The pilgrim's progress, from this world to that which is to come . while supper is making ready, if youplease, let us entertain one another with somegood discourse. So they all said, Then said Gaius, Whose wife isthis aged matron ? and whose daughter is thisyoung damsel ? Great. The woman is the wife of one Chris-tian, a pilgrim of former times; and these arehis four children. The maid is one of her acquaintance, one that she hath persuadedto come with her on pilgrimage. The boys take all after their father, and covet totread in his steps; yea, if they do but see any place where
The pilgrim's progress, from this world to that which is to come . while supper is making ready, if youplease, let us entertain one another with somegood discourse. So they all said, Then said Gaius, Whose wife isthis aged matron ? and whose daughter is thisyoung damsel ? Great. The woman is the wife of one Chris-tian, a pilgrim of former times; and these arehis four children. The maid is one of her acquaintance, one that she hath persuadedto come with her on pilgrimage. The boys take all after their father, and covet totread in his steps; yea, if they do but see any place where the old pilgrim hath lain,or any print of his foot, it miuistereth joy to their hearts, and they covet to lie or treadin the same. Gaius. Then said Gaius, Is this Christians wife, and are these Christians children?I knew your husbands father; yea, also his fathers father. Many have been good ofthis stock ; their ancestors dwelt first at Antioch.™ Christians progenitors (I supposeyou have heard your husband talk of them) were very worthy men. They have, above. Gaius. THE FAMILY OF THE CHRISTIANS. •267 any that I knoWj showed themselves men of great virtue and courage, for the Lord ofpilgrims, His ways, and them that loved Him. I have heard of many of your hus-bands relations that have stood all trials for the sake of the truth, Stephen, who wasone of the first of the family from whence your husband sprang, was knocked on thehead with stones.* James, another of this generation, was slain with the edge of thesword. To say nothing of Paul and Peter, men anciently of the family from whenceyour husband came, there was Ignatius, who was cast to the lions; Romanus, whoseflesh was cut by pieces from his bones; and Polycarp, that played the man in thefire; there was he that was hanged up in a basket in the sun for the wasps to eat;and he whom they put into a sack, and casthim into the sea to be drowned. It would beutterly impossible to count up all of that familywho have suffered in
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