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At the Cross, &c.

the City, my LORD, as he did to CHRISTIAN before, gave him a bottle of spirits, and some comfortable things to eat. Thus we set forward, and I went before him; but the man was but of few words, only he would sigh aloud.

When we were come to where the three fellows were hanged, he said, that he doubted that would be his end also. Only he seemed glad when he saw the Cross and Sepulchre. There I confess he desired to stay a little to look, and he seemed for a while after to be a little comforted. When we came to the Hill DIFFICULTY, he made no stick at that, nor did he much fear the Lions: for you must know, that his trouble was not about such things as these ; his fear was about his acceptance at last.

I got him in at the house BEAUTIFUL, I think, before he was willing; also when he was in, I brought him acquainted with the Damsels that were of the place, but he was ashamed to make himself much for company: he desired much to be alone, yet he always loved good talk, and often would get behind the screen to hear it he also loved much to see antient things, and to be pondering them in his mind. He told me afterwards, that he loved to be in those two houses from which he came last, to wit, at the Gate, and that of the INTERPRETER, but that he durst not be so bold as to ask.

When we went also from the House BEAUTIFUL, down the Hill, into the Valley of HUMILIATION, he went down as well as ever I saw a man in my life;

In the Valley of the SHADOW OF DEATH.

for he cared not how mean he was, so he might be happy at last. Yea, I think there was a kind of sympathy betwixt that Valley and him: for I never saw him better in all his pilgrimage, than he was in that Valley.

Here he would lie down, embrace the ground, and kiss the very flowers that grew in this Valley. He would now be up every morning by break of day, tracing and walking to and fro in the Valley.

But when he was come to the entrance of the Valley of the SHADOW OF DEATH, I thought I should have lost my man; not for that he had inclination to go back, (that he always abhorred,) but he was ready to die for fear. 'Oh the hob

goblins will have me, the hobgoblins will have 'me!' cried he; and I could not beat him out on't. He made such a noise, and such an out-cry here, that had they but heard him, it was enough to encourage them to come and fall upon us. But this I took very great notice of, that this Valley was as quiet when we went through it, as ever I knew it before or since. I suppose those enemies here had now a special check from our LORD, and a command not to meddle until Mr. FEARING was passed over it.

It would be too tedious to tell you of all; we

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. He putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. Lam. ii. 27-29.

VANITY-FAIR and the River.

will therefore only mention a passage or two more. When he was come to VANITY-FAIR, I thought he would have fought with all the men in the Fair : I feared that we should both have been knocked on the head, so hot was he against their fooleries. Upon the enchanted ground, he also was very wakeful. But, when he was come at the River where was no bridge, there again he was in a heavy case · 'Now, now,' he said, he should be drowned for ' ever, and so never see that face with comfort that, ' he had come so many miles to behold.' And here also I took notice of what was very remarkable; the water of that River was lower at this time, than ever I saw it in all my life: so he went over at last, not much above wet-shod. When he was going up to the Gate, I began to take my leave of him, and to wish him a good reception above; so he said ' I 'shall, I shall:' then parted we asunder, and I saw him no more.

HON. Then, it seems, he was well at last?

GR.-H. Yes, yes, I never had doubt about him; he was a man of a choice spirit: only he was always kept very low, and that made his life so burdensome to himself, and so very troublesome to others.*

* O Lord GOD of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee. Let my prayer come before me: incline thine ear unto my cry; for my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth niga unto the grave. LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me; I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. Psal. xxxviii. 1-3, 14, 15.

Remarks on FEARING'S Character

He was, above many, tender of sin; he was so afraid of doing injuries to others, that he would often deny himself of that which was lawful, because he would not offen;1.*

HON. But what should be the reason that such a good man should be all his days so much in the dark?

GR.-H. There are two sorts of reasons for it ones, The wise GOD will have it so; some must pipe, and some must weep:† now Mr. FEARING was one that played upon the bass. He and his fellows sound the sackbut, whose notes are more doleful than notes of other music are: though indeed, some say, the bass is the ground of music. And, for my part, I care not at all for that profession, that begins not in heaviness of mind. The first string that the musican usually touches, is the bass, when he intends to put all in tune: GoD also plays upon this string first, when he sets the soul in tune for himself. Only there was this imperfection of Mr. FEARING, he could play upon no other music but this, till towards his latter end.

[I make bold to talk thus metaphorically, for the

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing. whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak. Rom. xiv. 21. Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brothe. to offend. 1 Cor. viii. 13.

+ But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is ike uito children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. Matt. xi. 16, 1".

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Further remarks.

ripening of the wits of young readers; and because, in the book of REVELATION, the saved are compared to a company of musicians, that play upon their trumpets and harps, and sing their songs before the throne.*]

HON. He was a very zealous man, as one may see by what relation you have given of him. Difficulties, lions, or VANITY-FAIR, he feared not at all it was only sin, death, and hell, that were to him a terror; because he had some doubts about his interest in that celestial country.

GR.-H. You say right; those were the things that were his troubles: and they, as you have well observed, arose from the weakness of his mind thereabout, not from weakness of spirit, as to the practical part of a Pilgrim's life. I dare believe, that, as the proverb is, ' He could have bit a fire'brand, had it stood in his way:' but those things, with which he was oppressed, no man ever yet could shake off with ease.

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* And I heard a voice from heaven as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder; and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps. And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth, Rev xiv. 2, 8.

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