Mar. 13 
 Chriftian made a halt , as if he would 
 go back, cried unto him, faying, 
 Is thy ftrength fo fmall? fear not the 
 Lions,for they are Chained : and are 
 placed there for trial of faith where it 
 is ; and for difcovery of thofe that 
 
 have 
 
50 €&e Pilgrims P?og;tefo 
 
 have none : keep in the midft of the 
 Path, and no hurt fhall come unto 
 thee. 
 
 Then I faw that he went on, trem- 
 bling for fear of the Lions ; but ta- 
 king good heed to the directions of 
 the Porter ; he heard them roar, but 
 they did him no harm. Then he clapt 
 his hands, and went on, till he came 
 and flood before the Gate where the 
 Porter was. Then faid Chriftian to 
 the Porter ', Sir, What houfe is this ? 
 and may I lodge here to night ? The 
 Porter anfwered , This Houfe was 
 built by the Lord of the Hill: and he 
 built it for the relief and fecurity of 
 Pilgrims. The Porter alfo asked 
 whence he was, and whither he was 
 going ? 
 
 Chr. I am come from the City of 
 Deftruffion, and am going to Mount 
 Zion, but becaufe the Sun is now fet, 
 I defire, if I may, to lodge here to 
 night. 
 
 Por. What is your name ? 
 
 Chr. My name is now Chriftian; 
 but my name at the firft wzsGracele/s: 
 I came of the Race of Japhet, whom 
 God will perfwade to dwell in the 
 Tents of Shem. 
 
 Por. 
 
C&e Pilgrims l^ogrefs. 
 
 Por. But how doth it happen that you 
 come Jo late, the Sun is Jet ? 
 
 Chr. I had been here fooner, but 
 that, wretched man that I am ! I flept 
 in the Arbour that (rands on the 
 Hill fide; nay, I had notwithftanding 
 that , been here much fooner , but 
 that in my deep I loft my Evidence, 
 and came without it to the brow of 
 the Hill ; and then feeling for it, and 
 finding it not, I was forced with for- 
 row of heart, to go back to the place 
 where I flept my deep, where I found 
 it, and now I am come. 
 
 Por. Well, I will call out one of 
 the Virgins of this place , who will, 
 if (he Tikes your talk, bring you in 
 to the reft of the Family, according 
 to the Rules of the Houfe. So Watch- 
 ful the Porter rang a Bell , at the 
 found of which, came out at the 
 door of the Houfe,a Grave and Beau- 
 tiful Damfel, named Difcretion, and 
 asked why me was called. 
 
 The Porter anfwered, This Man is 
 in a Journey from the City of De- 
 ftruclion to Mount Zion , but being 
 weary, and benighted, he asked me 
 if he might lodge here to night ; fo I 
 told him I would call for thee, who 
 
 after 
 
52 Cfte pilgrims P?ogref& 
 
 after difcourfe had with him, mayeft 
 do as feemeth thee good, even ac- 
 cording to the Law of the Houfe. 
 
 Then me asked him whence he 
 was, and whither he was going, and 
 he told her. She asked him alfo, how 
 he got into the way, and he told her ; 
 Then fhe asked him , What he had 
 feen, and met with in the way , and 
 he told her ; and laft, fhe asked his 
 name, fo he faid, It is Chriftian ; and 
 I have fo much the more a defire to 
 lodge here to night, becaufe, by 
 what I perceive, this place was 
 built by the Lord of the Hill, for the 
 relief and fecurity of Pilgrims. So 
 fhe fmiled, but the water flood in 
 her eyes : And after a little paufe, 
 me faid, I will call forth two or three 
 more of the Family. So fhe ran to 
 the door, and called out Prudence y 
 Piety, and Charity, who after a little 
 more difcourfe with him , had him 
 in to the Family ; and many of 
 them meeting him at the threfhold 
 of the Houfe , faid , Come in thou 
 blefTed of the Lord ; this Houfe was 
 built by the Lord of the Hill , on 
 purpofe to entertain fuch Pilgrims in. 
 Then he bowed his head, and follow- 
 ed 
 
C&e Pilgrims IPjogrcfe. S3 
 
 ed them into. the Houfe. So when he 
 was come in , and fet down , they 
 gave him fomthing to drink ; and 
 confented together that until fupper 
 was ready , fome one or two of 
 them mould have fome particular 
 difcourfe with Chriftian, for the beft 
 improvement of time : and they ap- 
 pointed Piety, and Prudence, to dif- 
 courfe with him; and thus they 
 began. 
 
 Piety. Come good Chriftian , fince 
 we have been Jo loving to you, to receive 
 you into our Houfe this night ; let us, 
 if perhaps we may better our /elves 
 thereby, talk with you of all things 
 that have happened to you in your Pil- 
 grimage. 
 
 Chr. With a very good will, and I 
 am glad that you are fo well difpofed 
 
 Piety What moved you at fir ft to be- 
 take yourfelf to a Pilgrims life. 
 
 Chr. I was a driven out of my Na- 
 tive Countrey, by a dreadful found a Horw 
 that was in mine ears, to wit, That . . 
 
 •ill in • i«i j ' was " ri ~ 
 
 unavoidable deltrucnon did attend ve „ out j 
 me, if I abode in that place where I bit own 
 
 Was. Countre) 
 
 Piety. But how did it happen that 
 
 you came out cfyour Countrey this way? 
 
 E Chr. 
 
si Cfje Pilgrims p^ogtete. 
 
 Chr. It was as God would have it, 
 for when I was under the fears of 
 deft.ruct.ion, I did not know whither 
 to go ; but by chance there came a 
 Man, even to rne, (as I was trem- 
 bling and weeping) whofe name is 
 b Honv bebEvangeltft } and he directed me to the 
 
 ^JlVa /0 Wicket " Gate > which elfe I fr° uld 
 
 )g ay * er nave found ; and fo fet me into 
 the way that hath led me directly to 
 this Houfe. 
 
 Piety. But did you not come by the 
 Houfe of the Interpreter ? 
 
 Chr. Yes, and did fee fuch things 
 
 there, the remembrance of which 
 
 will flick by me as long as I live ; 
 
 QAreberfalfyzQidlXy three c things, to wit, How 
 
 of what he Chrifr, in defpite of Satan, maintains 
 
 fa™ in t ^2iis work of Grace in the heart; how 
 
 the Man had finned himfelf quite out 
 
 of hopes of Gods mercy ; and alfo 
 
 the Dream of him that thought in 
 
 his fleep the day of Judgement was 
 
 come. 
 
 Piety. Why ? Did you hear him tell 
 his Dream ? 
 
 Chr. Yes , and a dreadful one it 
 was. I thought it made my heart ake 
 as he was telling of it, but yet I am 
 glad I heard it. 
 
 Piety. 
 
Cfce pilgrims purees. 55 
 
 Piety. Was that all that you Jaw at 
 the Houfe of the Interpreter ? 
 
 Chr. No, he took me and had 
 
 me where he mewed me a (lately 
 
 Palace , and how the People were 
 
 ', clad in Gold that were in it ; and 
 
 how there came a venturous Man, 
 
 and cut his way through the armed 
 
 men that flood in the door to keep 
 
 [ him out; and how he was bid to come 
 
 in, and win eternalGlory. Methought 
 
 thole things did ravifli my heart ; I 
 
 [could have (laid at that good Mans 
 
 houfe a twelve-month, but that I 
 
 knew I had further to go. 
 
 Piety. And what Jaw you elfe in the 
 way ? 
 
 Chr. Saw! Why I went but a little 
 further , and I faw one, as I thought 
 in my mind, hang bleeding upon the 
 Tree; and the very fight of him made 
 my burden fall off my back (for I 
 groaned under a weary burden) but 
 then it fell down from off me. 'Twas 
 a flrange thing to me, for I never faw 
 fuch a thing before : Yea, and while 
 I flood looking up, (for then I could 
 not forbear looking) three mining 
 ones came to me: one of them tefti- 
 fied that my fins were forgiven me ; 
 E 2 another 
 
£6 efre Pilgrims p*og;refo 
 
 another ftript me of my Rags, and 
 gave me this Broidred Coatwhichyou 
 fee; and the third fet the mark which 
 you fee, in my forehead , and gave 
 me this fealed Roll (and with that 
 he plucked it out of his bofom.) 
 
 Piety. But you Jaw more then this, 
 did you not} 
 
 Chr. The things that I have told 
 you were the beft: yet fome other 
 fmall matters I faw, as namely I faw 
 three Men, Simple, Sloth, and Pre- 
 emption, lye a fleep a little out of 
 the way as I came , with Irons upon 
 their heels; but do you think I could 
 awake them! I alfo faw For malift and 
 Hypocrifie come tumbling over the 
 wall , to go, as they pretended , to 
 Sion 3 but they were quickly loft ; 
 even as I my felf did tell them,butthey 
 would not believe: but, above all, I 
 founditi^n/worktoget up this Hill, 
 and as hard to come by the Lions 
 mouths ; and truly if it had not been 
 for the good Man, the Porter that 
 flands at the Gate, I do not know, 
 but that after all, I might have gone 
 back again: but now I thank God I 
 am here , and I thank you for re- 
 ceiving of me. 
 
 Their 
 
Cfte Pilgrims Pjogrefo 57 
 
 Then Prudence thought good to 
 ask him a few queftions, and defired 
 his anfwer to them. 
 
 Pru. Do you not think fomtimes of 
 the Countrey from whence you came? 
 Chr. Yes/ but with much fhame 
 and deteftation ; Truly, if I had been d chri " 
 mindful of that Countrey from whence I ^\ u , 
 came out, I might have had opportuni- fa Native 
 I ty to have returned, but now I defire a Countrey. 
 i better Countrey, that is, an Heavenly. Heb - "• 
 
 Pru. Do you not yet bear away with I5 > l6, 
 \you fome of the things that then you 
 were converfant withal ? 
 
 Chr. Yes, but greatly againft my 
 will ; efpecially my inward and 
 
 carnal cogitations ; with which all e Chri- 
 my Countrey-men, as well as my felf, ft ' ian d i/- 
 were delighted; but now all thofe '^ 
 things are my grief : and might 1 but nal • 
 chufe mine own things, I would tatiom. 
 
 chufe never to think of thofe things f chri. 
 •more ; but when I would be doing of ftians 
 that which is beft,that which is worft cboice - 
 is with me. 
 
 Pru. Do you not find Jometimes, 
 us if thofe things were vanquifhed, 
 which at other times are your per- 
 plexity. 
 
 Chr. Yes, but that is but feldom ; 
 E 3 but 
 
$8 c&e ipilgrims iPjogrefk 
 
 g chri- but they are to me e Golden hours, 
 ftiansjro/- [ n w hich fuch things happens to 
 
 den hours. rn 
 
 Pru. Can you remember by what 
 means you find your anoyances at times > 
 as if they were vanquijhed ? 
 h How Chr. Yes, when h I think what I 
 Chrlftian f aw at tne Crofs,that will do it; and 
 J2Sr£when J look upon my Broidered 
 forrupti- Coat, that will do it ; alfo when I 
 <,„,. look into the Roll that I carry in my 
 
 bofom, that will do it ; and when 
 my thoughts wax warm about whi- 
 ther I am going , that will do it. 
 
 Pru. And what is it that makes you 
 Jo defirous to go to Mount Zion ? 
 « fb Chr. Why, i there I hope to fee 
 Chl fJT h * m dive* that did hang dead on the 
 at Mount Crofs » an< ^ there I hope to be 
 Zion. rid of all thofe things , that to this 
 day are in me, an anoiance to me ; 
 there they fay there is no death, and 
 there I mail dwell with fuch Com- 
 pany as I like beft. For to tell you 
 truth,I love him,becaufel wasby him 
 eafed of my burden , and I am weary 
 of my inward ficknefs ; I would fain 
 be where I mall die no more , and 
 with the Company that mail continu- 
 ally cry Holy, Holy, Holy. 
 
 Now I faw in my Dream,that thus 
 
 they 
 
they fat talking together until (up- 
 per was ready. So when they had 
 made ready, they fat down to meat ; 
 Now the Table was furnifhed k with k . whal 
 fat things, and with Wine that was 2j™f™L 
 well refined ; and all their talk l ^tr upper 
 the Table, was about the Lord of the \ cj- heir 
 Hill: As namely, about what he had talk at 
 done , and wherefore he did what \\zf u PP ert ' lfn e 
 did, and why he had builded that 
 Houfe : and by what they faid , I 
 perceived that he had been a great 
 Warriour^ and had fought with and 
 flain him that had the power of 
 death, but not without great danger 
 to himfelf, which made me love 
 him the more. 
 
 For, as they faid, and as I believe 
 (faid Chriftian) he did it with the 
 lofs of much blood ; but that which 
 put Glory of Grace into all he did, 
 was, that he did it of pure love to 
 his Countrey. And befides , there 
 were fome of them of the Houfe- 
 hold that faid, they had feen and 
 fpoke with him fince he did dye on 
 the Crofs; and they have attefted, 
 that they had it from his own lips, 
 that heisfuch a lover of poor Pilgrims, 
 E 4 J that 
 
6o e&e Pilgrims fl&ogrete 
 
 that the like is not to be found from 
 the Eaft to the Weft 
 
 They moreover gave an inftance 
 of what they affirmed, and that was, 
 He had ftript himfelf of his glory that 
 he might do this for the Poor ; and 
 that they heard him fay and affirm, 
 That he would not dwell in the 
 Mountain of Zion alone. They faid 
 moreover, That he had made many 
 a chrijl pilgrims a Princes, though by nature 
 
 Trinces of^Y. were Be gg ars Dorn > and their 
 Beggars, original had been the Dunghil. 
 
 Thus they difcourfed together till 
 
 late at night, and after they had 
 
 committed themfelves to their Lord 
 
 for Protection , they betook them- 
 
 „. . A . felves to reft. The Pilgrim they laid 
 
 Bed-dam- in a lar g e upper b Chamber, whofe 
 
 ber. window opened towards the Sun ri- 
 
 fing ; the name of the Chamber was 
 
 Peace, where he flept till break of 
 
 day ; and then he awoke and fang, 
 
 Where am 1 now ! is this the love and 
 care 
 
 Of Jefus^for the men that Pilgrims are! 
 
 Thus to provide ! That I Jhould be for- 
 given ! 
 
 And dwell already the next door to 
 Heaven, So 
 
€&e Pilgrims Pjogitfe, 61 
 
 So in the Morning they all got up, 
 and after fome more difcourfe, they 
 told him that he mould not depart , 
 till they had mewed him the Rarities 
 of that place. And firft they had him 
 into the Study, c where they mew- cChriftian 
 ed him Records of the greater!: Anti- had int0 
 quity ; in which, as I remember my the Studh 
 Dream , they mewed him firft the be T£ 
 Pedigree of the Lord of the Hill, there. 
 that he was the Son of the Ancient 
 of Days , and came by an eternal 
 Generation. Here alfo was more 
 fully Recorded the Acts that he had 
 done, and the names of many hun- 
 dreds that he had taken into his 
 fervice ; and how he had placed them 
 in fuch Habitations that could nei- 
 ther by length of Days nor decaies 
 of Nature, be dirlolved 
 
 Then they read to him fome of 
 the worthy Acts that fome of his Ser- 
 vants had done. As how they had 
 fubdued Kingdoms,wrought Righte- 
 oufnefs, obtained Promiles, ftopped 
 the mouths of Lions, quenched the d Heb 
 d violence of Fire, efcaped the edge 33) 34 . 
 of the Sword ; out of weaknefs 
 were made ftrong, waxed valiant 
 in fight, and turned to flight the Ar- 
 mies of the Aliens. Then 
 

 6 2 c&e Pilgrims l&ogrefk 
 
 Then they read again in another 
 part of the Records of the Houfe, 
 where it was fhewed how willing 
 their Lord was to receive into his 
 favour any, even any, though they 
 in time paft had offered great affronts 
 to his Perfon and proceedings. Here 
 alfo were feveral other Hiftories of 
 many other famous things , of all 
 which Chriftian had a view. As of 
 things both Ancient and Modern ; 
 together with Prophecies and Pre- 
 dictions of things that have their 
 certain accomplifhment, both to the 
 dread and amazement of enemies, 
 and the comfort and folace of Pil- 
 grims. 
 
 The next day they took him and 
 eChiiftianhad him into the e Armory ; where 
 
 'the aZo they fhewed him a11 manner of Fur " 
 r mo ~ niture, which their Lord had pro- 
 vided for Pilgrims, as Sword, Shield, 
 Helmet, Brett plate, All-Prayer y znd 
 Shooes that would not wear out. 
 And there was here enough of this 
 to harnefs out as many men for the 
 fervice of their Lord, as there 
 be Stars in the Heaven for multi- 
 tude. 
 
 They 
 
 
They alfo fhewed him fo me of the 
 Engines with which fome of his Ser- 
 vants had done wonderful things. 
 f They mewed him Mofes Rod, thefChriftian 
 Hammer and Nail with which Jael u made . t0 
 flew Si/era, the Pitchers, Trumpets,^ ™ en 
 and Lamps too, with which Gideon 
 put to flight the Armies of Midian. 
 Then they fhewed him the Oxes goad 
 wherewith Sbamger flew fix hundred 
 men. They fhewed him alfo the 
 Jaw bone with which Samp/on did 
 fuch mighty feats ; they fhewed him 
 moreover the Sling and Stone with 
 which David flew Goliah of Gatb : 
 and the Sword alfo with which their 
 Lord will kill the Man of Sin, in the 
 day that he fhall rife up to the prey. 
 They fhewed him befides many ex- 
 cellent things, with which Chriftian 
 was much delighted. This done,they 
 went to their reft again. 
 
 Then I faw in my Dream, that on 
 the morrow he got up to go forwards, 
 but they defired him to ftay till the 
 next day alfo and then faid they, we 
 will, if the day be clear, fhew you the 
 b delectable Mountains ; which they gChriftian 
 faid, would yet furtheradd to hiscom- A™^ tbi 
 fort; becaufe they were nearer the^f* 
 
 de- 
 
6 4 Cfte pilgrims Piogtefo 
 
 defired Haven, then the place where 
 at prefent he was. So he confented 
 andftaid. When the Morning was up, 
 they had him to the top of the Houfe, 
 
 h Ifa. 33. h and bid him look South, fo he did; 
 
 16, 17. and behold at a great diftance he 
 faw a moft pleafant Mountainous 
 Countrey , beautified with Woods, 
 Vinyards, Fruits of all forts, Flowers 
 alfo ; Springs and Fountains , very 
 delectable to behold. Then he asked 
 the name of the Countrey, they faid 
 it was Immanucls Land : and it is as 
 common, faid they, as this Hill is, 
 to and for all the Pilgrims. And 
 when thou comeft there, from thence, 
 faid they, thou maift fee to the Gate 
 of the Cceleftial City, as the Shep- 
 heards that live there will make ap- 
 pear. 
 Chriftian Now he bethought himfelf of fet- 
 
 ward tm S forward, ' l and they were will- 
 ing he mould : but iirft, faid they, let 
 us go again into the Armory, fo they 
 
 k Chriftian did ; and when he came there, they 
 
 fe Arm2 ay k harneffed him fr0m head t0 f00t > 
 
 . ' with what was of proof, left perhaps 
 
 he mould meet with aflaults in the 
 way. He being therefore thus a- 
 coutred walketh out with his friends 
 
 to 
 
 
Cfce Pilgrims l^ogrefo 6s 
 
 to the Gate, and there he asked the 
 Porter if he faw any Pilgrims pafs by 
 Then the Porter anfwered, Yes. 
 Chr. Pray did you know him ? 
 Por. I asked his name , and he 
 told me it was Faithful. 
 
 Chr. O, faid Chriftian , I know 
 | him, he is my Towns-man, my near 
 i Neighbour, he comes from the place 
 | where I was born : how far do you 
 ! think he may be before ? 
 
 Porter. He is got by this time be- 
 low the Hill. 1 Honxs 
 
 Chr. ■ Well, faid Chriftian , good Chriftian 
 Porter the Lord be with thee,and add a ^ e 
 I to all thy bleflings much increafe, for t at 
 I the kindnefs that thou haft fhewed parting. 
 to me. 
 
 Then he began to go forward, but 
 Difcretion, Piety, Charity, and Pru- 
 dence, would accompany him down 
 to the foot of the Hill. So they went 
 on together, reiterating their former 
 difcourfes till they came to go down 
 the Hill. Then faid Chriftian, As it 
 was difficult coming up, fo (fo far as 
 I can fee) it is dangerous going down. 
 Yes, faid Prudence, {q it is; for it is an 
 hard matter for a man to go down 
 into the valley of Humiliation, as 
 
 thou 
 
66 Cfte Pilgrims Piogrefe, 
 
 thou art now, and to catch no flip by 
 the way ; therefore, faid they , are 
 we come out to accompany thee 
 down the Hill. So he began to go 
 down, but very warily , yet he caught 
 a flip or too. 
 
 Then I faw in my Dream, that 
 thefe good Companions, when Chri- 
 ftian was gone down to the bottom of 
 the Hill, gave him a loaf of Bread, 
 a bottle of Wine, and a clutter of 
 Raifins ; and then he went on his 
 way. 
 
 But now in this Valley of Hu- 
 miliation poor Chriftian was hard put 
 to it, for he had gone but a little way 
 before he efpied a foul Fiend com- 
 ing over the field to meet him ; his 
 name is Apollyon. Then did Chri- 
 ftian begin to be afraid, and to caft 
 in his mind whither to go back, or to 
 ftand his ground. But he confidered 
 again, that he had no Armour for 
 his back, and therefore thought that 
 to turn the back to him, might give 
 him greater advantage with eafe to 
 Chnftians pierce him with his Darts ; there- 
 r f2°" fore he refolved t to venture, and 
 proacb o/ft an d his ground. For thought he, 
 Apollyon had I no more in mine eye, then the 
 
 faving 
 
C6e Pilgrims Pjogrcfo 67 
 
 faving of my life, 'twould be the beft 
 way to ftand. 
 
 So he went on, and Apollyon met 
 him ; now the Monfter was hidious 
 to behold , he was cloathed with 
 fcales like a Fifh (and they are his 
 pride) he had Wings like a Dragon, 
 and out of his belly came Fire and 
 Smoak, and his mouth was as the 
 mouth of a Lion. When he was 
 come up to Chrifian, he beheld him 
 with a difdainful countenance, and 
 thus began to queftion with him. 
 
 Apol. Whence come you and whi- 
 ther are you bound? 
 
 Chr. I come from the City of i Difiourfe 
 
 Deftruclion, l which is the place of betwixt 
 
 all evil, and am going to the City of Chnftian 
 Zim * WApol. 
 
 Apol. By this I perceive thou art 
 one of my Subjecls, for all that Coun- 
 trey is mine ; and I am the Prince and 
 God of it. How is it then that thou 
 haft ran away from thy King ? Were it 
 not that I hope thou maieft do me more 
 fervice, I would ftrike thee now at one 
 blow to the ground. 
 
 Chr. I was born indeed in your 
 Dominions, but your fervice was 
 hard, and your wages fuch as a man 
 
 could 
 
68 €f)e Pilgrims l&ogtefe. 
 
 could not live on, for the Wages of Sin 
 is death ; therefore when I was come 
 to years , I did as other confiderate 
 perfons do , look out, if perhaps I 
 might mend my felf, 
 
 Apol. There is no Prince that will 
 
 thus lightly lofe hisSubjecls;neither will 
 
 I as yet lofe thee. But fine e thou com- 
 
 plaineft of thy fervice and wages m be 
 
 m Apolly- content to go back ; what our Countrey 
 
 ons fiatte- w m afford, I do here promife to give 
 
 ry ' thee. 
 
 Chr. But I have let my felf to a- 
 nother, even to the King of Princes, 
 and how can I with fairnefs go back 
 with thee ? 
 
 Apol. fbou haft done in this, ace or - 
 
 n Apolly on ding to the Proverb, u changed a 
 
 under va- had for a worfe : but it is ordinary for 
 
 luesChrifls^^ ^ have prof ejfed th emf elves his 
 
 Servants, after a while to give him 
 
 the flip , and return again to me : do 
 
 thou Jo to, and allfhall be well. 
 
 Chr. I have given him my faith, 
 
 and fworn my Allegiance to him ; 
 
 how then can I go back from this, 
 
 and not be hanged as a Traitor ? 
 
 Apol. < Thou dideft the fame to me, 
 
 A? te°»Js°to ° and 'y et I am w M in g t0 P a f s b all > if 
 bemerciful now thou will turn again, and go back. 
 
 Chr. 
 
€f)c Pilgrims Pjogrcft, e 9 
 
 Chr. What I promifed thee was 
 in my non-age ; and befides , I 
 count that the Prince under whofe 
 Banner now I ftand, is able to ab- 
 folve me ; yea, and to pardon alfo 
 what I did as to my compliance with 
 thee : and befides, ( O thou deftroy- 
 
 : ing Apollyon) to fpeak truth, I like 
 his Service, his Wages, his Servants, 
 his Government, his Company, and 
 Countrey better then thine : and 
 therefore leave off to perfwade me 
 further, I am his Servant, and I will 
 follow him. 
 
 Apol. Confider again when thou art 
 in cool bloody what thou art like to meet 
 
 | with in the way that thou go eft . 'Thou 
 knoweft that for the moft part, his Ser- 
 vants come to an ill end,becauje they are Apollyon 
 tranfgrejjors againft me, and my ways : pleads the 
 How many of them have been put to grievous 
 fljameful deaths! and befides, thou coun- ends of 
 tefl his fervice better then mine, whereas " ian * 
 
 , J J r 111 todipwade 
 
 he never came yet from the place where chriftian 
 he is, to deliver any that jerved himjrom per- 
 out of our hands: but as for me, how tying in 
 many times, as all the World very well hls qvay - 
 knows , have I delivered , either by 
 power or fraud, thofe that have faith- 
 fully Jerved me, from him and his, 
 F though 
 
7° C&e Pilgrims Piogtefo 
 
 though taken by them, and Jo I will 
 deliver thee. 
 
 Chr. His forbearing at prefent to 
 deliver them, is on purpofe to try 
 their love, whether they will cleave 
 to him to the end : and as for the ill 
 end thou fayeft they come too, that 
 ismoft glorious in there account: For 
 for prefent deliverance, they do not 
 much expect it ; for they flay for 
 their Glory, and then they fhall have 
 it, when their Prince comes in his, 
 and the Glory of the Angels. 
 
 Apol. Thou haft already been un- 
 faithful in thyjervice to him, and how 
 doft thou think to receive wages of 
 him ? 
 
 Chr. Wherein, O Apollyon> have 
 I been unfaithful to him. 
 A ., Apol. Thou didft faint at firft 
 
 Apollyon r . r 7 J , J n i n 
 
 deads jetting out, when thou waft almoft 
 
 Chriftians choked in the Gulf of Difpond. Thou 
 
 infirmities diddeft attempt wrong ways to be rid of 
 
 again/} tfoy b ur den whereas thou Jhouldeft have 
 
 flayed till thy Prince had taken it off: 
 
 Thou didft finfully fleep and looje thy 
 
 choice thing : thou waft alfo almoft per- 
 
 fwaded to go back, at the fight of the 
 
 Lions ; and when thou talkeft of thy 
 
 Journey, and of what thou haft heard, 
 
 and 
 
Cbe Pilgrims Piogtefe. 71 
 
 andfeen, thou art inwardly defirous of 
 vain- glory in all that thou Jay eft or 
 doeft. 
 
 Chr. All this is true, and much 
 more, which thou haft left out ; but 
 the Prince whom I ferve and ho- 
 nour, is merciful, and ready to for- 
 give: but befides, thefe infirmities 
 pofTefTed me in thy Countrey , for 
 there I fuckt them in, and I have 
 groaned under them, been forry for 
 them, and have obtained pardon of 
 my Prince. 
 
 Apol. Then Apollyon broke out in- Apo ]j yon 
 
 to a grievous rage, faying, I am an - tn a rage 
 
 Enemy to this Prince : I hate his Per- falls upon 
 
 fon, his Laws, and People : I am come Christian. 
 
 out on purpoje to v/ithftand thee. 
 
 Chr. Apollyon beware what you 
 do, for I am in the Kings High-way, 
 the way of Holineis , therefore take 
 heed to your felf. 
 
 Apol. Then Apollyon ftrodled quite 
 over the whole breadth of the way, 
 and faid, I am void of fear in this 
 matter, prepare thyfelf to dye, for 
 I fwear thou fhalt go no further, here 
 will I fpill thy foul ; and with that, 
 he threw a flaming Dart at his breft, 
 but Chr iftianh&d a Shield in his hand, 
 F 2 with 
 
72 €f>e pilgrims P^ogtefo 
 
 with which he caught it, and fo pre- 
 Chriftian vented the danger of that. Then 
 wounded ^d Chriftian draw, for he faw 'twas 
 'der/iand-' t * me t0 ^ e ^ r him; and Apollyon as 
 ing 9 faith^Vi made at him, throwing Darts as 
 and con- thick as Hail ; by the which, not- 
 verfation. withftanding all that Chriftian could 
 do to avoid it , Apollyon wounded 
 him in his head, his hand and foot ; 
 this made Chriftian give a little back: 
 Apollyon therefore followed his work 
 amain, and Chriftian again took cou- 
 rage, and refitted as manfully as he 
 could. This fore Combat lafted for 
 above half a day, even till Chriftian 
 was aim oft quite fpent. For you muft 
 know that Chriftian by reafon of his 
 wounds, muft needs grow weaker 
 and weaker. 
 
