WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:05.919 Part two, the eighth stage. When they were gone from the shepherds, 2 00:00:05.960 --> 00:00:10.480 they quickly came to the place where Christian met with one turn away that dwelt 3 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:15.279 in the town of Apostasy. Wherefore of him, mister Greatheart, they guide 4 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:19.839 now put them in mind, saying, this is the place where Christian met 5 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:24.160 with one turn away, who carried with him the character of his rebellion at 6 00:00:24.199 --> 00:00:29.359 his back. And this I have to say concerning this man. He would 7 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:34.359 hearken to no counsel, but once a falling persuasion could not stop him. 8 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:39.240 When he came to the place where the cross and sepulcher were, he did 9 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:43.039 meet with one that did bid him look there, But he gnashed with his 10 00:00:43.159 --> 00:00:47.359 teeth and stamped, and said he was resolved to go back to his own 11 00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:53.039 town. Before he came to the gate, he met with evangelist, who 12 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:57.439 offered to lay hands on him to turn him into the way again. But 13 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:02.200 this turn away resisted him, and, having done much despite unto him, 14 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:07.480 he got away over the wall, and so escaped his hand. Then they 15 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:11.400 went on, and just at the place where little Faith formerly was robbed, 16 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:17.079 there stood a man with his sword drawn and his face all over with blood. 17 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:23.959 Then said mister greatheart, who art thou. The man made answer, 18 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:29.040 saying, I am one whose name is valiant for truth. I am a 19 00:01:29.079 --> 00:01:34.480 pilgrim, and am going to the celestial city. Now as I was in 20 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:38.280 my way, there were three men that did beset me and propounded unto me 21 00:01:38.400 --> 00:01:45.959 these three things. One whether I would become one of them, two or 22 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:52.719 go back from whence I came? Three or die upon the place Proverbs one 23 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:57.239 eleven to fourteen. To the first, I answered, I had been a 24 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:00.480 true man for a long season, and there for it could not be expected 25 00:02:00.719 --> 00:02:06.640 that I should now cast in my lot with thieves. Then they demanded what 26 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:09.439 I would say to the second. So I told them that the place from 27 00:02:09.479 --> 00:02:14.840 whence I came, had I not found in commodity there, I had not 28 00:02:14.919 --> 00:02:20.960 forsaken it at all, but finding it altogether unsuitable to me and very unprofitable 29 00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:25.560 for me, I forsook it for this way. Then they asked me what 30 00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:30.879 I said to the third, And I told them, my life costs far 31 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:35.719 more dear than that I should lightly give it away. Besides, you have 32 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:38.520 nothing to do thus to put things to my choice. Wherefore, at your 33 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:45.759 peril be it if you meddle. Then these three to wit wildhead, inconsiderate 34 00:02:45.759 --> 00:02:51.639 and pragmatic, drew upon me, and I also drew upon them. So 35 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:54.800 we fell to it, one against three. For the space of above three 36 00:02:54.840 --> 00:03:00.000 hours. They have left upon me, as you see, some of them 37 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:04.479 marks of their valor, and have also carried away with them some of mine. 38 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:09.319 They are but just now gone. I suppose they might as the saying 39 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:16.240 is hear your horse dash? And so they betook themselves to flight. Mister 40 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:25.120 Greatheart, but here was great odds, three against one valiant for truth tis 41 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:30.439 true? But little and more are nothing to him that has the truth on 42 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:36.120 his side. Though an host should encamp against me, said one Psalm twenty 43 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:40.080 seven three, my heart shall not fear, though war should rise against me. 44 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:46.039 In this will I be confident. Etc. Besides, said he, 45 00:03:46.599 --> 00:03:50.919 I have read in some records that one man has fought an army, and 46 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:57.560 how many did Samson slay with the jawbone of an ass. Mister Greatheart, 47 00:03:58.360 --> 00:04:01.400 then said the guide, Why did you not cry out that some might have 48 00:04:01.479 --> 00:04:08.400 come in for your succor valiant for truth? So I did to my king, 49 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:13.159 who I knew could hear me and afford invisible help, and that was 50 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:18.079 sufficient for me. Mister Greatheart, then said, mister Greatheart, to mister 51 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:24.959 Valiant for truth, thou hast worthily behaved thyself. Let me see thy sword. 52 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:29.800 So he showed it him. When he had taken it in his hand, 53 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:32.839 and looked thereon a while, he said, ha, it is a 54 00:04:32.959 --> 00:04:41.120 right Jerusalem blade, Valiant for truth. It is so. Let a man 55 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:44.639 have one of these blades, with a hand to wield it and skill to 56 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:47.800 use it, and he may venture upon an angel with it. He need 57 00:04:47.879 --> 00:04:51.079 not fear its holding, if he can but tell how to lay on. 58 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:57.839 Its edge will never blunt. It will cut flesh and bones, and soul 59 00:04:57.920 --> 00:05:05.399 and spirit and all Hebrews four twelve. Mister Greatheart, but you fought a 60 00:05:05.439 --> 00:05:13.000 great while. I wonder you was not weary. Valiant for truth, I 61 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:16.079 fought till my sword did cleave to my hand, and then they were joined 62 00:05:16.079 --> 00:05:20.040 together, as if a sword grew out of my arm, And when the 63 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:28.000 blood ran through my fingers, then I fought with most courage. Mister Greatheart, 64 00:05:29.160 --> 00:05:33.079 thou hast done well. Thou hast resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 65 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:38.519 Thou shalt abide by us, Come in and go out with us, 66 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:43.720 for we are thy companions. Then they took him and washed his wounds, 67 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:46.480 and gave him of what they had to refresh him. And so they went 68 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:55.120 together. Now as they went on, because mister Greatheart was delighted in him, 69 00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:58.600 for he loved one greatly that he found to be a man of his 70 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:02.000 hands, and because they were in company those that were feeble and weak. 71 00:06:03.199 --> 00:06:08.839 Therefore he questioned with him about many things, as first, what countrymen he 72 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:15.000 was valiant for truth? I am of dark Land, for there was I 73 