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The Pilgrim's Progress, From This World to That Which Is to Come. With Explanatory Notes by [w.] Mason
The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which Is to Come With Explanatory Notes by Mason - w. Author:John Bunyan General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1848 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: THE Ugrims THIS WORLD TO THAT WHICH IS TO COME. JOHN BUNYAN. WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES BY MASON. JLanBan : THOMAS NELSON, PATERNOSTER ROW; AND EDINBURGH. M DOOCILVI1I. THE AUTHOR, S APOLOGY FOR HIS BOOK. When at the first I took my pen in hand, Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should make a little book In such a mode: nay, I had undertook To make another ; which, when almost done, Before I was aware, I this begun. And thus it was : I, writing of the way And race of saints in this our gospel-day, Fell suddenly into an allegory About their journey, and the way to glory, In more than twenty things, which I set down : This done, I twenty more had in my crown ; And they again began to multiply, Like sparks that from the coals of fire do fly. Nay then, thought I, if that you breed so fast, I'll put you by yourselves, lest you at last Should prove ad injmilmn, and eat out The book that I already am about. Well, 8o I did; but yet I did not think To shew to all the world my pen and ink In such a mode ; I only thought to make I knew not what; nor did I undertake Thereby to please my neighbour; no, not I ; I did it mine own self to gratify. Neither did I but vacant seasons spend In this my scribble; nor did I intend But to divert myself, in doing this, From worser thoughts, which make me do amiss. Thus I set pen to paper with delight, And quickly had my thoughts in black and white. For having now my method by the end, Still as I pull, d, it came; and so I penn, d It down; until at last it came to be, For length and b...« less