. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream . Thus far did I come laden with my sin,Nor could aught ease the grief that I was in,Till I came hither : what a place is this !Must here be the beginning of my bliss ? 42 SIMPLE, SLOTH, AND PRESUMPTION. Must here the burden fall from off my hack ?Must here the strings that bound it to me crack ?Blest cross ! blest sepulchre ! blest rather beThe Man that there was put to shame for me ! I saw then in. my dream, that lie went on tlms even nntilhe came at a bottom, where he saw, a little o
. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream . Thus far did I come laden with my sin,Nor could aught ease the grief that I was in,Till I came hither : what a place is this !Must here be the beginning of my bliss ? 42 SIMPLE, SLOTH, AND PRESUMPTION. Must here the burden fall from off my hack ?Must here the strings that bound it to me crack ?Blest cross ! blest sepulchre ! blest rather beThe Man that there was put to shame for me ! I saw then in. my dream, that lie went on tlms even nntilhe came at a bottom, where he saw, a little ont of the way,three men fast asleep, with fetters npon their heels. The nameof the one was Simple, another Sloth, and the third Christian then seeing them lie in this case, went to them,if peradventure he might awake them, and cried, Ton arelike them that sleep on the top of a mast, for the Dead Seais under you, a gulf that hath no bottom (Prov. xxiii. 34).Awake, therefore, and come away ; be willing also, and I willhelp you off with your irons. He also told them, If hethat goeth about like a roaring lion comes by, you will certainlybecome a prey to his teeth (1 Pet. v. 8). With that theylooked upon him, and began to reply in this sort: Simplesaid, I see no danger. Sloth said, Yet a little moresleep. And Presumption said, Every fat must stand uponhis own bottom. And so they lay down to sleep again, andChristian went on his way. Yet was he troubled to think, that men in that dangershould so little esteem the kindness of him that so freelyoffered to help them; both by awakening of them, counselling FOKMALIST AND HYPOCRISY. 43 of them, and proffering to helpthem off with their irons. Andas he was troubled thereab
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