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:21.480 born, and there my father and mother are still. Mister Greatheart dark Land, 74 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:26.040 said the guide, doth not that lie on the same coast with the 75 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:31.639 city of Destruction? Valiant for truth? Yes, it doth now. That 76 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:36.519 which caused me to come on pilgrimage was this. We had one mister Teltrue 77 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:42.439 come into our parts, and he told it about what Christian had done that 78 00:06:42.439 --> 00:06:46.240 went from the City of Destruction, namely how he had forsaken his wife and 79 00:06:46.360 --> 00:06:53.959 children and had betaken himself to a pilgrim's life. It was also confidently reported 80 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:58.399 how he had killed a serpent that did come out to resist him in his 81 00:06:58.519 --> 00:07:02.879 journey, and how he got through to whither he intended. It was also 82 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:08.720 told what welcome he had at all his lord's lodgings, especially when he came 83 00:07:08.759 --> 00:07:12.600 to the gates of the celestial city. For there, said the man, 84 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:17.079 he was received with sound of trumpet by a company of shining ones. He 85 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:20.680 told also how all the bells in the city did ring for joy at his 86 00:07:20.759 --> 00:07:26.879 reception, and what golden garments he was clothed with, and with many other 87 00:07:26.920 --> 00:07:31.120 things that now I shall forbear to relate in a word. That man so 88 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:35.560 told the story of Christian and his travels, that my heart fell into a 89 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:41.360 burning haste to be gone after him. Nor could father or mother stay me. 90 00:07:42.319 --> 00:07:45.639 So I got from them and am come thus far on my way. 91 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:51.959 Mister greatheart, you came in at the gate, did you not valiant for 92 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:58.040 truth? Yes? Yes, For the same man also told us that all 93 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:01.800 would be nothing if we did not begin to enter this way at the gate. 94 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:07.399 Mister greatheart, Look, you said the guide to Christiana, the pilgrimage 95 00:08:07.399 --> 00:08:11.639 of your husband, and what he has gotten thereby is spread abroad far and 96 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:20.680 near. Valiant for truth? Why is this Christian's wife, mister greatheart? 97 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:26.000 Yes, that is, and these also are his four sons valiant for truth? 98 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:33.360 What and going on pilgrimage too, mister Greatheart. Yes, verily they 99 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:41.159 are following after valiant for truth. It glads me at the heart, good 100 00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:43.799 man, How joyful will he be when he shall see them that would not 101 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:48.039 go with him yet to enter after him in at the gate into the celestial 102 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:54.480 city. Mister Greatheart, without doubt it will be a comfort to him, 103 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:58.240 for next to the joy of seeing himself there, it will be a joy 104 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:05.159 to meet there wife and children valiant for truth. But now you are upon 105 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:11.080 that pray, let me hear your opinion about it. Some make question whether 106 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:16.919 we shall know one another when we are there, mister Greatheart, do you 107 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:20.039 think they shall know themselves then? Or that they shall rejoice to see themselves 108 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:24.399 in that bliss? And if they think they shall know and do this, 109 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:30.080 why not know others and rejoice in their welfare? Also? Again, since 110 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:33.399 our relations are our second self. Though that state will be dissolved there, 111 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:39.240 yet, why may it not be rationally concluded that we shall be more glad 112 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:45.960 to see them there than to see they are wanting valiant for truth. Well, 113 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:48.919 I perceive whereabouts your ares to this? Have you any more things to 114 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:56.559 ask me about my beginning to come on pilgrimage, mister Greatheart. Yes, 115 00:09:56.279 --> 00:10:03.200 were your father and mother willing that you should become a pilgrim Valiant for truth? 116 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:07.000 Oh? No, they used all means imaginable to persuade me to stay 117 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:16.960 at home. Mister Greatheart. Why what could they say against it? Valiant 118 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:20.679 for truth? They said it was an idle life, and if I myself 119 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:26.559 were not inclined to sloth and laziness, I would never countenance a pilgrim's condition, 120 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:33.960 mister Greatheart. And what did they say else? Valiant for truth? 121 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:37.919 Why? They told me that it was a dangerous way. Yea, The 122 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:43.679 most dangerous way in the world, said they is that which the pilgrims go. 123 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:50.440 Mister Greatheart. Did they show you where in this way is so dangerous 124 00:10:52.039 --> 00:10:56.919 valiant for truth? Yes, And that in many particulars, mister Greatheart, 125 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:03.480 name some of them valiant for truth. They told me of the slough of 126 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:09.279 Despond, where Christian was well nigh smothered. They told me that they were 127 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:13.720 archers standing ready in Beelzebo Castle to shoot them. Who should knock at the 128 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:18.320 wicket gate for entrance. They told me also of the wood and dark mountains, 129 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:22.759 of the hill difficulty of the lions, and also of the three giants 130 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:28.840 Bloody Man, moul and slay Good. They said moreover that there was a 131 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:35.080 foul fiend haunted the Valley of Humiliation, and that Christian was by him almost 132 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:39.080 bereft of life. Besides, said they, you must go over the valley 133 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:43.600 of the Shadow of Death, where the hobgoblins are, where the light is 134 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:48.240 darkness, where the ways full of snares, pits, traps and jinns. 