 Then Apollyon efpying his oppor- 
 tunity, began to gather up clofe to 
 ., Chriftian, and wreftling with him, 
 cafleth gave him a dreadful fall ; and with 
 down to that, Chriftians Sword flew out of his 
 the groundhznd. Then faid Apollion } I am Jure 
 the Chn- f th ee n ow\ and with that, he had al- 
 moft preft him to death, fo that Chri- 
 ftian began to defpair of life. But as 
 God would have it , while Apollyon 
 was fetching of his laft blow , 
 
 there- 
 
€&e pilgrims Pjogrefo 73 
 
 thereby to make a full end of this 
 good Man, Chriftian nimbly reached Chriftiam 
 out his hand for his Sword , and w&ory °- 
 caught it, faying, Rejoyce not againft™ Apo ' " 
 me, O mine Enemy! when I fallal Jhdl 
 ari/e;znd with that,gave him a deadly 
 thruft, which made him give back, as 
 one that had received his mortal 
 wound : Chriftian perceiving that, 
 made at him again,faying, Nay, in all 
 theje things we are more then Conque- 
 rours. And with that, Apolly on {prezd 
 forth his Dragons wings, and fped T 
 him away, that Chriftian for a feafon 
 faw him no more. 
 
 In this combat no man can ima- 
 gine, unlefs he had feen and heard A brle f 
 as I did, what yelling, and hideous r ? atio »°S 
 
 A -n ] j 11 1 • the Combat 
 
 roaring Ap oily on made all the time , the 
 of the fight, he fpake like a Dragon : jpedator. 
 and on the other fide, what fighs and 
 groans bran: from Chriftians heart. 
 I never faw him all the while, give fo 
 much as one pleafant look, till he 
 perceived he had wounded Apollyon 
 with his two edged Sword, then in- 
 deed he did fmile, and look upward: 
 but 'twas the dreadfulleft fight that 
 ever I faw. 
 
 F 3 So 
 
74 €f)C Pilgrims P?og;refe. 
 
 Chriftian So when the Battel was over, 
 gives God Chriftian faid, I will here giye thanks 
 ih ^/° r to him that hath delivered me out of 
 the mouth of the Lion ; to him that 
 
 ranee. 
 
 did help me againft Apollyon : and fo 
 he did, faying, 
 
 Great Beelzebub, the Captain of this 
 
 Fiend, 
 Defign'd my ruin ; therefore to this end 
 He fent him harneji out , and he with 
 
 rage 
 That HelUJh was , did fiercely me In- 
 
 gage : 
 But blejfed Michael helped me, and I 
 By dint of Sword did quickly make him 
 
 flvs 
 
 Therefore to him let me give la sling 
 
 praife, 
 
 And thank and hlefs his holy name 
 
 always. 
 
 Then there came to him an hand, 
 with fome of the leaves of the Tree 
 ofLife, the which Chriftian took, and 
 applyed to the wounds that he had 
 received in the Battel, and was heal- 
 ed immediately. He alfo fat down 
 in that place to eat Bread, and to 
 drink of the Bottle that was given 
 
 him 
 
him a little before ; fo being refrefh- 
 ed, he addreffed himfelf to his Jour- 
 ney, with his a Sword drawn in hisaChriftian 
 hand, for he faid , I know not buts°" on his 
 fome other Enemy may be at hand. ^ ourne y 
 But he met with no other affront s ^ J0rd 
 from Apollyon , quite through this drawn in 
 
 Valley. his hand. 
 
 Now at the end of this Valley, was 
 another , called the Valley of the 
 Shadow of Death, and Chrijlian muft 
 needs go through it , becaufe the 
 way to the Cceleftial City lay 
 through the midft of it : Now this 
 Valley is a very folitary place. The 
 Prophet b Jeremiah thus defcribes it, b Jer.a. 6. 
 A Wildernefs, a Land of defarts, and 
 of Pits, a Land of drought, and of the 
 Jhadow of death, a Land that no Man 
 (but a Chriftian) pajfeth through, and 
 where no man dwelt. 
 
 Now here Chriftian was worie 
 put to it then in his fight with Apll- 
 yon, as by the fequel you fhall fee. 
 
 I faw then in my Dream , that 
 when Chriftian was got to the Borders c crhe chil - 
 of the Shadow of Death, there ^eno/tbt 
 met him two Men , c Children of^ g ° 
 them that brought up an evil report 
 of the good Land , making haft to 
 F 4 go 
 
76 Cfte Pilgrims p?ogref& 
 
 go back : to whom Chriftian fpake 
 as follows. 
 
 Chr. Whither are you going ? 
 
 Men. They faid,Back, back ; and 
 would have you to do fo too, if either 
 life or peace is prized by you. 
 
 Chr. Why} whats the matter? Jaid 
 Chriftian. 
 
 Men. Matter! faidthey; we were 
 going that way as you are going, and 
 went as far as we durft ; and indeed 
 we were almoft paft coming back, 
 for had we gone alittle further, we 
 had not been here to bring the news to 
 thee. 
 
 Chr. But what have you met with, 
 /aid Chriftian ? 
 
 Men. Why we were almoft in the 
 Pf.44. 19. Valley of the fhadow of death, but 
 Pi. 1 07. 10. t j iat by g 00C i h a p we looked before 
 
 us, and faw the danger before we 
 came to it. 
 
 Chr. But what have you Jeen^Jaid 
 Chriftian ? 
 
 Men. Seen ! why the valley it 
 felf, which is as dark as pitch ; we 
 alfo faw there theHobgoblins,Satyrs, 
 and Dragons of the Pit : we heard 
 alfo in that Valley a continual how- 
 ling and yelling, as of a people un- 
 der 
 
Cfic Pilgrims Ipjogrcfo 77 
 
 der unutterable mifery ; who there 
 fat bound in affliction and Irons: and 
 Dver that Valley hangs the difcou- 
 raging d Clouds of confufion, death ch Ia 22> * 
 ilfo doth always fpread his wings 
 Dver it : in a word, it is every whit 
 ireadful,being utterly without Order. 
 
 Chr. 'Then /aid Chriftian , I per- 
 :eivenotyet, by what you have/aidant 
 that e this is my way to the dejired e]er, 2.6 
 Haven. 
 
 Men. Be it thy way, we will not 
 :hufe it for ours ; fo they parted, and 
 Chriftian went on his way , but {till 
 with his Sword drawn in his hand, 
 for fear left he fhould be alTaulted. 
 
 I faw then in my Dream, fo far as 
 this Valley reached, there was on ' 9 ' I4 
 the right hand a very deep Ditch ; 
 That Ditch is it into which the blind 
 have led the blind in all Ages, and 
 have both there miferably perifhed. 
 Again, behold on the left hand, there 
 was a very dangerous Quagg, into 
 which, if even a good Man falls, he 
 :an find no botttom for his foot to 
 ftand on ; Into that Quagg King Da- 
 vid once did fall, and had no doubt 
 zherein been fmothered, had not He 
 :hat is able, pluckt him out. 
 
 Ine 
 
78 c&e pilgrims p?ogrefs. 
 
 The path- way was here alfo ex- 
 ceeding narrow, and therefore good 
 Chriftian was the more put to it; for 
 when he fought in the dark to friun 
 the ditch on the one hand, he was 
 ready to tip over into the mire on the 
 other; alfo when he fought to efcape 
 the mire, without great carefulnefs 
 he would be ready to fall into the 
 ditch. Thus he went on, and I heard 
 him here figh bitterly : for befides the 
 dangers mentioned above, the path- 
 way was here fo dark, that oft times 
 when he lift up his foot to fet for- 
 ward, he knew not where, or upon 
 what he mould fet it next. 
 
 About the midft of this Valley, I 
 perceived the mouth of Hell to be, 
 and it flood alfo hard by the way 
 fide : Now thought Chriftian, what 
 mail I do ? And ever and anon the 
 flame and fmoak would come out 
 in fuch abundance, with fparks and 
 hideousnoifes, (things that cared not 
 for Chriftians Sword, as did Apohyon 
 before J that he was forced to put up 
 his Sword, and betake himfelf to a- 
 fE \\6 1 8 notner weapon called f All '-prayer, 
 Ff 116 ^° ne cr ^ e d m m y hearing, s O Lord 1 
 befeech thee deliver my Soul, Thus he 
 
 went 
 
€&c pilgrims Ipjogtcfo 79 
 
 went on a great while, yet (till the 
 flames would be reaching towards 
 him : alfo he heard doleful voices,and 
 rumings too and fro, fo that fome- 
 times he thought he fhould be torn in 
 pieces, or troden down like mire in 
 the Streets. This frightful fight was 
 feen, and thefe dreadful noifes were 
 heard by him for feveral miles toge- 
 ther : and coming to a place, where " 
 
 i i i i i j r put to a 
 
 he thought he heard a company or ~ d hut 
 Fiends coming forward to meet him, f Qr a<wbik 
 he ftopt,and began to mufe what he 
 had beft to do. Somtimes he had 
 half a thought to go back, Then 
 again he thought he might be half 
 way through the Valley ; he remem- 
 bred alfo how he had already van- 
 quifhed many a danger : and that 
 the danger of going back might be 
 much more, then for to go forward, 
 fo he refolved to go on. Yet the 
 Fiends feemed to come nearer and 
 nearer, but when they were come 
 even almofl: at him, he cried out 
 with a moft vehement voice , / will 
 walk in theftrength of the Lord God ; 
 fo they gave back, and came no fur- 
 ther. 
 
 One thing I would not let flip, I 
 
 took 
 
took notice that now poor Chriftian 
 was fo confounded, that he did not 
 know his own voice : and thus I per- 
 ceived it : Juft when he was come 
 over againft the mouth of the burn- 
 ing Pit, one of the wicked ones got 
 behind him, and ftept up foftly to 
 him, and whifperingly fuggefted ma- 
 ny grievous blafphemies to him, 
 a Chriftian w h\ c h h e a ver ily thought had pro- 
 7 a e J\ ceeded from his own mind. This 
 
 hew that _ . . 
 
 he /pake P ut Chriftian more to it than any 
 biafphe- thing that he met with before, even 
 mies,wben to think that he mould now blaf- 
 "twas Sa- ph eme n i m that he loved fo much be 
 f" Red f° re ' y et cou ld he have helped it, he 
 them into would not have done it : but he had 
 his mind, not the difcretion neither to flop his 
 ears, nor to know from whence thofe 
 blafphemies came. 
 
 When Chriftian had travelled in 
 this difconfolate condition fome con- 
 fiderable time, he thought he heard 
 the voice of a man, as going before 
 Pf. 23. 4. Him, faying, 'Though I walk through 
 the valley ofthejhaddow of deaths Iwill 
 fear none ill, for thou art with me. 
 
 Then was he glad, and that for 
 thefe reafons : 
 
 Firft, Becaufe he gathered from 
 
 thence 
 
€&e Pilgrims l&cgrefo 81 
 
 thence that fome who feared God 
 were in this Valley as well as himfelf. 
 
 Secondly, For that he perceived 
 God was with them, though in that 
 dark and difmal ftate ; and why not, 
 thought he/with me, though by reafon Job 9 . ro. 
 of the impediment that attends this 
 place, I cannot perceive it. 
 
 Thirdly, For that he hoped (could 
 he over-take them) to have compa- 
 ny by and by. So he went on, and Amos 5.8. 
 called to him that was before, but he 
 knew not what to anfwer, for that he 
 thought himfelf to be alone: And by 
 and by,the day broke; then faid Chri- 
 fiian, He hath turned the Jhadow of 
 death into the morning. Chriftian 
 
 Now morning being come, he look- glad at 
 ed back, not of defire to return, but hr t eak of 
 to fee, by the light of the day, what u 
 hazards he had gone through in the 
 dark. So he faw more perfectly the 
 Ditch that was on the one hand, and 
 the Quag that was on the other ; al- 
 fo how narrow the way was which 
 lay betwixt them both ; alfo now he 
 faw the Hobgoblins, and Satyrs, and 
 Dragons of the Pit, but all afar ofr, 
 f or after break of day,they came not 
 ligh ; yet they were difcovered to 
 
 him 
 
32 €&e Pilgrims P^ogrefo 
 
 him, according to that which is writ- 
 ten, He difcovereth deep things out of 
 darkne/s, and bringeth out to light the 
 fhadow of death. 
 
 Now was Chriftian much affected 
 with his deliverance from all the 
 dangers of his folitary way, which 
 dangers, tho he feared them more 
 before, yet he faw them more clear- 
 ly now, becaufe the light of the day 
 made them confpicuous to him ; and 
 about this time the Sun was rifing, 
 and this was another mercy to Chri- 
 ftian : for you muft note, that tho the 
 firft part of the Valley of the Shadow 
 of death was dangerous, yet this 
 fecond part which he was yet to go, 
 was, if poffible, far more dangerous : 
 for from the place where he now 
 flood, even to the end of the Valley, 
 the way was all along fet fo full of 
 Snares, Traps, Gins, and Nets here, 
 and fo full of Pits, Pitfalls, deep 
 fob 29. 3. holes and fhelvings down there, that 
 had it now been dark, as it was when 
 he came the firft part of the way , 
 had he had a thoufand fouls , they 
 had in reafon been caft away ; but 
 as I faid, juft now the Sun was rifing. 
 Then faid he, His candle fhineth on my 
 
 head 
 
Cbe Pilgrims Ipjogtefs. s 3 
 
 head y and by his light I go through 
 darknefs. 
 
 In this light therefore, he came to 
 the end of the Valley. Now I favv 
 in my Dream, that at the end of this 
 Valley lay blood, bones, ames, and 
 mangled bodies of men, even of Pil- 
 grims that had gone this way for- 
 merly : And while I was muring what 
 mould be the reafon, I efpied alittle 
 before me a Cave, where two Giants, 
 
 , Pope and Pagan, dwelt in old time, 
 by whofe Power and Tyranny the 
 Men whofe bones, blood, allies, &c. 
 
 ! lay there, were cruelly put to death. 
 But by this place Chrifiian went with- 
 out much danger, whereat I fome- 
 what wondered ; but I have learnt 
 fince,that Pagan has been dead many 
 a day ; and as for the other, though 
 he be yet alive, he is by reafon of 
 age, and alfo of the many fhrewd 
 brumes that he met with in his 
 younger dayes, grown fo crazy, and 
 {tiffin his joynts, that he can now do 
 little more then fit in his Caves 
 mouth, grinning at Pilgrims as they 
 go by, and biting his nails, becaufe 
 he cannot come at them. 
 
 So I faw that Chrifiian went on 
 
 his 
 
8 4 Cfie Pilgrims Piogrefo 
 
 his way , yet at the fight of the old 
 Man, that fat in the mouth of the 
 Cave, he could not tell what to 
 think, fpecially becaufe he fpake to 
 him, though he could not go after 
 him; faying, Ton will never mend, till 
 more of you be burned', but he held 
 his peace, and fet a good face on't, 
 and fo went by, and catcht no hurt. 
 Then fang Chriftian, 
 
 O world of wonders ! ( I can fay no 
 lefi) 
 
 That I Jhould be preferv'd in that di- 
 
 lirefs 
 
 That I have met with here ! O blejfed 
 
 bee 
 That hand that from it hath delivered 
 
 me! 
 Dangers in Darknefs , Devils y Hell 
 
 and Sin, 
 Did compafs me, while I this Vale was 
 
 in : 
 Tea, Snares, and Pits, and Traps, and 
 
 Nets did lie 
 My path about , that w or thief s filly I 
 Might have been catch 1 1, intangled,and 
 
 cafl down : 
 But fince I live, let JESUS wear the 
 
 Crown. 
 
 Now 
 
€&e pilgrims l^ogrcfe. s 5 
 
 Now as Chriftian went on his way, 
 he came to a little afcent, which was 
 caft up on purpofe , that Pilgrims 
 might fee before them : up there 
 therefore Chriftian went, and look- 
 ing forward, he faw Faithful before 
 him, upon his Journey. Then faid 
 Chriftian aloud, Ho, ho, So-ho; ftay 
 and I will be your Companion. At 
 that Faithful looked behind him, to 
 whom Chriftian cried again, Stay, 
 ftay,till I come up to you : but Faith- 
 ful anfwered, No, I am upon my life, 
 and the Avenger of Blood is behind 
 me. At this Chriftian was fomwhat 
 moved, and putting; to all his ftrength, chlift5 ^ n 
 
 . ... r • i 7- • 7 a / j overtake: 
 
 he quickly got up with baithjul, and p^f^ 
 did alfo over- run him, fo the laft was 
 firft. Then did Chriftian vain-glo- 
 rioufly fmile, becaufe he had gotten 
 the ftart of his Brother: but not ta- 
 king good heed to his feet, he fud- 
 denly (tumbled and fell, and could f*®*? 
 
 J . ... ' 7 fa//, makes 
 
 not rife again,untul taithjul came up p^^fui 
 to help him. and he go 
 
 Then I faw in my Dream , they lovingly 
 went very lovingly on together; and together 
 had fweet difcourfe of all things that 
 had happened to them in their 
 Pilgrimage ; and thus Chriftian be- 
 gan, G Chr. 
 
86 coe iptlgtims ipjogrelk 
 
 Chr. My honoured and well beloved 
 Brother Faithful , / am glad that 1 
 have overtaken you ; and that God has 
 fo temper edourjpirit s jhatwe can walk 
 as Companions in this Jo plea/ant a 
 path. 
 
 Fai. I had thought dear friend, to 
 have had your company quite from 
 our Town, but you did get the ftart 
 of me ; wherefore I was forced to 
 come thus much of the way alone. 
 
 Chr. How long did you flay in the 
 City of Deftruction, before you Jet out 
 after me on your Pilgrimage ? 
 
 Fai. Till I could flay no longer; 
 for there was great talk prefently af- 
 ter you was gone out, that our City 
 w r ould in fhort time with Fire from 
 Heaven be burned down to the 
 
 their talk ground. 
 
 about the ' chr. What! Did your Neighbours 
 C ' ountrey talk Jo} 
 
 whence Faith. Yes, 'twas for a while in 
 they came, every bodies mouth. 
 
 Chr. What, anddidno more of them 
 but you come out to ejcape the danger ? 
 Faith. Though there was , as I 
 faid, a great talk thereabout, yet 
 I do not think they did firmly be. 
 lieve it. For in the heat of the dif- 
 
 courfe 
 
C&e Pilgrims Pjogrefe* 87 
 
 courfe, I heard fome of them deri- 
 dingly fpeak of you , and of your 
 defperate Journey, (for fo they called 
 this your Pilgrimage) but I did be- 
 lieve, and do ftill, that the end of 
 our City will be with Fire and Brim- 
 ftone from above : and therefore I 
 have made mine efcape. 
 
 Chr. Didyouhear no talk of Neigh - 
 hour Pliable ? 
 
 Faith. Yes Chriftian, I heard that 
 he followed you till he came at the 
 Slough ofDifpond; where,as fomefaid, 
 le fell in ; but he would not be 
 blown to have fo done: but I am fure 
 
 was foundly bedabled with that 
 cind of dirt. 
 
 Chr. And 'what /aid the Neighbours 
 \to him ? 
 
 Faith . He hathfince his going back How Ply- 
 been had greatly in derifion, and that able cluas 
 tmong all forts of people : fome doJJ^J^l 
 mock and defpife him ,and fcarce will t hom f 
 any fet him on work. He is now feven" 
 times worfe then if he had never gone 
 put of the City. 
 
 Chr. But why jhould they be Jo Jet 
 againft him^Jince they aljo defpife the 
 way that he forfook ? 
 
 G 2 Faith 
 

 a 8 C6e Pilgrims P?ogteR 
 
 Faith. Oh, they fay, Hang him, 
 
 he is a Turn-Coat, he was not true to 
 
 his profeffion. I think God has ftired 
 
 up even his Enemies to hifs at him, 
 
 jer.29. 18, and make him a Proverb, becaufe he 
 
 19. hath forfaken the way. 
 
 Chr. Had you no talk with him be- 
 fore you came out ? 
 
 Faith. I met him once in the 
 Streets, but he leered away on the 
 other fide, as one afhamed of what 
 he had done; fo I fpake not to him. 
 
 Jus*™ Chr - Well > at m yfi r fiS ettin g out > 
 
 I had hopes of that Man ; but now I 
 fear he willperijh in the overthrowof 
 the City, for it is happened to him, ac- 
 cording to the true Proverb , The Dog 
 is turned to his Vomit again, and the 
 Sow that was Wafhedto her wallowing 
 in the mire. 
 
 Faith. They are my fears of him 
 too : But who can hinder that which 
 will be ? 
 
 Well Neighbour Faithful, faid 
 Chriftian, let us leave him; and talk 
 of things that more immediately 
 concern our felves. C T ell me now, what 
 you have met with in the way as you 
 came ; for I know you have met with 
 
 fome 
 
Cf)C pilgrims P?ogtefe. 8g 
 
 fome things, or elfe it may be writ for 
 a wonder. 
 
 Faith. I efcaped the Slough that I 
 perceive you fell into, and got up to 
 the Gate without that danger ; only Faithful! 
 I met with one whofe name was Wan- ajjaulted 
 ton, that had like to have done me a h y Wan " 
 mifchief. 
 
 Chr. 'Twas well you efcaped her 
 
 Net; Jofeph was hard put to it by her, 
 
 and he efcaped her as you did, but it 
 
 had like to have coft him his life. But 
 
 , what didfhe do to you? 
 
 Faith. You cannot think (but that 
 
 you know fomthing) what a flatter- 
 
 i ing tongue me had , me lay at me 
 
 I hard to turn afide with her, promi- 
 
 | fing me all manner of content. 
 
 Chr. Nay, jhe did not promije you 
 the content of a good confcience. 
 
 Faith. You know what I mean, all 
 carnal and flefhly content. 
 
 Chr. 'Thank God you have efcaped 
 her. The* abhorred 'of the Lordjhallf all a Pro. %% 
 into her Ditch. x 4 
 
 Faith. Nay, I know not whether 
 I did wholly efcape her,or no. 
 
 Chr. Why, Itro you did not confent 
 to her defires ? 
 
 Faith. No, not to defile my felf; 
 G 3 for 
 
yo cfte pilgrims p?og;ref& 
 
 Pro. 5. 5. for Iremembred an old writing that 
 Job. 31. i.j had f eenj which fath y Her Jleps 
 
 take hold of Hell, So I (hut mine 
 eyes, becaufe I would not be bewitch- 
 ed with her looks: then me railed 
 on me, and I went my way. 
 
 Chr. Did you meet with no other af 
 He is af- fault as you came ? 
 
 Adtn/ifc Faitb ' When l Came t0 the f ° 0t 
 
 r r n of the Hill called Difficulty , I met 
 with a very aged Man, who asked 
 me, What I was, and whither bound? 
 I told him, That I was a Pilgrim, go- 
 ing to the Cceleftial City : Then faid 
 the Old Man, Thou lookeft like an ho- 
 neft fellow ; Wilt thou be content to 
 dwell with me, for the wages that IJhall 
 givethee? Thenlaskedhimhis name, 
 and where he dwelt ? He faid his 
 name was Adam thefirft, and do dwell 
 b Eph. 4. i n the Town of Deceit. I asked him 
 22, then, What was his work ? and what 
 
 the wages that he would give ? He 
 told me, That his work was many de- 
 lights ; and his wages, that 1 fhould be 
 his Heir at laft. I further asked him, 
 What Houfe he kept, and what o- 
 ther Servants he had? fo he told me, 
 That his Houfe was maintained with all 
 the dainties in the world, and that his 
 
 Ser- 
 
 
Servants were thofe of his own beget- 
 ting. Then I asked, If he had any 
 children ? He faid that he had but 
 three Daughters , The c lufts of the 
 flefh, the lufts of the eyes, and the pride c i joh 
 of life, and that I fhould marry them 2. 1 6. 
 all, if I would. Then I asked, How 
 long time he would have me live 
 with him ? And he told me, As long as 
 he lived himjelf. 
 
 Chr. Well, and what conclujion came 
 the Old Man, and you to, at laft ? 
 
 Faith. Why, at firft, I found my 
 felf fomewhat inclinable to go with 
 the Man, for I thought he fpake very 
 fair ; But looking in his forehead as 
 I talked with him, I faw there writ- 
 ten, Put off the old Man with his 
 deeds. 
 
 Chr. And how then ? 
 
 Faith. Then it came burning hot 
 into my mind, whatever he faid, and 
 however he flattered, when he got me 
 home to his Houfe, he would fell me 
 for a Slave. So I bid him forbear to 
 talk, for I would not come near the 
 doorofhisHoufe. Thenhereviledme, 
 arid told me that he would fend fuch 
 a one after me, that fhould make my 
 way bitter to my foul : So I turned 
 G 4 to 
 
92 €6e Pilgrims H^ogrefo 
 
 to go away from him : But juft as I 
 turned my felf to go thence, I felt 
 him take hold of my flefh, and give 
 me fuch a deadly twitch back, that I 
 thought he had pull'd part of me after 
 a Rom 7. himfelf ; This made me cry d O 
 2 * wretched Man ! So I went on my way 
 
 up the Hill. 
 
 Now when I had got about half 
 way up, I looked behind me, and 
 faw one coming after me, fwift as 
 the wind ; fo he overtook me juft a- 
 bout the place where the Settle 
 ftands. 
 
 Chr. Juft there, faid Chriftian, did 
 I fit down to reft me ; but being over- 
 come withfteepy I there loft this Roll 
 out of mybofom. 
 
 Faith. But good Brother hear me 
 out : So foon as the Man over-took 
 me, he was but a word and a blow : 
 for down he knockt me, and laid me 
 for dead. But when I was a little 
 come to my felf again, I asked him 
 wherefore he ferved me fo ? he faid, 
 Becaufe of my fecret inclining to A- 
 dam theftrft; and with that, he ftrook 
 me another deadly blow on the breft, 
 and beat me down backward , fo I 
 lay at his foot as dead as before. So 
 
 when 
 
€&e Pilgrims pjogrefo 93 
 
 when I came to my felf again, I cried 
 him mercy; but he faid, I know not 
 to fhow mercy, and with that knockt 
 me down again. He had doubtlefs 
 made a hand of me , but that one 
 came by, and bid him forbear. 
 
 Chr. Who was that, that bid him 
 forbear ? 
 
 Faith. I did not know him at firft, 
 but as he went by, I perceived the 
 holes in his hands, and his fide ; then 
 I concluded that he was our Lord. So 
 I went up the Hill. 
 
 Chr. That Man that overtook you, e 7-^ 
 was Mofes, e he fpareth none, neither temper of 
 knoweth he how to jhew mercy tothoje Mofes. 
 that tranfgrefs his Law. 
 
 Faith. I know it very well, it was 
 not the firft time that he has met with 
 me. 'Twas he that came to me when 
 I dwelt fecurely at home, and that 
 told me, He would burn my Houfe 
 over my head, if I ftaid there. 
 
 Chr. But did not you fee the Houfe 
 that flood there on the top of that Hill, 
 on the fide of which Mofes met you? 
 
 Faith. Yes, and the Lions too,be- 
 fore I came at it ; but for the Lions, 
 I think they were a fleep, for it was 
 about Noon ; and becaufe I had fo 
 
 much 
 
94 C6e pilgrims p?ogtef& 
 
 much of the day before me, I pafTed 
 by the Porter, and came down the 
 Hill. 
 
 Chr. He told me indeed that he Jaw 
 you go by, but Iwijbyou had called at 
 the HouJe;for they would have Jhewed 
 you Jo many Rarities, that you wo'uld 
 fcarce have forgot them to the day of 
 your death. But fray tell me, did you 
 meet no body in the Valley ^Humility ? 
 Faith full Faith. Yes, I met with one DiJ- 
 affaulted content, who would willingly have 
 by Diicon- p er f wac [ed me t g back again with 
 him : his reafon was, for that the 
 Valley was altogether without Ho- 
 nour ; he told me moreover, That 
 there to go, was the way to difobey 
 all my Friends, as Pride, Arogancy, 
 Self-Conceit , worldly Glory , with 
 others, who he knew,as he faid, would 
 be very much offended , if I made 
 fuch a Fool of my felf, as to wade 
 through this Valley. 
 
 Chr. Well, and how didyouanfwer 
 
 Faithfuls him? 
 
 anjnver to Faith. I told him, That although 
 all thefe that he named might claim 
 kindred of me, and that rightly, ( for 
 indeed they were my Relations, ac- 
 cording to theflejh) yet fince I became 
 
 tent. 
 
Cfce Pilgrims IPjogxcte, 95 
 
 a Pilgrim, they have difowned me, 
 as I alio have rejected them; and 
 therefore they were to me now, no 
 more then if they had never been of 
 [my Linage; I told him moreover, 
 That as to this Valley, he had quite 
 mifs-reprefented the thing: for be- 
 fore Honour is Humility , and ah aughty 
 fpirit before a fall. Therefore faid I, 
 I had rather go through this Valley to 
 the Honour that was fo accounted by 
 the wifeft, then chufe that which he 
 efteemed moft worth our affections. 
 
 Chr. Met you with nothing elfe in 
 that Valley? 
 
 Faith. Yes , I met with Shame ; He is 
 But of all the Men that I met w\th a 0' aulted 
 in my Pilgrimage . he I think bears l ut 
 
 . J b ° 1 1 11 Sname. 
 
 the wrong name : the other would 
 be faid nay , after after a little ar- 
 gumentation, ( and fome what elfe) 
 but this bold faced Shame, would ne- 
 ,ver have done. 
 
 Chr. Why, what didhe fay to you? 
 
 Faith. What ! why he objected 
 againft Religion it felf; he faid it was 
 a pitiful low fneaking bufinefs for a 
 Man to mind Religion; he faid that a 
 tender confcience was an un-manly 
 thing , and that for a Man to watch 
 
 over 
 
s6 €&e pilgrims P?O0te(& 
 
 over his words and ways, fo as to 
 tye up himfelf from that hectoring 
 liberty, that the brave fpirits of the 
 times accuftom themfelves unto, 
 i Cor. i would make me the Ridicule of the 
 26. ch. 3. times. He objected alfo, that but few 
 l8 - of the Mighty, Rich, or Wife, were 
 
 ever of my opinion; nor any of them, 
 Phil 178 before they were perfwaded to be 
 Fools, and to be of a voluntary fond- 
 nefs, to venture the lofs of all, for 
 no body elfe knows what. He more- 
 over objected the bafe and low 
 eftate and condition of thofe that 
 were chiefly the Pilgrims of the 
 times ; in which they lived, alfo theii 
 ignorance, and want of underftand- 
 ing in all natural Science. Yea, he 
 did hold me to it at that rate alfo, a- 
 bout a great many more things then 
 here I relate ; as, that it was &Jhamt 
 to fit whining and mourning under a 
 Sermon , and a Jhame to come figh- 
 ing and groaning home . That it was 
 a fhame to ask my Neighbour for- 
 givenefs for petty faults, or to make 
 reftitution where I had taken from 
 any : he faid alfo that Religion made 
 a man grow ftrange to the great, be- 
 caufe of a few vices (which he call- 
 ed 
 
Cfte Pilgrims Pjogrefe. 97 
 
 ed by finer names) and made him 
 own and refpect the bafe, becaufe 
 of the fame Religious fraternity. And 
 is not this , faid he, a fljame ? 
 
