. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come. art in that bitter outcry of his, What shall I do to be saved? did ringin her ears most dolefully. Then said she to her children, Sons, we are all undone. I have sinnedaway your father, and he is gone; he would have had us with him, but Iwould not go myself; I also have hindered you of life. With that, the boys fell all into tears, and cried out to go after theirfather. Oh, said Christiana, that it had been but our lot to go with him! thenhad it fared well with us, beyond what it is like to do now. For though I
. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come. art in that bitter outcry of his, What shall I do to be saved? did ringin her ears most dolefully. Then said she to her children, Sons, we are all undone. I have sinnedaway your father, and he is gone; he would have had us with him, but Iwould not go myself; I also have hindered you of life. With that, the boys fell all into tears, and cried out to go after theirfather. Oh, said Christiana, that it had been but our lot to go with him! thenhad it fared well with us, beyond what it is like to do now. For though Iformerly foolishly imagined, concerning the troubles of your father, thatthey proceeded of a foolish fancy that he had, or for that he was overrunwith melancholy humours; yet now it will not out of my mind but thatthey sprang from another cause; to wit, for that the light of life was givenhim (James i. 23—25), by the help of which, as I perceive, he has escapedthe snares of death. (Prov. xiv. 27.) Then they all wept again, and cried out, Oh, woe worth the day!. Then said she to her children, Sons, we are all undone. CHRISTIANA HAS A DREAM. 207 The next night Christiana had a dream; and, behold, she saw as if abroad parchment were opened before her, in which were recorded the sumof her ways; and the times, as she thought, looked very black upon she cried out aloud in her sleep, Lord, have mercy upon me asinner! (Luke xviii. 13); and the little children heard her. After this, she thought she saw two very ill-favoured ones Mark by her bed-side, and saying, What shall we do with quintessencethis woman? for she cries out for mercy waking and sleeping: of hell,if she be suffered to go on as she begins, we shall lose her aswe have lost her husband. Wherefore we must, by one way or other, seekto take her off from the thoughts of what shall be hereafter; else, all theworld cannot help but she will become a pilgrim. Now she awoke in a great sweat; also a tremblin
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