135 00:11:48.519 --> 00:11:54.240 They told me also of giant despair, of doubting castle, and of the 136 00:11:54.360 --> 00:11:58.399 ruin that the pilgrims met with here. Further, they said, I must 137 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:01.919 go over the enchanted ground, which was dangerous, and that after all this 138 00:12:03.279 --> 00:12:07.600 I should find a river over which there was no bridge, and that that 139 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:13.799 river did lie betwixt me and the celestial country, mister Greatheart. And was 140 00:12:13.799 --> 00:12:22.000 this all valiant for truth? No? They also told me that this way 141 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:26.039 was full of deceivers and of persons that lay in wait there to turn good 142 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:31.720 men out of the path, mister Greatheart. But how did they make that 143 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:39.279 out valiant for truth? They told me that mister worldly Wiseman did lie there 144 00:12:39.320 --> 00:12:43.840 in wait to deceive. They said also that they were formality and hypocrisy continually 145 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:48.879 on the road. They said also that bay ends talkative, or Damas would 146 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:52.639 go near to gather me up, that the flatterer would catch me in his 147 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:58.200 net, or that with green headed ignorance, I would presume to go on 148 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:01.360 to the gate. From whence he was sent back to the hole that was 149 00:13:01.399 --> 00:13:03.440 in the side of the hill, and made to go the bye way to 150 00:13:03.559 --> 00:13:11.519 hell. Mister greatheart, I promise you this was enough to discourage you. 151 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:18.840 But did they make an end here? Valiant for truth? No stay. 152 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:22.440 They told me also of many that had tried that way of old, and 153 00:13:22.519 --> 00:13:26.559 that had gone a great way therein to see if they could find something of 154 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:31.679 the glory there that so many had so much talked of from time to time, 155 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:35.320 And how they came back again and befooled themselves for setting a foot out 156 00:13:35.320 --> 00:13:41.519 of doors in that path to the satisfaction of all the country. And they 157 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:46.840 named several that did so as obstinate and pliable, mistrust and timorous turn away 158 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:52.399 and old atheist, with several more who they said, had some of them 159 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:56.200 gone far to see what they could find, but not one of them had 160 00:13:56.240 --> 00:13:58.840 found so much advantage by going as amounted to the weight of a feather. 161 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:07.759 Mister Greatheart, said they anything more to discourage you, Valiant for truth? 162 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:13.279 Yes, they told me of one mister Fearing, who was a pilgrim, 163 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:18.919 and how he found his way so solitary that he never had a comfortable hour 164 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:24.600 therein. Also that mister Despondency had liked to have been starved therein yea. 165 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:28.679 And also which I had almost forgot, that Christian himself, about whom there 166 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:33.639 has been such a noise after all, his adventures for a celestial crown were 167 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:39.919 certainly drowned in the Black river and never went afoot further. However, it 168 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:46.759 was smothered up, mister Greatheart. And did none of these things discourage you, 169 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:52.519 Valiant for Truth? No, they seemed, But as so many nothings 170 00:14:52.519 --> 00:15:01.720 to me, mister Greatheart, how came that about valiant for truth? Why 171 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:05.480 I still believed what mister Teldrew had said, and that carried me beyond them 172 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:13.360 all. Mister Greatheart, Then this was your victory, even your faith, 173 00:15:15.120 --> 00:15:20.200 valiant for truth. It was so I believed, and therefore came out got 174 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:26.879 into the way for all that set themselves against me, and by believing and 175 00:15:26.080 --> 00:15:31.440 come to this place, who would true valor see? Let him come hither 176 00:15:33.240 --> 00:15:37.639 one here will constant be, come wind, come weather. There's no discouragement 177 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:45.840 shall make him once relent his first avowed intent to be a pilgrim. Whoso 178 00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:52.000 beset him round with dismal stories do but themselves confound his strength. The more 179 00:15:52.200 --> 00:15:56.960 is no lion can him fright? He'll with a giant fight, But he 180 00:15:58.039 --> 00:16:03.159 will have a right to be a pilgrim. How goblin nor foul fiend can 181 00:16:03.240 --> 00:16:08.519 daunt his spirit. He knows he y at the end shall life inherit then 182 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:14.840 fancies fly away. He'll not fear what men say. He'll labor night and 183 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:22.600 day to be a pilgrim. By this time they were got to the enchanted 184 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:26.759 ground, where the air naturally tended to make one drowsy. And that place 185 00:16:26.840 --> 00:16:32.879 was all grown over with briars and thorns, excepting here and there where was 186 00:16:32.919 --> 00:16:37.399 an enchanted arbor, upon which if a man sits, or in which if 187 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:41.200 a man sleeps, it is a question some say, whether ever he shall 188 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:48.039 rise or wake again in this world over this forest. Therefore they went both 189 00:16:48.120 --> 00:16:52.679 one and another, and mister Greatheart went before, for that he was the 190 00:16:52.759 --> 00:16:56.679 guide, and mister Valiant, for truth, came behind, being rear guard, 191 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:03.079 for fear lest peradventure fiend or dragon, or giant or thief should fall 192 00:17:03.160 --> 00:17:08.960 upon their rear and so do mischief. They went on here, each man 193 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:12.720 with a sword drawn in his hand, for they knew it was a dangerous 194 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:17.720 place. Also, they cheered up one another as well as they could. 195 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:23.799 Feeble mind, mister Greatheart commanded should come up after him, and mister Despondency 196 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:30.000 was under the eye of mister Valiant. Now they had not gone far, 197 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:33.160 but a great mist and darkness fell upon them all, so that they could 198 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:38.599 scarce for a great while the one see the other. Wherefore they were forced 199 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:42.880 for some time to feel one for another by words, for they walked not 200 00:17:44.039 --> 00:17:48.119 by sight. But any one must think that here was but sorry going for 201 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:52.440 the best of them all, But how much worse for the women and children, 202 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:57.480 who both of feet and heart were but tender. Yet so it was 203 00:17:57.640 --> 00:18:02.039 that, through the encouraging word of him that laid in the front, and 204 00:18:02.119 --> 00:18:04.720 of him that brought them up behind, they made a pretty good shift to 205 00:18:04.759 --> 00:18:11.519 wag along their way. Also, here was very wearisome through dirt and slabbiness. 206 00:18:12.519 --> 00:18:17.799 Nor was there on all this ground so much as one inn or victuilling 207 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:22.480 house, wherein to refresh the feebler sort. Here therefore was grunting and puffing 208 00:18:22.519 --> 00:18:27.359 and sighing, while one tumbleth over a bush, another sticks fast in the 209 00:18:27.400 --> 00:18:33.039 dirt, and the children, some of them lost their shoes in the mire, 210 00:18:33.799 --> 00:18:37.559 while one cries out, I am down, and another, ho, 211 00:18:37.799 --> 00:18:41.240 where are you? And a third the bushes have got such fast hold on 212 00:18:41.319 --> 00:18:48.160 me. I think I cannot get away from them. Then they came at 213 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:53.039 an arbor, warm and promising much refreshing to the pilgrims. For it was 214 00:18:53.119 --> 00:18:59.519 finely wrought above head, beautified with greens, furnished with benches and settles. 