 Chr. And what did you Jay to him? 
 
 Faith. Say ! I could not tell what 
 to fay at the firft. Yea, he put me 
 fo to it, that my blood came up in 
 my face, even this Shame fetch't it 
 up, and had almoft beat me quite 
 off. But at laft I began to confider, 
 'That that which is highly efteemed a- 
 mong Men, is had in abomination with 
 God. And I thought again , This 
 Shame tells me what men are, but it 
 tells me nothing what God, or the 
 word of God is. And I thought 
 moreover, That at the day of doom 
 we fhall not be doomed to death or 
 life, according to the hectoring fpi- 
 rits of the world ; but according to 
 the Wifdom and Law of the Higher!:. 
 Therefore thought I, what God fays, 
 is beft, is beft , though all the Men 
 in the world are againfl: it. Seeing 
 then, that God prefers his Religion, 
 feeing God prefers a tender Con- 
 fcience, feeing they that make them- 
 felves Fools for the Kingdom of 
 Heaven, are wifeft ; and that the 
 
 poor 
 
9« Cfie Pilgrims p?og;refo 
 
 poor that loveth Chrift, is richer then 
 the greater!: Man in the world that 
 hates him ; Shame depart, thou art 
 an Enemy to my Salvation : mall I 
 entertain thee againft my Soveraign 
 Lord ? How then fhall I look him in 
 Mar.8. 3 8. the f ace at his commg ? Should I 
 
 now be ajhamed of his ways and Ser- 
 vants, how can I expecl: the blef- 
 fing ? But indeed this Shame was a 
 bold Villain; I could fcarce make him 
 out of my company ; yea, he would 
 be haunting of me, and continually 
 whifpering me in the ear, with fome 
 one or other of the infirmities that 
 attend Religion : but at laft I told 
 him/Twasbut in vain to attempt fur- 
 ther in this bufinefs; for thofe things 
 that he difdained, in thofe did I fee 
 moft glory : And fo at laft I got paft 
 this importunate one. 
 
 The tryals that thofe men do meet withal 
 That are obedient to the Heavenly call, 
 Are manifold, and fuited to the flefh, 
 And come, and come, and come again 
 
 afrejh ; 
 That now, or fomtime elfe, we by them 
 
 may 
 Be taken, overcome , and cajl away, 
 
 O 
 
Cfje Pilgrims purees. 99 
 
 O let the Pilgrims , let the Pilgrims 
 
 then , 
 Be vigilant, and quit them/elves like 
 
 men. 
 
 Chr. I am glad, my Brother, that 
 thou didft withftand this Villain Jo 
 bravely, for of all, as thou Jay ft, I think 
 he has the wrong name :for he is Jo bold 
 as to follow us in the Streets, and to at- 
 tempt to -put us to jhame before all men; 
 that is, to make us afhamed of that 
 which is good: but if he was not himfelf 
 audacious, he would never attempt to do 
 as he does, but let us ft ill rejift him: for 
 notwithftanding all his Bravadoes, he 
 promoteth the Fool, and none elje. The 
 Wife mall Inherit Glory ,Jaid Solo- 
 mon, but fhame mall be the promo Prov.3.35. 
 tion of Fools. 
 
 Faith. I think wemuft cry to him for 
 help againft Jhame, that would have us 
 be valiant for the T^ruth upon the Earth. 
 
 Chr. Toufay true. But did you meet 
 no body elje in that Valley ? 
 
 Faith. No,notI,for I had Sun-mine 
 all the reft of the way, through that, 
 and alfo through the Valley of the 
 fhadow of death. 
 
 Chr. 
 
ioo c&e Pilgrims p?ogtef& 
 
 Chr. 'Twas well for you, I am Jure 
 it fared far otherwise with me. I had 
 for a long feafon , as foon almoft 
 as I entred into that Valley, a dread- 
 ful Combat with that foul Fiend 
 Apollyon : Yea, I thought verily he 
 would have killed me ; efpecially 
 when he got me down, and crufht 
 me under him, as if he would have 
 crufht me to pieces. For as he threw 
 me, my Sword flew out of my hand ; 
 nay he told me, He was Jure of me : 
 but / cried to God, and he heard me, 
 and delivered me out of all my troubles. 
 Then I entred into the Valley of the 
 fhadow of death, and had no light 
 for almoft half the way through it. 
 I thought I mould a been killed there, 
 over, and over ; But at laft , day 
 brake, and the Sun rife, and I went 
 through that which was behind with 
 far more eafe and quiet 
 
 Moreover, I faw in my Dream, 
 that as they went on, Faithful, as he 
 chanced to look on one fide, faw a 
 Man whofe name is Talkative, walk- 
 ing at a diftance befides them, (for 
 in this place, there was room enough 
 Talkative for them all to walk) He was a tall 
 defcnbed. Man, and Jomthing more comely at a 
 
 diftance 
 
€f)e IPHgrims l^ogxefe; 101 
 
 i< [fiance then at hand. To this Man 
 Faithful addrefled himfelf in this 
 nanner. 
 
 Faith. Friend^ Whither azvayP Are 
 wu going to the Heavenly Countrey ? 
 
 Talk. I am going to that fame 
 )lace. 
 
 Faith. That is well: Then I hope we 
 nay have your good Company, 
 
 Talk. With a very good will, will 
 [ be your Companion. 
 
 Faith. Come on then, and let us go Faithful 
 'ogether, and let us fpend our time in *«</Talka- 
 lifcourfing of things that are profitable. tlve enter 
 
 Talk, To talk of things that are*"* 
 *ood, to me is very acceptable, with 
 fou, or with any other ; and I am 
 rlad that I have met with thofe that 
 ncline to fo good a work. For to 
 peak the truth, there are but few 
 hat care thus to fpend their time 
 [as they are in their travels) but 
 thufe much rather to be fpeaking of 
 pings to no profit, and this hath Talkaives 
 oeen a trouble to me. diflike of 
 
 Faith. That is indeed a thing to be bad di f- 
 'amented\ for what things fo worthy of courJe ~ 
 he ufe of the tongue and mouth of 
 nen on Earth, as are the things of the 
 od of Heaven ? 
 
 H Talk. 
 
102 c&e Pilgrims P?og:tef^ 
 
 Talk. I like you wonderful well, 
 for your faying is full of conviction ; 
 and I will add, What thing fo plea- 
 fant, and what fo profitable, as to' 
 talk of the things of God ? 
 
 What things fo pleafant ? (that is, 
 if a man hath any delight in things 
 that are wonderful) for inftance : If 
 a man doth delight to talk of the 
 Hiftory or the Myftery of things , 
 or if a man doth love to talk of Mi- 
 racles , Wonders or Signs, where 
 fhall he find things Recorded fo de- 
 lightful, and fo fweetly penned, as 
 in the holy Scripture ? 
 
 Faith. That's true: but to be profi- 
 ted by Juch things in our talk 3 JJoouldbe 
 that which we defign. 
 
 Talk. That it is that I faid: for to 
 talk of fuch things is moft profitable, 
 for by fo doing, a Man may get know- 
 ledge of many things, as of the va- 
 nity of earthly things, and the be- 
 fit of things above: (thus in general) 
 but more particularly, By this a man 
 may learn the neceflity of the New- 
 birth, the infufficiency of our works,! 
 Talka- tne nee d of Chrifts righteoufnefs, &c 
 tives/«<r- Befides, by this a man may learn by 
 dlfcourfe. talk, what it is to repent, to believe, 
 
 to 
 
€f)e pigrims Ipjogrcft. 103 
 
 to pray, to fufTer, or the like : by this 
 alfo a Man may learn what are the 
 great promifes & confolations of the 
 Gofpel,to his own comfort. Further, 
 by this a Man may learn to refute 
 falfe opinions, to vindicate the truth, 
 and alfo to inftrudl the ignorant. 
 
 Faith. All this is true, and glad am 
 I to hear thefe things from you. 
 
 'Talk. Alas ! the want of this is 
 the caufe that fo few underftand the 
 need of faith, and the neceflity of a 
 work of Grace in their Soul, in or- 
 der to eternal life : but ignorantly 
 live in the works of the Law , by 
 which a man can by no means obtain 
 the Kingdom of Heaven. 
 
 Faith. But by your leave > Heaven- 
 ly knowledge of thefe, is the gift of God; 
 \io manattainethto them by humane in- 
 iuftry, or only by the talk of them. 
 
 Talk. All this I know very well, 
 for a man can receive nothing except 
 t be given him from Heaven; all is 
 pf Grace , not of works : I could 
 ^ive you an hundred Scriptures for o brave 
 pe confirmation of this. Talkative. 
 
 Faith. Well then , Jaid Faithful, 
 what is that one thing, that wefhall at 
 his time found our difcourfe upon ? 
 H 2 Talk. 
 
io4 Cfje Pilgrims p?ogref0* 
 
 o brave 'Talk. What you will : I will talk of 
 Talkative, things Heavenly, or things Earthly ; 
 things Moral, or things Evangelical ; 
 things Sacred, or things Prophanes ; 
 things paft, or things to come ; things 
 forraign, or things at home ; things 
 more Eflential , or things Circum- 
 ftantial : provided that all be done to 
 our profit. 
 
 Faith. Now did Faithful begin to 
 wonder; andftepping to Chriftian, (/#r 
 Faithful he walked all this while by him/elf,) he 
 beguiled by f a id t ^ m ^ (but/of tly) What a brave 
 Talkative. Companion have we got ! Surely this 
 man will make a very excellent Pil- 
 grim. 
 Chriftian Chr\ At this Chriftian modeftly 
 makes a fm iled, and faid, This man with whom 
 difcovery y 0U are f taken, will beguile with 
 
 tf l*uu~ this ton s ue °* h* s > twent y °f tnem 
 
 fogFzith- that ^ now mm not « 
 fulwhobe Faith: Do you know him then ? 
 was. Chr. Know him ! Yes,better then 
 
 he knows himfelf. 
 
 Faith. Pray what is he? 
 Chr. His name is Talkative , he 
 dwelleth in our Town ; I wonder that 
 you mould be a ftranger to him, 
 only I confider that our Town is 
 large. 
 
 Faith. 
 
Cfte Pilgrims Piogxtfs- 105 
 
 Faith. Whqfe Son is he? And where- 
 about doth he dwell ? 
 
 Chr. He is the Son of one Say well, 
 he dwelt in Prating-row ; and he is 
 known of all that are acquainted 
 with him, by the name of 'Talkative 
 in Prating-row : and notwithstand- 
 ing his fine tongue, he is but a forry 
 fellow. 
 
 Faith. Welly hejeems to be a very 
 pretty man. 
 
 Chr. That is, to them that have 
 not through acquaintance with him, 
 for he is beft abroad, near home he is 
 ugly enough : your faying, That he 
 is a pretty man , brings to my mind 
 what I have obferved in the work of 
 the Painter, whofe Pictures mews 
 beft at a diftance ; but very near, 
 more unpleafing. 
 
 Faith. But 1 am ready to think you 
 do but jeft, becaufe you fmiled. 
 
 Chr. God-forbid that I fhouldyV/?, 
 (though I fmiled) in this matter, or 
 that I mould accufe any falfely ; I 
 will give you a further difcovery of 
 him : This man is for any company, 
 and for any talk ; as he talketh now 
 with you, fo will he talk when he is 
 on the Ale-bench : and the more 
 H 2> drink 
 
106 c&e Pilgrims p?ogref& 
 
 drink he hath in his crown, the 
 more of thefe things he hath in his 
 mouth: Religion hath no place in his 
 heart, or houfe, or converfation ; all 
 he hath, lieth in his tongue, and his 
 Religion is to make a noife there- 
 with. 
 
 Faith. Say you Jo I Then lam in this 
 
 man greatly deceived, 
 
 *' 23, Chr. Deceived ! you may be fure 
 
 20> ' ' of it. Remember the Proverb, They 
 
 fay and do not : but the Kingdom of 
 
 Talkative God is not in word, but in power. He 
 
 talks, but talketh of Prayer , of Repentance, 
 
 does not. f F a ; t h, and of the New birth : but 
 
 he knows but only to talk of them. 
 
 I have been in his Family, and have 
 
 obferved him both at home and a- 
 
 broad ; and I know what I fay of him 
 
 is empty of 1S ^ e trutn - His houfe is as empty 
 
 Religion, of Religion, as the white of an Egg 
 
 is of favour. There is there, neither 
 
 Prayer, nor fign of Repentance for 
 
 fin : Yea, the bruit in his kind ferves 
 
 God far better then he. He is the 
 
 . very ftain, reproach, and fhame of 
 
 (lain Vo* a R en gi° n t0 a ^ tnat know him ; it can 
 
 Religion, hardly have a good word in all that 
 
 Rom. 2 end of the Town where he dwells, 
 
 *4> *5- through him. Thus fay the common 
 
 People 
 
€f)e Pilgrims Piogrefe* 107 
 
 People that know him, A Saint a- The pro- 
 broad, and a Devil at home-. His poor verb that 
 Family finds it fo, he is fuch a churl, goes ^ nm 
 fuch a railer at, and fo unreafonable 
 with his Servants , that they neither 
 know how to do for, or fpeak to him. 
 Men that have any dealings with Men * 
 him, fay 'tis better to deal with a to deal 
 Turk then with him, for fairer deal- with him. 
 ing they fhall have at their hands. 
 This Talkative, if it be poffible, will 
 go beyond them, defraud, beguile, 
 and over-reach them. Befides, he 
 brings up his Sons to follow his fteps; 
 and if he findeth in any of them a 
 fooli/h timoroufnes (for fo he calls 
 the firft appearance of a tender con- 
 fcience) he calls them fools and block- 
 heads ; and by no means will imploy 
 them in much, or fpeak to their 
 commendations before others. For 
 my part I am of opinion, that he has 
 by his wicked life caufed many to 
 {tumble and fall ; and will be , if 
 God prevent not, the ruine of many 
 more. 
 
 Faith. Well , my Brother , I am 
 
 hound to believe you ; not only becaufe 
 
 you Jay you know him, but alfo becaufe 
 
 like a Chriftian you make your reports 
 
 H4. of 
 
io8 cfie Pilgrims Piogreft. 
 
 of men. For I cannot think that you 
 [peak thefe things of ill will Jut becaufe 
 it is evenfo as you Jay, 
 
 Chr. Had I known him no more 
 than you , I might perhaps have 
 thought of him as at the firft. you 
 did : Yea, had he received this re- 
 port at their hands only that are 
 enemies to Religion, I mould have 
 thought it had beenaflander : (A Lot 
 that often falls from bad mens 
 mouths upon good mens Names and 
 Profeffions:) But all thefe things,yea 
 and a great many more as bad , of 
 my own knowledge I can prove him 
 guilty of. Befides , good men are 
 afhamed of him , they can neither 
 call him Brother nor Friend; the 
 very naming of him among them, 
 makes them blufh,if they know him. 
 Fa. Well \1 fee that Saying and Do- 
 ing aretwothings^and hereafter Ijhall 
 better obferve this diftinclion, 
 , Chr. They are two things indeed, 
 
 kajs of Re- an d are as diverfe as are the Soul 
 Ugion. and the Body: For as the Body with- 
 out the Soul, is but a dead Carkafs ; 
 fo, Saying, if it be alone, is but a dead 
 Carkafs alfo. The Soul of Religi- 
 on is the practick part : Pure Reli- 
 
 ion 
 
€&e Pilgrims l^ogtefe. io 9 
 
 gion and undefiled, before God and the James i. 
 
 Father, is this, To vifit the Fatherlejs % if eecver - 
 
 and Widows in their afflitlion, and to 2 ' z l' 24 ' 
 M 5 25, 26. 
 
 keep himfelf unjpoted from the World, 
 This Talkative is not aware of , he 
 thinks that hearing and faying will 
 make a good Chriftian , and thus he 
 deceiveth his own foul. Hearing is 
 but as the fowing of the Seed; talk- 
 ing is not fufficient to prove that 
 fruit is indeed in the heart and life ; 
 and let us afTure our felves , that at 
 the day of Doom, men fhall be judg- 
 ed according to their fruits. It will Sge Mat 
 not be foldthen, Did you believe? but, I3 . andch. 
 were you Doers, or Talkers only? and *s- 
 accordingly mail they be j udged. The 
 end of the World is compared to our 
 Harveft, and you know men at 
 Harveft regard nothing but Fruit. 
 Not that any thing can be accepted 
 thatis not of Faith : But I fpeak this, 
 to mew you how infignificant the 
 profeflion of Talkative will be at that 
 day. 
 
 Fa. This brings to my mind that of lt ' "■ 
 Mofes, by which he defcribeth the beaft eut * I4 
 that is clean. He isfuch an one that 
 parteth the Hoof and cheweth the Cud: 
 Not that parteth the Hoof only , or that 
 
 cheweth 
 
no c&e Pilgrims l&ogrett. 
 
 cheweth the Cud only. The Hare chew- 
 convinced et ^ ^ e Cud , but yet is unclean, be- 
 ofthebad-caufe he parte 'tb not the Hoof. And 
 nefsofTdX- this truly rejembleth Talkative ; he 
 kative. cheweth the Cud, hejeeketh knowledge, 
 he cheweth upon the Word, but he di- 
 vide th not the Hoof , he parteth not 
 with the way of /inner s ; but as the Hare, 
 retaineth the foot of a Dog, or Bear , 
 and therefore he is unclean. 
 
 Chr. You have fpoken, for ought 
 
 I know, the true Gofpel fenfe of thofe 
 
 Texts, and I will add an other thing. 
 
 i. Cor. 13. Paul calleth fome men, yea and 
 
 i> 2, 3.rA. thofe great Talkers too, founding 
 
 I4 * i; Brafs, and Tinckling Cymbals ; that 
 
 t- to /•/." IS > as ne Expounds them in another 
 
 to things place, Things without life, giving found. 
 
 that found Things without life, that is, without 
 
 without t he true Faith and Grace of the Go- 
 
 •**' fpel ; and confequently, things that 
 
 mail never be placed in the Kingdom 
 
 of Heaven among thofe that are the 
 
 Children of life : Though their found 
 
 by their talk , be as if it were the 
 
 Tongue or voice of an Angel. 
 
 Fait. Well, I was not Jo fond of his 
 company at fir ft, but I am fick of it 
 now. What Jhall we do to be rid of 
 him ? 
 
 Chr. 
 
Cbe pilgrims IPjogrett. ITI 
 
 Chr. Take my advice, and do as I 
 bid you, and you mall find that he 
 will foon be fick of your Company 
 too, except God mail touch his heart 
 and turn it. 
 
 Fait. Whatwouldyouhavemeto do} 
 Chr. Why, go to him , and enter 
 into fome ferious difcourfe about the 
 power of Religion : And ask him plain- 
 ly (when he has approved of it , for 
 that he willj whether this thing be 
 fet up in his Heart , Houfe or Con- 
 vention. 
 
 Fait. Then Faithful ftept forward 
 again, and faid to talkative : Come, 
 what chear ? how is it now ? 
 
 "Talk. Thank you, Well. I thought 
 we mould have had a great deal of 
 'Talk by this time. 
 
 Fait. Well> if you will, we will fall 
 to it now; and fine e you left it with me 
 to ft ate the queftion, let be this : How 
 doth thejaving grace of God dif cover it 
 Jelf, when it is in the heart of man ? 
 
 Talk. I perceive then that our 
 talk mud be about the power of things', 
 Well,'tis a very good queftion , and ^faUi 
 I ihall be willing to anfwer you. And ^jllJlryoj 
 take my anfwer in brief thus. Firft, a work at 
 Where the Grace of God is in the heart, gra< 
 
 it 
 
11^ C&e Pilgrims P?og;ter& 
 
 it caufeth there a great out -cry againfl 
 
 fin. Secondly 
 
 Fait. Nay bold, let us confider of one 
 at once : I think you jhould rather fay, 
 It jhows it f elf by inclining the Soul to 
 abhor its fin. 
 
 'Talk. Why, what difference is 
 there between crying out againft, and 
 abhoring of fin ? 
 _ Fait. Oh ! a great deal; a man may 
 
 againfl Jin cr y out a g a ^ n fi ~f tn i of policy \ but he can- 
 no fign of not abhor it, but by vertue of a Godly 
 Grace. antipathy againfl it: I have heard many 
 cry out againfl fin in the Pulpit , who 
 yet can abide it well enough in the heart, 
 and houfe, and converfation. Jofephs 
 Miflris cried out with aloud voice, 
 as if fhe had been very holy ; but fhe 
 would willingly, notwithftanding that, 
 have committed uncleannefs with him. 
 Some cry out againfl Jin , even as the 
 Mother cries out againfl her Child 
 in her lap, when floe calleth it Slut and 
 naughty Girl , and then falls to hug- 
 ging and kiffing it. 
 
 Talk. You lie at the catch, I per- 
 ceive. 
 
 Fait. No, not 1,1 am only for feting 
 things right. But what is thefecond 
 thing whereby you would 'prove a dif- 
 
 covery 
 
€&c pilgrims P?og;rc&. 113 
 
 covery of a work of grace in the heart? 
 
 'Talk. Great knowledge of Gofpel 
 Myfteries. ^ Great 
 
 Fait. Thisfignejhouldhavebeenfirft, kncwledgt 
 but fir ft or laft, it is alfo falfe ; for, nofignof 
 Knowledge, great knowledge, may be ob- & race 
 tained in the myfteries of the Gofpei ', and x or ' 1 3 
 yet no work of grace in the Soul. Tea, 
 if a man have all knowledge, he may yet 
 be nothing, and Jo confequently be no 
 child of God. When Chriftfaid,Do you 
 know all thefe things? AndtheDifciples 
 hadanfwered, Tes : Headdeth, Bleffed 
 are ye if ye do them. He doth not lay 
 the bleffing in the knowing of them, but in 
 the doing of them. For there is a know- 
 ledge that is not attained with doing-. He 
 that knoweth his Matters will, and 
 doth it not. Aman may know like an 
 Angel,andyetbeno Chriftian ; therefore 
 yourfignisnot true. Indeed to know ,is a 
 thing thatpleafeth TalkersandBoafters; 
 but to do y is that which pleafeth God. Not 
 that the heart can be good without 
 knowledge ,for without that the heart 
 is naught: There is therefore knowledge, „ , . 
 and knowledge. Knowledge that refteth and know- 
 in the bare f peculation of things , and ledge, 
 knowledge that is accompaniedwith the 
 grace of faith and love, which puts a 
 
 man 
 
>h Cfte Pilgrims Piogrefo 
 
 man upon doing even the will of God 
 from the heart*, the fir ft of thefe will 
 ferve the 'Talker, but without the other 
 the true Chriftian is not content. Give 
 me underftanding,and I mall keep thy 
 
 I7/T- Law > y ea 1 ftla11 obferve {t with m y 
 
 tended * ' whole heart, Pfal. 1 1 9. 34. 
 
 with en- Talk. You lie at the catch again, 
 
 deavours. this is not for edification. 
 
 Fait. Well , if you pie afe propound 
 another ft gn how this work of grace dif 
 cover eth it felf where it is. 
 
 Talk. Not I, for I fee we mall not 
 agree. 
 
 Fait. Well, if you will not , will you 
 give me leave to do it ? 
 
 Talk. You may ufe your Liberty. 
 
 Fait. A work of grace in the foul dif 
 
 One good cover eth it felf, either to him that hath 
 
 wffTs ity or to ft anders b y- 
 
 Rom 1 24." To him that hath it, thus. It gives 
 joh. 16. 9! bim convitlion of fin, efpecially of the 
 Mar. 16.16 defilement of his nature, and the fin of 
 Pf. 38. 18. unbelief , {for the fake of which he is 
 Jer -ii.*9> fare to be damned, if he findeth not 
 Act I if merc y at Gods hand by faith in Jefus 
 Mat. 5. 6. Chrift.) This fight and Jenfe of things 
 Rev. 21. 6. worketh inhimforrow andfhameforfin\ 
 he findeth moreover revealed in him 
 the Saviour of the World, and the ab- 
 solute 
 
Cfte Pilgrims Ij^ogrefs. 115 
 
 Jolute necejjity of clofing with him for 
 life, at the which he findeth hungrings 
 and ' thir flings after him, to which hun- 
 grings, &x . the promife is made. Now 
 according to the Jlrength or weaknejs 
 of his Faith in his Saviour, Jo is his 
 joy and peace, Jo is his love to holi- 
 nejs, Jo are his dejires to know him 
 more , and alfo to Jerve him in this 
 World. But though I Jay it dij- 
 covereth itjelfthus unto him ; yet it is 
 but Jeldom that he is able to conclude 
 that this is a work of Grace, becauje 
 his corruptions now, and his abujed rea- 
 Jon, makes his mind to mij-judge in this 
 matter; therefore in him that hath this 
 work, there is required a very found 
 Judgement fbej "ore he can withfteddinejs 
 conclude that this is a work of Grace, 
 
 'To others it is thus dijcovered. Ro.io.io 
 1 . By an experimental confeffion of '* *' 27 
 his Faith in Chrijl. 2. By a lifeanjwer- j 2 ' 4> ", 5 
 able to that confeffion, to wit, a life ofpc. 50. 23 
 holinefs; heart -holinejs, family -holi- ]ob. ^. 
 nejs, (if he hath a Family) and by Con- 5 ' 6 - 
 verfation-holinejs in the world', which ze ' * 9 
 in the general teacheth him, inwardly 
 to abhor his Sin, and hi?njelf for that 
 in Jeer et, tojupprejs it in his Family, 
 and to promote holinejs in the World; 
 
 not 
 
ii 6 e&e Pilgrims Piogrefo 
 
 not by talk only, as an Hypocrite 01 
 Talkative P erf on may do : but byap a- 
 clicalSubjetlionin Faith, and Love, to 
 the power of the word: And now Sir, 
 as to this brief defer ipt ion of the work 
 of Grace , and alfo the difcovery of it, 
 if you have ought to objeel, objeel : if 
 not, then give me leave to propound to 
 you ajecond queftion. 
 Another Talk. Nay, my part is not now to 
 good fign objeel:, but to hear, let me therefore 
 of Grace. ^ VQ y QUr f econc [ queftion. 
 
 Faith. It is this, Do you experience 
 the fit ft part of this defer iption of it? 
 and doth your life and conversation tefti- 
 fie the fame? or ft andeth your Religion 
 in Word or in Tongue , and not in 
 DeecUWTruth.? pray, if you incline to 
 anfwer me in this, Jay no more then you 
 know the God above will/ay Amen to; 
 and alfo, nothing but what your Con- 
 fcience can juftifie you in. For, not he 
 that commendeth himfelf is appro- 
 ved, but whom the Lord commen- 
 deth. BefideSy to Jay I am thus, and 
 thus, when my Converfation, and all 
 
 Talkative m ^ Neighbours tell me, I lye, is great 
 
 with™' wickednejs. 
 
 Faithfuls Talk. Then Talkative at fir ft be- 
 
 quejlion. gan to blufh, but recovering himfelf, 
 
 Thus 
 
Cfje pignuts Pzogref^ "7 
 
 Thus he replyed, You come now to 
 Experience, to Confcience, and God: 
 and to appeals to him for j unification 
 of what is fpoken: This kind of dif- 
 courfe I did not expect, nor am I dif- 
 pofed to give an anfwer to fuch 
 queflions , becaufe I count not my 
 felf bound thereto, unlefs you take 
 upon you to be a Catechizer; and, 
 though you mould fo do, yet I may 
 refufe to make you my Judge: But I 
 pray will you tell me, why you ask 
 me fuch queftions ? 
 
 Faith. Becaufe If aw youforwardto 
 talk , and becaufe I knew not that you ^/ p*^ 
 had ought elfe but notion, Befides to f u i p ut t0 
 tell you all the Truth, I have heard ofbim that 
 you, that you are a Manwhofe Reli-v* e ft™ n - 
 gion lies in talk, and that your Conver- ^uhfuls 
 fat ion gives this your Mouth-prof ej/ion, - t ™ n t0 
 the lye. They fay 7ou are a fpot a- Talkative. 
 mong Chriftians , and that Religion 
 fareth the worfe for your ungodly con- 
 verfation, that fome already have ft um- 
 bled at your wicked ways , and that 
 more are in danger of being deftroyed 
 thereby ; your Religion, and an Ale- 
 Houfe, and Covetoufnefs, and uncle an- 
 nefs<> and f wearing, and lying, and vain 
 Company-keeping , &c. will ft and to- 
 I gether. 
 
ii 8 e&e Pilgrims p^ogrefo 
 
 get her, The proverb is true of you> 
 which is /aid of a Whore \ to wit That 
 /he is a Jhame to all Women ; Jo you 
 are afoame to all Profejfors. 
 
 Talk. Since you are ready to take 
 
 *^ lve up reports, and to judge fo rafhly 
 
 way from as y ou do 5 I cannot but conclude 
 
 Faithful, you are fome peevim, or melancholly 
 
 Man , not fit to be difcourfed with, 
 
 and fo adieu. 
 
