re. Now ere he had gone far, he saw two wild beasts in the way. (The beasts were made fast, but he saw no

"Is thy strength so small? Fear not the wild beasts, for they are in chains, and are put there for test of faith w

ter, "Sir, what house is this? and may I lodge here this night?" The Porter said, "This house was built by the Lord of the hill, and he

Christian met going t

m's Pr

am on my way to Mount Zion; but as the sun is no

hap that you come so

t, mean man that I am, I slept in the n

ce, who will, if she likes your talk, bring you in to th

at the door of the house a grave and fair maid, whose na

nd as night came on, he sought to know if he might lodge here for the night: so I told him I would call for

id call out Prudence, Piety, and Charity; and when she had held more speech with him, he was brought in, and made known to all who dwelt in the house, some of whom met him at the porch, and said, "Come in, thou whom the Lord doth bless; this house was built by the Lord of the hill, to give good cheer to such

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make you our guest this night, let us, if so be we may each get good

n saw roll from the top of a wal

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will; and I am glad yo

you came out of you

nce there came a man then to me, whilst I shook and wept, whose name is Evangelist, and he told me how to reach the

t come by the house

; to wit, how Christ, in spite of the Foe of Man, keeps up his work of grace in the heart; how the man, through sin, had g

saw you else

ng and bleed on a tree; and the sheer sight of him made my load fall off my bac

w more than thi

, not far out of the way as I came, with gyves on their heels; but do you think I could rouse them? I saw, in like way, Formalist and Hypocrisy come and roll fr

times of the land f

t with much s

ce with you some of the thin

land, as well as I, would find joy; but now all those things are my grief, and might I but choose mine own things, I w

hat makes you so long

I hope to be rid of all those things that to this day are in me and do vex me: ther

ristian, "Have you bair

wife and four

d you not bring t

n would I have done it! but they were

ught to show them the risks t

Christian think he was o

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me how that our town would come to wrack; but they thoug

they say to show cau

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were bent on the rash joys of youth; so, what by this thing,

ife damp all that you by words made use

by sound speech and wit of words he doth strive to fix on some for their good. Yet this I can say, I took heed not to give them cause, by a false act, to shirk the

d, and Abel's not so; and if thy wife and bairns have thought ill of thee for this, they

n the board; and all their talk while they ate was of the Lord of the hill; as, in sooth

r; and that they heard him say, with stern stress, that he would not dwell in the Mount of Zion in a lone way. They said, too, that he made

ll late at night; and when they had put t

ety, Charity, and Prudence would go w

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ngs which their Lord had put there for such as he, as sword, shield, casque, plate for breast, All-prayer, and s

jaw-bone of the ass with which Samson did such great feats. More than this, he was shown the sling and stone with which David slew Golia

," said they, "we will, if the day be clear, show you the Delectable Mountains, which," they said, "would yet the more add to

, fruits of all sorts, plants as well, with springs and founts, most bright to look on. They said it was Immanuel's Land; "and it is as free," said they, "as this hill is to and for all th

, "let us go once more to where the arms are kept." So they did. And when he came there they clad him

friends to the gate, and there he would k

Porter sa

y did you

name, and he told

and lives nigh to where I dwell: he comes from the place wh

his time more than to

r as I can see, it is a risk to go down." "Yes," said Prudence, "so it is; for it is a hard thing for a man to go down in the Vale of Humiliation, as thou art now, and to

gone down to the foot of the hill, gave him a loaf of bread, a fl