215 00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:06.079 It also had in it a soft couch whereon the weary might lean. This, 216 00:19:06.279 --> 00:19:10.759 you must think, all things considered, was tempting, for the pilgrims 217 00:19:10.759 --> 00:19:15.119 already began to be foiled with the badness of the way. But there was 218 00:19:15.160 --> 00:19:18.119 not one of them that made so much as a motion to stop. There 219 00:19:18.200 --> 00:19:22.240 yea for aught, I could perceive. They continually gave so good heed to 220 00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:26.839 the advice of their guide, and he did so faithfully tell them of dangers, 221 00:19:26.960 --> 00:19:30.200 and of the nature of the dangers when they were at them. That 222 00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:34.519 usually when they were nearest to them, they did most pluck up their spirits 223 00:19:34.559 --> 00:19:41.759 and hearten one another to deny the flesh. This arbor was called the Slothful's 224 00:19:41.759 --> 00:19:45.559 friend, and was made on purpose to allure, if it might be some 225 00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:52.119 of the pilgrims there to take up their rest when weary. I saw them 226 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:56.599 in my dream that they went on in this their solitary ground, till they 227 00:19:56.599 --> 00:19:59.599 came to a place at which a man is apt to lose his way. 228 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:04.079 Now, though when it was light, their guide could well enough tell how 229 00:20:04.119 --> 00:20:07.680 to miss those ways that led wrong. Yet in the dark he was put 230 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:12.119 to a stand. But he had in his pocket a map of all ways 231 00:20:12.240 --> 00:20:18.839 leading to or from the celestial city. Wherefore he struck a light, for 232 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:22.839 he never goes without his tinder box, also, and takes a view of 233 00:20:22.880 --> 00:20:26.359 his book or map, which bids him to be careful in that place to 234 00:20:26.359 --> 00:20:30.160 turn to the right hand. And had he not been careful here to look 235 00:20:30.200 --> 00:20:33.839 in his map, they had in all probability been smothered in the mud. 236 00:20:34.839 --> 00:20:38.279 For just a little before them, And that at the end of the cleanest 237 00:20:38.319 --> 00:20:44.359 way. Too, was a pit none knows how deep, full of nothing 238 00:20:44.440 --> 00:20:49.400 but mud, there made on purpose to destroy the pilgrims in. Then thought 239 00:20:49.440 --> 00:20:55.559 I with myself, who that goeth on pilgrimage, but would have one of 240 00:20:55.599 --> 00:20:57.960 these maps about him, that he may look when he is at a stand, 241 00:20:59.279 --> 00:21:03.599 which is the way he must take. Then they went on in this 242 00:21:03.720 --> 00:21:07.240 enchanted ground till they came to where there was another arbor, and it was 243 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:12.640 built by the highwayside. And in that arbor they lay two men whose names 244 00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:18.480 were Heedless and two bold. These two went thus far on pilgrimage, But 245 00:21:18.680 --> 00:21:22.640 here, being wearied from their journey, they sat down to rest themselves, 246 00:21:22.960 --> 00:21:29.480 and so fell fast asleep. When the pilgrims saw them, they stood still 247 00:21:29.519 --> 00:21:33.039 and shook their heads, for they knew that the sleepers were in a pitiful 248 00:21:33.079 --> 00:21:37.079 case. Then they consulted what to do, whether to go on and leave 249 00:21:37.119 --> 00:21:41.799 them in their sleep, or to step to them and try to awake them. 250 00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:45.559 So they concluded to go to them and awake them, that is, 251 00:21:45.880 --> 00:21:51.319 if they could, but with this caution, namely to take heed that they 252 00:21:51.359 --> 00:21:56.480 themselves did not sit down nor embrace the offered benefit of that arbor. So 253 00:21:56.559 --> 00:22:00.000 they went in and spake to the men, and each by his name. 254 00:22:00.599 --> 00:22:04.160 For the guide, it seems, did know them, but there was no 255 00:22:04.319 --> 00:22:10.440 voice nor answer. Then the Guide did shake them and do what he could 256 00:22:10.440 --> 00:22:15.160 to disturb them. Then said one of them, I will pay you when 257 00:22:15.200 --> 00:22:18.839 I take my money, at which the guide shook his head. I will 258 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:22.799 fight so long as I can hold my sword in my hand, said the 259 00:22:22.799 --> 00:22:29.359 other. At that one of the children laughed. Then said Christiana, what 260 00:22:29.599 --> 00:22:33.599 is the meaning of this? The Guide said, they talk in their sleep. 261 00:22:34.480 --> 00:22:37.440 If you strike them, beat them, or whatever else you do to 262 00:22:37.519 --> 00:22:42.240 them, they will answer you after this fashion. Or as one of them 263 00:22:42.279 --> 00:22:47.240 said in old time, when the waves of the sea did beat upon him, 264 00:22:47.839 --> 00:22:52.359 and he slept as one upon the mast of a ship Proverbs twenty three, 265 00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:57.240 thirty four and thirty five. When I awake, I will seek it 266 00:22:57.319 --> 00:23:02.200 yet again. You know, when men talk in their sleep, they say 267 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:07.759 anything, but their words are not governed either by faith or reason. There 268 00:23:07.839 --> 00:23:11.640 is an incoherency in their words now as there was before betwixt their going on 269 00:23:11.680 --> 00:23:15.960 pilgrimage and sitting down here. This, then, is the mischief of it. 270 00:23:17.640 --> 00:23:21.519 When heedless ones go on pilgrimage tis twenty to one. But they are 271 00:23:21.519 --> 00:23:26.640 served thus, for this enchanted ground is one of the last refuges that the 272 00:23:26.799 --> 00:23:30.400 enemy to pilgrims has. Wherefore it is, as you see, placed almost 273 00:23:30.400 --> 00:23:34.039 at the end of the way, and so it standeth against us with the 274 00:23:34.119 --> 00:23:40.160 more advantage. For when thinks the enemy, will these fools be so desirous 275 00:23:40.160 --> 00:23:42.799 to sit down as when they are weary, and when so like to be 276 00:23:42.880 --> 00:23:48.839 weary as when almost at their journey's end. Therefore it is I say that 277 00:23:48.920 --> 00:23:53.400 the enchanted ground is placed so nigh to the land Baolah, and so near 278 00:23:53.480 --> 00:23:59.240 the end of their race. Wherefore let pilgrims look to themselves, lest it 279 00:23:59.319 --> 00:24:03.279 happen to them as it has done to these, that as you see a 280 00:24:03.400 --> 00:24:10.319 fallen asleep, and none can awake them. Then the pilgrims desired with trembling 281 00:24:10.359 --> 00:24:14.440 to go forward. Only they prayed their guide to strike a light, that 282 00:24:14.519 --> 00:24:17.720 they might go the rest of their way by the help of the light of 283 00:24:17.720 --> 00:24:22.039 a lantern. So he struck a light, and they went by the help 284 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:25.839 of that through the rest of this way, though the darkness was very great 285 00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:32.519 second Peter one, nineteen. But the children began to be sorely weary, 286 00:24:33.279 --> 00:24:37.160 and they cried out unto him that loveth pilgrims to make their way more comfortable. 