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The Pilgrim's Progress - From This World To That Which Is To Come
The Pilgrim's Progress From This World To That Which Is To Come Author:John, Bunyan Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, IN THE SIMILITUD,E OF A DREAM. w' The Jail. I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where... more » was a Den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep : and, as I slept, Ijlreanied a dream. I dreamed, and behold I saw a man clothed with rags, standing in a certain place, with his face from his own house, a book in his hand, and agreat burden' ii pr.™ hja Vianlr (Jsa Ixiv. 6; Luke xiv. 33 ; Ps. xxxviii. 4; Hab. ii. 2 ; Acts xvi. 31). I looked, and saw him open the book and read therein; and, as he read, he wept, and trembled; and not being able longer to contain, he brake out with a lamentable cry, saying, "What shall I do?" (Acts ii. 37). In this plight, therefore, he went home and refrained himself as long as he could, that his wife and children should not perceive his distress; but he could not be silent long, because that his trouble increased. Wherefore at length he brake his mind to his wife and children; and thus he began to talk to them. 0 my His outcry. S, and you the children of my bowels, , j. Jr dear friend, am in myself undone by reason of a burden that lieth hard upon me; moreover, I am for certain informed that this our city will be burned with lire from heaven, in which fearful overthrow both myself, with thee, my wife, and you my sweet babes, shall miserably come to ruin, , except (the which yet I see not) some lie knots no L ' may of escape way of escape can be found, whereby we may be delivered. At this his relations were sore amazed; not for that they believed that what he had said to them was true, but because they thought that some frenzy distemper had got into his head; therefore, it drawing towards night, and they hoping that sleep might settle his brains, with all has...« less