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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

whereof we have frequently played and sported our selves with the Rowling Fire and Unquenchable Flame wherewith it is filled You know likewise that our Feet frequently slipt and we had both of us like to have fallen into it especially one time when if you remember we were brought down to the very Gates of Tophet and the shadow of Death covered us it was only the Effect of Divine Patience that we then escaped it but now I am Informed nay and I am sure it is certainly true too that our Soveraign Armed with Fury and Revenge is Marching against us and is resolved to tumble us down into the Pit as a Reward of our Treason and Rebellion against him to prevent which and in order to the making my Peace with him I am Advised to fly to a City that stands in yonder narrow way the Name whereof is Conversion and I think they say the Name of the City is Refuge through which lieth the way to Celestial Happiness they give such an admirable Description of the City and such Convincing Reasons why I ought to repair to it that I am inclined to yield to their perswasions and in regard there is so near a Relation between us I would fain have you to go with me nay I cannot go without you and therefore pray Sir be so kind to your self and me as to Consent to go with me for the truth is I must not I cannot I dare not take a denial from you When he had done Judgment and Affection seconded him laying down divers weighty and excellent Arguments why he was obliged to comply with a Motion founded upon such admirable Reason and by the Complying with which he might reap such an extraordinary advantage I perceived by the Countenance of the Man that the Lectures which had been read to him were very distasteful and unpleasant and no way suitable to his Corrupt Inclinations for scornfully throwing up his deformed and Mis-shapen Head Rowling about his Luxurious and Adulterous Eyes and holding up his Sturdy and Rebellious hand he began to Huff and Hector at a strange Rate and cried out to them after this manner Pray Sirs leave off your Canting away with your whining I cannot indure it if you love me give over your Importunities and let me alone leave me to my Sensual Delights and the Pleasure of my present Injoyments for I assure you you shall not prevail with me to part with or relinquish them Tell not me of Danger I see none fright me not with Tophet I feel it not nor terrifie me with your Stories of Infinite Justice and Divine Vengeance for I fear them not you shall impose none of your Melancholly Fancies upon me nor will I believe any of your Chimera's you tell me of a Strange kind of Happiness you know not where nor when you tell me of strange kind of Horror and Torments but where or what they are you know no more than my self You tell me likewise of Death and Judgment which indeed is of most weight with me and I acknowledge my self most affected therewith because I have Daily Objects of Mortality before my Eyes and the very Emblem or Effigies of Death is frequently represented to my view in the Death of my Relations and Friends nay the fading Flower and the withering Grass read me perpetual Lectures of my frailty and the Tolling Bell often brings News that the Destroyer is abroad and terrifies me with Alarms of his approaching towards me but yet this also seems at a great distance for Death is not yet come within view of me I am young and in my strength and injoy the Greenness and Verdure of my Youth the Prime of my Days are not half spent and I have many Years to pass over before I arrive at Old Age some of which at least I resolve to spend in my present Courses and lay out on my sinful Dalsiances its time enough to Repent hereafter when I have satisfied my Soul with Pleasure and glutted my self with the Creature then I will begin to think of Heaven for I think that when Death Judgment and Eternity with the other terrible things whereof you tell me begin to mend their pace and make more speed in their Approaches towards me it will be the fittest time for me to fly to this City of Refuge and till then pray let me alone for I am yet free and am resolved not to bring my self into a Voluntary Bondage Having given this cross and untoward Answer to what they had proposed He turned about and was going away in a Rage but methoughts I saw Judgment lay hold on him and cry pray Sir turn again and let us Debate this Matter with a little more Consideration and less Partiality lay aside your Heat and your Prejudice and attend with Patience to what we have further to offer and when you have heard it then Judge of it with a Mind not Predetermined against it but resolving within it self to be Convinced by it and yield to it if it be backed with sufficient Authority by its agreeableness to and Correspondency with the Rules of Scripture and Reason I perceive that what we have Proposed has angered you and put you into a fume but pray sit down and consider a little whether notwithstanding all that Confidence and Fearlesness you have expressed and that Couragious and Heroick temper of Mind you boast your self to be the Master of you can indure without any kind of Concernment or Grief to think of being everlastingly shut from the presence of the Eternal and Banished the Beatifical Vision of his Face Can you take Pleasure think you in being for ever Banished the Presence of the Lamb whose Person is so Comely and Glorious and his Face Cloathed with such admirable and ravishing Smiles that it contains in it and conveys unexpressible Pleasures and Delights and inconceivable Joy and Consolation to those happy Persons who are admitted to the beholding and contemplating thereof Can you I say indure to think of the loss of all this together with the loss of the Company of the Holy Angels and Glorified Souls who there Celebrate an Eternal Marriage and keep an Everlasting Sabbath And being raised to the highest Pinacle of Admiration and Joy with Exalted Voices and a Divine Harmony sweetly Sing forth and perpetually Breathe out their Praises and Adorations of him who having died for them and washed them from their Sins in his own Blood hath now made them Kings and Priests unto God and to himself for ever Or admit you can think of all this without being concerned or grieved for your loss yet tell me can you as easily indure the Vengeance of Eternal Fire Are you willing to exchange your stately House your pleasant Fields and your delightful Orchards for everlasting Burnings Can you consent to have your Merry and your Jovial Company which you now keep exchanged for that of the Damned or those Musical and Harmonious sounds wherewith you are so much delighted