287 00:24:38.400 --> 00:24:42.000 So by that they had gone a little further, a wind arose that 288 00:24:42.079 --> 00:24:47.720 drove away the fog, so the air became more clear. Yet they were 289 00:24:47.759 --> 00:24:52.400 not off by much of the enchanted ground. Only now they could see one 290 00:24:52.400 --> 00:24:57.519 another better and the way wherein they should walk. Now, when they were 291 00:24:57.559 --> 00:25:02.559 almost at the end of this ground, they perceived that a little before them 292 00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:07.359 was a solemn noise, as of one that was much concerned. So they 293 00:25:07.400 --> 00:25:11.599 went on and looked before them, and behold they saw, as they thought, 294 00:25:11.039 --> 00:25:15.759 a man upon his knees, with hands and eyes lifted up, and 295 00:25:15.920 --> 00:25:22.279 speaking, as they thought, earnestly to one that was above. They drew 296 00:25:22.359 --> 00:25:26.119 nigh, but could not tell what he said, so they went softly till 297 00:25:26.160 --> 00:25:30.599 he had done. When he had done, he got up and began to 298 00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:36.319 run towards the celestial city. Then mister Greadhut called after him, saying, 299 00:25:36.880 --> 00:25:40.839 so, her friend, let us have your company if you go as I 300 00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:45.880 suppose you do to the celestial city. So the man stopped, and they 301 00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:49.359 came up to him, But as soon as mister Honor saw him, he 302 00:25:49.400 --> 00:25:55.680 said, I know this man. Then said mister Valiant, for truth, 303 00:25:56.279 --> 00:26:00.000 prithee, who is it? It is? One? Said he that comes 304 00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:06.200 from whereabout I dwelt. His name is Standfast. He is certainly a right 305 00:26:06.279 --> 00:26:11.200 good pilgrim. So they came up to one another, and presently Standfast said 306 00:26:11.200 --> 00:26:15.559 to old Honest, O, father, honest, are you there? I 307 00:26:15.799 --> 00:26:22.440 said he that I am as sure as you are there? Right glad am, 308 00:26:22.440 --> 00:26:25.839 I said mister Stanfast, that I have found you on this road, 309 00:26:26.119 --> 00:26:30.599 And as glad am, I said the other that I aspied you on your 310 00:26:30.680 --> 00:26:36.519 knees. Then mister Stanfast blushed and said, but why did you see me? 311 00:26:37.000 --> 00:26:41.079 Yes, that I did, quoth the other, and with my heart 312 00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:45.440 was glad at the sight. Why what did you think, said Standfast? 313 00:26:45.599 --> 00:26:49.720 Think, said old Honest? What could I think? I thought we had 314 00:26:49.759 --> 00:26:53.759 an honest man upon the road, and therefore should have his company by and 315 00:26:53.839 --> 00:26:59.920 by. If you thought not amiss, said Stanfast, how happy am I? 316 00:27:00.680 --> 00:27:03.000 But if I be not as I should, tis I alone must bear 317 00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:08.240 it, that is true, said the other. But your fear doth further 318 00:27:08.319 --> 00:27:12.680 confirm me that things I right betwixt the Prince of pilgrims, and your soul, 319 00:27:14.720 --> 00:27:19.640 for he saith blessed is the man that feareth always Proverbs twenty eight fourteen, 320 00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:26.200 valiant for truth. Well, but brother, I pray THEE tell us, 321 00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:30.480 what was it that was the cause of thy being upon thy knees? 322 00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:34.039 Even now? Was it for that some special mercy laid obligations upon THEE? 323 00:27:34.599 --> 00:27:41.279 Or? How stand fast? Why we are as you see, upon the 324 00:27:41.359 --> 00:27:47.160 enchanted ground. And as I was coming along, I was musing with myself 325 00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:51.640 of what a dangerous nature the road in this place was, and how many 326 00:27:51.720 --> 00:27:56.720 that had come even thus found pilgrimage had here been stopped and been destroyed. 327 00:27:59.079 --> 00:28:02.960 I thought also of the manner of the death with which this place destroyeth men. 328 00:28:03.880 --> 00:28:08.000 Those that die here die of no violent distemper, the death of which 329 00:28:08.039 --> 00:28:12.559 such dies not grievous to them. For he that goeth away in a sleep 330 00:28:14.039 --> 00:28:18.359 begins that journey with desire and pleasure. Yea such aqueous in the will of 331 00:28:18.440 --> 00:28:25.680 that disease, mister Honest. Then, mister Honest, interrupting him, said, 332 00:28:26.599 --> 00:28:33.000 did you see the two men asleep in the arbor? Stand fast? 333 00:28:33.640 --> 00:28:37.599 Aye? Aye? I saw heedless and two bold there, and for aught. 334 00:28:37.640 --> 00:28:42.319 I know there they will lie till they rot Proverbs ten seven. But 335 00:28:42.480 --> 00:28:47.359 let me go on with my tail. As I was thus musing, as 336 00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:52.519 I said, there was one in very pleasant attire, but old, who 337 00:28:52.559 --> 00:28:57.559 presented herself to me and offered me three things to wit her body, her 338 00:28:57.599 --> 00:29:03.519 purse, and her bed. Now the truth is I was both weary and 339 00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:07.319 sleepy. I am also as poor as an owlet, and that perhaps the 340 00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:12.720 witch knew well. I repulsed her once and again, but she put by 341 00:29:12.839 --> 00:29:18.119 my repulses and smiled. Then I began to be angry, but she mattered 342 00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:22.880 that nothing at all. Then she made offers again and said, if I 343 00:29:22.920 --> 00:29:27.440 would be ruled by her, she would make me great and happy. For 344 00:29:27.720 --> 00:29:32.880 said she, I am the mistress of the world, and men are made 345 00:29:32.880 --> 00:29:37.119 happy by me. Then I asked her name, and she told me it 346 00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:42.480 was Madam Bubble. This set me further from her, but she still followed 347 00:29:42.480 --> 00:29:48.079 me with enticements. Then I betook me as you saw, to my knees, 348 00:29:48.519 --> 00:29:52.640 and with hands lifted up and cries, I prayed to him that had 349 00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:56.279 said he would help. So just as you came up, the gentlewoman went 350 00:29:56.319 --> 00:30:00.680 her way. Then I continued to give thanks for this my great deliverance, 351 00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:07.319 for I verily believe she intended no good, but rather sought to make stop 352 00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:14.000 of me in my journey. Mister honest, without doubt her designs were bad. 353 00:30:14.640 --> 00:30:18.960 But stay now you talk of her. Methinks I either have seen her 354 00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:25.240 or have read some story of her. Stand fast, perhaps you have done 355 00:30:25.279 --> 00:30:30.880 both, mister honest. Madam Bubble, is she not at all comely dame? 356 00:30:32.359 --> 00:30:37.480 Something of a swarthy complexion? Stand fast, right you hit it? 357 00:30:37.079 --> 00:30:42.799 She is just such a one, mister honest. Does she not speak very 358 00:30:42.799 --> 00:30:48.160 smoothly and give you a smile at the end of a sentence? Stand fast, 359 00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:52.519 you'll fall right upon it again, for these are her very actions, 360 00:30:55.240 --> 00:30:59.799 mister honest. Does she not wear a great purse by her side, and 361 00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:03.519 is not her hand often in it, fingering her money, as if that 362 00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:10.359 was her heart's delight? Stand fast? Tis just so? Had she stood 363 00:31:10.400 --> 00:31:14.359 by all this while you could not more amply have set her forth before me, 364 00:31:15.079 --> 00:31:19.839 nor have better described her features, mister Honest, than he that drew 365 00:31:19.880 --> 00:31:23.200 her picture was a good limner. And he that wrote of hers said, 366 00:31:23.200 --> 00:31:30.799 true, mister greatheart, this woman is a witch, and it is by 367 00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:34.640 virtue of her sorceries, that this ground is enchanted. Whoever doth lay his 368 00:31:34.720 --> 00:31:38.200 head down in her lap, had as good lay it down on that block 369 00:31:38.279 --> 00:31:44.000 over which the axe doth hang, And whoever lay their eyes upon her beauty 370 00:31:44.519 --> 00:31:48.720 accounted the enemies of God. This is she that maintaineth in their splendor, 371 00:31:49.079 --> 00:31:56.799 all those that are the enemies of pilgrims James four four YEA. This is 372 00:31:56.839 --> 00:32:00.160 she that has brought off many a man from a pilgrim's life. She is 373 00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:06.680 a great gossiper. She is always both she and her daughters at one pilgrim's 374 00:32:06.720 --> 00:32:12.079 heels or another, now commending and then preferring the excellences of this life. 375 00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:16.400 She is a bold and impudent slut. She