 Chr. Then came up Chriftian, and 
 faid to his Brother, I told you how it 
 would happen, your words and his 
 lufts could not agree ; he had ra- 
 ther leave your company , then re- 
 form his life : but he is gone as I faid, 
 let him go ; the lofs is no mans but 
 dance "" ^ s own > ne ^ as f ave d us the trouble 
 of going from him ; for he continu- 
 ing, as I fuppofe he will do, as he is , 
 he would have been but a blot in our 
 Company : befides, the Apoftle fays, 
 From fuch withdraw thyjelf 
 
 Faith. But I am glad we had this 
 little dijcourfe with him, it may hap" 
 fen that he will think of it again ; how* 
 ever, I have dealt plainly with him y 
 and Jo am clear of his bloody if he 
 perifheth. 
 
 Chr. You did well to talk fo plain- 
 
€&e Pilgrims p?ogxef& 
 
 ly to him as you did, there is but 
 little of this faithful dealing with 
 men now a days ; and that makes 
 Religion fo ftink in the noftrills of 
 many, as it doth: for they are thefe 
 Talkative Fools , whofe Religion is 
 only in word, and are debauched and 
 vain in their Converfation, that (be- 
 ing fo much admitted into the Fel- 
 low/hip of the Godly) do ftumble 
 the World, blemifh Chriftianity, and 
 grieve the Sincere. I wifh that all 
 Men would deal with fuch, as you 
 have done, then mould they either be 
 made more conformable to Religion, 
 or the company of Saints would be 
 too hot for them. 
 How Talkative at firji lifts up his 
 
 Plumes ! 
 How bravely doth he /peak.! how he pre- 
 
 fumes 
 To drive down all before him ! but fo 
 
 foon 
 As Faithful talks of Heart work, like 
 
 the Moon 
 That's pafl the fully into the wain he 
 
 goes; 
 And fo will all y but he that Heart work 
 
 knows. 
 
 I 2 Thus 
 
 1 1 
 
120 Cfjc Pilgrims p?ogte&. 
 
 Thus they went on talking of what 
 they had feen by the way ; and To 
 made that way eafie, which would 
 otherwife, no doubts have been tedi- 
 ous to them : for now they went 
 through a Wildernefs. 
 
 Then I faw in my Dream, that 
 when they were got out of the Wil- 
 dernefs , they prefently faw a Town 
 before them, and the name of that 
 Town is Vanity ; and at the Town 
 there is a Fair kept, called Vanity- 
 Fair: It is kept all the Year long, it 
 beareth the name of Vanity-Fair, be- 
 caufe the Town where tis kept, is 
 ifa.40. 17 lighter then Vanity; and alfo, becaufe 
 Eccl. 1. all that is there fold, or that cometh 
 chap. 2 11 thither, is Vanity. As is the faying 
 1? ' of the wife, All that cometh is vanity. 
 
 This Fair is no new erected bufi- 
 nefs, but a thing of Ancient {land- 
 ing ; I will fhew you the original of it. 
 Almoft five thoufand years a- 
 " h ~ gone, there were Pilgrims walking 
 this Fair t0 ^ e Cceleftial City, as thefe two 
 honeft perfons are ; and Beelzebub, 
 Apollyon , and Legion , with their 
 Companions, perceiving by the path 
 that the Pilgrims made , that their 
 way to the City lay through this 
 
 'Town 
 
€&e Pilgrims iPiogtefs* *** 
 
 70W# of Vanity, they contrived here 
 to fet up a Fair ; a Fair wherein 
 fhould be fold of all forts of Vanity > 
 and that it fhould laft all the year 
 long. Therefore at this Fair are _., 
 all fuch Merchandize fold, AsHoufes, c h an di%eoj 
 Lands , Trades , Places , Honours, this fair. 
 Preferments, Titles,Countreys,King- 
 doms, Lufts, Pleafures and Delights of 
 all forts, as Whores, Bauds, Wives, 
 Husbands, Children, Matters, Ser- 
 vants, Lives, Blood, Bodies, Souls, 
 Silver, Gold, Pearls, precious Stones, 
 and what not. 
 
 And moreover,at thisFair there is at 
 all times to be feen Juglings, Cheats, 
 Games, Plays, Fools, Apes, Knaves, 
 and Rogues, and that of all forts. 
 
 Here are to be feen, and that for 
 nothing, Thefts, Murders, Adul- 
 tries, Falfe-fwearers , and that of a 
 blood-red colour. 
 
 And as in others fairs of lefs mo- 
 ment,there are the feveral Rows and 
 Streets, under their proper names, 
 where fuch and fuch Wares are 
 vended : So here likewife, you have 
 the proper Places, Rows, Streets, 
 (viz. Countreys and Kingdoms,) 
 where the Wares of this Fair are 
 I 3 fooneft 
 
122 €&e Pilgrims Pjogtefo 
 
 Tke streets fooneft to be found : Here is the Brit 
 
 ofthisfair. tain Row, the French Row, the Ita 
 
 Han Row , the Spanijh Row , th 
 
 German Row, where feveral forts o 
 
 Vanities are to be fold. But as in o 
 
 ther fairs fome one Commodity i 
 
 as the chief of all the fair, fo the Wan 
 
 of Rome and her Merchandize i 
 
 greatly promoted in this fair : Onh 
 
 our Englifh Nation, with fome others 
 
 have taken a diflike thereat. 
 
 iCor.510. Now, as I faid , the way to th< 
 
 ar^-u^Cceleftial City lyes juhV thorow thl 
 
 Ms fair <r ° Wn > Whei * e th ^ S 1U ^ FaIr IS ke P t; 
 
 and he that will go to the City, am 
 yet not go thorow this Town , muj 
 needs go out of the World. The Prino 
 of Princes himfelf, when here, wen 
 through this 'Town to his own Coun 
 trey, and that upon a Fair-day too 
 Mat. 4 8.^ ea > anc ^ as I think, it was Beel 
 Luke 4, 5. zebub the chief Lord of this Fairl 
 6, 7. that invited him to buy of his Va. 
 nities; yea, would have made run! 
 Lord of the Fair, would he but havi 
 done him Reverence as he wen) 
 thorow the Town. Yea, becaufe h 
 was fuch a perfon of Honour , Beel 
 zebub had him from Street to Street\ 
 and mewed him all the Kingdoms 01 
 
 th 
 
Cfje pilgrims l&ogrefs. ^3 
 
 the World in a little time, that he 
 might, if poflible, alure that BlefTed 
 One, to cheapen and buy fome of his c/ril 
 Vanities, But he had no mind to the bought ?io< 
 Merchandize, and therefore left the thing in 
 'Town , without laying out fo much this fair 
 as one Farthing upon thefe Vanities. 
 This Fair therefore is an Ancient 
 thing , of long (landing, and a very 
 great Fair. 
 
 Now thefe Pilgrims, as I faid, mud T/:e ?u 
 needs go thoro w thlsf air : Well,fo they ^ r i ?ns en . 
 did; but behold, even as theyentredterAfe/*/r 
 into the fair, all the people in the fair 
 were moved, and the Town it felf as it q , f . . 
 were in a Hubbub about them ; and a } m bb u b 
 that for feveral reafons : For, about than. 
 
 Firft, The Pilgrims were cloathed 
 with fuch kind of Raiment, as was T h *fi r ft 
 diverfe from the Raiment of anyf „ r 
 
 1 m 1 • rr^i 1 hubbuo. 
 
 that Traded in that fair. The people 
 therefore of the fair made a great 
 gazing upon them : Some faid they 
 were Fools, fome they were Bedlams, 
 and fome they are Outlandim-men. 
 
 Secondly, And as they wondred g 
 at their Apparel, fo they did likevvife 2 ^. caufe 
 at their Speech , for few could un- of the hub- 
 derftand what they faid ; they natu- bub - 
 rally fpoke the Language of Canaan 
 I 4. but 
 
i24 Cfje Pilgrims Piogrefe, 
 
 but they that kept the fair, were the 
 men of this World : So that from 
 one end of the/^/> to the other, they 
 feemed Barbarians each to the other. 
 
 Thirdly, But that which did not 
 a little amufe the Merchandizers, 
 was,that thefe Pilgrims fet very light 
 by all their Wares, they cared not, 
 fo much as to look upon them : and 
 if they called upon them to buy, they 
 would put their fingers in their ears, 
 
 Pfal. 119. j r cr* • r 
 
 and cry, Turn away mine eyes from 
 beholding vanity ; and look upwards,! 
 
 Phil. 3. 19 Signifying that their Trade and Traf- 
 
 20. nek was in Heaven. 
 
 One chanced mockingly, behold- 
 ing the carriages of the men, to fay 
 unto them , What will ye buy ? buti 
 they, looking gravely upon him,faid, 
 
 Pf zx 23 ^ e buy the Truth. At that, there was' 
 an occafion taken to defpife the meni 
 They are the more ; fome mocking, fome taun- 
 
 mockea. ting , fome fpeaking reproachfully, 
 . . and fome calling upon others to fmite 
 
 a hubbub 1 tnem> At laft things came to an hub- 
 bub and great ftir in the fair, in fo 
 much that all order was confounded. 
 Now was word prefently brought to 
 the, great one of the fair, who quickly 
 came down , and deputed fome of 
 
 his 
 
Cfte Pilgrims P?og;ref& 1 25 
 
 his moft trufty friends to take thefe 
 men into examination, about whom They are 
 the fair was almoft overturned. So examned - 
 the men were brought to examina- 
 tion ; and they that fat upon them, 
 asked them whence they came, whe- 
 ther they went , and what they did 
 there in fuch an unufual Garb ? The ^ teil 
 men told them, that they were Yi\- who they 
 grims and Strangers in the World, are and 
 and that they were going to their w ^ ence 
 own Countrey, which was the Hea-' % ^' 
 venly Jerusalem ; and that they had 
 given none occafion to the men of the 
 Town , nor yet to the Merchandi- 
 zes, thus to abufe them, and to let 
 them in their Journey. Except itwas, 
 for that, when one asked them what 
 they would buy,they faid they would 
 buy the Truth. But they that were They ™'e 
 appointed to examine them, did not not beliecv - 
 believe them to be any other then* 
 Bedlams and Mad , or elfe fuch as 
 came to put all things into a confufion 
 in the fair. Therefore they took them _., 
 and beat them, and befmeared them. p ut in the 
 with dirt , and then put them into Cage. 
 theCage, that they might be made 
 a Spectacle to all the men of the fair. 
 There therefore they lay for fome 
 
 time, 
 
i26 c&e Pilgrims H^ogrefk 
 
 time, and were made the objects of 
 any mans fport, or malice, or re- 
 
 ba iour'i ven S e * ^he S reat one °^ ^ e f a * r 
 the Cage, laughing ftill at all that befel them. 
 But the men being patient, and not 
 rendering railing for railing, but con- 
 trarywife blefling , and giving good 
 words for bad , and kindnefs for in- 
 juries done: Some men in the fair 
 The men of 'that were more obferving, and lefs 
 the f air do prejudiced then the reft, began to 
 
 f mL° g 1hL check and blame the bafer fort for 
 feUves a- their continual abufes done by them 
 
 bout thefe to the men : They therefore in angry 
 t<wo men. manner let fly at them again, count- 
 ing them as bad as the men in the 
 Cage , and telling them that they 
 feemed confederates, and mould be 
 made partakers of their misfortunes. 
 The other replied , That for ought 
 they could fee, the men were quiet, 
 and fober, and intended no body any 
 harm ; and that there were many 
 that Traded in thtir fair , that were 
 more worthy to be put into the Cage, 
 yea, and Pillory too, then were the 
 men that they had abufed. Thus, 
 after divers words had pafTed on both 
 fides, (the men themfelves behaving 
 themfelves all the while very wifely 
 
 and 
 
€&e pilgrnns l&ogrefc. 127 
 
 and foberly before them,) they fell 
 to fome Blows , and did harm one to , 
 another. Then were thefe two poor ma< iJ t fo e 
 men brought before their Examiners Authors of 
 again , and there charged as being this dijlur- 
 guilty of the late Hubbub that had bance - 
 been in the fair. So they beat them They are 
 pitifully, and hanged Irons upon ^ *#«*<* 
 them, and led them in Chaines, up dQrwn the 
 and down the fair , for an exam pie "!' ! n r 
 
 1 1 n nil Chainesjor 
 
 and a terror to others, leit any mould a terror to 
 further fpeak in their behalf, or joyn others. 
 themfelves unto them. But Chriftian 
 and Faithful behaved themfelves yet 
 more wifely, and received the igno- 
 miny and fhame that was carl: upon 
 them, with fo much meeknefs and 
 patience, that it won to their {\fe Some of the 
 (though but few in comparifon of the men °J the 
 reft.)feveral of the men inthe/^/r.This^^ lc0;z 
 put the other party yet into a greater 
 rage , infomuch that they concluded 
 the death of thefe two men. Where- their ad- 
 fore they threatned that the Cage nor ™rf"™* 
 Irons mould ferve their turn, but that r k -,°,X e t0 
 they mould die, for the abufe they 
 had done, and for deluding the men 
 of the fair. 
 
 Then were they remanded to the 
 Cage again until further order mould 
 
 be 
 
128 c&e Pilgrims P?og;ref& 
 
 taken with them. So they put them 
 Tbey are in, and made their feet faft in the 
 again put Stocks. Then a convenient time be- 
 *c° the d in & a PP omte< ^ > tne y brought them 
 after "" ^ ort ^ to ^ lt Tryal in order to their 
 brought to Condemnation. When the time was 
 Tryal. come, they were brought before their 
 Enemies and arraigned; the Judge's 
 name was Lord Hategood. Their In- 
 dictment was one and the fame in fub- 
 ftance, though fomewhat varying 
 in form; the Contents whereof was 
 this. 
 Their in- 'That they were enemies to y an I diftur- 
 diament. bers of their Trade \ that they hadmade 
 Commotions andDivi/ions in theTown y 
 and had won a party to their own moft 
 dangerous opinions > in contempt of the 
 Law of their Prince. 
 Faithfuls Then Faithful began to anfwer, 
 anfwerfor That he had only fet himfelf againft 
 himfelf. that which had fet it felf againft him 
 that is higher then the higheft. And 
 faid he, As for difturbance, I makei 
 none, being my felf a man of Peace ; 
 the Party that were won to us, were 
 won by beholding our Truth and In- 
 nocence , and they are only turned 
 from the worfe to the better. And as 
 to the King you talk of, fince he isj 
 
 Beelzebub, 
 
€&e pilgrims Pjogrcft- 12 
 
 Beelzebub, the Enemy of our Lord, 
 I defie him and all his Angels. 
 
 Then Proclamation was made.that 
 they that had ought to fay for their 
 Lord the King againft thePrifoner at 
 the Bar, mould forthwith appear and 
 give in their evidence. So there came 
 in three WitnefTes, to wit, Envy, Su- 
 perftition, and Pickthank. They was 
 then asked, If they knew the Pri- 
 foner at the Bar ? and what they had 
 to fay for their Lord the King againft 
 him. 
 
 Then ftood forth Envy, and faid to 
 this effect ; My Lord, I have known 
 this man a long time, and will atteft 
 upon my Oath before this honoura- 
 ble Bench, That he is 
 
 Judge. Hold, give him his Oath ; 
 So they fware him. Then he faid, My 
 Lord, This man, notwithstanding his 
 plaufible name, is one of the vileft 
 men in our Countrey ; He neither 
 regardeth Prince nor People, Law 
 nor Cuftom : but doth all that he can 
 to poffefs all men with certain of his 
 difloyal notions, which he in the 
 general calls Principles of Faith and 
 Holinefs. And in particular, I heard 
 him once my felf affirm, That Chri- 
 
 Jiianity 
 
i jo c&e Pilgrims P?ogref& 
 
 ftianity, and the Cuftoms of our Town 
 of Vanity, were Diametrically oppo/ite> 
 and could not be reconciled. By which 
 faying, my Lord, he doth at once, 
 not only condemn all our laudable 
 doings, but us in the doing of them. 
 
 Judg. Then did the Judge fay to 
 him, Haft thou any more to fay ? 
 
 Env. My Lord I could fay much 
 more, only I would not be tedious 
 to the Court. Yet if need be, when 
 the other Gentlemen have given in 
 their Evidence , rather then any 
 thing mail be wanting that will dif- 
 patch him , I will enlarge my Tefti- 
 mony againft him. So he was bid 
 ftand by. Then they called Superfti- 
 tion y and bid him look upon the Pri 
 foner ; they alfo asked , What he 
 could fay for their Lord the King a 
 gainft him ? Then they fware him, fo 
 he began. 
 
 Super. My Lord, I have no great 
 acquaintance with this man, nor do 
 Ideiire to have further knowledge 
 of him ; However this I know, that 
 he is a very peftilent fellow, from 
 fome difcourfe that the other day 
 had with him in this Town; for then 
 talking with him, I heard him fay, 
 
 That 
 
Cfte Pilgrims ipjogrefo 131 
 
 That our Religion was naught, and 
 fuch by which a man could by no 
 means pleafe God : which fayings of 
 'his, my Lord , your Lord/hip very 
 well knows, what necefTarily thence 
 will follow, two wit, That we {till do 
 worfhip in vain, are yet in our Sins, 
 and finally mail be damned ; and 
 this is that which J have to fay. 
 
 Then was Pickthank fworn , and 
 bid fay what he knew, in behalf of 
 their Lord the King againft the Pri- 
 foner at the Bar. 
 
 Pick. My Lord, and you Gentle- Pick * 
 men all, This fellow I have known of *"*j^ 
 a long time , and have heard him eJ immy ' 
 fpeak things that ought not to be 
 fpoke. For he hath railed on our 
 noble Prince Beelzebub , and hath 
 fpoke contemptibly of his honoura- sinsarea ^ 
 ble Friends, whofe names are the Lord i orc { s anc i 
 Oldman, the Lord Carnal delight, the Great ones. 
 Lord Luxurious, the Lord Defire of 
 Vain-glory, my old Lord Lechery, Sir 
 Having Greedy , with all the reft 
 of our Nobility ; and he hath faid 
 moreover, that if all men were of 
 his mind , if poflible , there is not 
 one of thefe noble Men mould have 
 any longer a being in this Town. 
 
 Befides, 
 
J 3* Cfie Pilgrims H&ogrefg* 
 
 Befides, he hath not been afraid 
 
 to rail on you, my Lord, who are 
 
 now appointed to be his Judge , 
 
 calling you an ungodly Villian, with 
 
 many other fuch like vilifying terms, 
 
 by which he hath befpattered moft of 
 
 the Gentry of our Town. When 
 
 this Pickthank had told his tale, the 
 
 Judge directed his fpeech to the Pri- 
 
 foner at the Bar, faying, Thou Runa- 
 
 FaIthfu ] s gate, Heretick, and Traitor, haft 
 
 defence of thou heard what thefe honeft Gentle- 
 
 bimfelf. men have witneffed againft thee ? 
 
 Faith. May I/peak a few words in 
 my own defence ? 
 
 Judg. Sirrah, Sirrah, thou defer- 
 veft to live no longer, but to be flain 
 immediately upon the place; yet that 
 all men may fee our gentlenefs to- 
 wards thee , let us fee what thou 
 haft to fay. 
 
 Faith. 1. 1 fay then inanfwerto what 
 Mr. Envy hath fpoken, I never faid 
 ought but this, That what Rule, or 
 Laws, or Cuftom, or People, were flat 
 againft the Word of God, are diame- 
 trically oppofite to Chriftianity . If I 
 have faid a mifs in this, convince me 
 of my errour, and I am ready here 
 before you to make my recantation. 
 
 2. As 
 
C&e Pilgrims P?ocjrel& i 33 
 
 2. As to the fecond, to wit, Mr. 
 Super ftition, and his charge againft 
 me, I faid only this. That in the wor- 
 [hip of God there is required a divine 
 Faith ; but there can be no divine Faith, 
 without a divine Revelation of the will 
 of God : therefore whatever is thruft 
 into the worfhip of God, that is not a- 
 greeable to a divine Revelation, cannot 
 be done but by an humane Faith, which 
 Faith will not -profit to Eternal life. 
 
 3. As to what Mr. Pickthank hath 
 faid , I fay, (avoiding terms , as 
 that I am faid to rail, and the like) 
 That the Prince of this Town, with 
 all the Rablement his Attendants, 
 by this Gentlemen named, are more 
 fit for a being in Hell, then in this 
 Town and Countrey ; and fo the 
 Lord have mercy upon me. 
 
 Then the Judge called to the Jury The Judg 
 (who all this while ftood by, to hear bisfpeecb 
 and obferve) Gentlemen of the Jury, t0 the J u 
 you fee this man about whom fo r> * 
 great an uproar hath been made in 
 this Town: you have alfo heard what 
 thefe worthy Gentlemen have wit- 
 nerTed againft him ; alfo you have 
 heard his reply and confeffion : It 
 lieth now in your brefts to hang him, 
 K or 
 
J34 Cfte Pilgrims p#}gtefo 
 
 or fave his life. But yet I think meet 
 to inftruct you into our Law. 
 There was an Act made in the days 
 
 Exod. i of Pharaoh the Great, Servant to our 
 Prince, That left thofe of a contrary 
 Religion mould multiply and grow, 
 too ftrong for him, their Males mould 
 be thrown into the River. There was 
 alfo an Act made in the days of Ne- 
 
 Dan. 3. buchadnezzar the Great, another of 
 his Servants, That whoever would 
 not fall down and worfhip his golden 
 Image , mould be thrown into a 
 fiery Furnace. There was alfo an 
 
 Dan. 6. Act made in the days of Darius ,That 
 who fo, for fome time , called upon 
 any God but his, mould be caft in- 
 to the Lions Den. Now the fubftance 
 of thefe Laws this Rebel has broken, 
 not only in thought (which is not to 
 be born) but alfo in word and deed; 
 which muft therefore needs be intol- 
 erable. 
 
 For that of Pharaoh, his Law was 
 made upon a fuppofition, to prevent 
 mifchief, no Crime being yet ap- 
 parent ; but here is a Crime appa- 
 rent. For the fecond and third, you 
 fee he difputeth ap^ainft our Religion; 
 and for the Treafon he hath confefTed, 
 he deferveth to die the death. Then 
 
C6e pilgrims Piogref*. 135 
 
 Then went the Jury out, whofe 
 names were, Mr. Blind-man, Mr. No- 
 goody Mr. Malice, Mr. Love-lufl, Mr. 
 Live- loofe, M r . Heady , M r . High - m ind, 
 Mr. Enmity, Mr. L)vzr, Mr. Cruelty, 
 Mr. Hate- light , and Mr. Implacable, 
 who every one gave in his private 
 Verdict againft him among them- 
 felves, and afterwards unanimoufly 
 concluded to bring him in guilty be- 
 fore the Judge. And firft Mr. Blind- 
 man, the foreman, faid , I fee clear h 
 that this man is an Heretick. Thei. 
 faid Mr. No -good, Away withfuch a 
 fellow from the Earth. Ay, faid Mr. 
 Malice , for I hate the very looks of 
 him. Then faid Mr. Love-luft, I could 
 never in dure him. iW7,faidMr. Live- 
 looJe,for he would alwayes be condem- 
 ning my way. Hang him, hang him, 
 faid Mr. Heady. AJorry Scrub, faid 
 Mr. High -mind. My heart rifeth a- 
 gainft him, faid Mr. Enmity. He is a 
 Rogue, faid Mr. Lyar. Hanging is too 
 good for him, faid Mr. Cruelty. Lets 
 difpatch him out of the way, faid Mr. 
 Hate-light. Then faid Mr. Implacable, 
 Might I have all the World given me, 
 I could not be reconciled to him, there- 
 fore let us forthwith bring him in 
 K 1 guilty 
 
136 €&e Pilgrims p?og;tcfe: 
 
 guilty of death: Andfo they did, there- 
 fore he was prefently Condemned, 
 To be had from the place where he 
 was, to the place from whence he 
 death of came, and there to be put to the moft 
 Faithful, cruel death that could be invented. 
 They therefore brought him out, to 
 do with him according to their Law; 
 and firiT. they Scourged him, then they 
 Buffetted him, then they Lanced his 
 flefh with Knives ; after that, they 
 Stoned him with Stones, then prickt 
 him with their Swords, and laft of all 
 they burned him to Ames at the Stake. 
 Thuscame Faithful to his end. Now, I 
 faw that there flood behind the multi- 
 tude,a Chariot and a couple of Horfes, 
 waiting for Faithful, who (fo foon as 
 his adverfaries had difpatched him) 
 was taken up into it , and ftraight- 
 way was carried up through the 
 Clouds, with found of Trumpet, the 
 neareft way to the Cceleftial Gate. 
 Chriftian But as for Chriftian , he had fome re- 
 tsftiiia fp} t) and was remanded back to pri- 
 fon, fo he there remained for a fpace : 
 But he that over-rules all things, 
 having the power of their rage in his 
 own hand, fo wrought it about, that 
 Chriftian for that time efcaped them, 
 and went his wav. Well 
 
€f)c Pilgrims Piogre©. 137 
 
 IVell, Faithful,^ hajl faithfully profeji 
 Unto thy Lord : with him thou Jhalt be 
 
 bleft; 
 JVhen Faithlefs ones , with all their 
 
 vain delights , 
 Are crying out under their hellijh plights 
 Sing, Faithful, fmg ; and let thy name 
 
 furvive, 
 For though they faH'd thee, thou art yet 
 
 alive. 
 
 Now I faw in my Dream, that 
 Chriftian went not forth alone, for 
 there was one whofe name was Hope, chriftiai 
 ful, (being made fo by the beholding has ano- 
 of Chriftian and Faithful in their aer( ^om- 
 words and behaviour, in their fuffer-^ *- 
 ings at the fair) who joyned himfelf 
 unto him, and entering into a bro- 
 therly covenant , told him that he 
 would be his Companion. Thus one 
 died to make Teftimony to the Truth, 
 and another rifes out of his Ames to 
 be a Companion with Chriftian. This 
 Hopeful Mo told Chriftian, that there JJ ere ts 
 were many more of the men in the ZZlflhl 
 fair that would take their time and fair nviU 
 follow after. follow 
 
 So I faw that quickly after they 
 
 were got out of the fair , they over- 
 
 K 3 took 
 
13 8 €f)e Pilgrims P?og;refo 
 
 took one that was going before them, 
 They over- w hofe name was By -ends; fo they faid 
 take By- to him , What Countrey-man, Sir ? 
 ends. and how far go you this way ? He 
 told them , That he came from the 
 Town of Fair-Jpeech, and he was go- 
 ing to the Coeleftial City, (but told 
 them not his name.) 
 
 From Fair-fpeech^/W Chriftian; is 
 there any that be good live there ? 
 By-ends. Yes, faid By-ends, I hope. 
 Chr. Pray Sir, what may Icallyou? 
 B ends By-ends. I am a Stranger to you, 
 loth to tell an d you to me; if you be going this 
 bis name, way, I fhall be glad of your Com- 
 pany ; if not, I muft be content. 
 
 Chr. This 'Town of Fair-fpeech, / 
 have heard of it, and, as I remember, 
 they Jay its a Wealthy place. 
 
 By ends. Yes, I will afiure you that 
 it is , and I have very many Rich 
 Kindred there. 
 
 Chr. Pray who are your Kindred 
 there, if a man may be Jo bold? 
 
 By-ends. To tell you Truth, I am a 
 Gentleman of good Quality ; yet 
 my Great Grand- father was but a 
 Water-man , looking one way, and 
 Rowing another; and I got moft of 
 my Eftate by the fame occupation. 
 
 Chr. 
 
Chr. Are you a Married man ? 
 
 By-ends. Yes , and my Wife is a The wife 
 very Virtuous woman, the Daughter and Kin ~ 
 of a Virtuous woman : She was my t' d d . 
 Lady Fainings Daughter , therefore 
 me came of a very Honourable Fa- 
 mily, and is arrived to fuch a pitch 
 of Breeding, that me knows how to 
 carry it to all,even to Prince and Pea- 
 fant. 'Tis true, we fomewhat differ where By * 
 in Religion from thofe of the ftri&er ? d \ dif ' 
 
 r D i r 11 jersjrom 
 
 lort, yet but in two imall points : ot ^ ers in 
 Firft , we never ftrive againft Wind Religion. 
 and Tide. Secondly, we are alwayes 
 moft zealous when Religion goes in 
 his Silver Slippers ; we love much to 
 walk with him in the Street , if the 
 Sun mines, and the people applaud 
 it. 
 
 Then Chriftian ftept a little a to- 
 fide to his Fellow Hopeful , faying, 
 It runs in my mind that this is one 
 By-ends of Fair-fpeechjxA if it be he, 
 we have as very a Knave in our Com- 
 pany, as dwelleth in all thefe parts. 
 Then faid Hopeful , Ask him , me- 
 thinks he fhould not be afhamed of his 
 name. SoC^n^/^wcameupwithhirn 
 again, and faid , Sir, you talk as if 
 you knew fomething more then all 
 K 4 the 
 
i4o Cfte pilgrims purees. 
 
 the World doth, and if I take not my 
 markamifs, I deem I have half a guefs 
 of you : Is not your name Mr. By-ends 
 of Fair-Jpeech ? 
 
 By-ends . Thatis not my name, but 
 indeed it is a Nick-name that is given 
 me by fome that cannot abide me,and 
 I mufl be content to bear it as a re- 
 proach, as other good men have born 
 theirs before me. 
 
 Chr. But did you never give an oc- 
 cafion to men to call you by this name? 
 
 By-ends. Never, never ! The worft 
 endsro/ y " ^ at ever I did to give them an oc- 
 bis name, cafion to give me this name, was, 
 That I hadalwayes the luck to jump 
 in my Judgement with the prefent 
 way of the times, whatever it was, 
 and my chance was to get thereby ; 
 but if things are thus caft upon me, 
 let me count them a blefling, but let 
 not the malicious load me therefore 
 with reproach. 
 
 Chr. I thought indeed that you was 
 the man that I had heard of, and to tell 
 you what I think ,1 fear this name belongs 
 to you more properly then you are wil- 
 ling we Jhould think it doth. 
 
