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 morâ— 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 bâ—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
He that ouercometh shall not be hurt of the second death but I will give him a Crowne of Life Except yee repent yee shall all Likewise perish London Printed for Thomas Malthus at the Sunn in the Poultry 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 They were Strangers and Pilgrims on Earth but they desire a better Countrey that is an Heavenly Heb. 11. 13 16. Let us lay aside every Weight and the Sin that doth so easily beset us and run with patience the Race that is set before us Heb. 12. 7. LONDON Printed for Tho. Malthus at the Sun in the Poultry 1683. The Right honble Scroop Egerton Earl of Bridgwater Viscount Brackley Baron of Elsmere 1703 To Him that is Higher than the Highest The Almighty and everlasting Jehovah who is the Terror and Confusion of the Hardened and Impenitent World and the Hope and Happiness of all Converted and Returning Sinners Most Mighty and Eternal God thou King of Kings and Prince of Peace IT was from thee that I at first Derived the Original of my Being and it is upon the sole account of thy free Grace and unmerited Goodness that I injoy my Well Being too with all that I am and have which both Obliges aud Encourages me to approach thy Foot-stool and with all possible Veneration prostrating my self before the Throne of thy Glory Humbly Offer up and Dedicate to thy Sacred Majesty the insuing Meditations Solemnly begging for the sake of thy Eternal Son the Lord Jesus that thou wouldest cast a Favourable Eye upon them and do thy Servant who acknowledges himself to be the meanest and unworthiest of all thy Subjects the Honour to accept and own them by makeing them useful to Convey the Knowledge of thy self to Vnconverted Sinners Convince them of their lost and undone Condition by Nature and the danger they are in of being miserable for ever Allure them to fall in Love with and Imbrace thy Son who is so Beautiful and Lovely that he infinitely exceeds all Comparison and so Loving Tender and Compassionate that he hath no Parallel Let it point out to them the way to Christ who is the way to thee and the only means whereby they can be Reconciled to thee and be made happy in the injoyment of thee Let them tend to the promoting the Spiritual Good and Eternal happiness of all those into whose hands they shall come It is probable and I expect no less that they will fall into the Hands of some whose Curiosity will be the only Motive that Prompts them to Read and Design the Perusal of them shall only serve to please and gratify their fancy with the Quaintness and Vnusualness of the Method wherein they are Penned or to verify the truth of the Proverb The Eye is not satisfied with seeing nor the Ear with hearing but if thou wilt please by the Powerful influence of thy Grace to make them fall in Love with and Entertain the Substance whilest they only designed to sport and play with the shadow I shall thereby obtain my End in Composing and Publishing them And I humbly Implore that as when I was indeavouring with incredible Pains and Industry to precipitate my self into a Gulf of deplorable Misery the Nature and Extent whereof thy self hath described to be Wrath to come Thou wast pleased out of thy Infinite Goodness and Tender Compassions which have been ever of Old to pluck me out of the Horrible Pit as a Brand out of the Fire and by an Effectual changing of my Nature turn my Feet into the ways of thy Testimonies and perswade me to go on Pilgrimage to the Celestial Canaan and hast enabled me to make a Considerable Progress towards it through the midst of many amazing difficulties and to trample under Feet and with ease and facility pass over innumerable Discouragements not only from those who were travelling the contrary way and with an Infernal Eagerness directing their hasty Steps towards the Sulphury Lake from whom I expected no fairer dealing but even from my fellow Pilgrims too so thou wouldest please by the Power of thy Grace to inable me to persevere therein until thou hast safely carried me through all the remaining Difficulties and Dangers of my Journey brought me within the Gates of Zion and given me an Actual Possession of a perfect and everlasting happiness in the immediate enjoyment of thy self and the Beatifical Visions of thy Face And if in the mean while I may by this or any other means be an instrument of doing good to my fellow Pilgrims Increasing and Advancing the Kingdom of Christ in the World and bringing Glory and Honour to thy Name then the End and Design will be sufficiently obtained which really is the aim of him who is not would not will not be his own but as innumerable Instances of Divine Goodness hath infinitely Obliged me to be seriously so I solemnly promise and resolve to be for ever thine in Time and to Eternity T. S. An Explanation of the two Emblems LO here the Emblem of our wanton Age And their mad Frolicks