How he got over

thefe ftumbling blocks.

even your faith.

Great-heart. How came that about! Valiant. Why, I still believed what Tell-true had faid, and that carried me yond them all.

Great-heart. Then this was your vid

Valiant. It was fo; I believed, and therefore came of got into the way, fought all that fet themselves again and, by believing, am come to this place.

Who would true valour fee,

Let him come Hither;
One here will conftant be,
Come wind, come weather:

There's no difcouragement
Shall make him once relent,
His first avow'd intent,
To be a pilgrim.

Who fo befet him round
With difmal ftories,

Do but themselves confound,
His frength the more is.

No lion can him fright;
He'll with a giant fight,
But he will have a right
To be a pilgrim.

Hobgoblin, nor foul fiend,
Can daunt his fpirit:

He knows he at the end
Shall life inherit.

Then fancies fly away,
He'll not fear what men fay,
He'll labour night and day,.

To be a pilgrim,

By this time they were got to the inchanted grous where the air naturally tended to make one drowy;

place was all grown over with briars and thorns, exing here and there where was an inchanted harbour, which if a man fits, or in which if a man fleeps, 'is' eftion, fay fome, whether ever he fhallarife or wake ain this world. Over this foreft therefore they went, one and another, and Mr. Great-heart went before, hat he was the guide, and Mr. Valiant-for-truth, ho behind, being rear guaard, for fear, lett peradventure fiend, or dragon, or giant, or thief fhould fall upon rear, and fo do mifchief. They went on here, each with his fword drawn in his hand, for they knew it a dangerous place: Alfo they cheared up one another› ell as they could; Feeble-mind, Mr. Great-heart com-' ded thould come up after him, and Mr. Defpondency nder the eye of Mr. Valiant-for-truth.

hey had not gone far, but a great mift and darkness apon them all; fo that they could fearce, for a great' e, one fee the other; Wherefore they were forced, for time, to feel for another by words, for they walked by fight.

at any one must think that here was but forry going the be of them all; but how much worfe for the weand children, who both of feet and heart were but ler: Yet fo it was, that through the encouraging words im that led up the front, and of him that brought thena behind, they made a pretty good shift to wag along. The way was alfo here very wearifome, thro dirt and binefs: Nor was there on all this ground fo much as inn or victualling-houfe, wherein to refresh the feebler Here therefore was grunting, and puffing, and fighwhile one tumbleth over a bufh, another flicks fall in dirt; and the children, fome of them lost their fhoes in mire; while one cries out, I am down; and another, where are you? and a third, the bushes have got fuch hold of me, I think I cannot get away from them. Then they came at an harbour, warm, promifing much refreshing to pilgrims; An arbour on finely wrought above-head, beau- the inchanted hed with greens, furnified with benches ground.

rit was

d fettles: it had in it a foft couch, where

le weary might lean. This, you must think, all things onfidered was tempting; for the pilgrims already began

N 3.

to be foiled with the badnefs of the way; but there un not one of them that made fo much as a motion to A there; Yea, for ought I could perceive, they continu Cave fo good heed to the advice of their guide, and he c fo faithfully tell them of dangers, and of the nature dangers when they were at them, that ufually when the were nearest to them they did moft pluck up their fpiri and hearten ene another to deny the fefh. This harb was called the flothful's friend, to allure, if it might b fome of the pilgrims there to take up their raft when wear

I faw then in my dream that they went on in this the folitary ground, till they came to a place at which a m is apt to lofe his way. Now though, when it was ligh their guide could well enough tell how The ༢པ་ is dif- mifs thofe ways that lead wrong, yet in ficult to find. dark he was put to a ftand; but he had his pocket a map of all the ways leadin to or from the celeflial city; wherefore ftruck a light (for he never goes alfo with out his tinder-box) and takes a view his book or map, which bids him be ca ful in that place to turn to the right: A had he not been here careful to look into his map, they ba in all probability been fmothered in the mud; for ju little before them, and that at the end of the cleaneft wa too, was a pit none knows how deep, full of nothing mud, there made on purpofe to deftroy the pilgrims in.

The guide has a map of all ways leading to or from the city.