 By-ends. Well,Ifyou will thus ima- 
 gine, I cannot help it. You fhall find 
 
 me 
 
€&? Pilgrims lP?ogxcf$. hi 
 
 me a fair Company-keeper, if you He defirei 
 will (till admit me your aflbciate. t0 kee P 
 
 Chr. If you will go with us, you muft Tfrif- 
 go againjl Wind and Hide , the which, ft ian# 
 I perceive, is againjl your opinion : Tou 
 muft alfo own Religion in his Rags^ as 
 well as when in his Silver Slippers, and 
 ftand by him too, when bound in Irons, 
 as well as whenhewalketh the Streets 
 with applaufe. 
 
 By-ends. You muft not impofe, nor 
 
 Lord it over my Faith ; leave me to 
 
 my liberty, and let me go with you. 
 
 . Chr. Not a ftep further , unlefs you 
 
 will do in what I propound, as we. 
 
 Then faid By-ends , I mail never 
 defert my old Principles , fince they 
 are harmlefs and profitable. If I may 
 not go with you , I muft do as I did 
 before you overtook me, even go by 
 my felf, untill fome overtake me 
 that will be glad of my Company. 
 
 Then Chriftian and Hopeful out- 
 went him, and went till they came *k **f e 
 at a delicate Plain, called Eqfe, where 'J^f^ 
 they went with much content ; but ^ bui ^ de 
 that plain was but narrow , fo they in this life. 
 were quickly got over it. Now at the 
 further fide of that plain, was a little a dan „ er . 
 Hill called Lucre , and in that Hill 0U s Hill. 
 
 a 
 
H2 C&e pilgrims p?ogtefo 
 
 a Silver- Mine , which fome of them 
 that had formerly gone that way, 
 becaufe of the rarity of it, had turn- 
 ed afide to fee , but going too near 
 the brink of the pit, the ground being 
 deceitful under them, broke, and 
 they were flain ; fome alfo had been 
 maimed there, and could not to their 
 dying day be their own men again. 
 
 Then I faw in my Dream , that 
 a little off the road , over againft the 
 •Silver- Mine , flood!) etnas y ( Gentleman- 
 like,) to call to PafTengers to come 
 and fee : Who faid to Chriftian and 
 his Fellow ; Ho,turn afide hither,and 
 I will mew you a thing 
 
 Chr. What thing Jo de/erving y as to 
 turn us out of the way ? 
 
 De. Here is a Silver-M/«£,andfome 
 
 digging in it for Treafure; if you will 
 
 come, with a little paines, you may 
 
 richly provide for yourfelves. 
 
 Ho eful Hofef. Then faid Hopeful, Let us 
 
 tempted to gofee. 
 
 go, but Chr. Not I, faid Chriftian; I have 
 
 Chriftian heard of this place before now , and 
 holds hm j 1QW man y h ave there been flain ; and 
 befides , that Treafure is a fnare to 
 thofe that feek it, for it hindreth 
 them in their Pilgrimage. Then Chri- 
 ftian 
 
Cfte Pilgrims P?ogref& ns 
 
 ftian called to Bemas, faying, Is not. 
 
 the place dangerous ? hath it not h'm- Hos.4. is 
 
 dred many in their Pilgrimage ? 
 
 De. Not very dangerous, except 
 to thofe that are carelefs : but withal, 
 he blujhed as he fpake. 
 
 Chr. Then faid Chriftian to Hope- 
 ful, Let us not fttr a ftep, but ftill 
 keep on our way. 
 
 Hope. I will warrant you, when 
 By-ends comes up, if he hath the fame 
 invitation as we, he will turnin thither 
 to fee. 
 
 Chr. No doubt, thereof, for his 
 principles lead him that way , and 
 a hundred to one but he dies there. 
 
 De. Then Bemas called again, 
 faying, But will you not come over 
 and fee ? 
 
 Chr. Then Chriftian roundly an- 
 fwered, faying, Bemas, Thou art an C " J*" 
 Lnemy to the right ways of the^ Demas 
 Lord of this way, and haft been al- 2 Tim. 4 
 ready condemned for thine own turn- IO - 
 ing afide , by one of his Majefties 
 Judges ; and why feekeft thou to 
 bring us into the like condemnation ? 
 Befides, if we at all turn afide, our 
 Lord the King will certainly hear 
 thereof; and v/ill there put us to 
 
 fhame, 
 
i+4 Cfte pilgrims U^ogrefo 
 
 fhame, where we would ftand with 
 boldnefs before him. 
 
 Demas cried again, That he alfo 
 was one of their fraternity ; and 
 that if they would tarry a little, 
 he alfo himfelf would walk with 
 them. 
 
 Chr. Then {aidChriftian, What is 
 thy name ? is it not it by the which I 
 have called thee? 
 
 Ce. Yes, my name is Demas, I am 
 the fon of Abraham. 
 
 Chr. I know you , Gehazi was 
 
 your Great- Grandfather, and Judas 
 
 ings your Father, and you have trod their 
 
 Mat. ^6. ft e ps. It is but a develifh prank that 
 
 14, i 5 . thou ufeft: : Thy Father was hanged 
 
 chap. 27. for a Traitor, and thou deferveft no 
 
 *>*. 3,4.5- better reward. AfTure thy felf, that 
 
 when we come to the King, we will 
 
 do him word of this thy behaviour. 
 
 Thus they went their way. 
 
 By this time By-ends was come a- 
 
 By-ends gain within fight, and he at the firft 
 
 goes over beckwentover to Demas. Now whe- 
 
 to Demas. far fa f e ll into the Pit, by looking 
 
 over the brink thereof; or whether 
 
 he went down to dig, or whether he 
 
 was fmothered in the bottom , by 
 
 the damps that commonly arife, of 
 
 thefe 
 
Cfte pilgrims D^ogrefo 145 
 
 thefe things I am not certain : But 
 this I obferved, that he never was 
 {qcu. again in the way. 
 
 By-ends and Silver-Demas both agree ; 
 
 One calls, the other runs, that he may 
 be, 
 
 A Jharcr in his Lucre : fo thefe two 
 
 Take up in this world, and no fur- 
 ther go. 
 
 I faw then , that they went on a River 
 their way to a pleafant River, which Pf.65.9. 
 David the King called the River of Rev - zz - 
 God ; but John, The River of the water Ezek * 47 ' 
 of life: Now their way lay juft upon 
 the bank of the River : here there- 
 fore Chriftian and his Companion 
 walked with great delight ; They 
 drank alfo of the water of the River, 
 which was pleafant and enlivening to 
 their weary Spirits : befides, on the 
 banks of this River on either fide 
 were green Trees ,that bore all manner 
 of Fruit ; and the leaves of the Trees Tr ' es b > 
 were good for Medicine ; with the * ^T' 
 Fruit of thefe Trees they were alfo , , rmi 
 much delighted ; and the leaves they ftbeTreej. 
 eat to prevent Surfeits, and other 
 Difeafes that are incident to thofe 
 
 that 
 
1 46 €&c pilgrims Pjogrefo 
 
 that heat their blood by Travels. On 
 
 either fide of the River was alfo a 
 
 A Meadow Meadow , curioufly beautified with 
 
 m which Lilies ; And it was green all the year 
 
 ' J * y le long. In this Meadow they lay down 
 
 d ee p and ilept , for here they might lie 
 
 Pf. 22. downfafely. When they awoke, they 
 
 Ifa. 14.30. aathered again of the Fruit of the 
 
 Trees, and drank again of the Water 
 
 of the River : and then lay down 
 
 again to fleep. Thus they did feveral 
 
 days and nights. 
 
 Behold ye how thefe Chriftal Jlr earns do 
 glide 
 
 (To comfort Pilgrims) by the High- 
 way fide ; 
 
 The Meadows green, hefides their fra- 
 grant fmell, 
 
 Yield dainties for them : And he that can 
 tell 
 
 What pleafant Fruit , yea Leaves, thefe 
 Trees do yield, 
 
 Willfoon fell all , that he may buy this 
 Field. 
 
 So when they were difpofed to go 
 on (for they were not, as yet, at 
 their Journeys end) they eat and 
 drank, and departed. 
 
 Now I beheld in my Dream, that 
 
 they 
 
Cfre pilgrims pjogtcte* 147 
 
 they had not journied far, but the 
 River and the way, for a time par- 
 ted. At which they were not a little 
 forry, yet they durft not go out of 
 the way. Now the way from the 
 River was rough, and their feet ten- 
 der by reafon of their Travels ; So 
 the Joul of the Pilgrims was much dif- ^ umh 
 couraged, becaufeoftheway. Where- 21.4. 
 fore ftill as they went on,they wifhed 
 for better way. Now a little before 
 them, there was on the left hand of 
 the Road, a. Meadow, and a Stile to go 
 over into it, and that Meadow is call- 
 ed By -Path -Meadow. Then faid Chri- 
 ftian to his fellow, If this Meadow li- By-Path- 
 eth along; by our wavfide.lets 20 over Meadocw - 
 
 •* t-u i- A 4 i c**i One temt- 
 
 into it. 1 hen he went to the Stile to ,„„• . / 
 
 r 1111 tation does 
 
 lee, and behold a Path lay along by ma ke 'way 
 the way on the other fide of the for another 
 fence. 'Tis according to my wifh 
 faid Chriftian, here is the eafieft go- 
 ing ; come good Hopeful, and lets us 
 go over. 
 
 Hop. But how if this Path Jhould 
 lead us out of the way ? Stron s 
 
 Chr. That's not like, faid the o- ^f^J 
 ther ; look, doth it not go along by ^ ak ones 
 the way fide ? So Hopeful, being per- out of the 
 fwaded by his fellow, went after him ™&y> 
 
 over 
 
148 €&e pilgrims Piogrefg. 
 
 over the Stile. When they were gone 
 over, and were got into the Path, 
 they found it very eafie for their 
 feet ; and withal, they looking be- 
 fore them, efpied a Man walking as 
 they did, (and his name wasFain-con- 
 fidence) fo they called after him, and 
 asked him whither that way led ? he 
 faid, To the Cceleftial Gate. Look, 
 faid Chriftian, did not I tell you fo ? 
 by this you may fee we are right : 
 fo they followed, and he went be- 
 fore them. But behold the night came 
 on, and it grew very dark, fo that 
 they that were behind, loft the fight 
 of him that went before. 
 
 He therefore that went before 
 
 (Vain-confidence by name) not feeing 
 
 the way before him, fell into a deep 
 
 ifa. 9. 16. Yit y which was on purpofe there 
 
 catch the ma ^ e by the Prince of thofe grounds, 
 
 vain glo- to catch vain-glorious fools withall ; 
 
 riousin. and was darned in pieces with his 
 
 fall. 
 
 Now Chriftian and his fellow 
 heard him fall. So they called, to 
 know the matter , but there was 
 none to anfwer, only they heard a 
 groaning. Then faid HopefuljWhtre 
 are we now ? Then was his fellow 
 
 filent 
 
Cfte pilgrims IPjogrefe. 149 
 
 filent, as miftrufting that he had led 
 
 him out of the way. And now it be- p r ■ 
 
 j Keajonmg 
 
 gan to rain, and thunder, and lighten between 
 in a very dreadful manner, and the chriftian 
 water rofe amain. and Hope- 
 
 Then Hopeful groaned in himfelf, 
 faying, Oh that I had kept on my way! 
 Chr. Who could have thought that 
 this path mould have led us out of 
 the way ? 
 
 Hope./ was afraid on tat veryfirft> 
 and therefore gave you that gentle cau- 
 tion. I would have fpoke plainer, but 
 that you are older then I. 
 
 Chr. Good Brother be not offend- 
 ed, I am forry I have brought thee chriftians 
 
 r , J , , T P repentance 
 
 out of the way, and that I have put^ or leadi 
 thee into fuch eminent danger ; pray fbis Bro- 
 my Brother forgive me, I did not do out of the 
 it of an evil intent. cwa >- 
 
 Hope. Be comforted my Brother for 
 I forgive thee\ and believe too, that 
 this jhall be for our good, 
 
 Chr. I am glad I have with me a 
 merciful Brother : But we mufl: not 
 ftand thus, let's try to go back again. 
 
 Hope. But good Brother let me go be- 
 fore, 
 
 Chr. No, if you pleafe, let me go 
 
 firft ; that if there be any danger, J 
 
 L may 
 
iso €i)t pilgrims ip?ogref& 
 
 may be firft therein, becaufe by my 
 means we are both gone out of the 
 way. 
 
 Hope. No,faidH.optfu\ y youJhall 
 not go firft, for your mind being trou- 
 bled \ may lead you out of the way a- 
 gain. Then for their encouragement, 
 they heard the voice of one faying, 
 Let thine heart be towards the High- 
 
 Jer.31.21. way, even the way that thou went eft y 
 "They are turn again : But by this time theWa- 
 
 m danger terg were pr reat iy r jf e n, by reafon of 
 
 oj drown- , . , , D J r . J , , 
 
 ■ as which, the way or going back was 
 they go very dangerous. (Then I thought that 
 back. it is eafier going out of the way 
 when we are in, then going in when 
 we are out. ) Yet they adventured to 
 go back ; but it was fo dark, and 
 the flood was fo high, that in their 
 going back, they had like to have 
 been drowned nine or ten times. 
 
 Neither could they, with all the 
 skill they had, get again to the Stile 
 that night. Wherefore, at laft, light- 
 ing under a little fhelter, they fat 
 down there till the day brake ; but 
 in the being weary, they fell afleep. Now 
 grounds of there was not far from the place 
 Giant where they lay,a Q^/<?,called Doubt- 
 Defpair. fag Qaftle , the owner whereof was 
 
 Giant 
 
€f)C Pilgrims Ipjogtefe- 151 
 
 Giant De/pair, and it was in his 
 grounds they now were fleeping ; 
 wherefore he getting up in the morn- 
 ing early, and walking up and down 
 in his Fields , caught Chriftian and He finds 
 Hopeful afleep in his grounds. Then them ln hls 
 with a grim and Jurly voice he bid g ^" a ^ ries 
 them awake,and asked them whence them tQ 
 they were ? and what they did in his Doubting 
 grounds ? They told him, they were Cajlle. 
 Pilgrims, and that they had loft their 
 way. Then faid the Giant, You have 
 this night trefpalTed on me, by 
 trampling in , and lying on my 
 grounds, and therefore you muft go 
 along with me. So they were forced 
 to go, becaufe he was ftronger then 
 they. They alfo had but little to fay, 
 for they knew themfelves in a fault. 
 The Giant therefore drove them be- 
 fore him,and put them into his Caftle, TheGrie^ 
 into a very dark Dungeon, nafty and 0U J ne f s °J 
 (linking to the fpirit of thefe two Ljjj^JJJ^ 
 men : Here then they lay, from Wed- 
 nesday morning till Saturday night, pf. 88. 18 
 without one bit of bread, or drop of 
 drink, or any light, or any to ask how 
 they did. They were therefore here 
 in evil cafe, and were far from friends 
 and acquaintance. Now in this place, 
 L 2 Chri- 
 
x 52 Cfjc Pilgrims p?ogref& 
 
 Chriftian had double forrow, becaufe 
 'twas through his unadvifed haftethat 
 they were brought into this diftrefs. 
 
 Well, on Saturday about midnight 
 they began to pray, and continued in 
 Prayer till almoft break of day. 
 
 Now a little before it was day, 
 
 good Chriftian, as one half amazed, 
 
 brake out in this paflionate Speech, 
 
 What a fool, quoth he , am I thus to 
 
 A Key in fo e fa a ftfafcfag Dungeon, when I may 
 
 , " ld , s ' as well walk at liberty ? I have a 
 
 bofom cal- . r J . 
 
 led Pro- & e y in m y bofom, called PromiJ <?,that 
 mjfe, opens will, I am perfuaded, open any Lock 
 any Lock [ n Doubting Caftle. Then faid Hopeful, 
 
 in D clfiU That>S g °° d NCWS ; g °° d Br0ther 
 in S a J" • piucj^- it out f thy bofom and try : 
 
 Then Chriftian pulled it out of his 
 bofom, and began to try at the Dun- 
 gion door, whofe bolt fas he turned 
 the Key) gave back , and the door 
 flew open with eafe , and Chriftian 
 and Hopeful both came out. Then he 
 went to the outward door that leads 
 into the Caftle yard, and with his Key 
 opened the door alfo. After he went 
 to the Iron Gate, for that muft be 
 opened too , but that Lock went 
 damnable hard, yet the Key did open 
 it; then they thruft open the Gate 
 
 to 
 
Cfte Pilgrims Pjogrefs, 1 53 
 
 to make their efcape with fpeed, but 
 that Gate, as it opened, made fuch 
 a creaking, that it waked Giant De- 
 fpair, who haftily rifing to purfue his 
 Prifoners,felt his Limbs to fail, fo that 
 he could by no means go after them. 
 Then they went on, and came to the 
 Kings high way again, and fo were 
 fafe , becaufe they were out of his 
 Jurisdiction. 
 
 Now when they were gone over 
 the Stile, they began to contrive with 
 themfelves what they mould do at 
 that Stile,to prevent thofe that mould 
 come after , from falling into the 
 hands of Giant Defpair. So they con- 
 fented to erect there a Pillar , and to 
 engrave upon the fide thereof, Over 
 this Stile is the Way toDoubtmg- Caftle } 
 which is kept by Giant Defpair wbo y 
 dejpifeth the King of the Cceleftial Coun- 
 trey ,andfeeks to deft roy his holy Pilgrims. 
 Many therefore that followed after, 
 read what was written, and efcaped 
 the danger. This done, they fang as 
 follows. 
 Out of the way we went y and then we 
 
 found 
 What 'twas to tread upon forbidden 
 
 ground : 
 
 L J And 
 
i54 €&e Pilgrims Piogrefs* 
 
 And let them that come after have a 
 
 care, 
 Left heedlefnefs makes them, as we, to 
 
 farei 
 Left they, for trefpaffing, his prifoners 
 
 are, 
 IVhofe Caftle's Doubting , and whofe 
 
 name's Defpair. 
 
 They went then , till they came 
 T , j. to the delectable Mountains, which 
 le&able Mountains belong to the Lord of that 
 mountains. Hill, of which we have fpoken be- 
 fore ; fo they went up to the Moun- 
 tains, to behold the Gardens, and 
 V**? Orchards, the Vineyards, and Foun- 
 
 refrejhedtn . r ' 1 i /• i 1 t 
 
 the moun- tains °* water, where alio they drank, 
 tains. and warned themfelves, and did free- 
 ly eat of the Vineyards. Now there 
 was on the tops of thefe Mountains, 
 Shepherds feeding their flocks , and 
 they flood by the high- way fide. The 
 Pilgrims therefore went to them, and 
 leaning upon their ftaves, (as is com- 
 mon with weary Pilgrims, when 
 they ftand to talk with any by the 
 way,) they asked , Whofe deleft ab fa 
 Mountains are thefe? and whofe be the 
 Jheep that feed upon them ? 
 
 Sbep. 
 
Cbe IPilgrims lp?ogrefk 155 
 
 Sbep. Thefe Mountains are Imma- 
 nuels Land, and they are within fight 
 of his City , and the fheep alfo are 
 his , and he laid down his life for 
 them. John 1 0.1 1 
 
 Chr. Is this the way to the Cceleftial 
 City ? 
 
 Shep. You are juft in your way. 
 
 Chr. How far is it thither ? 
 
 Shep. Too far for any , but thofe 
 that Jhall get thither indeed. 
 
 Chr. Is the wayfaje, or dangerous ? 
 
 Shep. Safe for thofe for whom it 
 is to be fafe, but tranfgrejfors Jhall fall 
 therein. o- 1 *. ? 
 
 Chr. Is there in this place any re- 
 lief for Pilgrims that are weary ana 
 faint in the way ? 
 
 Shep. The Lord of thefe Moun- 
 tains hath given us a charge, Not to be 
 forgetful to entertain Jlrangers:There- H n< 
 fore the good of the place is even ' 
 before you. 
 
 I faw alfo in my Dream , that 
 when the Shepherds perceived that 
 they were way-fairing men 3 they alfo 
 put queftions to them, (to which they 
 made anfwer as in other places,) as, 
 Whence came you? and,How got you 
 into the way ? and, By what means 
 L 4 have 
 
*s 6 C6e Pilgrims P?ogref0. 
 
 have you fo perfevered therein ? For 
 but few of them that begin to come 
 hither , do mew their face on thefe 
 Mountains. But when the Shep- 
 herds heard their anfwers , being 
 pleafed therewith , they looked very 
 lovingly upon them ; and faid , Wel- 
 come to the delegable Mountains. 
 
 The Shepherds, I fay, whofe names 
 were, Knowledge, Experience, Watch- 
 ful, and Sincere , took them by the 
 hand, and had them to their Tents, 
 and made them partake of that 
 which was ready at prefent. They 
 faid moreover, We would that you 
 mould flay here a while, to acquaint 
 with us, and yet more to folace your- 
 felves with the good of thefe de- 
 legable Mountains. They told them, 
 That they were content to flay ; and 
 fo they went to their reft that night, 
 becaufe it was very late. 
 
 Then I faw in my Dream , that 
 in the morning, the Shepherds called 
 up Chriftian and Hopeful to walk with 
 them upon the Mountains : So they 
 went forth with them, and walked a 
 while , having a pleafant profpecl on 
 every fide. Then faid the Shepherds 
 one to another, Shall we fhew thefe 
 
 Pilgrims 
 
Cfte pilgrims l^ogrefo 157 
 
 Pilgrims fome wonders ? So when 
 they had concluded to do it, they 
 had them firft to the top of an Hill 
 called Err our > which was very fteepTfoMw/*- 
 on the further!: fide, and bid them tain °f 
 look down to the bottom. So Chri- Errour * 
 ft'tan and Hopeful lookt down, and 
 faw at the bottom feveral men darn- 
 ed all to pieces by a fall that they 
 had from the top. Then faid Chri- 
 ftian , What meaneth this ? The 
 Shepherds anfwered ; Have you 
 not heard of them that were made to 
 err , by harkening to Hymeneus, and 
 Philetus, as concerning the Faith of 
 the Refurrection of the Body ? They 
 anfwered, Yes. Then faid the Shep- 
 herds , Thofe that you fee lie darn- 
 ed in pieces at the bottom of this 
 Mountain, are they : and they have 
 continued to this day unburied (as 
 you fee) for an example to others to 
 take heed how they clamber too high, 
 or how they come too near the brink 
 of this Mountain. 
 
 Then I faw that they had them to 
 the top of another Mountain , and Mount 
 the name of that is Caution ; and bid Caution, 
 them look a far off. Which when 
 they did , they perceived as they 
 
 thought, 
 
158 c&e Pilgrims p?ogtefe. 
 
 thought, feveral men walking up and 
 down among the Tombs that were 
 there. And they perceived that the 
 men were blind , becaufe they {tum- 
 bled fometimes upon the Tombs, and 
 becaufe they could not get out from 
 among them. Then faid Chriftian> 
 What means this ? 
 
 The Shepherds then anfwered , 
 Did you not fee a little below thefe 
 Mountains a Stile that led into a 
 Meadow on the left hand of this 
 way ? They anfwered, Yes, Then faid 
 the Shepherds, From that Stile there 
 goes* a Path that leads diredtly to 
 Doubting-Caftle , which is kept by 
 Giant Defpair; and thefe men (point- 
 ing to them among the Tombs) 
 came once on Pilgrimage , as you do 
 now, even till they came to that 
 fame Stile. And becaufe the right way 
 was rough in that place, they chofe 
 to go out of it into that Meadow, 
 and there were taken by Giant De- 
 spair , and cafl: into ~DoubtingCaftle\ 
 where, after they had a while been 
 kept in the Dungeon , he at laft did 
 put out their eyes, and led them a- 
 mong thofe Tombs, where he has 
 left them to wander to this very day; 
 
 that 
 
Cbe Pilgrims li^ogteft- 159 
 
 that the faying of the wife Man 
 might be fulfilled, He that wandereth Prov "- 16 
 out of the way of underftanding , Jball 
 remain in the Congregation of the dead. 
 Then Chrijiian and Hopeful looked 
 one upon another, with tears gufh- 
 ing out ; but yet faid nothing to the 
 Shepherds. 
 
 Then I faw in my Dream,that the 
 Shepherds had them to another place, 
 in a bottom, where was a door in 
 the fide of an Hill ; and they opened 
 the door,and bid them look in. They 
 looked in therefore, and faw that 
 within it was very dark,and fmoaky ; 
 they alfo thought that they heard 
 there a lumbring noife as of fire, and 
 a cry of fome tormented, and that 
 they fmelt the fcent of Brimftone. 
 Then fa&Chriftian, What means this ? 
 The Shepherds told them, faying, 
 this is a By-way to Hell, a way that a byway 
 Hypocrites go in at ; namely, fuch as to Hell. 
 fell their Birthright, with Efau : fuch 
 as fell their Matter, with Judas: fuch 
 as blafpheme the Gofpel with Alex- 
 ander: and that lie and diffemble, 
 with Ananias and Saphira his wife. 
 
 Hopef Then faid. Hopeful to the 
 Shepherds , I perceive that thefe had 
 
 on 
 
160 Cfie Ptlgtims Pjogteft. 
 
 on them, even every one, ajhew of Pil- 
 grimage as we have now ; had they 
 not? 
 
 Shep. Yes, and held it a long time, 
 too. 
 
 Hopef. How far might they go on 
 Pilgrimage in their day ^fince they not- 
 withftanding were thus mijerably caft 
 away ? 
 
 Shep. Some further, and fome not 
 fo far as thefe Mountains. 
 
 Then faid the Pilgrims one to ano- 
 ther, We had need cry to the Strong for 
 Jlrength. 
 
 Shep. Ay, and you will have need 
 to ufe it when you have it, too. 
 
 By this time the Pilgrims had a 
 defire to go forwards, and the Shep- 
 herds a defire they mould ; fo they 
 walked together towards the end of 
 the Mountains. Then faid the Shep- 
 herds one to another, Let us here 
 fhew to the Pilgrims the Gates of the 
 Coeleftial City, if they have skill 
 to look through our Perfpective 
 Glafs. The Pilgrims then lovingly 
 accepted the motion : So they had 
 them to the top of an high Hill cal- 
 led Clear , and gave them their Glafs 
 to look. Then they effayed to look, 
 
 but 
 
but the remembrance of that laft 
 thing that the Shepheards had mew- 
 ed them, made their hand make, 
 by means of which impediment, 
 they could not look fteddily through 7hg fruh 
 the Glafs; yet they thought they of j a ^ 
 faw fomthing like the Gate, and d&fofear. 
 fome of the Glory of the place, 
 
 Thus by the Shepherds, Secrets are 
 reveaFd , 
 
 Which from all other men are kept con- 
 cealed: 
 
 Come to the Shepherds then^ if you 
 would fee 
 
 Things deep y things hid , and that my- 
 sterious 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 
 Jleep not upon the Inchanted Ground > 
 and the fourth, bid them God fpeed. 
 So I awoke from my Dream. 
 
 And I flept, and Dreamed again, 
 and faw the fame two Pilgrims going 
 down the Mountains along the High- 
 way towards the City. Now a little 
 
 below 
 
162 c&e l^tlffrims p?osteR 
 
 below thefe Mountains , on the left 
 The Coun- hand , lieth the Countrey of Conceit, 
 trey of from which Countrey there comes 
 Conceit, intQ the wa y in w hi c h the Pilgrims 
 
 Z'bL r*w Walked > a little crook 5 d Lane - H f re 
 
 ignorance therefore they met with a very brisk 
 Lad, that came out of that Coun- 
 trey ; and his name was Ignorance, 
 So Chriftian asked him, From what 
 farts he came ? and whither he was 
 going ? 
 Chriftian Ign. Sir, I was born in the Coun- 
 
 and Igno- tre y t h at JJg^ Q ff t | lere ^ a little on 
 ranee bath ^ bft hand and j ^ ; t() the 
 
 *■"* Codeftial City. * * 
 
 Chr. i?#/ how do you think to get in 
 at the Gate, for you may find Jome diffi- 
 culty there, 
 
 Ign, As other good People do, faid 
 he 
 
 Chr. But what have you to Jhew at 
 that Gate, that may caufe that the 
 Gate jhould be opened unto you ? 
 
 Ign, I know my Lords will, and 
 I have been a good Liver, I pay every 
 man his own ; I Pray , Faft , pay 
 Tithes, and give Alms , and have 
 left my Countrey , for whither I am 
 going. 
 
 Chr. But thou cameft not in at the 
 
 Wicket- 
 
Cfre pigrimis Pjogrefe, 163 
 
 Wicket-gate , that is at the head of 
 this way, thou cameft in hither through 
 that fame crooked Lane, and therefore 
 I fear , however thou may eft think of 
 thy f elf , when the reckoning day jh all 
 come, thou wilt have laid to thy charge, 
 that thou art a 'Theifanda Robber, in- 
 ftead of admit ance into the City, 
 
 Ignor. Gentlemen , ye be utter He faith 
 ftrangers to me , I know you not, be to every 
 content to follow the Religion of your one, that he 
 Countrey, and I will follow the Re- isafooL 
 ligion of mine. I hope all will be well. 
 And as for the Gate that you talk of, 
 all the World knows that that is a 
 great way off of our Countrey. I can- 
 not think that any man in all our 
 parts doth fo much as know the way 
 to it ; nor need they matter whether 
 they do or no, fince we have, as you 
 fee , a fine pleafant green Lane, 
 that comes down from our Countrey 
 the next way into it. 
 
 When Chriftian faw that the man 
 was wife in his own conceit , he faid • z6 ' 1% 
 to Hopeful , whifperingly , There is 
 more hopes of a fool then of him. And 
 faid moreover , When he that is a 
 fool walketh by the way , his wifdom Eccl.io. 3. 
 faileth him , and he faith to every one 
 
 that 
 
i6 4 €6e Pilgrims fl&osrtt«. 
 
 How to that he is a fool. What, (hall w * talk 
 carry it to further with him? or out-go him at 
 a fool. p re f ent ? and f leave him to txhink 
 of what he hath heard already ; and 
 then flop again for him afterwards, 
 and fee if by degrees we can do any 
 good of him ? 
 