on the fatal stage See foolish Prodigal The dismal End To which thy sottish damn'd Debauches tend Behold the gaping Tophet so profound Whose flaming Vaults with hideous cries resound Blind foolish miscreants tumbling headlong in Whilst they are dancing of their rounds in sin Look on lewd Jezebel who leads the Dance Whilst to her Timbrel all the rest advance Heedless they caper on Destructions brink 'Till dropping in in sulph'rous flames they sink Around the dismal Gulph see Roses strew'd The Road to Hell had need b' a pleasant Road. The ' frighted Pilgrim who the danger spies From the loose throng and Magick Circle flies Towards a safer Way his course he steers Free from their seeming joyes and real fears The Preacher's warning or some Friend within Rouz'd him to shun the Snares of Lust Sin The rest jigg on secure at Conscience laugh And greedily their poison'd pleasures quaff In the next page the friendly Preacher stands Telling their Danger with up lifted hands Indulgent Heaven offers them a Crown But thoughts of Heav'n in sensual Frolicks drown All this the slumbering Dreamer saw whose eyes Twinkling with Tears bewail their Miseries And clad in black with pensive head on hand Laments those Ills attend a sinful Land His slumbers ' wake in Heav'n their Stygian Napps Start not until ' wak'd by Hells After-Claps R. B. To the Ingenious AUTHOR Of this SECOND PART Of the Pilgrims Progress Swain WHilst labouring restless Tyrants swims Through Seas of Blood to Diadems And whilst they set the World on blaze A tottering Mortal Throne to raise Poor Earth-worms fighting for Earths Sway Contending for the
looked in and lo to my Amazement and Wonder I then plainly perceived that they were all of them Dancing about a Pit that was bottomless and playing with Flames that never go out and as I stood there methoughts I could hear the horrible out-cries and dismal Screeches of the Damned and the Ratling of the Chains and the Fiery Shackles of the Prisoners of Hell whereupon being much astonished my Spirits sinking within me and my very Flesh trembling for fear I suddenly started back and fled for my life lest the Rowling Flame which flowed like a stream of Brimstone should have Consumed me or the Noisome Fumes of the Burning Sulphur which came up into my Nostrils should have Suffocated and Choaked me but being gotten some distance from it and as I thought out of the danger thereof I first lifted up my Soul to God returning Adoration and Praise to him for delivering me from the danger of the Horrible Pit and then turning my self towards them again I could not but stand and behold them with Admiration and Pity and found my Heart touched with a sensible Commiseration of their desperate Folly and Madness in their wilful continuing to sport themselves in a Place of so much hazard and danger notwithstanding the reiterated cautions they perpetually receive to forwarn them of their danger and Advise them to flee from the wrath to come And behold as I looked earnestly upon them methoughts I saw sometimes one and sometimes another drop into the Pit and the Flames catched hold of them methoughts when they were falling they struggled with all their might and main endeavouring if possible to make their escape but alas it was then too late and there was no remedy But now if ever you expect entrance into this City you must consent to the being stripped of all those abominable Rags and filthy Garments wherewith you are now Cloathed and you must lay down all those Lusts and Corruptions which for the sake of an Imaginary Happiness you have fancied in them you have hitherto with incredible Pains and Industry always carried about with you and Indulged them in your Bosom but no you must relinquish them for ever and abandon and turn from them with the greatest hatred and detestation imaginable nay since they have Traiterously opposed your subjecting your self to the Son of the Blessed and would not have him to Reign over you you must bring them before him that he may slay them This indeed is hard and irksome to Nature and you will find some difficulty in the performance thereof but yet assure your self that this must be done or otherwise you will be Eternally undone Oh therefore let me prevail with you to consent to and resolve upon the performance hereof Consider I pray you did not the Eternal part with his own and only Son for you and will you then be so ungrateful to deny the parting with those Wretched and Cursed Companions for him which if not parted with will infallibly betray you to everlasting Ruine and Precipitate you into the deepest Place of the Burning Lake I say again let me perswade you to this or else sit down satisfied and content your self to spend your time in Mirth and Folly and your Eternity in Pain and Misery and therefore pray resolve what to do and let your Debates come to a final issue Whereupon I saw a third Person come to him who seemed to be of a far more brisk and Aiery Complexion than the two former telling him that he had diligently