The Pilgrim's Progress: From this World to that which is to Come: ... Complete in Two Parts. Written by John Bunyan. The Thirty-second Edition, Adorned with Curious Sculptures Engraven by J. Sturt. To which is Added, The Life of the Author, by a Friend of the Gospel

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J. and F. Rivington, B. Law, W. Strahan, Hawes and Company H. Woodfall, E. Johnston, and R. Baldwin, 1775 - 196 pages
 

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Page 194 - They therefore went up here with much agility and speed, though the foundation upon which the city was framed was higher than the clouds. They therefore went up through the...
Page 134 - With these words HOPEFUL at present did moderate the mind of his brother ; so they continued together, in the dark, that day in their sad and doleful condition. Well, towards evening the giant goes down into the dungeon again, to see if his prisoners had taken his counsel : but when he came there he found them alive ; and, truly, alive was all ; for now, what for want of bread and water, and by reason of the wounds they received when he beat them, they could do little but breathe. But, I say, he...
Page 130 - Then with a grim and surly voice he bid them awake, and asked them whence they were and what they did in his grounds. They told him they were pilgrims and that they had lost their way. Then said the giant, You have this night trespassed on me by trampling in and lying on my grounds, and therefore you must go along with me.
Page 30 - Thy sins be forgiven thee;" the second stripped him of his rags, and clothed him with change of raiment; the third also set a mark on his forehead, and gave him a roll with a seal upon it, which he bid him look on as he ran, and that he should give it in at the celestial gate; so they went their way. Then...
Page 98 - This fair is no new-erected business, but a thing of ancient standing; I will show you the original of it. Almost five thousand years agone, there were pilgrims walking to the Celestial City, as these two honest persons are: and Beelzebub, Apollyon, and Legion, with their companions, perceiving by the path that the pilgrims made, that their way to the city lay through this town of Vanity, they contrived here to set up a fair; a fair wherein, should be sold all sorts of vanity, and that it should...
Page 54 - ... subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword; out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, and turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
Page 54 - By this I perceive thou art one of my subjects, for all that country is mine; and I am the prince and god of it.
Page 191 - Now I further saw, that betwixt them and the gate was a river ; but there was no bridge to go over ; and the river was very deep. At the sight therefore of this river, the pilgrims were much stunned ; but the men that went with them said, You must go through, or you cannot come at the gate.
Page 59 - Then Apollyon straddled quite over the whole breadth of the way, and said, I am void of fear in this matter; prepare thyself to die; for I swear by my infernal den, that thou shalt go no further; here will I spill thy soul.
Page 157 - Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.

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