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The Pilgrims Progress.
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and if you will go along with me, you shall fare as I my self; for there where I go, is [1]enough, and to spare; Come away, and prove my words.

Obst. What are the things you seek, since you leave all the World to find them?

Chr. I seek an [2]Inheritance, incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away; and it is laid up in Heaven, and fast there, to be bestowed at the [3]time appointed, on them that diligently seek it.

Ob. Tush, said Obstinate, away with your Book; will you go back with us, or no?

Ch. No, not I, said the other; because I have laid my hand to the [4]Plow.

Ob. Come then, Neighbour Pliable, let us turn again, and go home without him; There is a Company of these Craz'd-headed Coxcombs, that when they take a fancy by the end, are wiser in their own eyes then seven men that can render a Reason.

Pli. Then said Pliable, Don't revile; if what the good Christian says is true, the things he looks after, are better then ours: my heart inclines to go with my Neighbour.

  1. Luk. 15.
  2. I Pet. I. 4.
  3. Heb. II. 62.
  4. Luk. 9. 62.

Obst.