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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58733	The Second part of The pilgrims progress from this present world of wickedness and misery to an eternity of holiness and felicity : exactly described under the similitude of a dream, relating the manner and occasion of his setting out from, and difficult and dangerous journey through the world, and safe arrival at last to eternal happiness.	Bunyan, John, 1628-1688. Pilgrim's progress.; T. S.	1683 (1683)	Wing S179; ESTC R13979	81,625	207

of thy Gospel as the Peaceful Way and Pleasant and Delightful Path in and through which I must by thy Assistance walk to thy kingdom I do here willingly submit my Neck to thy Yoke and acknowledging all thy Laws to be Holy Just and Good I do Solemnly take them as a considerable part of my Happiness and the Rule of my Thoughts my Words and my Actions promising that although thou knowest and I find by dreadful experience that my Flesh will Contradict and Rebel yet I will indeavour to order my whole life according to thy direction therein and will not knowingly allow my self in the neglect of any thing which is my Duty Only in regard that through the frailty of my Flesh I am subject to many failings I humbly presume to protest before thee that unallowed miscarriages contrary to the settled bent and inclination of my Heart shall not annul this Covenant which I am the more bold to assert because thou thy self hast promised and assured me that it shall be so And now my sweet Redeemer thou who penetratest into the Heart and hast all things open and naked before thee knowest that I make this Solemn Contract of accepting and imbracing of thee and dedicating and giving up my self to thee freely without hesitation fully without reservation and sincerely without Hypocrisie to the best of my knowledge humbly imploring that if thou espiest any kind of flaw or falshood herein thou wouldst discover it to me and help me to do it with more uprightness and sincerity And now Glory and Honour Adoration and Praise be ascribed by my Soul to the great Creator and Conserver of all things whom I shall be bold from this Day forward to look upon as my God and Father and shall account it my Happiness as well as my Duty that I may sweeten my Pilgrimage through the Wilderness of this World by Contemplating the admirable Effects of thy Infinite Wisdom and Love in finding out such a way for the recovery of undone Sinners And Glory be to thee O thou Compassionate and Indulgent Mediator who hast loved me and washed me from my sins in thine own Blood and art now become my Saviour and Redeemer And Glory Adoration and Praise be given likewise unto thee O thou Eternal Spirit who hast by thy Powerful and Gracious Operations apply'd to me the Precious Merits of my Sweet Redeemer and by the Finger of thine Almighty Power Effectually Changed and Converted my Soul from the World to God from self to Christ and from a Course of Sin to the Practice of Holiness And now O thou Infinite Eternal and Alsufficient Jehovah the Lord God Omnipotent Father Son and Spirit who art a Fountain of Mercy and Pardon and an Ocean of Goodness and Love Thou art now become my Covenant Friend and hast through thy wonderful Grace and Goodness permitted me to become thy Covenant Servant Amen Amen And let the Contract which I have this day made on Earth be Ratified by thee in Heaven As soon as he had thus expressed himself I saw him pluck a Paper out of his Bosom wherein I supposed the substance of what he had said was written and having opened it he spread it before the Son of the Blessed Subscribed his Name to it and then presented it as his Act and Deed to him who received it with such a readiness and Complacency that plainly declared the greatness of that delight he took therein and stretching forth his Hand he lifted him up from the Earth and imbraced him with the greatest love and tenderness imaginable spake Comfortably unto him kist him and promised to love him with an everlasting love which is better than life it self assuring him likewise that he would present him before his Father without spot and blameless in love and that he would send him a perpetual supply of all things necessary for his Pilgrimage at the end whereof he would receive him into the Eternal Mansions of Bliss and place a Crown of Glory upon his Head And as for your Old Companions said he who would not that I should Reign over you I will now slay them before me Now therefore Gird up the Loins of thy Mind watch and be sober and hope to the end run without weariness and walk without fainting be thou faithful to the death and then I will give thee a Crown of life I will likewise write your Name in the Book of Life and therefore tell me said he what is your Name Ah Lord said the Man my Name is so bad wretched and scandalous that I am ashamed to tell it I would said he have you be ashamed of it and never own it more but yet you must tell it me for I intend to change it and give you a New Name a precious and an honourable Name for I will give you in my House and within my Walls a Place and a Name far better than that of Sons and Daughters I will give you an everlasting Name which shall not be cut off Lord said the Man thou knowest that I have always hitherto been known by the Name of Reprobate It s true said he but thou shalt be called so no more but Believer shall be now thy Name by which Name I will enter thee in the Book of Life And I will give thee a White Stone with this New Name inclosed in it which shall not be so legible and easy to be read by any other Person as thy self who receivest it and that thou mayest have Life and have it more abundantly thou shalt receive of my fulness and have Grace for Grace I will give thee to Eat of the Tree of Life which is in the midst of the Paradise of God whereby thou shalt be put out of all possibility of being hurt by the Second Death I will feed thee with the Food of Angels and give thee hidden Manna to eat I will shut the Door of Hell against thee so that no Man shall be able to open it and open the Gate of Heaven to thee so that no man shall be able to shut it against thee and when thou art cast out of the Synagogue by those who call themselves Believers and are not and art by them Excommunicated and delivered over to the Prince of Darkness with an express Command to him to take thee and when he will not or rather cannot for because I give unto you Eternal Life you shall never Perish nor shall Men or Devils Earth or Hell pluck you out of my Hands my Father which gave you to me is greater than all and no Man is able to pluck you out of my Fathers Hand I and my Father are one and as such we ingage our selves for thy Defence then it may be the Gaol shall but if so yet be not dismayed for I ingage to make that and all things else to Work together for thy good and assure thy self that although those things may not at present be pleasant but grievous yet they shall