after all this wishing and woulding and hoping and expecting it to be better with thee let things run on thus from Day to Day and so from one Year to another until thou art surprized by the King of Terrors and be by him hurried away before ever thou art come to a point or made any resolution what to resolve on or hast gotten thy Heart to a through and a saving closing with the Redeemer Oh now consider what will become of thee if the Case should be so with thee dost thou think that thy Golden or Silver Key will open the Gates of Heaven and shut the Gates of Hell to thee or purchase thee an Inheritance in the Promised Land or canst thou be so Vain and so Foolish as to imagine that the remembrance of thy ease thy pleasure or thy plenty here will alleviate thy Pain or procure thee any kind or manner of ease in thy Eternal Dolours or yield any Comfortable or Refreshing Consolations to thy miserable Soul when it lies Broiling upon the Hot and Scorching Coals of Divine Fury and Frying in the Burning Flame Thou art by this shuffleing and procrastinating Guilty of Monstrous Madness and Folly and art so Mercilesly cruel to thy self that the very Angels blush at thee and are ashamed of thy Brutishness and even the Heavens and the Earth are Amazed and all the Creatures stand Astonished at it This Discourse made him Tremble exceedingly and very much revived his Convictions again and he solemnly promised Conscience that he would now resolve to go on Pilgrimage and promised to begin his Journey on the Morrow protesting that he did really intend to do as he said wherewith Conscience being satisfied held his Peace for that time I looked still when Mr. Affection should have appeared and have Contributed something towards so good a Work since he had formerly been so much for and promised such large Assistance in the performing the Pilgrimage to Celestial Paradise but upon inquiring into it I found he was wholly taken off and diverted by the late Reconciled Companion and so fallen in Love and taken up with him that he had not time or leisure to look towards or so much as think of Paradise but instead thereof as soon as he saw Conscience and the Man was parted he presently stept to him and indeavoured to disswade him from it telling him what new Delights and Sweetness their Friend Fansie had found out in other Objects especially in that which you wot of said he to which I perceive you are by his means together with some little Assistances contributed towards it by my self and Mr. Heart almost wholly reconciled again And Phansie being by seconded him Representing and Guilding things over with such Artificial Glosses and Smooth Appearances of Delight and Advantage that the poor Man was absolutely bewitched and Inchanted thereby so that he presently forgot all the Terrors of Conscience and all the Solemn Promises and Protestations he had made but just before of beginning his Pilgrimage the next Day which made me think of what I had formerly read in Drexelius his excellent Treatise of Eternity I will to morrow that I will I will be sure to do it To morrow comes to morrow goes And still thou art to do it And thus Repentance is deferr'd From one day to another Until the day of Death doth come And Judgment is the other But yet the free Grace and Goodness of him whose Name is I am whose Love is unchangeable and Mercy so unsearchable that it is past finding out and who doth whatsoever he pleases being moved and inclined to do all that he doth only by the Dictates of his own Counsel and the good pleasure of his Will would not suffer it to be so with this Man resolving as I did perceive that the Prince of Darkness should not make a Prey of him nor would he permit him to erect Trophies of Honour and Triumph to himself upon this Mans Overthrow and Ruine notwithstanding the poor wretch himself was freely willing to be a Slave and Vassal with quiet rather than be a King with some little hazard and danger in the Way through which he must pass to his Coronation Wherefore he sent Boanerges to him again Commanding him to Preach another Lecture about the danger and dreadfulness of his Condition and to denounce Judgment against him if he did not immediately Repent and fly to the City of Refuge Having received this Command he presently obeyed and thus he began Thou Wicked Vile and Miserable Wretch said he that hast been so ungrateful as to slight and refuse the Offers of Mercy and Pardon and hast like an hardened wretch made the Son of the Blessed whose Countenance is White and Ruddy and his Person altogether Lovely being the chiefest of ten thousands and in point of Excellency infinitely beyond Comparison stand knocking at thy Door Intreating Perswading and Wooing thee for admittance into thy Heart and a Grant of thy Love until his Head was wet with the Dew and his Locks with the Drops of the Night The Prince of Peace will shortly therefore appear against thee as a Rageing and a Devouring Lion and shall come from Heaven with his Mighty Angels in Flaming Fire to take Vengeance on thee because thou knowest not God nor wilt yield Obedience to the Gospel and shall punish thee with an everlasting Destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the Glory of his Power and Oh how amazing and cuttingly will the very first appearance of the Son af Mans coming in the Clouds with Power and great Glory strike into thy Guilty and Self Condemned Heart then thou wilt begin with inexpressible Grief and Bitterness of Spirit to sigh and say within thy self Oh that strong and Terrible Judge whom I now see sitting down upon yonder Flaming White and Glorious Throne accompanied with all the Blessed Inhabitants and Shining Courtiers of Heaven is that same Blessed Redeemer and Mighty God the Prince of Peace that sweetest Lamb who did most Graciously power out his most precious Blood like Water for me that I might thereby have been Washed and Cleansed Sanctified and Saved and he it was who so fairly and frequently Invited and Wooed me with the most Powerful and Charming Arguments and Tearms of Dearest Love but only to abandon my Lust and bid Adieu to the Prince of Darkness who was my implacable Enemy and then sought and hath now together with my own wilfulness accomplished my utter Ruine promising that if I would give my Consent he even he would become my Alsufficient and Everlasting Husband and if I had then accepted it he would now at this very time have placed an Immortal and Splendid Crown of Heavenly Bliss and Matchless Glory upon my Head with his own Almighty Hand But wo and alas I like a wilful foolish and desperate wretch neglected this great Salvation forsook my own Mercy and so judged my self unworthy of Eternal Life and like a Cruel and Bloody Butcher