listned to all the foregoing Discourse and found himself wonderfully pleased and delighted therewith verily believing that at the very same instant when and by the very same Act of Grace whereby the Son of the Blessed darted the Beams of his illuminating Light into Mr. Judgment whereby he plainly saw and discovered his Misery together with the way and means whereby you may said he be saved from it He darted into me likewise a sense and feeling thereof making me to Sympathise with you and incline to help and assist you in the performing the hard Task and the carrying you over all those Difficulties Mr. Judgment hath Described for I assure you that I begin to think so well of the Journey that if you will undertake it I will go along with you and assist you with Legs wherewith you shall Walk and Run therein Nay to encourage you the more I promise and ingage my self to furnish you with Wings for the inabling you to sore aloft and fly above the Clouds The extraordinary Promises this Gentleman made him of Assistance begat in me a more than ordinary Curiosity to Inquire his Name and I was answered by some who knew him that his Name was Affection And now methoughts I heard Conscience begin again to round in his Ears the greatness of his danger the necessity of his escape and the incouragement he had received from those two Persons for the attempting thereof demanding what he intended to do You may be sure Sir reply'd he that by this time I am weary of this dreadful and dismal Condition wherein I now am hanging as it were between Heaven and Hell without being able to discern to which of the two places I am most inclined nor can I possibly discern if Death should now put a period to my Life which of them would be my Eternal Home and therefore you may well imagine that I am not without some inclination to go on Pilgrimage to the Celestial Paradise but there is a certain Person in the World whose consent I must first obtain for my so doing or else I must still remain as I am for the truth is without his consent to and help and assistance therein I can neither begin nor perform my Journey and yet I am afraid he will not be perswaded to consent to and assist me therein for I have found him by woful Experience to be a cross stubborn ill-natured fellow being naturally inclined to oppose and hinder every thing which is good and by Custome inured to the Practice of that which is evil Pray said Conscience who can that be with whom you maintain so near a Correspendence that without his consent you will not be happy It is reply'd he one whom you know very well and I think you have some kind of acquaintance with him and when I have told you his Name I believe you 'l be of my Mind his Name is Mr. Will and I am confident that you know him to be both a Wilful Headstrong Person strongly bent against any thing that is good especially against this Pilgrimage and likewise that he hath such an absolute Power and Dominion over me that I can do nothing without his Consent Then said Conscience if that be the Man you spake of I acknowledge there is a great deal of truth in what you say yet I tell you again you must not make use of this as an Argument for your delay lest ruine suddenly overtake you and you
now swam in Tears were dim with Blood and darkened at the approach of Cruel Death whose Mouth and Lips although they were wont to speak as never Man spake were now grown Pale and Wan with strokes grim with Death and imbittered by the Gall and Vinegar which he Drank whose Arms wherewith he used to Fathom the World and Imbrace all the Powers of the Universe were now distrained and stretched on the Cross and his Shoulders by the strength whereof he upheld the tottering Creation was beaten and lashed with Knotty Cords and Whips and when so Bruised and Wounded thereby that it would have drawn Tears from the Dryest Eyes and have moved the Hardest and most Obdurate Heart to Pity and Commiseration to behold it he was inforced notwithstanding to bear a Heavy Cross whereon himself was to be Crucified whose Hands whereby the Worlds were made and with which he formed the curious Frames and Fabricks of Heaven and Earth and his Feet which used to move so swiftly to bring Pardon and Relief to the Condemned and the Miserable were now Bored and Pierced through and by Inhumane and Salvage Traytors Cruelly Nailed and Tenter'd on the Cross whose Heart which was never polluted nor defiled and was the very Spring and Fountain of Mercy and Love was now pierced and wounded with a Spear and those Bowels which Yearned with Pity and Rouled with Compassion towards others when in Distress and Misery were now dried up for want of Moisture and Pained and Tortured with straining pulls and the extrremity of his Torments and even broken and rent a sunder by his dying pangs So that from Head to Foot there was no part free but methoughts he appeared covered all over with Blood his Face was sadly Mortified and numerous streams of Blood flowed from the several Wounds the Crown of Thorns had made