will talk with any man. 376 00:32:17.160 --> 00:32:23.279 She always laugheth poor pilgrims to scorn, but highly commends the rich. If 377 00:32:23.279 --> 00:32:28.279 there be one cunning to get money in a place, she will speak well 378 00:32:28.279 --> 00:32:32.440 of him. From house to house. She loveth banqueting and feasting mainly well. 379 00:32:34.359 --> 00:32:37.839 She is always at one full table or another. She has given it 380 00:32:37.880 --> 00:32:43.200 out in some places that she is a goddess, and therefore some do worship 381 00:32:43.200 --> 00:32:47.799 her. She has her time and open places of cheating, and she will 382 00:32:47.839 --> 00:32:53.440 say and avow it that none can show a good comparable to hers. She 383 00:32:53.680 --> 00:32:59.359 promiseth to dwell with children's children, if they will but love her and make 384 00:32:59.440 --> 00:33:02.640 much of her. She will cast out of her purse gold like dust. 385 00:33:02.680 --> 00:33:07.279 In some places and to some persons. She loves to be sought after, 386 00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:13.759 spoken well of, and to line the bosoms of men. She is never 387 00:33:13.839 --> 00:33:17.480 weary of commending her commodities, and she loves them most that think best of 388 00:33:17.559 --> 00:33:22.640 her. She will promise to some crowns and kingdoms, if they will but 389 00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:28.799 take her advice. Yet many has she brought to the halter, and ten 390 00:33:28.880 --> 00:33:36.279 thousand times more to hell. Standfast, oh, said, standfast? What 391 00:33:36.440 --> 00:33:39.599 a mercy is it that I did resist her? For whither might she have 392 00:33:39.720 --> 00:33:46.720 drawn me, mister greatheart? Whither? Nay, none, but God knows 393 00:33:46.759 --> 00:33:51.559 whither. But in general, to be sure, she would have drawn thee 394 00:33:51.559 --> 00:33:55.640 into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 395 00:33:57.799 --> 00:34:04.640 First Timothy six nine. Twas she that set Absalom against his father, and 396 00:34:04.799 --> 00:34:09.800 Jerobram against his master, Twas she that persuaded Judas to sell his Lord, 397 00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:16.159 and that prevailed with damas to forsake the godly pilgrim's life. None can tell 398 00:34:16.159 --> 00:34:22.320 of the mischief that she doth. She makes variance betwixt rulers and subjects, 399 00:34:22.760 --> 00:34:28.400 betwixt parents and children, betwixt neighbor and neighbor, betwixt a man and his 400 00:34:28.480 --> 00:34:32.519 wife, betwixt a man and himself, betwixt the flesh and the spirit. 401 00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:37.400 Wherefore, good mister, standfast, be as your name is, and when 402 00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:44.960 you have done all stand at this this course, there was among the pilgrims 403 00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:49.320 a mixture of joy and trembling. But at length they broke out and sang, 404 00:34:50.239 --> 00:34:53.719 what danger is the pilgrim in? How many are his foes? How 405 00:34:53.760 --> 00:34:59.760 many ways they are to sin? No living mortal knows. Some in the 406 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:04.920 which are spoiler yay, can lie tumbling in the mire. Some though they 407 00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:13.280 shun the frying pan to leap into the fire. After this I beheld until 408 00:35:13.320 --> 00:35:16.519 they were come into the land of Bayola, where the sun shineth night and 409 00:35:16.719 --> 00:35:22.360 day. Here, because they were weary, they betook themselves awhile to rest, 410 00:35:23.239 --> 00:35:28.599 and because this country was common for pilgrims, and because the orchards and 411 00:35:28.760 --> 00:35:34.000 vineyards that were here belonged to the King of the celestial country. Therefore they 412 00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:38.039 were licensed to make bold with any of his things. But a little while 413 00:35:38.119 --> 00:35:43.719 soon refreshed them here, for the bells did so ring, and the trumpets 414 00:35:43.719 --> 00:35:49.559 continually sound so melodiously that they could not sleep. And yet they received as 415 00:35:49.639 --> 00:35:54.960 much refreshing as if they had slept their sleep ever so soundly. Here also 416 00:35:55.159 --> 00:36:00.760 all the noise of them that walked the street was more pilgrims come to town. 417 00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:05.719 And another would answer, saying, and so many went over the water 418 00:36:06.159 --> 00:36:10.119 and were let in at the golden gates. Today they would cry again, 419 00:36:10.840 --> 00:36:15.960 there is now a legion of shining ones just come to town, by which 420 00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:19.960 we know that there are more pilgrims upon the road. For here they come 421 00:36:20.039 --> 00:36:24.800 to wait for them and to comfort them after all their sorrow. Then the 422 00:36:24.840 --> 00:36:30.280 pilgrims got up and walked to and fro. But how were their ears now 423 00:36:30.360 --> 00:36:36.360 filled with heavenly noises, and their eyes delighted with celestial visions. In this 424 00:36:36.480 --> 00:36:42.039 land they heard nothing, saw nothing, felt nothing, smelt nothing, tasted 425 00:36:42.119 --> 00:36:46.400 nothing that was offensive to their stomach or mind. Only when they tasted of 426 00:36:46.440 --> 00:36:51.079 the water of the river over which they were to go. They thought that 427 00:36:51.119 --> 00:36:54.840 it tasted a little bitterish to the palate, but it proved sweeter when it 428 00:36:54.960 --> 00:37:01.519 was down. In this place there was a record kept of the names of 429 00:37:01.559 --> 00:37:07.079 them that had been pilgrims of old, and a history of all the famous 430 00:37:07.119 --> 00:37:12.840 acts that they had done. It was here also much discoursed how the river 431 00:37:12.920 --> 00:37:16.440 to some had had its flowings, and what ebbings it has had while others 432 00:37:16.440 --> 00:37:22.719 have gone over. It has been in a manner dry for some, while 433 00:37:22.760 --> 00:37:29.880 it has overflowed its banks for others. In this place the children of the 434 00:37:29.960 --> 00:37:34.880 town would go into the king's gardens and gather nosegays for the pilgrims, and 435 00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:39.800 bring them to them with much affection. Here also grew camphire, with spikenard 436 00:37:39.800 --> 00:37:45.719 and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all the trees of frankincense, mirr 437 00:37:45.800 --> 00:37:52.039 and aloes, with all chief spices. With these the pilgrim's chambers were perfumed 438 00:37:52.079 --> 00:37:55.960 while they stayed here, and with these were their bodies anointed to prepare them 439 00:37:57.039 --> 00:38:01.639 to go over the river when the time appointed was come. Now, while 440 00:38:01.679 --> 00:38:06.920 they lay here and waited for the good hour, there was a noise in 441 00:38:06.960 --> 00:38:10.199 the town that there was a post come from the celestial city with matter of 442 00:38:10.239 --> 00:38:16.599 great importance to one Christiana, the wife of Christian the Pilgrim. So inquiry 443 00:38:16.719 --> 00:38:21.000 was made for her, and the house was found out where she was. 444 00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:27.320 So the post presented her with a letter. The contents were, Hail, 445 00:38:27.360 --> 00:38:31.679 good woman, I bring thee tidings that the Master calleth for thee, and 446 00:38:31.760 --> 00:38:37.760 expecteth that thou shouldst stand in his presence in clothes of immortality within these ten 447 00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:44.719 days. When he had read this letter to her, he gave her therewith 448 00:38:44.719 --> 00:38:49.199 a sure token that he was a true messenger and was come to bid her 449 00:38:49.280 --> 00:38:53.920 make haste to be gone. The token was an arrow with a point sharpened 450 00:38:53.960 --> 00:39:00.360 with love, let easily into her heart, which by degrees wrought so truly 451 00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:07.320 with her that at the time appointed she must be gone. When Christiana saw 452 00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:09.920 that her time was come, and that she was the first of this company 453 00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:14.920 that was to go over, she called for mister Greatheart, her guide, 454 00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:20.480 and told him how matters were. So he told her he was heartily glad 455 00:39:20.480 --> 00:39:23.880 of the news, and could have been glad had the post come for him. 456 00:39:24.840 --> 00:39:29.440 Then she bid him that he should give her advice how all things should 457 00:39:29.440 --> 00:39:34.199 be prepared for her journey, he told her, saying, thus and thus 458 00:39:34.280 --> 00:39:37.440 it must be, and we that survive will accompany you to the riverside. 