The Pilgrim's Progress, from this World to that which is to Come: Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream ...

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J. Mawman, 1808

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Page 91 - Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
Page 155 - Ha, Ha!" And he smelleth the battle afar off, The thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
Page 76 - ... grown so crazy and stiff in his joints that he can now do little more than sit in his cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails because he cannot come at them.
Page 163 - Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others ; but let us watch and be sober.
Page 136 - For now, what for want of bread and water, and by reason of the wounds they received when he beat them, they could do little but breathe. But, I say, he found them alive ; at which he fell into a grievous rage, and told them that, seeing they had disobeyed his counsel, it should be worse with them than if they had never been born. At this they trembled greatly, and I think that Christian fell into a swoon ; but coming a little to himself again, they renewed their discourse about the Giant's counsel,...
Page xvi - Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Page 1 - 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 a great burden upon his back. 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?
Page 65 - By this I perceive thou art one of my subjects, for all that country is mine, and I am the prince and god of it.
Page 59 - For God speaketh once, yea twice, Yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed ; Then he openeth the ears of men, And sealeth their instruction, That he may withdraw man from his purpose, And hide pride from man.
Page 155 - The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon. 27 He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood. 28 The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble. 29 Darts are counted as stubble : he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

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