God's book.

may

Then thought I with myself, who, cha goeth on pilgrimage, but would have one of thefe maps about him, that he look when he is at a ftand, which is the way he must take. Then they went on in this incharted ground, till they came to where there was another harbour, and it was buit by, the highway fide: And in that harbour there lay t then, whofe names were Heedlefs and Too-hold: Thele two went thus far on pilgrimage; but here, being wearied with their journey, fat down to reft themselves, and tell faft afleep. When the pilgrims faw them, they food full and fook their heads; for they knew that the fleepers were in a pitiful cafe. Then they confulted what to do, whe ther to go on and leave them in their fleep, or flep to them, and try to wake them. So they concluded to go to them

ard

I wake them; that is, if they could; but with this cau1, namely, to take heed that themfelves did not fit down, embrace the offered benefit of that harbour,

o they went in and fpake to the men, and called each" his name, (for the guide it feems did

w them) but there was no voice nor an- The pilgrims try' Then the guide did fake them, and to awake them. what he could to disturb thein. Then

one of them, I will pay you when I take my money; hich the guide hook his head: I will fight fo long as I' hold my fword in my hand, faid the other; at that of the children laughed.

hen faid Chriftiana, what is the meaning of this? The le faid, They talk in their fleep; if you

them, beat them, or whatever elle Their endeavour do to them, they will anfwer you after is fruitless. fashion; or as one of them faid in old Prov. 23.34.35 · t, when the waves of the fea did beat

in him, and he flept as one upon the maft of a fhip.
en I awake I will feek it again. You know when men
in their fleep they fay any thing, but their words are
governed either by faith or reafon. There is an inco-
ency in their words now, as there was before betwixt
going on pilgrimage and fitting down here. This
n is the mifchief on't, when heedlefs ones go on pilgri
ge, twenty to one, but they are ferved thus: For this
hanted ground is one of the laft refuges that the enemy
pilgrims has; wherefore it is, as you fee, placed almost
the end of the way, and fo it flandeth against us with
more advantage: For when, thinks the enemy, wilt
fools be fo defirous to fit down as when they are weary
d when fo like to be weary, as when almoft at their
arney's end? Therefore it is, I fay, that the inchanted
ound is placed fo near the land Beulah, and fo near the
d of their race: Wherefore let pilgrims look to them-
Ives, left it happen to them as it has done to thefe, that,
you fee, are fallen afleep, and none can awake them.

Then the pilgrims defired, with trem-
be light of the bling, to go forward, only they prayed
ord.
theis guide to frike a light that they might
go the rest of their way by the help of the
light of a lantkora: So he fuck a light,"

Pet. 1.

19.

and

and they went by the help of that through the rest of t way, though the darkness was very great.

But the children began to be forely weary, and they c out unto him that loveth pilgrims, to make their way m comfortable; fo by that they had gone a little farther wind arofe that drove away the fog, fo the air became m clear.

Yet they were not off (by much) of the inchanted grou only now they could fee one another better, and the wherein they should walk.

Standfaft upon bis knees on the inchanted ground.

Now when they were almoft at the end of this grou they perceived that a little before them was a folema no of one that was much concerned ; so th went on and looked before them: and hold they faw, as they thought, a man on his knees, with his hands and eyes up, and fpeaking, as they thought, e neftly to one that was above; they da nigh, bat could not tell what he said: fo they went k till he had done. When he had done, he got up and to run towards the celeftial city. Then Mr. Gra gan heart called after him, faying, Soho friend, let us n your company, if you go, as I fuppofe you do, to the leftial city: So the man fopped, and they came up to his But fo foon as Mr. Honeit faw him, he faid, I know a man. Then faid Mr. Valiant-fro-truth, Prithee, who it? 'Tis one, faid he, that comes from whereabouts I dwe his name is Stand-faft; he is certainly a right good pilgr

So they came up to one another, and prefently Stan faft faid to old Honeft, oh, father Honeft, are you there Aye, faid he, that I am as fure as you are there. Righ glad am I, faid Mr. Stand-faft, that I have found you this road: And as glad am I, faid the other, that I efpi you upon your knees: Then Mr. Standfaft blushed, an aid, But why did you fee me? Yes, that I did quoth th other, and with my heart was glad at the fight. Way what did you think, faid Stand-fall? Think! laid old li neft, what should I think? I thought we had an honeft ma upon the road, therefore fhould have his company by an by. If you thought not amifs, how happy am I; but if be not as I fhould, tis I alone must bear it. That is tre faid the other; but your fear doth further confirm me tha