 Let Ignorance a little while now mufe 
 On what is /aid , and let him not refufe 
 Good Counfel to imbrace^ lejl he remain 
 Still Ignorant of what's the chief ejl gain. 
 God faiths Thofe that no under/landing 
 
 have^ 
 {Although he made them) them he will 
 
 notfave. 
 
 Hop. It is not good , I think , to 
 fay all to him at once, let us pafs him 
 by, if you will, and talk to him anon, 
 even as he is able to bear it. 
 
 So they both went on, and Igno- 
 rance he came after. Now when 
 they had pafTed him a little way, 
 they entered into a very dark Lane, 
 where they met a man whom feven 
 Matt. 12. Devils had bound with feven ftrong 
 4.5. Prov. Cords , and were carrying of him 
 5- **• back to the door that they faw in the 
 fide of the Hill. Now good Chriftian 
 
 began 
 
Cfte Pilgrims Piogrefc. 165 
 
 began to tremble, and fo did Hopeful 
 his Companion : Yet as the Devils led 
 away the man , Chriftian looked to 
 fee if he knew him, and he thought 
 it might be one Turn-away that dwelt j^ de , 
 in the Town of Apoftacy. But hzjlruaionoj 
 did not perfectly fee his face, for one Turn- 
 he did hang his head like a Thief awa ^- 
 that is found : But being gone paft, 
 Hopeful looked after him, and efpied 
 on his back a Paper with this In- 
 fcription , TVantonProfeJfor, and dam- 
 nable Apoftate. Then faid Chriftian chriftian 
 to his Fellow, Now I call to remem- telleth his 
 brance that which was told me of Companion 
 a thing that happened to a good man a fi or y °J 
 hereabout. The name of the man p^ 6 " 
 was Little-Faith , but a good man, 
 and he dwelt in the Town of Sincere. 
 The thing was this ; at the entering 
 in of this pafTage there comes down 
 from Broad-way -gate a Lane called B ™ dwa J 
 Dead-mans-lane ; fo called, becaufe Madman 
 of the Murders that are commonly Lane. 
 done there. And this Lit tie- Faith ^ go- 
 ing on Pilgrimage , as we do now, 
 chanced to fit down there and flept. 
 Now there happened, at that time,to 
 come down that Lane from Broad- 
 way-gate three Sturdy Rogues, and 
 M their 
 
1 66 €6e Pilgrims Pjogrefo 
 
 their names were Faint-heart , Mif- 
 
 truft ,and Guilt >( three brothers^ and 
 
 they efpy'mg Lit tie-faith wherehe was 
 
 came galloping up with fpeed : Now 
 
 the good man was juft awaked from 
 
 his fleep, and was getting up to go on 
 
 Little- his Journey. So they came all up to 
 
 faith rob- him, and with threatning Language 
 
 bed by bid \i\mft and. At this, Littlefaithlookt 
 
 ^ nt " as white as a Clout, and had neither 
 
 truft and ' P werto/g£/nor^/>.Thenfaidi^/#/- 
 
 Guilt. heart , Deliver thy Purfe ; but he 
 
 making no hafte to do it, ( for he was 
 
 loth to lofe his Money, ) Mif- 
 
 truft ran up to him, and thrufting his 
 
 hand into his Pocket , pull'd out 
 
 The thence a bag of Silver. Then he cried 
 
 away his out,Thieves,thieves. With that, Guilt 
 
 Silver, and with a great Club that was in his 
 
 kmckt hand , ftrook Little-Faith on the 
 
 bim down. heac j ^ and w j t j 1 that bj ow fell'd him 
 
 flat to the ground, were he lay bleed- 
 ing as one that would bleed to death. 
 All this while the Thieves flood by : 
 But at laft, they hearing that fome 
 were upon the Road, and fearing left 
 it mould be one Great-grace that 
 dwells in the City of Good-confidence , 
 they betook themfelves to their heels, 
 and left this good man to fhift for 
 
 him- 
 
Cbe Pilgrims p?ogre& 167 
 
 himfelf. Now after a while, Little- 
 faith came to himfelf, and getting 
 up, madefhiftto fcrabbleonhisway. 
 This was the ftory. 
 
 Hopef. But did they take from him 
 all that ever he had ? ^ 
 
 Chrift. No : The place where his faith ^ e " 
 Jewels were, they never ranfak't, fo not hls bg ji 
 thofe he kept ftill ; but as, I was told, things. 
 the good man was much afflicled for 
 his lofs. For the Thieves got moft of 
 his fpending Money. That which 
 they got not (as I faid) were Jewels, 
 alfo he had a little odd Money left, ^ ^ ^ 
 but fcarce enough to bring him to z \ 
 his Journeys end ; nay , (if I was not 
 mis-informed) he was forced to beg Li/tle- 
 as he went, to keep himfelf alive, £ ith ^ 
 (for his Jewels he might not fell.)But ° hh jf ur _ ° 
 beg, and do what he could, he went neys en d. 
 (as we fay) with many a hungry belly, 
 the moft part of the reft of the 
 way. 
 
 Hopef. But is itnotawonder they got 
 not from him hisCertifcate } by which he 
 was to receive his admittance at the 
 Cceleftial gate ? 
 
 Chr. No , they got not that : 
 though thy mift it not through any 
 good cunning of his , for he being 
 & M2 dif- 
 
1 68 cfje Pilgrims IP?ogrefs. 
 
 He kept difmayed with their coming upon 
 not his bejl him, had neither power nor skill to 
 
 ttfJl hIde any thlng ; r ° ' twas more h y 
 
 cunning. S 00< ^ P roy idence then by his Indea- 
 2 Tim. i. vour, that they mift of that good 
 14. thing, 
 
 Hopef. But it muft needs be a com- 
 fort to him , that they got not this Jewel 
 from him, 
 
 Chr. It might have been great 
 tPet. 1. 9. comfort to him, had he ufed it as he 
 mould ; but they that told me the 
 ftory, faid, That he made but little 
 ufe of it all the reft of the way ; and 
 that becaufe of the difmay that he 
 had in their taking away of hisMoney: 
 indeed he forgot it a great part of the 
 reft of the Journey ; and befides, 
 when at any time, it came into his 
 mind, and he began to be comforted 
 therewith, then would frefh thoughts 
 of his lofs come again upon him, 
 and thofe thoughts would fwallow 
 up all. 
 
 Hope. Alaspor Man ! this could 
 not but be a great grief unto him. 
 Chr. Grief! Ay, a grief indeed ! 
 He is pit^ W0U 1J ^ not a been fo to any of us, 
 *! e , y had we been ufed as he, to be Rob- 
 bed and wounded too , and that in a 
 
 ft range 
 
€&e Pilgrims fl^ogrefg, 169 
 
 ftrange place , as he was ? 'Tis a 
 wonder he did not die with grief, 
 poor heart ! I was told, that he fcat- 
 tered almoft all the red of the wav 
 with nothing but doleful and bitter 
 complaints. Telling alfo to all that 
 over-took him, or that he over-took 
 in the way as he went, where he was 
 Robbed , and how ; who they were 
 that did it, and what he loft ; how 
 he was wounded, and that he hardly 
 efcaped with life. 
 
 Hope, But 'tis a wonder that his 
 
 necejfities did not put him upon felling, 
 
 or pawning/^** of his Jewels, that he 
 
 might have wherewith to relieve him- 
 
 Jelf in his Journey. 
 
 Chr. Thou talkeft like one upon 
 whofe head is the Shell to this very Chriftian 
 day : For what mould he pawn them?>#^ 
 or to whom mould he fell them ? Tn his f ell °™ 
 all that Countrey where he wasv^*/ 1 " 
 Robbed, his Jewels were not accoun- i„ gm 
 ted of, nor did he want that relief 
 which could from thence be admini- 
 ftred to him ; befides, had his Jewels 
 been miffing at the Gate of the Cce- 
 leftial City, he had (and that he 
 knew well enough) been excluded 
 from an Inheritance there ; and that 
 M 3 would 
 
170 Cfte Pilgrims Pjogrefo 
 
 would have been worfe to him then 
 
 the appearance and villany of ten 
 
 thoufand Thieves. 
 
 Hope, Why art thou Jo tart my Bro- 
 
 ther ? EJau fold his Birth-right, and 
 |6 " that for a mefs of Pottage ; and that 
 
 Birth-right was bis great eft Jewel: and 
 
 if he, why might not Little- Faith do Jo 
 
 too? 
 A difcourfe Qhr, EJau did fell his Birth-right 
 
 tTitlZ Indeed > and fo do man ? befides ; and 
 
 Faith. D y f° doing, exclude themfelves from 
 the chief bleffing, as alfo that Caytiff 
 did. But you muft put a difference be- 
 twixt EJau and Little-Faith, and 
 alfo betwixt their Eftates. EJau's 
 Birth- right was Typical, but Little- 
 faith's Jewels were not (o.Efau's belly 
 was his God, but Little Jaith's belly 
 was not fo. EJau's want lay in his 
 flefhly appetite, Little-faith's did not 
 
 ™Z T as fo * Be ^ ldes > E J au could fee no fur " 
 bis lulls tner tnen to tne fulfilling of his Lufts, 
 Gen. 25: For I am at the point to dye, faid he, 
 j*. and what good will this Birth-right do 
 
 me ? But Little-faith, though it was 
 his lot to have but a littlefaith, was 
 by his littlefaith kept from fuch ex- 
 travagancies ; and made to fee and 
 prize his Jewels more, then to fell 
 
 them, 
 
€&e Pilgrims Pjogrcft- 171 
 
 them, as Efau did his Birth-right. Efau »**/«■ 
 
 You read not any where that Efau had f aitb 
 
 had faith, no not To much as a little: 
 
 Therefore no marvel, if where the 
 
 flefh only bears fway (as it will in 
 
 that Man where no faith is to refift) 
 
 if he fells his Birth -right , and his 
 
 Soul and all, and that to the Devil of 
 
 Hell ; for it is with fuch, as it is with 
 
 the Afs, Who in her occqfions cannot be Jer. 2. 24 
 
 turned away. When their minds are 
 
 fet upon their Lulls, they will have 
 
 them what ever they coft. But Little- r . , L - ttk " 
 
 r . j r 1 1 • faith could 
 
 faith was or another temper , his mt lieve 
 mind was on things Divine ; his u p on Ef aU s 
 livelyhood was upon things that Pottage. 
 were Spiritual , and from above ; 
 Therefore to what end mould he that 
 is of fuch a temper fell his Jewels, 
 (had there been any that would have 
 bought them) to fill his mind with 
 empty things? Will a man give a 
 penny to fill his belly with Hay ? or i™** 
 can you perfuade the Turtle-dove to ^7/^ 
 live upon Carrion, like the Crow ? Turtle- 
 Though faithlefs ones, can for carnal dove and 
 Lufts, pawn,or morgage, or fell what the Ciw - 
 they have, and themfelves out right 
 to boot ; yet they that have faith, 
 faving faith , though but a little of it, 
 M 4 cannot 
 
172 Cbe Pilgrims Pjogtefe- 
 
 cannot do fo. Here therefore, my 
 Brother, is thy miftake. 
 
 Hopef. / acknowledge it ; but yet 
 your fever e refleclion had almoft made 
 me angry 
 
 Chr. Why, I did but compare thee 
 to fome of the Birds that are of the 
 brisker fort , who will run to and 
 fro in troden paths with the fhell up- 
 on their heads : but pafs by that, and 
 confider the matter under debate, 
 and all mall be well betwixt thee and 
 me. 
 
 Hopef. But Chriftian, 'Thefe three 
 fellows, Iamperfwadedin my heart, are 
 but a company of Cowards : would they 
 have run elfe, think you, as they did, 
 at the noife of one that was coming on 
 Hopeful the road? Why did not Little-faith 
 pwaggers. pl uc k up a great heart? He might, me- 
 thinks, have flood one brufh with them, 
 and have yielded when there had been 
 no remedy, 
 
 Chr, That they are Cowards, many 
 
 have faid, but few have found it fo 
 
 No great m tne ti me °f Trial. As for a great 
 
 heart for heart, Little-faith had none ; and I 
 
 God where perceive by thee, my Brother, hadft 
 
 there is but f j loxl k een ^ ]y[ an concer ned, thou 
 
 itt e/ait art j^ ^ r a brum, and then to yield. 
 
 And 
 
Coe pilgrims P?ocp:eft- 173 
 
 And verily, fince this is the height of We have 
 thy Stomach now they are at a more cou ~ 
 diftance from us, mould they appear ra f e t TJ n 
 to thee, as they did to him , they w ^„ we 
 might put thee to fecond thoughts, are in. 
 
 But confider again, they are but 
 Journey- men Thieves, they ferve un- 
 der the King of the Bottomlefs pit ; 
 who, if need be, will come to their 
 aid himfelf , and his voice is as the P&1. 5- 8 
 roaring of a Lion, I my felf have Chriftian 
 been Ingaged as this Little-faith was, tells 
 and I found it a terrible thing. Thefe ^«J7» 
 three Villains fet upon me, and I be- #/, ca f et 
 ginning like a Chriftian to refift , 
 they gave but a call, and in came 
 their Matter : I would as the fay- 
 ing is, have given my life for a pen- 
 ny ; but that, as God would have it, 
 I was cloathed with Armour of proof. 
 Ay, and yet though I was fo harnef- 
 fed, I found it hard work to quit my 
 felf like a man ; no man can tell what 
 in that Combat attends us , but he 
 that hath been in the Battle himfelf. 
 
 Hopef. Well) but they ran you fee, 
 when they did but Juppofe that one 
 Great-Grace was in the way. 
 
 Chr. True, they often fled, both 
 they and their Matter, when Great- 
 grace 
 
 L 
 
r 74 cfte Pilgrims P?ogref0. 
 
 The Kings grace hath but appeared , and no 
 Champion. marve ^ fa he ' isthe Kings Champion: 
 But I tro, you will put fome diffe- 
 rence between Little-faith and the 
 Kings Champion ; all the Kings Sub- 
 jects are not his Champions: nor can 
 they , when tried, do fuch feats of 
 War as he. Is it meet to think that a 
 little child mould handle Goliah as 
 David did ? or that there mould be 
 the ftrength of an Ox in a Wren ? 
 Some are ftrong , fome are weak, 
 fome have great faith , fome have lit* 
 tie : this man was one of the weak, 
 and therefore he went to the walls 
 
 Hopef. I would it had been Great- 
 grace, for their Jakes. 
 
 Chr. If it had been he, he might 
 have had his hands full: For I muft 
 tell you, That though Great-grace is 
 excellent good at his Weapons, and 
 has and can, fo long as he keeps 
 them at Swords point, do well e- 
 nough with them : yet if they get 
 within him, even Faint-heart, Mi- 
 ftruft, or the other, it mall go hard 
 but they will throw up his heels. And 
 when a man is down,you know what 
 can he do. 
 
 Who fo looks well upon Great- 
 
 graces 
 
Cbe Pilgrims Ippgtefo 175 
 
 grace's face, fhall fee thofe Scars and 
 Cuts there, that fhall eafily give de- 
 monftration of what I fay. Yea once 
 I heard he mould fay, (and that when 
 he was in the Combat) We defpaired 
 even of life : How did thefe fturdy 
 Rogues and their Fellows make Da- 
 vid groan, mourn , and roar ? Yea 
 Heman , and Hezekiah too , though 
 Champions in their day, were forced 
 to beftir them, when by thefe af- 
 faulted ; and yet, that notwithstand- 
 ing , they had their Coats foundly 
 brufhed by them. Peter upon a time 
 would go try what he could do ; but, 
 though fome do fay of him that he 
 is the Prince of the Apoftles , they 
 handled him fo, that they made him 
 at laft afraid of a forry Girle. 
 
 Befides, their King is at their 
 Whittle, he is never out of hearing; 
 and if at any time they be put to 
 the worft, he, if poffible, comes in to 
 help them : And, of him it is faid, 
 The Sword of him that layeth at him Job. 41. 26 
 cannot hold the Spear, the Dart, nor the 
 Habergeon ; heefteemeth Iron as Straw, . 
 
 and Brafs as rotten Wood, The Arrow thans a ur . 
 cannot make him flie , Slingftones are dinefs. 
 turned with him intoftubble>Darts are 
 
 counted 
 
176 Cfje Pilgrims l^ogrefo 
 
 counted as ftubble, he laugheth at the 
 Jhaking of a Spear. What can a man 
 do in this cafe ? 'Tis true , if a man 
 could at every turn have Jobs Horfe, 
 and had skill and courage to ride 
 The excel- him, he might do notable things. For 
 lent mettle fc s nec j z j s clothed with 'Thunder , he 
 fobs" m w ^ not b e afraid as the Grafhoper, the 
 Horr e gl° r y °f his Noftrils is terrible , he 
 paweth in the Valley , rejoyceth in his 
 jlrength,and goeth out to meet the armed 
 men. He mocketh at fear , and is not 
 affrighted , neither turneth back from 
 the Sword. The quiver rattleth againft 
 him, the glittering Spear , and the 
 fhield. He Jw allow eth the ground with \ 
 fiercenefs and rage, neither believe th he \ 
 that it is the found of the 'Trumpet. He \ 
 lob 39. 19 faith among the Trumpets, Ha, ha; andl 
 he fmelleth the Battel a far off, the ■ 
 thundring of the Captains , and the ? 
 fhoutings. 
 
 But for fuch footmen as thee and II 
 are, let us never defire to meet with 
 an enemy, nor vaunt as if we could do 
 better, when we hear of others thatt 
 they have been foiled, nor be tickled! 
 at the thoughts of our own manhood, . 
 for fuch commonly come by the worfl: 
 when tried. WitnefsP^r,of whom I 
 
 made 
 
C6e Pflgrtms K^ogtefe- 177 
 
 made mention before. He would 
 fwagger, Ay he would : He would,as 
 his vain mind prompted him to fay, 
 do better , and (land more for his 
 Matter , then all men : But who fo 
 foiled, and run down by thefe Vil- 
 lains ', as he P 
 
 When therefore we hear that fuch 
 Robberies are done on the Kings 
 High-way , two things become us 
 to do ; firft to go out HarnefTed, and 
 to be fure to take a Shield with us : For 
 it was for want of that, that he that 
 laid fo luftily at Leviathan could not 
 make him yield. For indeed, if that 
 be wanting, he fears us not at all. 
 Therefore he that had skill, hath faid, 
 Above all take the Shield of Faith ,Eph.6. 16. 
 wherewith ye Jh all be able to quench all 
 the fiery darts of the wicked, 
 
 'Tis good alfo that we defire of the , Tis ooJto 
 King a Convoy, yea that he will go ^ a 
 with us himfelf. This made David Conwy. 
 rejoyce when in the Valley of the 
 fhaddows of death; and Mofes was Ex -3 3- *5- 
 rather for dying where he flood, then 
 to go one ftep without his God. O 
 n?.y Brother, if he will but go along J fa1, 3 * s - 
 with us, what need we be afraid of '/.' 
 ten thoufands that mail fet them- 2j 3 ' 
 
 felves 
 
 
178 C&e Pilgrims Piogreft. 
 
 felves againft us, but without him, 
 ifa ic. 4. the proud helpers fall under the Jlain. 
 I for my part have been in the fray 
 before now,and though( through the 
 goodnefs of him that is beft) I am 
 as you fee alive : yet I cannot boaft 
 of my manhood. Glad mall I be, if I 
 meet with no more fuch brunts, 
 though I fear we are not got beyond 
 all danger. However, fince the Lion 
 and the Bear hath not as yet devou- 
 red me , I hope God will alfo deli- 
 ver us from the next uncircumcifed 
 Philiftine. 
 
 Poor Little-faith / Haft been among the 
 Thieves! 
 
 Waft robVd ! Remember this. Who fo 
 believes 
 
 And gets more faith , Jhall then a Vi- 
 ctor be 
 
 Over ten thoufand , elfe fcarce over 
 three. 
 
 So they went on, and Ignorance fol- 
 lowed. They went then till they 
 came at a place where they faw a 
 way put it felf into their way, and 
 A <wa f eeme d withal, to lie as ftraight as 
 undawaj. the way which they mould go ; and 
 
 here 
 
Cfce Pilgrims p?ogxets, 179 
 
 here they knew not which of the two 
 to take, for both feemed ftraight be- 
 fore them ; therefore here they flood 
 ftill to confider. And as they were 
 thinking about the way , behold a 
 man black of flefh, but covered with 
 a very light Robe, came to them and 
 asked them, Why they flood there ? 
 They anfwered, They were going to 
 the Cceleftial City , but knew not 
 which of thefe ways to take. Fol- 
 low me, laid the man, it is thither 
 that I am going . So they followed 
 him in the way that but now came ChrifHan 
 into the road, which by degrees turn- and hls 
 ed, and turned them fo from the^J^' 
 City that they defired to go to, 
 that in little time their faces were 
 turned away from it ; yet they fol- 
 lowed him. But by and by, before 
 they were aware, he led them both 
 within the compafs of a Net, in 
 which they were both fo entangled _ 
 that they knew not what to do ; and takenin a 
 with that, the white Robe fell off the Net. 
 black mans back ; then they faw where 
 they were. Wherefore there they 
 lay crying fometime, for they could 
 not get themfelves out. 
 
 Chr. Thenfaid Chriftian to his fel- 
 low, 
 
180 e&e Pilgrims P?og*e& 
 
 They be- low, Now do I fee my felf in an 
 
 nvaii their errour. Did not the Shepherds bid 
 
 conditions. us b eware f ^ flatterers ? As is 
 
 Pro. a 9 . 5 . the faying of the Wife man, fo we 
 
 have found it this day : A man that 
 
 flattereth his Neighbour ,/preadeth a 
 
 Net for his feet. 
 
 Hope/. They alfo gave us a note 
 of directions about the way, for our 
 more fure finding thereof : but there- 
 in we have alfo forgotten to read, 
 and have not kept our felves from 
 the Paths of the deftroyer. Here 
 David was wifer than wee ; for faith 
 Pfal.17.4. ne ^ Concerning the works of men, by 
 
 AJbimng ^ g WQr ^ Q jr fyy fop s ^ J J oave fc e p t m 
 
 to them f rom the Paths of the deftroyer. Thus 
 with a they lay bewailing themfelves in the 
 nubipin Net. At laft they efpied a mining 
 baud. One coming towards them, with ai 
 whip of fmall cord in his hand. When 
 he was come to the place where they 
 were, He asked them whence they 
 came ? and what they did there ? 
 They told him, That they were poor 
 Pilgrims going to Sion 3 but were 
 led out of their way, by a black man, 
 cloathed in white, who bid us, faid 
 they, follow him ; for he was go- 
 ing thither too. Then faid he with the 
 
 Whip 
 
Cfie Pilgrims P?og;tcfeu tSt 
 
 Whip; it is Flatterer, a falfe Apoftle, Pl °- 2 9- 5 
 that hath transformed himfelf into an D £"-3*. 
 Angel of light So he rent the Net ' 
 and let the men out. Then faid he 
 to them, Follow me, that I may {Qt 
 you in your way again ; fo he led 
 them back to the way, which they 
 had left to follow the Flatterer. Then 
 he asked them, faying, Where did J£?£ 
 you lie the laft night ? They faid with and con _ 
 the Shepherds upon the delectable <viaed of 
 Mountains. He asked them then y forgetful 
 If they had not of them Shepherds *&• 
 a note of direction for the way ? They 
 anfwered, Yes. But did you, faid he 
 when you was at a ftand, pluck out 
 and read your note ? They anfwered, 
 No. He asked them why ? They faid Deceivers 
 they forgot He asked moreover, If 'fi ne fP oken - 
 the Shepherds did not bid them be- R0)l6lS - 
 ware of the FlattererlThey anfwered, 
 Yes : But we did not imagine, faid 
 they, that this fine-fpoken man had 
 been he. 
 
 Then I faw in my Dream, that he 
 commanded them to lie down ; which Deu.25.2. 
 when they did, he chaftized them aChron.6. 
 fore, to teach them the good way z6 » ay - 
 wherein they mould walk ; and as R 
 he chaftized them, hefaid, As many 
 N as 
 
i82 C&e Pilgrims H&offteft. 
 
 They are as I love, I rebuke and chaften ; be 
 ivhipt,and zealous therefore, and repent. This 
 fent on done, he bids them go on their way, 
 * ™ ay ' and take good heed to the other di- 
 rections of the Shepherds. So they 
 thanked him for all his kindnefs, and 
 went foftly along the right way. 
 
 Come hither , you that walk along the 
 
 way ; 
 See how the Pilgrims fare, that go a- 
 
 sir ay ! 
 They catch ed are in an int angling Net, 
 'Caufe they good Counjel lightly did 
 
 forget : 
 'Tis true, they refcu'd were, but yet 
 
 you fee 
 They're fcourg'd to boot : Let this your 
 
 caution be. 
 
 Now after a while, they perceived 
 afar of7,one coming foftly and alone, 
 all along the High-way to meet 
 them. Then faid Chriftian to his 
 fellow, Yonder is a man with his 
 back toward Sion, and he is coming 
 to meet us. 
 
 Hopef I fee him, let us take heed 
 to our felves now, left he mould 
 prove a Flatterer alfo. So he drew 
 
 nearer 
 

 nearer and nearer, and at laft came 
 up unto them. His namewas Atheift, TfoAtheifl 
 and he asked them whether they meetsthem. 
 were going. 
 
 Chr. We are going to the Mount 
 Sion. 
 
 Then Atheift fell into a very great He Laugh 
 Laughter. ** them - 
 
 Chr. What is the meaning of your 
 Laughter ? 
 
 Atheift. I laugh to fee what igno- 
 rant perfons you are , to take upon 
 you fo tedious a Journey ; and yet are 
 like to have nothing but your travel 
 for your paines. 
 
 Chr. Why man ? Bo you think we They rea 
 jhall not be received ? f°" to s e ' 
 
 Atheift. Received] There is no fuch ther ' 
 place as you Dream of, in all this 
 World. 
 
 Chr. But there is in the World to 
 come. 
 
 Atheift. When I was at home in 
 mine own Countrey, I heard as you 
 now affirm , and from that hearing 
 went out to fee, and have been feek- 
 ing this City this twenty years : But Jer . 2i . , 3< 
 find no more of it, then I did the firft Ec. 10.15. 
 day I fet out. 
 
 Chr. We have both heard and be- 
 N 2 lieve 
 
1 84 C&e Pilgrims P?og;rcf& 
 
 lieve that there isjuch a place to be 
 found. 
 
 Atheift. Had not I, when at home 
 believed, I had not come thus far to 
 
 The Athe ^^ : ^ Ut ^ n ^ m g none ' ( an ^ y et * 
 ift takes ut> mou ^^ na< ^ tnere Deen mcn a place 
 
 his content to De found, for I have gone to feek 
 
 in this it further then youj I am going back 
 
 /for/*/. again , and will feek to refrefh my 
 
 Mf with the things that I then caffc 
 
 away , for hopes of that which I now 
 
 fee is not. 
 
 Chriftian Chr. Then faid Chriftian to Hope- 
 
 provetb his ful his Fellow , Is it true which this 
 
 Brother. man hath Jaid ? 
 
 Hopefuls Hopef. Take heed, he is one of the 
 
 gracious Flatterers ; remember what it hath 
 
 anfiwer co ft us once already for our harkning 
 
 to fuch kind of Fellows. What ! no 
 
 Mount Sion ! Did we not fee from 
 
 z.Cor.s.j. tne delegable Mountains the Gate 
 
 of the City ? Alfo, are we not now 
 
 to walk by Faith ? Let us go on, faid 
 
 Hopeful, left the man with the Whip 
 
 overtakes us again. 
 
 You mould have taught me that 
 p LefTon, which I will round you in the 
 
 2? ' ' ears withall ;Ceafe, my Son, to hear the 
 Heb. 10. Inftrutlion that caufeth to err from the 
 39- words of knowledge. I fay my Brother, 
 
 ceafe 
 
 
Cfte pilgrims l&ogtcft. 185 
 
 ceafe to hear him, and let us believe 
 to the faving of the Soul. 
 
 Chr. My Brother J did not put the 
 queftion to thee for that Idoubted of the 
 Truth of our belie f my f elf \ But to prove a , ., < 
 thee, and to fetch from thee a fruit of an h one jj 
 the honefty of thy heart. As for this heart, 
 man J know that he is blinded by the god 
 of this World : Let thee and I go on, 
 knowing that we have belief of the 
 Truth, and no lie is of the Truth. 1J0hn2.11 
 
 Hopef Now do I rejoyce in hope 
 of the Glory of God: So they turned 
 away from the man ; and he, Laugh- 
 ing at them, went his way. 
 
 I faw then in my Dream, that they Mey are 
 went till they came into a certain come t0 the 
 Countrey , whofe Air naturally ten- ™j£% d 
 ded to make one drowfie, if he 
 came a Granger into it. And here 
 Hopeful began to be very dull and 
 heavy of fleep, wherefore he faid un- 
 to Chriftian, I do now begin to grow 
 fo drowfie , that I can fcarcely hold . Hopeful 
 
 1 1 • 1 J 1 begins to 
 
 up mine eyes ; let us lie down here be arowjle 
 and take one Nap. 
 
 Chr, By no means, faid the other, ^, ... 
 
 inn- 1 Chnftian 
 
 Left Jleeping, we never awake more, keeps him 
 
 Hopef Why my Brother ? fleep is awake 
 (weet to the Labouring man; we 
 N 3 may 
 
1 86 cbe Pilgrims Piogrefs, 
 
 may be refrefhed if we take a Nap. 
 Chr. Do you not remember that one 
 
 of the Shepherds bid us beware of the 
 
 Inchanted ground? He meant by that, 
 
 iThef.5. 6 that we Jhould beware offleeping\where- 
 
 f ore let us notjleep as do others, but let 
 
 us watch and befober. 
 He is Hopef I acknowledge my felf in 
 thankful, fault, and had I been here alone, I 
 
 had by fleeping run the danger of 
 
 of death. I fee it is true that the wife 
 Eccl. 4. 9. man faith , 'Two are better then one. 
 