459 00:39:39.719 --> 00:39:45.000 Then she called for her children and gave them her blessing, and told them 460 00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:47.679 that she had read with comfort the mark that was set in their foreheads, 461 00:39:49.199 --> 00:39:52.840 and was glad to see them with her there, and that they had kept 462 00:39:52.840 --> 00:39:58.559 their garments so white. Lastly, she bequeathed to the poor that little she 463 00:39:58.639 --> 00:40:01.639 had, and command that her sons and daughters to be ready against the messengers 464 00:40:01.639 --> 00:40:07.440 should come for them. When she had spoken these words to her guide and 465 00:40:07.519 --> 00:40:12.360 to her children, she called for mister Valiant for truth, and said unto 466 00:40:12.440 --> 00:40:17.559 him, Sir, you have in all places showed yourself true hearted, be 467 00:40:17.679 --> 00:40:22.440 faithful unto death, and my King will give you a crown of life. 468 00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:28.719 Revelations to ten. I would also entreat you to have an eye to my 469 00:40:28.840 --> 00:40:32.960 children, and if at any time you see them faint, speak comfortably to 470 00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:37.920 them. For my daughters, my son's wives, they have been faithful, 471 00:40:38.440 --> 00:40:44.039 and a fulfilling of the promise upon them will be their end. But she 472 00:40:44.079 --> 00:40:49.639 gave mister Steadfast a ring. Then she called for old mister honest, and 473 00:40:49.679 --> 00:40:53.800 said of him, behold and Israelite, indeed in whom is no guile. 474 00:40:54.920 --> 00:41:01.039 John one seven then said, he, I wish you a fair day when 475 00:41:01.079 --> 00:41:05.719 ye set out for Mount Sion, and shall be glad to see that ye 476 00:41:05.800 --> 00:41:10.039 go over the river dry shod. But she answered, come wet, come 477 00:41:10.159 --> 00:41:15.199 dry. I long to be gone, for however the weather is in my 478 00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:21.639 journey, I shall have time enough when I come there, to sit down 479 00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:28.800 and rest me and dry me. Then came in that good man mister, 480 00:41:28.880 --> 00:41:34.159 ready to halt to see her. So she said to him, thy travel 481 00:41:34.440 --> 00:41:38.199 hitherto has been with difficulty, but that will make thy rest the sweeter, 482 00:41:39.119 --> 00:41:44.360 watch and be ready, for at an hour when you think not, the 483 00:41:44.480 --> 00:41:51.239 messenger may come. After him came mister Despondency and his daughter, much afraid, 484 00:41:51.760 --> 00:41:57.000 to whom she said, you ought with thankfulness for ever to remember your 485 00:41:57.000 --> 00:42:02.280 deliverance from the hands of giant despair and out of doubting castle. The effect 486 00:42:02.280 --> 00:42:07.519 of that mercy is that you are brought with safety. Hither be ye watchful 487 00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:15.519 and cast away fear, be sober and hope to the end. Then she 488 00:42:15.639 --> 00:42:20.519 said to mister feeble mind, thou wast delivered from the mouth of giant slay 489 00:42:20.599 --> 00:42:24.000 good, that thou mightst live in the light of the living and see thy 490 00:42:24.119 --> 00:42:30.559 King with comfort. Only advise thee to repent of thine aptness to fear and 491 00:42:30.719 --> 00:42:35.559 doubt of his goodness before he sends for thee, lest thou shouldst, when 492 00:42:35.599 --> 00:42:38.639 he comes, be forced to stand before him for that fault with blushing. 493 00:42:43.159 --> 00:42:46.760 Now the day drew on that Christiana must be gone. So the road was 494 00:42:46.800 --> 00:42:52.400 full of people to see her take her journey. But behold, all the 495 00:42:52.519 --> 00:42:57.559 banks beyond the river were full of horses and chariots which were come down from 496 00:42:57.599 --> 00:43:01.599 above to accompany her to the city. Eight. So she came forth and 497 00:43:01.800 --> 00:43:07.639 entered the river with a beckon of farewell to those that followed her. The 498 00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:10.440 last words that she was heard to say were, I come, Lord, 499 00:43:10.480 --> 00:43:15.800 to be with thee, and bless thee. So her children and friends returned 500 00:43:15.840 --> 00:43:21.519 to their place, for those that waited for Christiana had carried her out of 501 00:43:21.519 --> 00:43:25.039 their sight. So she went and called and entered in at their gate, 502 00:43:25.360 --> 00:43:30.039 with all the ceremonies of joy that her husband Christian had entered with before her 503 00:43:31.559 --> 00:43:37.119 at her departure. The children wept, but mister Greatheart and mister Valiot played 504 00:43:37.199 --> 00:43:43.000 upon the well tuned symbol and heart for joy. So all departed to their 505 00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:49.440 respective places. In process of time, there came a post to the town 506 00:43:49.480 --> 00:43:54.320 again, and his business was with mister Ready to Halt. So he inquired 507 00:43:54.400 --> 00:43:59.840 him out and said, I am come from him whom thou hast loved, 508 00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:06.079 and followed thereupon crutches, and my message is to tell THEE that he expects 509 00:44:06.079 --> 00:44:09.039 thee at his table to stop with him in his kingdom the next day after 510 00:44:09.079 --> 00:44:15.159 Easter. Wherefore, prepare thyself for this journey. Then he also gave him 511 00:44:15.159 --> 00:44:20.679 a token that he was a true messenger, saying I have broken thy golden 512 00:44:20.719 --> 00:44:30.679 bowl and loosed thy silver cord Ecclesiastes twelve six. After this, mister Ready 513 00:44:30.719 --> 00:44:36.440 to Halt called for his fellow pilgrims and told them, saying, I am 514 00:44:36.480 --> 00:44:43.239 sent for, and God shall surely visit you also. So he desired mister 515 00:44:43.320 --> 00:44:46.519 Valiant to make his will, and because he had nothing to bequeath to them 516 00:44:46.559 --> 00:44:52.239 that should survive him, but his crutches and his good wishes. Therefore, 517 00:44:52.320 --> 00:44:57.320 thus he said, these crutches I bequeath to my son that shall tread in 518 00:44:57.360 --> 00:45:00.960 my steps with a hundred warm wishes that he may prove better than I have 519 00:45:01.039 --> 00:45:07.519 been. Then he thanked mister Greatheart for his conduct and kindness, and so 520 00:45:07.639 --> 00:45:13.239 addressed himself to his journey. When he came to the brink of the river, 521 00:45:13.320 --> 00:45:16.239 he said, now I shall have no more need of these crutches, 522 00:45:16.760 --> 00:45:22.639 since yonder are chariots and horses for me to ride on. The last words 523 00:45:22.639 --> 00:45:27.679 he was heard to say, were welcome life. So he went his way. 524 00:45:30.199 --> 00:45:35.400 After this, mister feeble Mind had tidings brought him that the post sounded 525 00:45:35.440 --> 00:45:39.280 his horn at his chamber door. Then he came in and told him, 526 00:45:39.360 --> 00:45:44.719 saying, I am come to tell THEE that thy master hath need of thee, 527 00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:49.760 and that in a very little time thou must behold his face in brightness, 528 00:45:50.840 --> 00:45:54.320 and take this as a token of the truth of my message, those 529 00:45:54.360 --> 00:46:01.800 that look out at the windows shall be darkened Ecclesiastes twelve three. Then mister 530 00:46:01.840 --> 00:46:07.119 feeble Mind called for his friends and told them what errand had been brought unto 531 00:46:07.239 --> 00:46:10.400 him, and what token he had received of the truth of the message. 