. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream . MR. SELF-WILL. 349 • Well, Master Fearing, thou didst fear Thy God; and wast afraidOf doing anything, while here, That would have thee didst thou fear the Lake and Pit 1 Would others did so too;For, as for them that want thy wit, They do themselves undo. Now I saw that they still went on in their talk; for afterMr. Great-heart had made an end with Mr. Fearing, began to tell them of another, hut his name was He pretended himself to be a pilgrim, said
. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream . MR. SELF-WILL. 349 • Well, Master Fearing, thou didst fear Thy God; and wast afraidOf doing anything, while here, That would have thee didst thou fear the Lake and Pit 1 Would others did so too;For, as for them that want thy wit, They do themselves undo. Now I saw that they still went on in their talk; for afterMr. Great-heart had made an end with Mr. Fearing, began to tell them of another, hut his name was He pretended himself to be a pilgrim, said ; but I persuade myself he never came in at the gatethat stands at the head of the way. Great-heart. Had you ever any talk with him about it ?. 350 self-wills detestable peinciples. Honest. Yes, more than once or twice; but he -wouldalways be like himself, self-willed. He neither cared for man,nor argument, nor yet example; what his mind prompted himto, that he would do, and nothing else could he be got to. Geeat-heaet. Pray, what principles did he hold, for I sup-pose you can tell ? Honest. He held that a man might follow the vices as wellas the virtues of the pilgrims, and that if he did both, heshould be certainly saved. Great-heaet. How ? If he had said, tis possible for thebest to be guilty of the vices as well as to partake of thevirtues of the pilgrims, he could not much a been blamed;for, indeed, we are exempted from no vice absolutely, but oncondition that we watch and strive. But this I perceive isnot the thing. But, if I understand you right, your meaningis, that he was of that opinion that it was allowable so to be. Honest. Ay, ay, so I mean, and so he believed and prac-tised. Geeat-heaet. But what ground had he f
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