in his Guiltless Head his Eyes looked Watery and Red his Mouth Wan and Pale his Arms were Distorted and his Flesh beat and torn from his Shoulders his Hands and his Feet were Boared his Heart-strings broken and his Bowels dried up and clung together his Wounded Side ran like a Fountain of Blood the Sacred Streams whereof was indued with such a Cleansing Virtue that being sprinkled on the Pilgrims they were presently washed thereby from all their Pollutions and adorned with a wonderful Beautie and Comliness and withal so Powerful and Perswasive that upon the very sight thereof the Eternal forgave them their Iniquities The Wound in his Side from whence this Fountain of Blood issued was so large and open that as some of the Guests afterwards told me they could through it look into his Breast and see the pantings of his Heart the whole whereof they assured me was Composed of Love The next Course I saw served up was a Dish of Gospel Mysteries every one whereof contained and had inclosed in it a Sacred Wonder the number whereof was so great that my Memory was not able to contain them and having forgotten many of them my self I cannot relate them to you but such of them whereof I took a more particular notice and wherewith I found my Heart more than ordinarily affected were as follow The First Mystery I remember which offered it self to view was God manifested in the Flesh which being opened by the Steward of the Feast the Sacred Wonders inclosed therein for there was more than one contained in this Mystery plainly offered themselves to the view of the Beholders And it contained first as Wonder of Righteousness Justice and Severity in that the Eternal would not spare but punish Sin although upon his own and only Son notwithstanding the Guilt thereof was not contracted by him but only imputed to him The Second Wonder was a Wonder of Wisdom whereby the Eternal had made Light to spring out of Darkness Life out of Death Gain out of Loss Blessing out of a Curse and Victory out of an Overthrow and brought about many other glorious and incredible things by absolute Contrarieties As the rising of the World by the fall of its Upholder The riches of his People by the poverty of their Inricher and the fulness and glory of the Saints by the emptiness and shame of the King of Saints The Third Wonder was a Wonder of Mercy in that the Eternal notwithstanding he shut his Ears and hardened his Heart against the Cries and Intreaties of his own Son when he submissively begged of him Father if it be thy Will let this Cup pass from me should yet open his Ear to and receive the Cries of Sinners who had Conspired and Rebelled against him The Fourth Wonder was a Wonder of Love A Wonder of Love Ah that was a Wonder indeed and there was more Wealth and Sweetness contained therein and the sight of it afforded more satisfaction and delight than the Bluntness of my Pen will permit me to Describe First The wonderful Love of the Eternal the Everlasting Father of the Prince of Peace in providing such an admirable way for the Saving of Sinners and the making them who were by Nature Children of his Everlasting Wrath Children of his Dearest Love by Grace and the parting with and giving up his own Eternal Son who had never offended him to become a Sacrifice and a Ransome for lost and undone Mankind who were Strangers and Enemies and had ever Rebelled against him Secondly the Wonderful Love of the Blessed Redeemer in consenting to give himself his Blood his Life his Soul a Ransom for his People to Ransom them from Everlasting Misery buy them out of the Hand of Justice purchase for them an Eternal weight of Glory and an Everlasting Inheritance with the Saints in Light but that which added to and increased the Wonder beyond all expression nay beyond conception it self was that all this should be done for Worms and rottenness for Dust and Ashes for the most filthy and polluted for the most worthless and despicable Creatures who were not capable of meriting or any way deserving this Redeeming Love before or answering and Compensating of it after it was beâ—â—â—â—ed upon them The Fifth Wonder was a Wonder of Divine Patience Long-suffering and Forbearance in that the Eternal did not speedily Execute Vengeance upon those Ungrateful Wretches who had slighted his Mercy abused his Love and scornfully refused and trampled upon his Son affronting him for the kindness he offered them and spitting in his Face for the Reward of his Love in tendering them Pardon and Forgiveness Now although those Dishes which were already placed on the Table were Admirable and Splendid yet those which followed far exceeded them in Sweetness and afforded infinitely more delight and satisfaction to those who fed thereon and the First of them was A particular and Effectual Application of Electing Redeeming and Converting Love to the Souls of the Redeemed by the Hand of the Spirit in the preaching of the Gospel which Mystery likewise contained in it several Wonders as that Divine Goodness should chuse them