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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

High is with me and he will dwell with me he will be mine and I shall be his I shall be his Son and he will be my Father be astonished and even ravished with wonder O my Soul for the Infinite Breach which Sin had made between God and thee is now made up the difference Composed and the Offender received to Mercy so that God and thee are now reconciled and have entred into a Covenant of Peace Heaven and Earth having agreed upon the terms struck their Hands and Sealed the Indenture O happy Conclusion O Blessed Conjunction If the Stars should condescend to dwell with the Dust if Fire and Water could be reconciled or the North and South Poles be brought to meet and mutually imbrace each other this were much but yet this Agreement and Conjunction wherewith thou art now Blest is much more wonderful and strange for the terms of Distance were infinitely greater Rejoyce therefore O ye Angels and shout ye Seraphims and let all the glorious Inhabitants of the Celestial Mansions prepare an Epithalamium and stand ready with the Marriage Song for loe here is a wonder of wonders the great Jehovah hath given himself to a Worm and the King of Kings hath Contracted a Marriage with his hopeless helpless Captive Publickly acknowledging and owning it before the whole World freely declaring that he is become one with me and I with him and that he hath given me the Fulness of Heaven for my Joynture and the Fatness of the Earth for my Substance having kept back nothing from me And now O Lord thou art that God and that I AM and thy Words they are truth it self wherefore having made all these Promises to thy Servant so that thou hast prevented my very wishes non-plust my desires and left me nothing to ask at thy Hands but what thou hast already freely granted and bequeathed to me and all that thou hast left me to do being to accept and imbrace thy kindness adventure my self upon thy Fidelity and trust my whole happiness both here and hereafter upon these thy Promises I only request that the Word which thou hast spoken concerning thy Servant thou wouldest establish for ever and do as thou hast said that so thy Name may be magnified for ever and the freeness of thy Love in the choice of thy Servant be the Matter of my Praise and Adoration through the Days of Eternity And now adieu vain World and all the empty and imaginary Pleasures of Sin I bid you all an Eternal farewel nay I will now tread you under Foot and trample upon you as the basest Dross and Dung the vain Threats of an Insulting World shall no longer terrify me nor shall thy salse and deceitful Promises any more delude or flatter me to fall in Love with a Strumpet or Adore a Painted Image to forsake the everlasting Spring the overflowing Fountain and the inexhaustible Ocean to drink of thy impure puddles or attempt to satiate my Thirst at thy broken and empty Cisterns And although the Prince of Darkness dress the Harlot in all her Pomp and Bravery and by Painting and Patching her deformed Face make her appear to be a Beautiful and Lovely Object in hope thereby to allure me to fall in love with her and return to her imbraces again yet his pains therein shall all be lost and prove labour in vain for I bid thee defience O thou incorrigible and implacable Enemy of my Souls Salvation resolving in the Divine Strength that all thy Subtil Wiles nor thy Tempting Baits shall ever be able to prevail with me for the changing my present choice unless thou art able as I am sure thou art not to shew me such a Crown and such a Kingdom as the Almighty hath settled upon me or at least give me something which may ballance the loss of an Infinite and an Alsufficient God who hath now given himself to me but I know you cannot do that neither and therefore take notice that I do from this Day forward and for ever Banish you and all those filthy and deceitful Lusts and Pleasures which are thy accursed Companions and Attendants out of my Heart get you gone get you hence I will have no more to do with you I have enough in God in Christ and the Promises to fill and satisfie my Soul these have I lodged within my Heart and there is now no more Room for such Guests as you are nor shall you ever again be permitted a peaceable entrance within these Doors And thus I saw him go on rejoycing in the Lord and triumphing in the happiness of his present Condition continually looking forwards and reaching forth his Hand towards the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus fixing his Eye always upon the place whither he was going in the midst whereof he saw the Son of the Blessed the Eternal Darling and Glory of his Father advanced far above Angels and all Created Powers and seated upon a Bright and Glorious Throne admirably framed of Majesty and Mercy Justice and Love and strongly supported by Almighty Strength and Unchangeable Goodness having on his Sacred Head a Royal and Imperial Crown the Riches Splendor and Glory whereof so far excceds all expression that I am no way able to relate it nay the Tongues of Angels would fail and the Pen of the most Dexterous and Florid Scribe be nonplust should they attempt the Description thereof and his Victorious Temples justly encircled and richly bedecked with Wreathes of Victory and Triumph Angels and Thrones and Dominons being Subjected to him who is the everlasting Heir of all things and Cloathed from Head to Foot with Garments of unapproachable Light which made him break forth into an Extasie of Admiration and Joy And I after heard him with his Hands and his Eyes lifted up to Heaven utter these and the like expressions O my Soul with how much Shining Glory and Lustre dost thou behold thy Beloved Array'd O how admirable is the Beauty of his Face How Ravishing are the smiles of his Countenance and how attractive the Glances of his Eyes How delightful are the Expressions of his Love to thee and the Kisses of his Rosey Lips affords thee a sweetness that far excedeth even life it self And at other times when he lay down to Rest and Repose his weary Limbs tired with the difficulties and hardships of his Journey he would break out suddenly into Heavenly and Ravishing descriptions of the Celestial Paradise With what raised Affections and inflamed Love would he say do I review thee O thou City of God thou Paradise of Delight and Region of Peace and Tranquility Joy and Happiness Glory and Honour Beautify thy Palaces O with what breathings and longings of Soul after thee do I now think of thee and of those Glorious Inhabitants who dwell within thy Saphir Walls and whose Holy Feet trace thy Jasper Streets O how Glorious art thou O Jerusalem So splendid is thy Brightness an so