 Hitherto hath thy Company been my 
 
 mercy ; and thou jhalt have a good 
 
 reward for thy labour. 
 To prevent Chr. Now then , faid Chriftian, 
 drowfinefs t0 p reven t drowfinejs in this place, let 
 t dd'r ° ^ us fall into good difcourfe. 
 courfe. Hopef With all my heart, faid the 
 
 other. 
 Good dif- Chr. Where fhall we begin ? 
 TelfsdtZ Ho ? e f' Where Godbegan with us. 
 inefs ^ ut d° y ou k e g m > if y ou pleafe. 
 
 When Saints do Jleepy grow , let them 
 
 come hither. 
 And hear how thefe two Pilgrims talk 
 
 together : 
 Tea, let them learn of them, in any wife y 
 Thus to k.eep ope their drowfie Jlumbring 
 
 eyes. Saints 
 
Cfte pilgrims IPjogxefe- 187 
 
 Saints fellowjhip, if it be managed well, 
 Keeps them awake-, and that in fpite of 
 hell. 
 
 Chr.ThenChriftian began andfaid, 
 Iwillaskyou aqueftion. How came you 
 to think at fir ft of doing as you do now? 
 
 Hopefi Do you mean, How came 
 I at firft to look after the good of my 
 Soul ? 
 
 Chr. Yes, that is my meaning. 
 
 Hopefi I continued a great while 
 in the delight of thofe things which 
 were feen and fold at our fair; things 
 which, as I believe now, would have 
 ( had I continued inthemftill)drown- 
 ded me in perdition and destruction. 
 
 Chr. What things were they ? 
 
 Hopefi. All the Treafures and Riches 
 of the World. Alfo I delighted much in 
 Rioting, Revelling, Drinking, Swear- 
 ing , Lying, Uncleannefs, Sabbath- 
 breaking, and what not , that tend- 
 ed to deftroy the Soul. But I found 
 at laft, by hearing and confidering of 
 things that are Divine, which indeed 
 I heard of you , as alfo of beloved 
 Faithful y that was put to death for R om# 6.n 
 his Faith and good-living in Vanity- 22, 23. 
 fa Wy That the end of theje things is Eph. 5. 6. 
 N 4 death. 
 
1 88 Cfce Pilgrims pjogtefo 
 
 death. And that for thefe things fake, 
 the wrath of God cometh upon the 
 children of difobedience. 
 
 Chr. And didyouprefently fall under 
 the power of this conviction ? 
 
 Hopef No, I was not willing pre- 
 fently to know the evil of fin, nor the 
 damnation that follows upon the 
 commiflion of it , but endeavoured, 
 when my mind at firft began to be 
 fhaken with the word , to fhut mine 
 eyes again ft the light thereof. • 
 
 Chr. But what was the caufe of your 
 carrying of it thus to the firft workings 
 of Gods blejfed Sprit upon you ? 
 
 Hopef. The caufes were, i . I was 
 ignorant that this was the work of 
 God upon me. I never thought that 
 by awaknings for fin, God at firft be- 
 gins the converfion of a finner . 1 . Sin 
 was yet very fweet to my flefti, and 
 I was loth to leave it. 3 . I could not 
 tell how to part with mine old Com- 
 panions, their prefence and actions 
 were fo defirable unto me. 4. The 
 hours in which convictions were up- 
 on me , were fuch troublefome and 
 fuch heart- affrighting hours , that 
 I could not bear,no not fo much as the 
 remembrance of them upon my heart. 
 
 Chr 
 
Chr . Then as itfeems Sometimes you 
 got rid of your trouble. 
 
 Hope/. Yes verily , but it would 
 come into my mind again, and then I 
 mould be as bad, nay worfe, then I 
 was before. 
 
 Chr. Why >what was it that brought 
 your fins to mind again? 
 
 Hopef Many things, As, 
 
 1. If I did but meet a good man in 
 the Streets ; or, 
 
 2.. If I have heard any read in the 
 Bible ; or, 
 
 3. If mine Head did begin to Ake; 
 or, 
 
 4. I were told that fome of my 
 Neighbours were fick ; or, 
 
 5. If I heard the Bell Toull for 
 fome that were dead ; or, 
 
 6. Ifl thought of dying my felf; or, 
 
 7. If I heard that fuddain death 
 happened to others. 
 
 8 . But efpecially , when I thought 
 of my felf, that I mufr. quickly come 
 to Judgement. 
 
 Chr. Andcouldyou at any time with 
 eafe get off the guilt of fin when by any 
 of thefe wayes it came upon you ? 
 
 Hopef No, not latterly, for then 
 they got fafter hold of my Confci- 
 
 ence 
 
190 Cfre Pilgrims H&ogrefo 
 
 ence. And then, if I did but think 
 of going back to fin (though my 
 mind was turned againft itj it would 
 be double torment to me. 
 
 Chr. And how did you do then ? 
 
 Hope/. I thought I muft endea- 
 vour to mend my life, for elfe 
 thought I, I am fure to be damned. 
 
 Chr. And did you indeavour to 
 mend ? 
 
 Hope/. Yes, and fled from, not 
 only my fins , but finful Company 
 too ; and betook me to Religious 
 Duties, as Praying, Reading, weep- 
 ing for Sin, fpeaking Truth to my 
 Neighbours, &c. Thefe things I did 
 with many others, too much here to 
 relate. 
 
 Chr. And didyouthinky our Jelf well 
 then ? 
 
 Hope/. Yes, for a while ; but at the 
 laft my trouble came tumbling upon 
 me again, and that over the neck of 
 all my Reformations. 
 
 Chr. How came that about > fince 
 you was now Reformed ? 
 
 Hope/. There were feveral things 
 
 brought it upon me, efpecially fuch 
 
 Ifa. 64, 6. fayings as thefe ;All our righteoufneffes 
 
 Gala.2.16. are as filthy rags. By the works of the 
 
 Law 
 
Law no manjhall be juftified. When 
 youhave done all things Jay , We areun- Luk.»7.»' 
 profitable : with many more the like. 
 From whence I began to reafon with 
 my felf thus : If all my righteouf- 
 nefles are filthy rags , if by the deeds 
 of the Law, no man can be juftified ; 
 And if, when we have done all, we 
 are yet unprofitable : Then tis but a 
 folly to think of Heaven by the Law. 
 I further thought thus: If a Man runs 
 an 100/. into the Shop-keepers debt, 
 and after that mall pay for all that he 
 fhall fetch , yet his old debt ftands 
 ftill in the Book uncrofled ; for the 
 which the Shop-keeper may fue him, 
 and caft him into Prifon till he mail 
 pay the debt. 
 
 Chr. Well, and how did you apply 
 this to your felf "? 
 
 Hope/. Why, I thought thus with 
 my felf; I have by my fins run a great 
 way into Gods Book , and that my 
 now reforming will not pay ofF that 
 fcore ; therefore I fhould think ftill 
 under all my prefent amendments , 
 But how fhall I be freed from that 
 damnation that I have brought my 
 felf in danger of by my former tranf- 
 
 greffions 3 
 
 6 Chr. 
 
*9 2 C&e Pilgrims p^ogrefo 
 
 Chr. A very good application : but 
 pray go on. 
 
 Hope. Another thing that hath trou- 
 bled me, even fince my late amend- 
 ments, is, that if I look narrowly into 
 the beft of what I do now, I ftill fee fin, 
 new fin, mixing it felf with the beft 
 of that I do. So that now I am forced 
 to conclude , that notwithftanding 
 my former fond conceits of my felf 
 and duties , I have committed fin e- 
 nough in one duty to fend me to Hell, 
 though my former life had been 
 faultlefs. 
 
 Chr. And what did you do then ? 
 
 Hope/. Do ! I could not tell what 
 to do, till I brake my mind to Faith- 
 ful ; for he and I were well acquain- 
 ted : And he told me, That unlefs I 
 could obtain the righteoufnefs of a 
 man that never had finned , neither 
 mine own, nor all the righteoufnefs 
 of the World could fave me. 
 
 Chr. And did you think he /pake 
 true ? 
 
 Hope/. Had he told me fo when 
 I was pleafed and fatisfied with 
 mine own amendments , I had cal- 
 led him Fool for his pains : but now, 
 fince I fee my own infirmity , and 
 
 the 
 
C6e pilgrims p?ogrefe 193 
 
 the fin that cleaves to my beft per- 
 formance, I have been forceed to 
 be of his opinion. 
 
 Chr. But did you think , when at 
 fir ft he Juggefted it to you , that there 
 wasjuch a man to be found \ of whom 
 it might juftly be /aid 3 'that he never 
 committed fin ? 
 
 Hopef I muft confefs the words at 
 firft founded ftrangely , but after a 
 little more talk and company with 
 him, I had full conviction about it. 
 
 Chr. And did you ask him what 
 man this was, and howyoumuftbejufti- 
 fied by him ? 
 
 Hope. Yes , and he told me it was 
 the Lord Jefus, that dwelleth on the Roi ^ ' 
 right hand of the moft High : And col. \. 
 thus, faid he, you muft be juftified by i Pet, 
 him , even by trufting to what he 
 hath done by himfelf in the days of 
 his flefh, and fuffered when he did 
 hang on the Tree. I asked him fur- 
 ther , How that mans righteoufnefs 
 could be of that efficacy , to juftifie 
 another before God ? And he told 
 me, He was the mighty God,and did 
 what he did, and died the death alfo, 
 not for himfelf,but for us ; to whom 
 his doings, and the worthinefs of 
 
 them 
 
194 €f)e Pilgrims p?ogrefs v 
 
 them mould be imputed, if I believed 
 on him. 
 
 Chr. And what did you do then ? 
 Hope. I made my objections agai nft 
 my believing , for that I thought he 
 was not willing to fave me. 
 
 Chr. And what /aid Faithful to you 
 then ? 
 
 Hope/. He bid me go to him and 
 
 fee: Then I faid, It was prefumption: 
 
 M a t., i.a8 but he faid, No: for I was invited to 
 
 come. Then he gave me a book of Je- 
 
 Jus his inditing, to incourage me the 
 
 more freely to come : And he faid 
 
 concerning that Book , That every 
 
 jot and tittle there of flood firmer 
 
 Matt24.35 then Heaven andearth. Thenlasked 
 
 him, What I muft do when I came? 
 
 pf 6 and he told me , I muft intreat upon 
 
 Dan. 6. to. m y knees with all my heart and foul, 
 
 jer. 29. 12, the Father to reveal him to me. Then 
 
 • 3. I asked him further , How I muft 
 
 make my fupplication to him ? And 
 
 he faid , Go, and thou malt find him 
 
 Ex 2 22 u P on a mercy-feat , where he fits all 
 
 Lev. 16. 2. the year long , to give pardon and 
 
 Nu. 7. 89. forgivenefs to them that come. I 
 
 Heb. 4. 6. to iJ him that I knew not what to 
 
 fay when I came : and he bid me fay 
 
 to this effect, God be merciful to me a 
 
 Jinner y 
 
Cfie Pilgrims lp?ogrcf9. 195 
 
 /inner ,and make me to know and believe 
 in J ejus Chrift ; for I fee that if his 
 right eou/ne/shadnot been, or I have not 
 faith in that righteoufne/s, 1 am utterly 
 caft away: Lord ,1 have heard that thou 
 art a merciful God, and haft ordained 
 that thy Son J ejus Chrift fhould be the 
 Saviour of the World ; and moreover, 
 that thou art willing to beftow him upon 
 fuch a poor /inner as I am, {and I am 
 a /inner indeed} Lord take therefore 
 this opportunity, and magnifie thy grace 
 in the Salvation of my foul , through 
 thy Son Je/us Chrift, Amen. 
 
 Chr. And did you do as you were 
 bidden ? 
 
 Hopef Yes, over, and over, and 
 over. 
 
 Chr. And did the Father reveal his 
 Son to you ? 
 
 Hopef Not at the firft , nor fe- 
 cond, nor third, nor fourth, nor fifth, 
 no, nor at the lixth time neither. 
 
 Chr. What did you do then ? 
 
 Hopef. What! why I could not 
 tell what to do. 
 
 Chr. Had you not thoughts of lea- 
 ving off praying ? 
 
 Hopef. Yes, an hundred times, twice 
 told. 
 
 Chr. 
 
196 Cfte Pilgrims fl&ogrefc. 
 
 Chr. And what was the reafon you 
 I did not ? 
 
 Hope/. I believed that that was 
 true which had been told me, to wit. 
 That without the righteoufnefs of 
 this Chrift , all the World could not 
 fave me: And therefore thought I with 
 my felf , if I leave off, I die ; and I 
 can but die at the Throne of Grace. 
 And withall , this came into my 
 mind. If it tarry, wait for it, becaufe 
 Habb.2.3. itwilljurely come ,andwillnot tarry . So 
 I continued Praying untill the Father 
 fhewed me his Son. 
 
 Chr. And how was he revealed unto 
 you ? 
 
 Hopef I did not fee him with my 
 Eph. 1. 1 8, bodily eyes, but with the eyes of 
 J 9- mine understanding ; and thus it was. 
 
 One day I was very fad, I think fader 
 then at any one time in my life ; and 
 this fadness was through a freih fight 
 of the greatnefs and vilenefs of my 
 fins : And as I was then looking for 
 nothing but Hell, and the everlast- 
 ing damnation of my Soul, fuddenly, 
 as I thought , I faw the Lord Jefus 
 look down from Heaven upon me, 
 Arts 1 6. 30 an ^ f avm g> Believe on the Lord Jefus 
 j i. Chrift, and thoujhalt befaved. 
 
 But 
 
€&c jpilgrims Ipjogrefo 197 
 
 But I replyed, Lord, I am a great, 
 a very great Tinner ; and he anfwered, lCor |a 
 My grace is sufficient for thee. Then I 
 faid, But Lord, what is believing ? And 
 then I faw from that faying, [He that T . , 
 
 j n 77 7 77 J "* 6 - 35' 
 
 comet b to mejhau never hunger ■, and he 
 that believeth on mejhall never thirjf\ 
 That believing and coming was all 
 one, and that he that came , that 
 is, run out in his heart and affections 
 after falvation by Chrift, he indeed 
 believed in Chrift. Then the water 
 flood in mine eyes, and I asked fur- 
 ther , But Lord, may fuch a great 
 finner as I am, be indeed accepted 
 of thee, and be faved by thee ? And J oh - 6 - 36. 
 I heard him fay, And him that cometh 
 to me> I will inno wife caft out. Then 
 I faid, But how, Lord, muft I confi- 
 der of thee in my coming to thee, that 
 my faith may be placed aright upon iXj.1.15 
 thee? Then he faid, Chrift Jefus came Rom.10.4. 
 into the World tofavefinners. He is the ch ^?- 4- 
 end of the Law for right eoufnefs to e- Heb - 7 * 24j 
 very one that believes. He died for 2f 
 our fins , and rofe again for our j unifi- 
 cation : He loved us> and wafhed us 
 from our fins in his own blood : He is 
 Mediator between God and us. He 
 ever liveth to make interceffionfor us. 
 O From 
 
198 e&e Iptigrtms Piogrefs. 
 
 From all which I gathered , that I 
 muft look for righteoufnefs in his 
 perfon, and for fatis faction for my 
 fins by his blood ; that what he did 
 in obedience to his Fathers Law, 
 and in fubmitting to the penalty 
 thereof , was not for himfelf, but for 
 him that will accept it for his Salva- 
 tion, and be thankful. And now was 
 my heart full of joy, mine eyes full 
 of tears, and mine affections running 
 over with Love to the Name, People, 
 and Ways of Jefus Chrift. 
 Chr . This was a Revelation of Chrift to 
 your foul indeed: But telltneparticular- 
 lywhat effect this had uponyourfpirit. 
 Hope/. It made me fee that all the 
 World, notwithftanding all the 
 righteoufnefs thereof, is in a ftate 
 of condemnation. It made me fee 
 that God the Father, though he be 
 juft, can juftly juftifie the coming 
 finner : It made me greatly afhamed 
 of the vilenefs of my former life, 
 and confounded me with the fence of 
 mine own Ignorance ; for there never 
 came thought into mine heart before 
 now, that mewed me fo the beauty 
 of Jefus Chrift, It made me love a 
 holy life, and long to do fomething 
 
 for 
 
Cfje Pilgrims Pjogtcfs. 199 
 
 for the Honour and Glory of the 
 name of the Lord Jefus. Yea I 
 thought, that had I now a thoufand 
 gallons of blood in my body, I could 
 fpill it all for the fake of the Lord 
 Jefus. 
 
 I then faw in my Dream , that 
 Hopeful looked back and faw Igno- 
 rance , whom they had left behind, 
 coming after. Look, faidhe to Chri- 
 ftian, how far yonder loung/ler loite- 
 reth behind. 
 
 Chr. Ay, Ay, I fee him ; he careth 
 not for our Company. 
 
 Hopef. Butltro, itwouldnothave 
 hurt him, had he kept pace with us 
 hitherto, 
 
 Chr. That's true , but I warrant 
 you he thinketh otherwife 
 
 Hope. 'That I think he doth, but 
 however let us tarry for him. So they norance 
 
 did. comes up 
 
 Then Chriftian faid to him, Come again, 
 away man, why do you fay fo behind? 
 
 Ignor. I take my pleafure in walk- Their talk. 
 ing alone, even more a great deal 
 then in Company , unlefs I like it 
 the better. 
 
 Then faid Chriftian to Hopef ul( but 
 
 (oftlyj Did 1 not tell you y he cared not 
 
 O 2 for 
 
aoo c&e Pilgrims Piogrefo 
 
 for our Company : But however, come 
 up, and let us talk away the time in this 
 Jolitary place. Then directing his 
 Speech to Ignorance , he faid, Come, 
 how do you ? howftands it between God 
 and your Soul now ? 
 
 Ignor. I hope well , for I am al- 
 ways full of good motions, that come 
 into my mind to comfort me as I 
 walk. 
 
 Chr. What good motions ? pray tell 
 us. 
 
 Ignor. Why, I think of God and 
 Heaven. 
 
 Chr. So do the Devils and damned 
 Souls. 
 
 Ignor. But I think of them , and 
 defire them. 
 
 Chr. So do many that are never like 
 to come there \T)\^o\Ao{\h^ Sluggard 
 defires and hath nothing. 
 
 Ignor. But I think of them , and 
 leave all for them. 
 
 Chr. That I doubt , for leaving of 
 all is an hard matter, yea a harder 
 'matter then many are aware of. But 
 why , or by what, art thou perf waded 
 that thou haft left all for God and 
 Heaven ? 
 
 Ignor. My heart tells me fo. 
 
 Lhr 
 
Cfje Pilgrims Pjogxefo 201 
 
 Chr. The wife man Jay es , He that 
 trufts his own heart is a fool. Pr * l8 * 4 * 
 
 Ignor. This is fpoken of an evil 
 heart, but mine is a good one. 
 
 Chr. But how doft thou -prove that ? 
 
 Ignor. It comforts me in the hopes 
 of Heaven. 
 
 Chr. That may be ^through its deceit - 
 fulnejs , for a mans heart may mini- 
 fter comfort to him in the hopes of that 
 thing, for which he yet has no ground to 
 hope. 
 
 Ignor. But my heart and life agree 
 together , and therefore my hope is 
 well grounded. 
 
 Chr. Who told thee that thy heart 
 and life agree together ? 
 
 Ignor. My heart tells me fo. 
 
 Chr. Ask my fellow if I be a Thief \ 
 Thy heart tells thee Jo I Except the 
 word of God beareth witnejs in thismat- 
 ter y other Teftimony is of no value, 
 
 Ignor. But is it not a good heart 
 that has good thoughts? And is not 
 that a good life that is according to 
 Gods Commandments ? 
 
 Chr. Tes, that is a good heart that 
 hath good thoughts , and that is a good 
 life that is according to Gods Command- 
 ments: But it is one thing indeed to 
 O 3 have 
 
202 c&e Pilgrims lg>?ogxe(& 
 
 have thefe, and another thing only to 
 think Jo. 
 
 Ignor. Pray what count you good 
 thoughts , and a life according to 
 Gods Commandments ? 
 
 Chr. There are good thoughts of di- 
 vers kinds, fome r effecting our/elves, 
 fome God, fome Chrift, andjome other 
 things. 
 
 Ignor. What be good thoughts re- 
 fpecting our felves ? 
 
 Chr. Such as agree with the Word of 
 God. 
 
 Ignor. When does our thoughts of 
 our felves agree with the Word of 
 God? 
 
 Chr . When wepafs the fame Judge- 
 ment upon our felves which the Word 
 pajfes: To explain my/elf The Word 
 ofGodJaith ofperfons in a natural con- 
 dition, There is none Righteous, 
 Rom. 3. there is none that doth good. It faith 
 Gen. 6. 8. alfo, That every imagination of the 
 heart of man is only evil, and that 
 continually. And again, The imagi- 
 nation of mans heart is evil from his 
 Youth . Now then, when we think thus 
 of our felves, having fenfe thereof , then 
 are our thoughts good ones, becaufe ac- 
 cording to the Word of God. 
 
 Iznor. 
 
€be Pilgrims Pjogrcft. 203 
 
 Ignor. I will never believe that my 
 heart is thus bad. 
 
 C h r . 'Therefore thou never hadft one 
 good thought concerning thy/elf in thy 
 life. But let me go on : As the Word 
 pajjeth a Judgement upon our HE ART \ 
 fo it pajjeth a Judgement upon our 
 WATS; and when our thoughts of our 
 HEARTS and WATS agree 
 with the Judgment which the Word giv- 
 eth of both , then are both goody becaufe 
 agreeing thereto. 
 
 Ignor. Make out your meaning. 
 
 Chr. Why, the Word of God faith, 
 That wans ways are crooked way s , not Pf. 125. 5 
 goody but perver/e: It faith. They are Pro - 2 - J 5- 
 naturally out of the good way, that they Rom * 3 " 
 have not known it. Now when a man 
 thus thinketh of his ways, I Jay when 
 he doth Jenfibly y and with heart-hu- 
 miliation thus think y then hath he good 
 thoughts of his own ways, becaufe his 
 thoughts now agree with the judgment 
 of the Word of God. 
 
 Ignor. What are good thoughts 
 concerning God P 
 
 Chr. Even {as I have /aid concern- 
 ing our /elves) when our thoughts of 
 God do agree with what the Word/aith 
 of him. And that is y when we think of 
 O 4 his 
 
2o 4 Cfte Pilgrims p^ogteftu 
 
 his Being and Attributes as the Word 
 hath taught: Of which I cannot now 
 difcourfe at large. But to /peak of him 
 with reference to us, 'Then we have right 
 thoughts of God ', when we think that he 
 knows us better then we know our f elves, 
 and can fee fin in us, when and where 
 we can fee none in our f elves ; when we 
 think he knows our in-moft thoughts, 
 and that our heart with all its depths 
 is alwayes open unto his eyes : Alfo 
 when we think that all our Righteouf- 
 nefs finks in his Noftrils , and that 
 therefore he cannot abide to fee us ft and 
 before him in any confidence even of all 
 our beft performances, 
 
 Ignor. Do you think that I am fuch 
 a fool , as to think God can fee no 
 further then I ? or that I would come 
 to God in the beft of my perfor- 
 mances ? 
 
 Chr. Why, how dofi thou think in 
 this matter ? 
 
 Ignor. Why, to be fhort, I think 
 I muft believe in Chrift for Juftifica- 
 tion. 
 
 Chr. How! think thou muft believe 
 in Chrift, when thoufeeft not thy need of 
 him ! Thou neither feeft thy original, or 
 nkJual infirmities , but haft fuch an 
 
 opinion 
 
£f)c plgrims l£>?og;rcfe. 205 
 
 opinion of thy felf ', and of what thou 
 doeft, as plainly renders thee to be one 
 that did never fee a necejjity of Ch rifts 
 perfonal righteoufnefs to juftifie thee 
 before God: How then doft thou fay , / 
 believe in Chrifl ? 
 
 Ignor. I believe well enough for 
 all that. 
 
 Chr. How doeft thou believe ? 
 
 Ignor. I believe that Chrifl: died 
 for Tinners, and that I fhall be jufti- 
 fied before God from the curfe, 
 through his gracious acceptance of 
 my obedience to his Law : Or thus, 
 Chrifl makes my Duties that are Re- 
 ligious, acceptable to his Father by 
 vertue of his Merits ; and fo mail I 
 be juftified. 
 
 Chr. Let me give an anfwer to this 
 confefjion of thy faith. 
 
 1 . Thou believeft with a Fantastical 
 Faith , for this faith is no where de- 
 fcribed in the Word. 
 
 1. Thou believeft with a Falfe Faith, 
 becaufe it taketh Juftifie at ion from the 
 perfonal righteoufnefs of Chrifl , and 
 applies it to thy own. 
 
 3. This faith maketh not Chrift a 
 Juftifier of thy perfon, but of thy aclions y 
 and of thy p erf on for thy aclions fake> 
 which is falfe. 4. There- 
 
206 c&e Pilgrims l&ogtefo 
 
 4. Therefore this faith is deceitful^ 
 evenfuch as will leave thee under wrath , 
 in the day of God Almighty. For true 
 Juftifying Faith puts the foul (as fen- 
 fible of its loft condition by the Law) up- 
 on flying for refuge unto Chrifts righte- 
 oufnejs: (Which righteoufnefs of h\s, is 
 not an acl of grace, by which he maketh 
 for Juftification thy obedience accepted 
 with God> but his perfonal obedience to 
 the Law in doing and fuffering for us, 
 what that required at our hands) This 
 right eoufnefs ,1 fay , true faith accepteth, 
 under the skirt of which, the foul being 
 fhrouded, and by itprefentedasfpotlefs 
 before God, it is accepted , and acquit 
 from condemnation. 
 
 Ignor. What! would you have us 
 truft to what Chrift in his own per- 
 fon has done without us ! This con- 
 ceit would loofenthereinesof our luft, 
 and tollerate us to live as we lift: For 
 what matter how we live, if we may 
 be Juftified by Chrifts perfonal righ- 
 teoufnefs from all, when we believe 
 it? 
 
 Chr. Ignorance is thy name , and 
 as thy name is, fo art thou ; even this 
 thy anfwer demonftrateth what I fay. 
 Ignorant thou art of what Juftifying 
 
 righ- 
 
€f)C Pilgrims Pjogtcftu 207 
 
 righteoufnejsis, and as ignorant how to 
 Jecure thy Soul through the faith of it, 
 from the heavy wrath of God. Yea, 
 thou alfo art ignorant of the true 
 effects of Javing faith in this righte- 
 oufnejs of Chrift , which is , to bow 
 and win over the heart to God in 
 Chrift , to love his Name, his Word, 
 Ways, and People ; and not as thou 
 ignorantly imagineft. 
 
 Hop. Ask him if ever he had Chrift 
 revealed to him from Heaven ? 
 
 Ignor. What\ You are a man for re- 
 velations ! I believe that what both you, 
 and all the reft of you Jay about that 
 matter , is but the fruit of diftrafted 
 braines. 
 
 Hop. Why man ! Chrift is fo hid 
 in God from the natural apprehen- 
 sions of all flefh, that he cannot by 
 any man be favingly known, unlefs 
 God the Father reveals him to them. 
 
 Ignor. That is your faith, but not 
 mine ; yet mine I doubt not, is as good 
 as yours: Though I have not in my head 
 fo many whimzies as you. 
 
 Chr. Give me leave to put in a 
 word : You ought not fo flightly to 
 fpeak of this matter : for this I will 
 boldlyaffirm,(even as my good Com- 
 panion 
 
208 cfje Pilgrims Piogrcfo 
 
 Mat.n.i8 Companion hath dontj that no man 
 
 E^Y'ii can know J efus Chrift but by the Re ~ 
 
 p * 1,1 'velation of the Father: yea, and 
 
 to. m , J J 
 
 faith too, by which the foul layeth 
 hold upon Chrift: (if it be right) mull 
 be wrought by the exceeding great- 
 nefs of his mighty power; the work- 
 ing of which faith, I perceive, poor 
 Ignorance, thou art ignorant of. Be a- 
 wakened then,fee thine own wretch- 
 ednefs, and flie to the Lord Jefus ; 
 and by his righteoufnefs, which is 
 the righteoufnefs of God, (for he 
 himfelf is God) thou malt be deli- 
 vered from condemnation. 
 7h talk h no ; You go Jo f aft, I cannot keep 
 broke up. pace with you ; do you go on before, I 
 muft ft ay awhile behind. 
 
 Well Ignorance, wilt thou yet foolijh be, 
 To flight good Counfel, ten times given 
 
 thee ? 
 And if thou yet refufe it , thou Jhalt 
 
 know 
 Ere long the evil of thy doing fo : 
 Remember man in time,ftoop,do not fear, 
 Good Counfel taken well, faves ; there- 
 fore hear ; 
 But if thou yet Jhalt flight it, thou wilt be 
 The lofer [Ignorance) Fie warrant thee. 
 
 Chr. 
 
€&e Pilgrims Pjogrefc. 209 
 
 Chr. Well, come my good Hope- 
 ful, I perceive that thou and I muft 
 walk by our felves again. 
 
 So I faw in my Dream, that they 
 went on a pace before, and Ignorance 
 he came hobling after. Then faid 
 Chriftian to his companion, 7/ pities 
 me much for this poor man, it will cer- 
 tainly go ill with him at laft. 
 
 Hope. Alas, there are abundance 
 in our Town in his condition; whole 
 Families, yea, whole Streets, (and 
 that of Pilgrims too) and if there 
 be fo many in our parts, how many 
 think you, muft there be in the place 
 where he was born ? 
 
 Chr. Indeed the Word faith ,Hehath 
 blinded their eyes,left they mould fee, 
 &c. But now we are by our f elves, what 
 do you think offuch men ? Have they 
 at no time, think you, conviblions of fin, 
 andfo confequently fears that their ft ate 
 is dangerous ? 
 
 Hopef. Nay, do you anfwer that 
 queftion your felf, for you are the 
 elder man. 
 
