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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

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