. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come. nce this life is attendedwith so many evils? The man answered, Because I fear that this burdenthat is upon my back will sink me lower than the grave, and I shall fallinto Tophet. (Isa. xxx. 33.) And, sir, if T be not fit to go to prison, I amnot fit to go to judgment, and from thence to execution; and the thoughtsof these things make me cry. Then said Evangelist, If this be thy condition, why standest thou still? He answered, Because I know not whither to go. Then Conviction he gave him a parchment roll, and there was written w
. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come. nce this life is attendedwith so many evils? The man answered, Because I fear that this burdenthat is upon my back will sink me lower than the grave, and I shall fallinto Tophet. (Isa. xxx. 33.) And, sir, if T be not fit to go to prison, I amnot fit to go to judgment, and from thence to execution; and the thoughtsof these things make me cry. Then said Evangelist, If this be thy condition, why standest thou still? He answered, Because I know not whither to go. Then Conviction he gave him a parchment roll, and there was written within, necSlty of ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^ come. (Matt. iii. 7.)fleeing. The man, therefore, read it, and, looking upon Evangelist very carefully, said, Whither must I fly? Then said Evan-gelist (pointing with his finger over a very wide field), Do you see yonderwicket-gate? (Matt. vii. 13, 14.) The man said, No. Then said theother, Do you see yonder shining light? (Psa. cxix. 105; II. Pet. i. 19.)He said, I think I do. Then said Evangelist, Keep that light in your. He brake his mind to his wife and children. CHRISTIANS DISTRESS OF MIND. Christ andthe way toHim cannotbe foundwithout theWord. eye, and go up directly thereto: so shalt thou see the gate; at which whenthou knockest, it shall be told thee what thou shalt do. So Isaw in my dream that the man began to run. Now, he hadnot run far from his own door, when his wife and childrenperceiving it, began to cry after him to return; but the manput his fingers in his ears, and ran on, crying, Life! life!eternal life! (Luke xiv. 26.) So he looked not behind him(Gen. xix. 17), but fled towards the middle of the plain. The neighbours also came out to see him run (Jer. xx. 10); and as he ran,some mocked, others threatened, and some cried after him to return; andamong those that did so there were twothat resolved to fetch him back by name of the one was Obstinate, andthe name of the other Pli-able. Now, by this time the They tha
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