acted upon my self and the rest who are spectators hereof by the King of Terrors now calls to us and we must all of us ere long in the self same manner call to others to mind their latter End and consider that the Remembring to prepare their great and last Change is or ought to be the chief bufiness of our Lives Lord my breath is as liable to end will be as certainly stoped as his and I find that my body likewise is compounded and made up of the same mouldering and decaying principles which incline me and render me subject to crumble into dust and fall into the Grave to which I am now following him but Lord I know not how suddenly my self may be followed thither Lord here 's his Body but where 's his Soul His departure is a sad occasion of mourning and Grief to his sorrowful Relations but Lord what is it to himself He is now got beyond the Grave and hath a clearer sight of and is thereby able to Judge more truly of unseen and invisible things than when he was here he hath other thoughts of Sin and Hell of Holiness and Heaven than us poor mortals who are yet Groveling in the dark in these lower Regions Lord Sin was the great the cruel and barbarous Murtherer that first brought Death into the World and furnished him both with the Dart and the sting wherewith he wounds O that Thou wouldst therefore affect my Soul with that Sermon which thou art novv preaching ot me by him and O let not that Lecture of Mortality which he is now reading to me ever be forgotten by me Lord give me an interest in thy Son whereby I may escape the sting and despise the Dart and Triumph over the fear of Death Amongst those few who haved practiced this abundance of good hath been observed to have been done by that means and who knows were it more generally used and become a custome amongst us at our Burials what good might be effected thereby And now that the reading this small Tract may promote thy present piety and future happiness by making thee more sensible of thy lost and undone condition by nature and by bringing thy soul mor● out of love with sin and more and more into love with God with Christ and holiness is the desire of him who is thy cordial friend and hartily wishes the Eternal wellfare of thy immortal Soul T. S. THE PILGRIMS PROGRESS PART II. THE Spring being far advanced the Meadows being Covered with a Curious Carpet of delightful Green and the Earth Cloathed in Rich and Glorious Attire to Rejoyce and Triumph for the Return of her Shining Bridegroom The Healthful Air rendred more Pleasing and Delightful by the gentle Winds then breathed from the South impregnated with the Exhilerating Fragrancy of the Variety of Flowers and odoriferous Plants over which they had passed and every Blooming Bush and Flourishing Grove plentifully stored with Winged Inhabitants who with a delightful Harmony sweetly Sing forth their Makers Praise and Warble out their Joyful Welcomes to the Gaudy Spring I one Day took a Walk in the Fields to Feast my Eyes with the variety of Delightful Objects which that Season of the Year wherein the Universe bears the nearest resemblance to the happy state wherein the Immortal God at first created it liberally offers to the view of the Admiring Beholders and thereby lays an Irresistible Obligation upon Heavenly Minds to Spiritualize the several Obiects they b●hold and satiate their happy Souls with Heavenly Meditations by affording them such innumerable occasions of Contemplating the Divine Goodness And as I walked the various Objects represented to my View afforded divers occasions of and furnished me with matter for different Meditations Sometimes I would Contemplate the Divine Wisdom in the curious Frame and Fabrick of the World stretching the North over the Empty Place and hanging the Circle of the Earth upon nothing when by the irresistable Power of his Almighty Word he spake a Confused Chaos into Form and Beauty Commanding some part of the Earth to raise it self into lofty Hills and aspiring Mountains forming their Concave Heads for Springs and ordaining their Bowels for the Production of the Usefullest and the Richest Minerals and appointing other Parts of it to subside into Humble Valleys and be Formed into Champain Plains whose Surface he Clothed with a Carpet curiously interwoven with various and delightful Flowers and Adorned with a Natural Landscape of stately Cedars Shady Palms and Spreading Pines Fruitful Groves Aromatick Plants and Balsamick Shrubs Invironing the whole with the Liquid Ocean Commanding the Sea to Compass and Imbrace the Habitation of Man reserving it as a perpetual store to Administer Rain to the Bottels of Heaven and Convey Liquor to the Bubling Fountains supply Mankind with the variety of Useful and Delectable Creatures wherewith the Almighty hath stored it and serve him for the use of Navigation and Commerce Replenishing the Earth likewise with innumerable Rarities and almost Infinite Variety of Living Creatures and furnishing the Air with the most admirable and Ravishing Musick Establishing a Glittering Cannopy admirably Beautified with Spangling Stars to cover all his Sublunary Works Ordaining it to be a Tabernacle for the Sun whose Influence and Motion Conveys Heat and Vegitation and Measures Light and Darkness to all things beneath his Sphere And having thus finished and Beautified the World and prevented the very Wishes of Man by those admirable Preparations for him at last he Formed him also and from a Clod of Earth exalted him to be the Head of the Universe and the Perfection of all the Visible Creation advanced him into the Throne and gave him Dominion over all the rest of the Creatures appointing him to be their High Priest to Offer up their Tribute to their Great Creator whereby the Divine Goodness antedated his most Ample Desires rarified his Inlarged Heart and filled his Capacious Soul with Sacred Wonder Sometimes I would Expatiate in my Thoughts upon the Reasonableness and Easiness of that Law which God gave to Man in the Primitive state of Innocency and Happiness as the Rule of his Obedience and the Condition upon which he should remain in the perpetual Possession of all those Glorious Felicities wherewith he was then Crowned And then upon the Folly and Madness of Man that notwithstanding the Reasonableness of the Homage he was Obliged to pay to the Great Monarch of Heaven and Earth he should so easily permit himself to be puffed up with so much Pride and Arrogancy as to aspire after an Equality to and be prevailed upon and wheadled by the very first Temptation to fall into flat Rebellion against and Commence open War with his Soveraign whereby he lost at once the Divine Favour and all the Happiness and Felicity which was the Consequence thereof Expelled himself out of Eden and Barocado'd the enterance into the Celestial Paradise against him and his Posterity for ever Precipitated himself into a Gulf of