 Chr. Then I fay fometimes (as I 
 think) they may, but they being natu- 
 rally ignorant, under ft and not thatfuch 
 convictions tend to their good ; and 
 
 there- 
 
2i o c&c pilgrims P?ogtefs* 
 
 therefore they do de/perately Jeek to 
 ftifle them, and prejumptuoufly con- 
 tinue to flatter them/elves in the way of 
 their own hearts. 
 The good Hopef I do believe as you fay, that 
 u/e of fear fear tends much to Mens good, and 
 to make them right, at their beginning 
 to go on Pilgrimage. 
 Job 28.29. Chr. Without all doubt it doth, if it 
 PC 1 1 1 . 1 o. fa right-, for Jo Jays the word >The fear of 
 Pro.17.ch. ^ Lord is the beginning of Wifdom. 
 Hopef. How will you defcribe right 
 
 Ri htfear ^ ? 
 
 tg Chr. 'True, or right fear, is dif co- 
 
 vered by three things. 
 
 1. By its rife. It is caufed by fa- 
 ving convictions for fin. 
 
 2. It driveth the foul to lay faft 
 hold of Chrift for Salvation. 
 
 3. It begetteth and continueth in 
 the foul a great reverence of God, 
 his words , and ways , keeping it 
 tender , and making it afraid to 
 turn from them, to the right hand, 
 or to the left , to any thing that may 
 difhonour God, break itspeace,grieve 
 the Spirit , or caufe the Enemy to 
 fpeak reproachfully. 
 
 Hopef Well faid , I believe you 
 have faid the truth. Are we now 
 
 almofx 
 
€&e Pilgrims Piogreftu 211 
 
 almoft got paft the Inchanted ground? 
 
 Chr. Why, are you weary of this 
 dijcourje ? 
 
 Hope/. No verily,but that I would 
 know where we are. 
 
 Chr. We have not now above two 
 Miles further to go thereon. But let us 
 return to our matter. Now the Igno- 
 rant know not that fuch convictions 
 that tend to put them in fear , are for 
 their good, and therefore they feek to 
 Jlifle them. 
 
 Hopef. How do they feek to ftifle 
 them ? 
 
 Chr. 1 . They think that thofe fears 
 are wrought by the Devil (though 
 indeed they are wrought of God)and 
 thinking fo,they refift them, as things 
 that directly tend to their over- 
 throw. 2. They alfo think that thefe 
 fears tend to the fpoiling of their 
 faith, (when alas for them, poor men 
 that they are! they have none at all) 
 and therefore they harden their 
 hearts againft them. 3. They pre- 
 fume they ought not to fear, and 
 therefore, in defpite of them, wax pre- 
 fumptuoufly confident 4. They fee 
 that thefe fears tend to take away 
 from them their pitiful old ielf-holi- 
 
 nefs, 
 
212 Cfte pilgrims Piogrefs. 
 
 nefs, and therefore they refift them 
 with all their might. 
 
 Hope, I know fo me thing of this 
 my felf ; for before I knew my felf 
 it was fo with me. 
 
 Chr. Well, we will leave at this 
 time our Neighbour Ignorance by him- 
 himfelf and fall upon another profita- 
 ble quefiion. 
 Talk about Hopef. With all my heart, but you 
 one Tem- mall ftill begin, 
 porary. Chr, Well then, did you not know 
 
 where he a fr ou t ten years ago, one Temporary in 
 we /# your parts, who was a forward man in 
 Religion then ? 
 
 Hope. Know him ! Yes, he dwelt 
 in Gracelefs, a Town about two miles 
 off of Honejly, and he dwelt next door 
 to one Turn-back. 
 
 Chr. Right, he dwelt under the fame 
 roof with him. Well, that man was 
 much awakened once ; / believe that 
 then he had fome fight of his fins, and 
 of the wages that was due thereto. 
 
 Hope. I am of your mind, for fmy 
 Houfe not being above three miles 
 from him) he would oft times come 
 to me, and that with many tears. 
 Truly I pitied the man, and was not 
 altogether without hope of him ; 
 
 but 
 
€f)C Pilgrims lp?ogref& 213 
 
 but one may fee it is not every one 
 that cries, Lord, Lord. 
 
 Chr. He told me at once, That be was 
 refohed to go on Pilgrimage as we do 
 now ; but all of a fudden he grew ac- 
 quainted with one Save-felf, and then 
 he became aftranger to me. 
 
 Hope. Now fince we are talking 
 about him, let us a little enquire in- 
 to the reafon of the fuddain back- 
 Aiding of him and fuch others. 
 
 Chr. 7/ may be very profitable, but 
 do you begin. 
 
 Hope. Well then, there are in my 
 judgement four reafons for it. 
 
 1 . Though the Confciences of fuch 
 men are awakened, yet their minds 
 are not changed : therefore when 
 the power of guilt weareth away , 
 that which provoked them to be Re- 
 ligious, ceafeth. Wherefore they na- 
 turally turn to their own courfe a- 
 gain : even as we fee the Dog that 
 is flck of what he hath eaten, fo 
 long as his ficknefs prevails, he vo- 
 mits and cafts up all ; not that he 
 doth this of a free mind (if we may 
 fay a Dog has a mind) but becaufe 
 it troubleth his Stomach ; but now 
 when his ficknefs is over, and fo his 
 P Stomach 
 
214 €&e Pilgrims Piogrefe* 
 
 Stomach eafed, his defires being not 
 at all alienate from his vomit , he 
 turns him about and licks up all. And 
 fo it is true which is written, The Dog 
 is turned to his own vomit again. This 
 ' z I fay being hot for Heaven, by virtue 
 only of the fenfe and fear of the tor- 
 ments of Hell, as their fenfe of Hell, 
 and the fears of damnation chills 
 and cools, fo their defires for Hea- 
 ven and Salvation cool alfo. So 
 then it comes to pafs , that when 
 their guilt and fear is gone, their de- 
 fires for Heaven and Happinefs die; 
 Pro. 29.25 and they return to their courfe again. 
 ily. Another reafon is, They have 
 flavifh fears that do over-mafter 
 them. I fpeak now of the fears that 
 they have of men : For the fear of 
 men bringeth ajnare. So then, though 
 they feem to be hot for Heaven, fo 
 long as the flames of Hell are about 
 their ears , yet when that terrour is 
 a little over, they betake themfelves 
 to fecond thoughts ; namely, that 
 'tis good to be wife, and not to run 
 (for they know not what) the ha- 
 zard of looting all ; or at leaf!:, of 
 bringing themfelves into unavoida- 
 ble and un-neceflary troubles/ and 
 
 fo 
 
Cfje pilgrims I&ogxcfs, 215 
 
 fo they fall in with the world again. 
 
 3ly. The fhame that attends Re- 
 ligion, lies alfo as a block in their 
 way ; they are proud and haughty, 
 and Religion in their eye is low 
 and contemptible : Therefore when 
 they have loft their fenfe of Hell 
 and wrath to come, they return a- 
 gain to their former courfe. 
 
 4/y. Guilt, and to meditate ter- 
 rour , are grievous to them , they 
 like not to fee their mifery before 
 they come into it. Though perhaps 
 the fight of it firft, if they loved that 
 fight, might make them flie whither 
 the righteous flie and are fafe ; but 
 becaufe they do, as I hinted before, 
 even fhun the thoughts of guilt and 
 terrour, therefore, when once they 
 are rid of their awakenings about 
 the terrors and wrath of God, they 
 harden their hearts gladly, and chufe 
 fuch ways as will harden them more 
 and more. 
 
 Chr. Tou are pretty near thebufwefs, 
 for the bottom of all is y for want of 
 a change in their mind and will. And 
 therefore they are but like the Fellon 
 that ftandeth before the Judge , he 
 quakes and trembles , andfeems to re- 
 P 2 pent 
 
2i 6 c&e Pilgrims P?ogreC& 
 
 pent moft heartily ; but the bottom of 
 all is, the fear of the Halter ', not of any 
 deteftation of the offence •; as is evident , 
 becaufe, let but this man have his li- 
 berty, and he will be a 'Thief, and Jo 
 a Rogue ft -ill; whereas ,if his mind was 
 changed, he would be other wife. 
 
 Hop. Now I have mewed you 
 the reafons of their going back, do 
 you mew me the manner thereof. 
 Honvtbe Chr. So I ' will willingly . 
 Apofate i . They draw off their thoughts 
 goes back, a n that they may, from the remem- 
 brance of God, Death, and Judge- 
 ment to come. 
 
 2. Then they caft off by degrees 
 private Duties , as Clofet-Prayer, 
 curbing their lufts, watching, for- 
 row for fin, and the like. 
 
 3. Then they fhun the company 
 of lively and warm Chriftians. 
 
 4. After that, they grow cold to 
 publick Duty, as Hearing, Reading, 
 Godly Conference, and the like. 
 
 5. Then they beginto pick holes, 
 as we fay, in the Coats of fome of 
 the Godly, and that devilimly; that 
 they may have a feeming colour to 
 throw Religion (for the fake of fome 
 infirmity they have fpied in them) be- 
 hind their backs. 6. Then 
 
€&e Pilgrims ipjogreft. 217 
 
 6. Then they begin to adhere to, 
 and aflbciate themfelves with carnal 
 loofe and wanton men. 
 
 7. Then they give way to carnal 
 and wanton difcourfes infecret; and 
 glad are they if they can fee fuch 
 things in any that are counted ho- 
 neft, that they may the more boldly 
 do it through their example. 
 
 8. After this, they begin to play 
 with little fins openly. 
 
 9. And then, being hardened, they 
 fhew themfelves as they are. Thus 
 being lanched again into the gulf of 
 mifery , unlefs a Miracle of Grace 
 prevent it , they everlaftingly perifh 
 in their own deceivings. 
 
 Now I faw in my Dream, that by 
 this time the Pilgrims were got over 
 the Inchanted Ground, and entering 
 in the Countrey of Beulah , whofe Ifa 62 
 Air was very fweet and pleafant, the Cant.2.10 
 way lying directly through it, they ", »*• 
 folaced themfelves there for a feafon. 
 Yea, here they heard continually 
 the ringing of Birds , and faw every 
 day the flowers appear in the earth : 
 and heard the voice of the Turtle in 
 the Land. In this Countrey the Sun 
 fhineth night and day ; wherefore 
 P 3 this 
 
2i 8 e&e Pilgrims Piogrefo 
 
 this was beyond the Valley of the 
 Jhadow of death, and alfo out of the 
 reach of Giant Defpair ; neither 
 could they from this place fo much 
 as fee Doubting- Caftle. Here they 
 were within fight of the City they 
 were going to : alfo here met them 
 Angels f° me °f tne Inhabitants thereof. For 
 in this Land the mining Ones com- 
 monly walked, becaufe it was upon 
 the Borders of Heaven. In this Land 
 alfo the contract between the Bride 
 
 rfa 6- anc ^ tne Bridgroom was renewed : 
 Yea here, as the Bridegroom rejoyceth 
 over the Bride, Jo did their God rejoice 
 
 ver 8. over them. Here they had no want of 
 Corn and Wine ; for in this place they 
 met with abundance of what they 
 had fought in all their Pilgrimage. 
 Here they heard voices from out of 
 the City, loud voices ; faying, Say 
 ye to the daughter of Zion , Behold 
 thy Salvation cometh, behold his re- 
 ward is with him. Here all the Inha- 
 bitants of the Countrey called them, 
 
 rer. i a. c r j oe fo }y p eo pl 6i <£] oe redeemed of the 
 
 Lord, Sought out, Sec. 
 
 Now as they walked in this Land, 
 they had more rejoicing then in 
 parts more remote from the King- 
 dom 
 
Cfre Pilgrims IPiogreto 219 
 
 dom to which they were bound; and 
 drawing near to the City, they had 
 yet a more perfect view thereof. 
 It was builded of Pearls and precious 
 Stones, alfo the Street thereof was 
 paved with Gold, fo that by reafon 
 of the natural glory of the City, and 
 the reflection of the Sun-beams 
 upon it , Chriftian , with defire fell 
 fick, Hopeful alfo had a fit or two 
 of the fame Difeafe : Wherefore here 
 they lay by it a while, crying out be- 
 caufe of their pangs , If you fee my 
 Beloved , tell him that I am fick of 
 love. 
 
 But being a little ftrengthened,and 
 better able to bear their ficknefs, 
 they walked on their way, and came 
 yet nearer and nearer, where were 
 Orchards, Vineyards and Gardens, and 
 their Gates opened into the High- 
 way. Now as they came up to thefe 
 places, behold the Gardener flood in Deut 
 the way; to whom the Pilgrims faid, 24 
 Whofe goodly Vineyards and Gar- 
 dens are thefe? He anfwered , They 
 are the Kings, and are planted here 
 for his own delights, and alfo for 
 the folace of Pilgrims. So the Gardi- 
 ner had them into the Vineyards, 
 P 4 and 
 
220 C6e Pilgrims Piogrefo 
 
 and bid them refrefh themfelves 
 with the Dainties ; He alfo fhewed 
 them there the Kings walks , and the 
 Arbors where he delighted to be: 
 And here they tarried and flept. 
 
 Now I beheld in my Dream, that 
 they talked more in their fleep at 
 this time, then ever they did in all 
 their Journey ; and being in a mufe 
 there about, the Gardiner faid even 
 to me , Wherefore mufefl thou at 
 the matter ? It is the nature of the 
 fruit of the Grapes of thefe Vine- 
 yards to go down fo fweetly, as to 
 caufe the lips of them that are afleep 
 to fpeak. 
 
 So I faw that when they awoke, 
 
 they addrefTed themfelves to go up 
 
 to the City. But, as I faid, the re- 
 
 Revel, ii. fleclions of the Sun upon the City 
 
 18 (for the City was pure Gold) was fo 
 
 extreamly glorious, that they could 
 
 * g or * 3 * not, as yet, with open face behold 
 
 it , but through an Infirument made 
 
 for that purpofe. So I faw, that as 
 
 they went on, there met them two 
 
 men , in Raiment that fhone like 
 
 Gold , alfo their faces flione as the 
 
 light. 
 
 Thefe men asked the Pilgrims 
 
 whence 
 
C&c pilgrims p?ogrcf& 221 
 
 whence they came ? and they told 
 them ; they alfo asked them. Where 
 they had lodg'd, what difficulties, and 
 dangers , what comforts and plea- 
 fures they had met in the way ? and 
 they told them. Then faid the men 
 that met them, You have but two 
 difficulties more to meet with, and 
 then you are in the City. 
 
 Chriftian then and his Compa- 
 nion asked the men to go along 
 with them, fo they told them they 
 would ; but , faid they , you muft 
 obtain it by your own faith. So I 
 faw in my Dream that they went 
 on together till they came within 
 fight of the Gate. 
 
 Now I further faw that betwixt 
 them and the Gate was a River, but r> mt h, 
 there was no Bridge to go over, the 
 River was very deep ; at the fight 
 therefore of this River, the Pilgrims 
 were much ftounded, but the men 
 that went with them,faid, You muft Death u 
 go through, or you cannot come at not civel ' 
 
 5. r- *. come to 
 
 the Gate. 
 
 nature, 
 
 The rilgrims then, began to en- t h oug h y y 
 quire if there was no other way to itwe pafs 
 the Gate ; to which they anfwered, out °f thii 
 Yes, but there hath not any, fave w ° rld int0 
 
 two, s 7 
 
i Cor 15 
 5* 5*- 
 
 222 c&e pilgrims pjogtefs. 
 
 two, to wit, Enoch and Elijah, been 
 permitted to tread that path, fince 
 the foundation of the World , nor 
 mail , untill the laft Trumpet mail 
 found. The Pilgrims then , efpeci- 
 ally Chriftian, began to difpond in his 
 mind, and looked this way and that, 
 but no way could be found by them, 
 by which they might efcape the 
 River. Then they asked the men, 
 if the Waters were all of a depth. 
 They faid, No ; yet they could not 
 
 help u! not hel P tnem in that Ca ^ for ^ the y : 
 
 comfort a- You Jh all find it deeper or Jh allow er> 
 biy through as you believeinthe King of the place, 
 death. They then addreffed themfelves to 
 
 the Water ; and entring , Chriftian 
 began to fink, and crying out to his 
 good friend Hopeful ; he faid , I fink 
 in deep Waters , the Billows go over 
 my head, all his Waves go over me, 
 Selah. 
 
 Then faid the other , Be of good 
 chear, my Brother , I feel the bot- 
 tom, and it is good. Then faid Chri- 
 Clinftians fl' lan ^ Ah m y fHend , the forrows of 
 2f b fj' of death have compared me about, 
 deatht I mall not fee the Land that flows 
 with Milk and Honey. And with 
 that , a great darknefs and horror 
 
 fell 
 
fell upon Chriftiatiy fo that he could 
 not fee before him ; alfo here he 
 in great meafure loft his fenfes , fo 
 that he could neither remember nor 
 orderly talk of any of thofe fweet 
 refrefhments that he had met with 
 in the way of his Pilgrimage. But 
 all the words that he fpake , ftill 
 tended to difcover that he had 
 horror of mind , and hearty fears 
 that he mould die in that River , and 
 never obtain entrance in at the 
 Gate : here alfo, as they that flood 
 by, perceived , he was much in 
 the troublefome thoughts of the 
 fins that he had committed , both 
 fince and before he began to be a 
 Pilgrim. 'Twas alfo obferved, that 
 he was troubled with apparitions of 
 Hobgoblinsand Evil Spirits. Forever 
 and anon he would intimate fo 
 much by words. Hopeful therefore 
 here had much adoe to keep his 
 Brothers head above water , yea 
 fometimes he would be quite gone 
 down, and then ere a while he would 
 rife up again half dead. Hopeful alfo 
 would endeavour to comfort him, 
 faying, Brother, I fee the Gate, and 
 men ftanding by it to receive us. 
 
 But 
 
224 e&e Pilgrims H&ogrefo 
 
 But Chriftian would anfwer; 'Tisyou, 
 'tis you they wait for, you have been 
 Hopeful ever fince I knew you ; and 
 fo have you, faid he to Chriftian. Ah 
 Brother, faid he,furely if I was right, 
 he would now arife to help me ; but 
 for my fins he hath brought me into 
 the fnare, and hath left me. Then 
 faid Hopeful, My Brother, you have 
 quite forgot the Text, where its faid 
 Pfal. 73.4, of the wicked, 'There is no band in 
 5- their death, but their ft rength is firm, 
 
 they are not troubled as other men, nei- 
 ther are they plagued like other men. 
 Thefe troubles and diftreffes that you 
 go through in thefe Waters, are no 
 fign that God hath forfaken you, but 
 are fent to try you, whether you will 
 call to mind that which heretofore 
 you have received of his goodnefs, 
 and live upon him in your diftreffes. 
 
 Then I faw in my Dream , that 
 
 Chriftian was as in a mufe a while ; 
 
 To whom alfo Hopeful added this 
 
 word , Be of good chear , Jejus 
 
 Chriftian Chrift maketh thee whole : And with 
 
 delivered that, Chriftian brake out with a loud 
 
 uZs^n V ° iCe , ° h l feC hIm a S ain ! and hC 
 
 death" te ^ s me y When thou pajfeft through 
 ifa- 43. 2. the waters , Twill be with thee, and 
 
 through \ 
 
€&e Pilgrims pjogrefo 225 
 
 through the Rivers, they Jhall not over- 
 flow thee. Then they both took 
 courage, and the enemy was after 
 that as ftill as a ftone , untill they 
 were gone over. Chriftian therefore 
 prefently found ground to ftand up- 
 on ; and fo it followed that the reft 
 of the River was but mallow. Thus 
 they got over. Now upon the bank 
 of the River, on the other fide, they 
 faw the two mining men again, 
 who there waited for them. Where- 
 fore being come up out of the River, 
 my faluted them faying, We are mi- <rhe Angel 
 niftring Sprits 3 fent forth to minifter do wait 
 for thoje that fh all be Heirs of Salva~f°r tbemf^ 
 tion. Thus they went along towards-/* * as 
 the Gate, now you muft note that * e { a f e t 
 
 1 r^- n 1 «i 1 mi pa(}ed out 
 
 the City flood upon a mighty hill, f t ^ s 
 but the Pilgrims went up that hill world, 
 with eafe, becaufe they had thefe two 
 men to lead them up by the Arms ; They haw 
 alfo they had left their Mortal Gar- put off 
 ments behind them in the River; for m ortaJity 
 though they went in with them, they 
 came out without them. They there- 
 fore went up here with much agi- 
 lity and fpeed, though the founda- 
 tion upon which the City was fram- 
 ed was higher then the Clouds. 
 
 They 
 
2i6 ®bz pilgrims p^ogrefo 
 
 They therefore went up through the 
 Regions of the Air , fweetly talking 
 as they went, being comforted, be- 
 caufe they fafely got over the River, 
 and had fuch glorious Companions 
 to attend them. 
 
 The talk they had with the mining 
 Ones , was about the Glory of the 
 place, who told them,that the beauty, 
 and glory of it was inexprefllble. 
 Heb. 12. There, faid they, is the Mount Sion, 
 " 2 3> *4. the Heavenly Jerufalem , the inume- 
 Rev % I ra ble Company of Angels , and the 
 Spirits of Juft men made perfect : 
 You are going now, faid they, 
 to the Paradice of God , wherein 
 you mail fee the Tree of Life , and 
 eat of the never-fading fruits there- 
 of : And when you come there you 
 mail have white Robes given you, 
 and your walk and talk mail be 
 every day with the King , even all 
 the days of Eternity. There you 
 Rev. a 1. 1. (hall not fee again , fuch things as 
 you faw when you were in the lower 
 Region upon the Earth, to wit, for- 
 row, ficknefs, affliction, and death, 
 for the former things are faffed away. 
 Ifa.57.1.2. y ou are going now to Abraham , to 
 Jfaac, and Jacob, and to the Pro- 
 phets 
 
C&e Pilgrims IPjogrefe. 2*7 
 
 Prophets; men that God hath taken Ifa6 5 '4 
 away from the evil to come, and that 
 are now retting upon their Beds, 
 each one walking in his righteoufnefs. 
 The men then asked, What muft we 
 do in the holy place ? To whom it 
 was anfwered, You muft there re- 
 ceive the comfort of all your toil, 
 and have joy for all your forrow ; 
 you muft reap what you have fown, 
 even the fruit of all your Prayers and 
 Tears, and fufTerings for the King by 
 the way. In that place you muft Gal. e. 7 . 
 wear Crowns of Gold , and enjoy 
 the perpetual fight and Vifions of the 
 Holy One, for there you fh all fee him as Joh * 3# * 
 be is. There alfo you fhall ferve him 
 continually with praife, with fhout- 
 ing and thankfgiving, whom you 
 defired to ferve in the World, though 
 with much difficulty, becaufe of the 
 infirmity of your flefh. There your 
 eyes fhall be delighted with feeing, 
 and your ears with hearing, the 
 pleafant voice of the mighty One. 
 There you fhall enjoy your friends 
 again, that are got thither before 
 you; and there you fhall with joy 
 receive, even every one that fol- 
 lows into the Holy Place after you. 
 
 There 
 
228 c&e pilgrims IPiogtei^ 
 
 Thefs. 4. There alfo you fhall be cloathed 
 
 *3» 14,I5 » with Glory and Majefty, and put 
 
 Tude 14. mt0 an equipage fit to ride out with 
 
 Da.7.9,10. the King of Glory. When he fhall 
 
 1 Cor. 6. come with found of Trumpet in the 
 
 *» 3 * Clouds , as upon the wings of the 
 
 Wind, you fhall come with him; and 
 
 when he fhall fit upon the Throne of 
 
 Judgement , you fhall fit by him j 
 
 yea, and when he fhall pafs Sentence 
 
 upon all the workers of Iniquity, let 
 
 them be Angels or Men, you alfo 
 
 fhall have a voice in that Judgement, 
 
 becaufe they were his and your E- 
 
 nemies. Alfo when he fhall again 
 
 return to the City, you fhall go too, 
 
 with found of Trumpet, and be ever 
 
 with him. 
 
 Now while they were thus draw- 
 ing towards the Gate, behold a com- 
 pany of the Heavenly Hoft came 
 out to meet them: To whom it was 
 faid, by the other two mining Ones, 
 Thefe are the men that have loved 
 our Lord, when they were in the 
 World ; and that have left all for 
 his holy Name, and he hath fent us 
 to fetch them, and we have brought 
 them thus far on their defired Jour- 
 ney ; that they may go in and look 
 
 th^ir 
 
.e. 22. 14 
 
 €&e Ipilgrmtg ipjogrefeu 229 
 
 their Redeemer in the face with joy. 
 
 Then the Heavenly Hoft gave a 
 
 great fhout, faying, Blejfed are they cve * ,9 
 
 that are called to the Marriage /upper 
 
 of the Lamb : and thus they came up 
 
 to the Gate. 
 
 Now when they were come up to 
 the Gate, there was written over 
 it, in Letters of Gold, Blejfed are 
 they that do his commandment s, that 
 they may have right to the Tree of life \ 
 and may enter in through the Gates into 
 the City. 
 
 Then I faw in my Dream, that 
 the mining men bid them call at the 
 Gate, the which when they did, 
 fome from above looked over the 
 Gate ; to wit , Enoch , Mofes , and 
 Elijah, &c. to whom it was faid, 
 Thefe Pilgrims, are come from the 
 City of DeJlruc7ion 3 for the love that 
 they bear to the King of this place : 
 and then the Pilgrims gave in unto 
 them each man his Certificate, which 
 they had received in the beginning ; 
 Thofe therefore were carried into the 
 King, who when he had read them, 
 faid, Where are the men ? To whom 
 it was anfwered, They are {landing 
 without the Gate, the King then 
 Q com- 
 
230 Cfce Pilgrims p^ogtm 
 
 rfa. 26 2. commanded to open the Gate; 'That 
 the righteous Nation , faid he, that 
 keepeth Truth may enter in. 
 
 Now I faw in my Dream, that 
 thefe two men went in at the Gate ; 
 and Joe, as they entered, they were 
 transfigured, and they had Raiment 
 put on that mone like Gold. There 
 was alfo that met them with Harps 
 and Crowns,and gave them to them; 
 the Harp to praife withall, and the 
 Crowns in token of honour ; Then 
 I heard in my Dream that all the Bells 
 in the City Rang for joy : and that 
 it was faid unto them, Enter ye into the 
 joy of your Lord. I alfo heard the men 
 Rev- s «3> themfelves , that they fang with a 
 ?4 * loud voice, faying, Blejjing, Honour, 
 
 Glory and Power, be to him thatfitteth 
 upon the Throne, and to the Lamb f of 
 ever and ever. 
 
 Now juft as the Gates were open- 
 ed to let in the men, I looked in after 
 them ; and behold , the City fhone 
 like the Sun, the Streets alfo were 
 paved with Gold,and in them walked 
 many men, with Crowns on their 
 heads, Palms in their hands, and 
 golden Harps to ling praifes withall. 
 There were alfo of them that had 
 
 wings, 
 
wings, and they anfwered one ano- 
 ther without intermifTion/ayingjT/o/y, 
 Holy ,Holy , is the Lord. And after that, 
 they {hut up the Gates : which when 
 I had feen, I wifhed my felf among 
 them. 
 
 Now while I was gazing upon all 
 thefe things , I turned my head to 
 look back, and faw Ignorance come 
 up to the River fide; but he foon got 
 over , and that without half that 
 difficulty which the other two men 
 met with. For it happened that there 
 was then in that place GnzVain-hope a 
 Ferry-man, that with his Boat helped 
 him over : fo he, as the other I faw, 
 did afcend the Hill to come up to 
 the Gate, only he came alone ; nei- 
 ther did any man meet him with 
 the leaft incouragement. When he 
 was come up to the Gate, he looked 
 up to the writing that was above ; 
 and then began to knock, fuppofing 
 that entrance mould have been 
 quickly adminiftred to him : But he 
 was asked by the men that lookt o- 
 ver the top of theGate, Whence came 
 you ? and what would you have ? He 
 anfwered, I have eat and drank in 
 the prefence of the King, and he has 
 Q 2 taught 
 
*32 Cfie Pilgrims H^ogreffc 
 
 taught in our Streets. Then they 
 asked him for his Certificate, that 
 they might go in and fhew it to the 
 King. So he fumbled in his bofom 
 for one, and found none. Then faid 
 they, Have you none ? But the man 
 anfwered never a word So they 
 told the King, but he would not 
 come down to fee him ; but com- 
 manded the two mining Ones that 
 conducted Chriftian and Hopeful to 
 the City, to go out and take Igno- 
 rance and bind him hand and foot, 
 and have him away. Then they took 
 him up, and carried him through the 
 air to the door that I faw in the fide of 
 the Hill, and puthiminthere. Then I 
 faw that there was a way to Hell, e- 
 venfrom the Gates of Heaven, as well 
 as from the City of Deftruclion. So 
 I awoke, and behold it was a Dream. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
The Conclufion. 
 
 NOw Reader, I have told my Dream to thee \ 
 See if thou can/} Interpret it to me ; 
 Or to thy J "elf ] or Neighbour: but take heed 
 Of mif-interpreting : for that, inftead 
 Of doing goody will but thy felf abufe : 
 By mif-interpreting evil infues. 
 
 Take heed alfo, that thou be not extream, 
 In playing with the out- fide of my Dream : 
 Nor let my figure, orfmilitude y 
 Put thee into a laughter or a feud ; 
 Leave this for Boys and Fools; but as for thee, 
 Do thou the fub fiance of my matter fee. 
 
 Put by the Curtains, look within my Fail; 
 Turn up my Metaphors and do not fail : 
 There, if thou fee fa >sl them,fuch things to find. 
 As will be helpfull to an hone ft mind. 
 
 What of my drofs thou findeft there, be bold 
 To throw away, but yet preferve the Gold. 
 What if my Gold be wrapped up in Ore \ 
 None throws away the Apple for the Core : 
 But if thou fhalt caft all away as vain, 
 I know not but 'twill make me Dream again 
 
 THE END.