. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream . tune for Himself. Only here was the im-perfection of Mr. Fearing, he could play upon no other musicbut this till toward his latter end. I make bold to talk thus metaphorically for the ripening ofthe wits of young readers, and because, in the Book of theRevelations, the saved are compared to a company of mu-sicians that play upon their trumpets and harps, and singtheir songs before the throne (Rev. viii. 2 ; xiv. 2, 3). Honest. He was a very zealous man, as one may see bywhat relation
. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream . tune for Himself. Only here was the im-perfection of Mr. Fearing, he could play upon no other musicbut this till toward his latter end. I make bold to talk thus metaphorically for the ripening ofthe wits of young readers, and because, in the Book of theRevelations, the saved are compared to a company of mu-sicians that play upon their trumpets and harps, and singtheir songs before the throne (Rev. viii. 2 ; xiv. 2, 3). Honest. He was a very zealous man, as one may see bywhat relation you have given of him. Difiiculties, lions, orVanity Fair, he feared not at all; twas only sin, death, andhell that was to him a terror, because he had some doubtsabout his interest in that celestial country. Great-heart. You say right: those were the things thatwere his troublers, and they, as you have well observed, arosefrom the weakness of his mind thereabout, not from weaknessof spirit as to the practical part of a pilgrims life. I darebelieve, that, as the proverb is, he could have bit a fire brand,. had it stood in his way; but the things with which he wasoppressed no man ever yet conld shake off with ease. Chris. Then said Christiana, This relation of Mr. Fearinghas done me good. I thought nobody had been like me, butI see there was some semblance twixt this good man and I,only we differed in two things; his troubles were so greatthey brake out, but mine I kept within. His also lay so hardupon him they made him that he could not knock at thehouses provided for entertainment; but my trouble was alwayssuch as made me knock the louder. 348 FEARING S CHARACTER. Mercy. If I might also speak my heart, I must say, thatsomething of him has also dwelt in me. For I have ever beenmore afraid of the lake and the loss of a place in paradise,than I have been of the loss of other things. Oh, thought I,may I have the happiness to have a habitation there; tisenough, though I part with a
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