The Pilgrim's Pꝛogreſs
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Saints fellowſhip, if it be managed well,
Keeps them awake, and that in ſpite of hell.
Chr. Then Chriſtian began and ſaid, I will ask you a queſtion. How came you to think at firſt of doing as you do now?
Hopef. Do you mean, How came I at firſt to look after the good of my Soul?
Chr. Yes, that is my meaning.
Hopef. I continued a great while in the delight of thoſe things which were ſeen and ſold at our fair; things which, as I believe now, would have (had I continued in them ſtill) drownded me in perdition and deſtruction.
Chr. What things were they?
Hopef. All the Treaſures and Riches of the World. Alſo I delighted much in Rioting, Revelling, Drinking, Sweaing, Lying, Uncleanneſs, Sabbath-breaking, and what not, that tended to deſtroy the Soul. But I found at laſt, by hearing and conſidering of things that are Divine, which indeed I heard of you, as alſo of beloved Faithful, Rom. 6. 21. 22, 23. Eph. 5. 6. that was put to death for his Faith and good-living in Vanity-fair, That the end of theſe things isN 4
death.
