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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

word Obey To which must Europe vassallage owe The Lov're or the Seraglio Where Turk or Pope the Empire have The Subject's sure to be a Slave And if I 'm Chain'd it is all one Be the Gally Turkish or Thoulon Whilst those the Tragick World engage With Streams of Blood to stain the Stage Exceeding all call'd Brutal Rage Pilgrim Thou by this Pilgrim shewst the way T' an Empire of Eternal Day An Empire not with Slaughter gain'd Nor yet by Force or Fraud maintain'd An Empire Bright serene and clear As the bespangled Hemispere Whose Beauteous Glories ever shine With Raies Immortally Divine Transcending all the Pageant Pride Of Monarchs Semi-Deified Where all a mutual Glory share And each a Royal Crown doth wear Where Faction Hate and Envy cease ETERNITY's the date of Peace No proud Oppressor Lords it there Nor Prisoners Cryes afflict the Ear Their Ear 's not fed with feigned loves Or Warbles of the evening Groves But ravish'd with Celestial Songs Of glorious and Triumphant throngs The bright-wing'd Seraphims Adore And mighty Angels make the Chore. Exalted Saints praise Heav'ns great King And all their Halelujahs Sing Needs must the Musick there excel Where every soul 's a Philomel Inspir'd not with feeble Breath But Airs above the reach of Death When this poor mole-hill Earth shall tumble And into Dust and ashes crumble When in a Vniversal Fire All worldly Empires shall expire Gasping Crown'd-Heads lie down in Anguish And see their Tottering Glories languish When evil Shepherds and their flocks Shall shelter crave of falling Rocks Shivering Princes trembling crave The help of once despised slave Th' All-conquering Souldier stands dismaid Of all his Trophies unaraid When gilded Palaces shall have With Cottages an equal Grave And the Worlds Axletree shall crack And blaze in the last General Wrack Then shall thy Pilgrims Rock remain Vnshaken by the Hurricane A safe retreat for those whose care Shall Mansions in that place prepare But those who do intend to go On Pilgrimage thou letst them know What they 'l meet with on the Road Vnto this happy blest Abode The way 's not all strewd ' with flowers With Fountains Walks and Bowers The daies are not easie nor the nights Crown'd with downy soft Delights No Jessamies perfume the Air But Pleasures are all banisht there And many Troubles they will find Vpon the Road you have design'd Through which by help of thy Advice They 'l find the way to Paradice When all their troubles vanish strait At their First entrance of the Gate And through the tedious way they pass They 've a sure Guide and cordial Glass Nere failing Comforts to the Soul Tho she be tost from Pole to Pole Short-sighted ones may sometimes faint When they the Glorious Prospect want But when they have got a Pisgah's veiw Of the blest place directed to They 'l pass the Wilderness and find Th' Aegyptian Host left far behind And Canaan will their wants supply When David leads Philistims fly And they in full shall then receive The Glories which they now Believe In which blest State they 'l still remain Triumph and Joy and Ever Reign R. B. THE Authors Apology FOR HIS BOOK IT hath been observed of late years that peoples minds are so vitiated and debauched that no books will please them to read but Novels Romances and Plays with others of the like nature which have been bought up at a strange and prodigious Rate in vast and incredible numbers whilst Tracts of Divinity are almost wholly slighted and neglected and their stomachs turn upon them with loathing unless they contain something that 's New and unusual either for Matter Method or Stile By which means Debauchery is not only maintained and continued but hightened and increased thereby to the sensible discouragement and decay of Piety and Religion The observation whereof put some eminent and ingenious persons upon writing some Religious Discourses which they designed for a General Use in such kind of methods as might incline many to read them for the methods sake which otherwise would never have been persuaded to have perused them as Bernard's Isle of Man Gentile Sinner c. Hoping that the Power of those plain Truths which they thereby delivered in so much plainess and familiarity that made them the more easy to be understood by most illiterate persons and meanest capacities and yet afford pleasure delight and satisfaction to the most Judicious Learned and Knowing Reader And this consideration was the Motive which put the Author of the First Part of the Pilgrims Progress upon composing and publishing that necessary and useful Tract which hath deservedly obtained such an Universal esteem and commendation And this Consideration likewise together with the importunity of others was the Motive that prevailed with me to compose and publish the following Meditations in such a method as might serve as a Supplyment or a Second Part to it Wherein I have endeavoured to supply a fourfold Defect which I observe the brevity of that discourse necessitated the Author into First there is nothing said of the State of Man in his first Creation Nor Secondly of the Misery of Man in his Lapsed Estate before Conversion Thirdly a too brief passing over the Methods of Divine Goodness in the Convincing Converting and Reconciling of Sinners to himself And Fourthly I have endeavoured to deliver the whole in such serious and spiritual phrases that may prevent that lightness and laughter which the reading some passages therein occasion in some vain and frothy minds And now that it may Answer my design and be Universally Useful I commend both it and Thee to the Blessing of him whose Wisdom and Power Grace and Goodness it is that is only able to make it so And withal I heartily wish That what hath been formally Proposed by some well-minded persons might be more generally and universally practised viz. The giving of Books of this nature at Funerals instead of Rings Gloves Wine or Bisket assuring my self that Reading Meditation and several Holy and Heavenly Discourses which may Probably be raised upon the occasion of such presents as these would mightily tend to the making people serious and furnish not only the person who Discourses but the rest who are present and who would otherwise be imploying their thoughts and tongues too in such foolish vain and frothy Discourse as is too too commonly used at such times with such frames of Spirit as may be suitable to the greatness and solemnity of that occasion which then calls them together and even inforce them to consider their own frailty And by imploying their thoughts upon that sad object which then lyes visible before their eyes read Lectures to themselves of their own Mortality and affect their Souls with such serious suitable contemplations as this Lord This sad and dismal this mournful Tragedy which is now acted and acting upon my deceased Friend and whereof I am now only a Spectator must shortly be acted by me or rather