began to speak and of whom I had taken no notice till now they are not too great for Almighty Power to conquer nor yet too many for Divine goodness to forgive he hath Strength enough to subdue all your Corruptions and Mercy enough to Pardon all your Crimes your Sins are great indeed but his Mercies are greater for they are Infinite your Sins are many and increased to a great number but his Mercies are more for they are numberless the cry of thy Sins are reached up to Heaven but his Mercies are above the Heavens now therefore take courage and adventure to cast thy self at his Feet and lie at his Mercy and do as the Church we Read of in Divine Story did cry after him my Father my Father the hope of his Youth Oh said he this is good Council and I would to God I could do according to it but I cannot Oh I cannot do it Nay then said Conscience I denounce thee to be a Wicked and an Accursed Wretch Cursed in time and Cursed in Eternity for the great Lawgiver whose Vicegerent I am hath declared in the Records of his Law that whosoever continues not in every thing that is written in the Book of the Law to do them is accursed and I who being a Witness of and having Recorded all thy Wicked and Prophane Actions am impowered with Authority from him to pass Judgment upon thee do declare that thou hast not continued in all things that are written in the Book of the Law to do them and therefore thou art the Man which the Righteous Judge of Heaven and Earth hath denounced Accursed nay if it be possible thou art more than Accursed for first thou hast not only not continued in all things written in the Book of the Law to do them but thou hast continued in nothing that is written in the Book of the Law to do it there is not one Command in the whole Book of the Law but what thou hast violated and broken thou hast wickedly and wilfully acted contrary to all its Rules and Rebelled against every Precept contained therein And Secondly thou hast not only done all this but when the Offenced Majesty of Heaven and Earth had out of the good Pleasure of his Will Graciously provided a Remedy in the Person of the Redeemer offerring that he should by his Infinite Merits make a full satisfaction to Divine Justice for the wrong which thou hadst done and which was so great that you as a Finite Creature were not able to satisfie any otherwise than by suffering the Vengeance of Eternal Fire and that you should moreover upon your accepting of and imbraceing this offered Redeemer become reconciled to him and injoy all the Felicity and Glories of Heaven you disdainfully scorned and slighted them rejecting the Council of God against thy self now therefore if those who are altogether ignorant of this Saviour and by reason of their living in Heathenish or Mahometan Regions have never received the offer of a Blessed Redeemer are accursed and must suffer the Sentence of Eternal Damnation How much sorer Punishment think you will you be thought worthy of who have spurned against the very Bowels of Mercy trampled under Foot the Offers of Pardon and spit in the very Face of a Tender and Compassionate Saviour Ah Sir said he all that you have said I acknowledge to be true and it all helps still to aggravate my Misery and heighten my Offence and makes my Crimes too great to be Pardoned But pray Sir said Mr. Hope let me prevail with you to cast your self on the Merits of our Saviour and lye at the Fountain of Mercy In the Condition wherein you now are you must of necessity be for ever Miserable you can be no more if we suppose the worst that you should not be accepted Oh therefore resolve that if thou must Perish thou wilt Perish at the Fountain of free Grace and if thou must be cast away tell him whose goodness is as large as his power and knows no other limits than his own Omnipotency that thou art resolved it shall be upon the very Shore of that Ocean which is so full of Mercy that its Depth is unfathomable and its Breadth unmeasurable and let me tell thee for thy further incouragement that although thou canst hear nothing from the Eternal now but Vengeance is mine and I will repay it saith the Lord I will tear you in pieces and there shall be none to deliver there is no Peace to the Wicked saith my God and although the Sinner live to be an hundred years old he shall be accursed so are the Paths of all them who forget God and the hope of the Hypocrite shall perish yet if you will fly to the City of Refuge and get the Son of the Blessed to Interceede for thee thou wilt then find him speaking to thee in another kind of Dialect and he will tell thee that he was indeed angry with thee but his Anger is now appeased he was thine Enemy but he is now become thy everlasting Friend his Hatred and his Vengeance his Justice and his Fury was to have been thy Portion but now his Goodness and his Love shall be thine Eternal Inheritance you shall be an Instrument of my Honour in this World and I will make thee a Vessel of Glory in the other I will Bless you with my special presence in thy Soul and that shall both fit and prepare thee for and be an assurance and earnest of the injoyment of my immediate Presence in Heaven I will teach thee so to order thy Conversation aright that at the end of it I may shew thee my Salvation the fulness of my Son and the Alsufficiency of my self shall be an inexhaustible and overflowing Fountain to thee Now prethee tell me continued he is not all this worth the adventuring for Yes reply'd he it is and Oh that I could follow your Advice but there are so many Discouragements that I cannot adventure No said Conscience then I tell thee that thou art the most hardned and impenitent wretch that ever I met with in my whole life I tell you your danger Mr. Judgment hath informed you how to prevent it and here is your good Friend Mr. Hope gives you all the incouragement that can possibly be expected or desired to make tryal of his Advice Pray let me have your Answer what you do intend to do in this Case for I must not nor will not be thus put off with delays any longer Awake and rouse up thy self thou hast been often complaining of and lamenting thy Base Vain and Earthly Heart and bitterly Exclaimed against thy Sloathful Lingering Careless and Delaying Temper hast often been wishing that things were and hoping that they would one day be better with thee promising thy self that it will not be always thus with thee but that thou shalt some time or other get rid of thy intanglements and go thy Pilgrimage but Oh what if thou shouldest