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The Christian life: b an exposition of Bunyan's pilgrim's progress
The Christian life b an exposition of Bunyan's pilgrim's progress Author:John Bunyan Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Tins World. He Knows No Way Ok Escape As Yet. Carnal Physic For A Sick Soul. The Man Walks Solitarilt In The Fields Reading In His Book. I N t... more »his plight, therefore, he went home, and restrained himself as long as he could, that his wife and children should not perceive his distress; hut he could not be silent long, because that his trouble increased; wherefore, at length he brake his miud to his wife and children, and thus he began to talk to them : "O! my dear wife," said he, "and you the children of my bowels, I, your dear friend, am in myself undone, by reason of a burden that lieth hard upon me: Moreover, I am for certain informed, that this our city will be burned with fire from heaven ; in which fearful overthrow lxith myself, with thee my wife, and you my sweet babes, shall miserably come to ruin, except (the which yet I see not) some way of escape can be found, whereby we may be delivered." At this his relations were sore amazed; not for that they believed that what he had said to them was tnie, but because they thought that some frenzy distemper had got into his head; therefore, it drawing towards night, and they hoping that sleep might settle his brains, with all haste they got him to bed. But the night was as troublesome to him as the day; wherefore, instead of sleeping, he spent it in sighs and tears. So, when the morning was come, they would know how he did. He told them, Worse and worse. He also set to talking to them again; but they began to be hardened. They also thought to drive away his distemper by harsh and surly carriage to him : sometimes they would deride, sometimes they would chide, and sometimes they would quite neglect him. Wherefore he began to retire himself to his chamber to pray for and pity them, and also to condole his own misery;...« less