. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream . erate in the case; and I cannottell who to compare them to so fitly as to them that pickpockets in the presence of the judge, or that will cut pursesunder the gallows. It is said of the men of Sodom, that theywere sinners exceedingly (Gen. xiii. 10, 13), because theywere sinners before the Lord,—that is, in his eyesight; andnotwithstanding the kindnesses that He had shewn them, forthe land of Sodom was now like the Garden of Eden hereto-fore. This, therefore, provoked Him the more to
. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream . erate in the case; and I cannottell who to compare them to so fitly as to them that pickpockets in the presence of the judge, or that will cut pursesunder the gallows. It is said of the men of Sodom, that theywere sinners exceedingly (Gen. xiii. 10, 13), because theywere sinners before the Lord,—that is, in his eyesight; andnotwithstanding the kindnesses that He had shewn them, forthe land of Sodom was now like the Garden of Eden hereto-fore. This, therefore, provoked Him the more to jealousy,and made their plague as hot as the fire of the Lord out ofheaven could make it. And it is most rationally to be con-cluded, that such, even such as these are, that shall sin in thesight, yea, and that too in despite of such examples that areset continually before them, to caution them to the contrary,must be partakers of severest judgments. Hope. Doubtless thou hast said the truth; but what a mercyis it that neither thou, but especially I, am not made myself THE EIVER OF THE WATER OF LIFE. 145. this example! this ministerethoccasion to us to thank God,to fear before Him, and al-ways to remember Lots saw then that they wenton their way to a pleasantriver, which David the kingcalled the River of God, butJohn, the River of the waterof life (Ps. lxv. 9 ; Rev. xxii.;Ezek. xlvii.). Now their waylay just upon the bank of theriver : here, therefore, Chris-tian and his companionwalked with great delight;they drank also of the waterof the river, which waspleasant and enlivening totheir weary spirits: besides,on the banks of this river, oneither side, were green trees,that bore all manrer of fruit;
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