532 00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:16.599 Then he said, since I have nothing to bequeath to any to what purpose 533 00:46:16.639 --> 00:46:22.360 should I make a will as for my feeble mind, that I will leave 534 00:46:22.400 --> 00:46:24.880 behind me, for that I shall have no need of it in the place 535 00:46:24.880 --> 00:46:30.559 whither I go, Nor is it worth bestowing upon the poorest pilgrims. Wherefore, 536 00:46:30.559 --> 00:46:35.679 when I am gone, I desire that you, mister Valiot, would 537 00:46:35.679 --> 00:46:40.079 bury it in a dunghill. This done, and the day being come on 538 00:46:40.199 --> 00:46:45.760 which he was to depart, he entered the river as the rest. His 539 00:46:45.920 --> 00:46:51.719 last words were hold out faith and patience. So he went over to the 540 00:46:51.760 --> 00:46:58.960 other side. When days had many of them passed away, mister Despondency was 541 00:46:59.000 --> 00:47:05.199 sent for for a post was come and brought this message to him, trembling 542 00:47:05.280 --> 00:47:07.960 man. These are to summon thee to be ready with the king by the 543 00:47:08.039 --> 00:47:13.239 next lord's day, to shout for joy, for thy deliverance from all thy 544 00:47:13.280 --> 00:47:19.320 doubtings. Anne said the messenger, that my message is true. Take this 545 00:47:19.480 --> 00:47:22.760 for a proof. So he gave him a grasshopper to be a burden unto 546 00:47:22.880 --> 00:47:31.719 him Ecclesiastes twelve five. Now mister Despondency's daughter, whose name was much Afraid, 547 00:47:31.840 --> 00:47:36.639 said, when she heard what was done, that she would go with 548 00:47:36.719 --> 00:47:43.119 her father. Then mister Despondency said to his friends myself and my daughter. 549 00:47:43.920 --> 00:47:47.199 You know what we have been, and how troublesomely we have behaved ourselves in 550 00:47:47.320 --> 00:47:54.320 every company. My will and my daughter's is that our desponds and slavish fears 551 00:47:54.440 --> 00:47:59.800 be by no man ever received from the day of our departure for ever, 552 00:48:00.760 --> 00:48:05.840 For I know that after my death they will offer themselves to others. For 553 00:48:05.880 --> 00:48:09.719 to be plain with you, they are ghosts which we entertained when we first 554 00:48:09.760 --> 00:48:15.760 began to be pilgrims, and could never shake them off after, and they 555 00:48:15.800 --> 00:48:21.960 will walk about and seek entertainment of the pilgrims. But for our sakes shut 556 00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:24.880 the doors upon them. When the time was come for them to depart, 557 00:48:25.480 --> 00:48:30.440 they went up to the brink of the river. The last words of mister 558 00:48:30.519 --> 00:48:37.639 Despondency were farewell night, welcome day. His daughter went through the river singing, 559 00:48:38.119 --> 00:48:44.840 but none could understand what she said. Then it came to pass a 560 00:48:44.880 --> 00:48:50.440 while after that there was a post in the town that inquired for mister Honest. 561 00:48:51.119 --> 00:48:53.800 So he came to the house where he was and delivered to his hand 562 00:48:53.920 --> 00:49:00.920 these lines. Thou Art commanded to be ready against this day seven night to 563 00:49:00.960 --> 00:49:06.760 present thyself before thy lord at his father's house, and foretoken that my message 564 00:49:06.800 --> 00:49:13.199 is true, all the daughters of music shall be brought low Ecclesiastes twelve four. 565 00:49:15.119 --> 00:49:17.880 Then mister Honest called for his friends and said, unto them, I 566 00:49:19.119 --> 00:49:23.639 die, but shall make no will as for my honesty. It shall go 567 00:49:23.800 --> 00:49:29.280 with me, that him that comes after be told of this. When the 568 00:49:29.400 --> 00:49:32.079 day that he was to be gone was come, he addressed himself to go 569 00:49:32.199 --> 00:49:37.480 over the river. Now the river at that time overflowed its banks in some 570 00:49:37.559 --> 00:49:44.679 places, But mister Honest in his lifetime had spoken to one good conscience to 571 00:49:44.679 --> 00:49:47.599 meet him there, the which he also did, and lent him his hand, 572 00:49:49.239 --> 00:49:54.199 and so helped him over the last words of mister Honest were grace reigns. 573 00:49:55.199 --> 00:50:00.199 So he left the world. After this, it was noised abroad that 574 00:50:00.239 --> 00:50:05.519 mister Valiant for Truth was taken with a summons by the same post as the 575 00:50:05.559 --> 00:50:09.320 other, and had this for a token that the summons was true. That 576 00:50:09.440 --> 00:50:16.280 his picture was broken at the fountain Ecclesiasts twelve six. When he understood it, 577 00:50:16.679 --> 00:50:21.360 he called for his friends and told them of it. Then said he 578 00:50:22.039 --> 00:50:25.440 I am going to my father's And though with great difficulty I have got hither. 579 00:50:27.159 --> 00:50:29.960 Yet now I do not repent me of all the trouble I have been 580 00:50:30.000 --> 00:50:34.199 at to arrive where I am. My sword I give to him that shall 581 00:50:34.239 --> 00:50:37.400 succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can 582 00:50:37.400 --> 00:50:43.320 get it. My marks and scars I carry with me to be a witness 583 00:50:43.320 --> 00:50:46.199 for me that I have fought his battles, who will now be my rewarder. 584 00:50:47.559 --> 00:50:52.599 When the day that he must go hence was come. Many accompanied him 585 00:50:52.639 --> 00:50:57.039 to the riverside, into which as he went he said, death, wear 586 00:50:57.079 --> 00:51:00.880 is thy sting, And as he went down deb he said, grave, 587 00:51:00.960 --> 00:51:08.920 where is thy victory? First Corinthian's fifteen fifty five. So he passed over, 588 00:51:09.599 --> 00:51:15.800 and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side. Then they 589 00:51:15.840 --> 00:51:21.199 came forth a summons for mister Steadfast. This mister Steadfast was he whom the 590 00:51:21.239 --> 00:51:25.559 rest of the pilgrims found upon his knees in the enchanted ground, and the 591 00:51:25.679 --> 00:51:30.840 post brought at him open in his hands. The contents thereof were that he 592 00:51:30.920 --> 00:51:36.079 must prepare for a change of life, for his master was not willing that 593 00:51:36.119 --> 00:51:40.599 he should be so far from him any longer. At this mister Steadfast was 594 00:51:40.639 --> 00:51:45.679 put into a muse Nay, said the messenger, you need not doubt of 595 00:51:45.719 --> 00:51:49.960 the truth of my message, for here is a token of the truth. 596 00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:58.480 Thereof thy wheel is broken at the cistern Ecclesiasts twelve six. Then he called 597 00:51:58.480 --> 00:52:00.599 to him, mister Greatheart, who their guide, and said, unto him, 598 00:52:01.760 --> 00:52:07.079 sir, although it was not my hap to be much in your good 599 00:52:07.119 --> 00:52:12.880 company during the days of my pilgrimage, yet since the time I knew you, 600 00:52:12.880 --> 00:52:16.239 you have been profitable to me. When I came from home, I 601 00:52:16.400 --> 00:52:22.920 left behind a wife and five small children. Let me entreat you at your 602 00:52:22.960 --> 00:52:27.639 return, for I know that you go and return to your master's house in 603 00:52:27.679 --> 00:52:31.199 hopes that you may yet be a conductor to more of the holy pilgrims. 604 00:52:31.239 --> 00:52:36.159 That you send to my family. And let them be acquainted with all that 605 00:52:36.199 --> 00:52:40.559 hath and shall happen unto me. Tell them moreof of my happy arrival at 606 00:52:40.599 --> 00:52:45.840 this place, and of the present and late blessed condition I am in. 607 00:52:46.280 --> 00:52:52.079 Tell them also of Christian and Christiana, his wife, and how she and 608 00:52:52.159 --> 00:52:58.000 her children came after her husband. Tell them also of what a happy end 609 00:52:58.079 --> 00:53:02.519 she made, and whither she is gone. I have little or nothing to 610 00:53:02.599 --> 00:53:07.119 send to my family, unless it be prayers and tears for them, of 611 00:53:07.199 --> 00:53:12.920 which it will suffice that you acquaint them, if, peradventure they may prevail. 612 00:53:14.239 --> 00:53:17.360 When mister Steadfast had thus set things in order, the time being come 613 00:53:17.400 --> 00:53:22.280 for him to haste him away, he also went down to the river. 614 00:53:23.159 --> 00:53:28.119 Now there was a great calm at that time in the river. Wherefore mister 615 00:53:28.239 --> 00:53:32.000 Steadfast, when he was about half way in, stood awhile and talked with 616 00:53:32.039 --> 00:53:38.559 his companions that had waited upon him thither. And he said, this river 617 00:53:39.039 --> 00:53:44.480 has been a terror to many. Yea, the thoughts of it also have 618 00:53:44.639 --> 00:53:50.280 often frightened me. But now methinks I stand easy. My foot is fixed 619 00:53:50.360 --> 00:53:52.760 upon that on which the feet of the priests that bare the ark of the 620 00:53:52.840 --> 00:54:01.679 Covenant stood while Israel went over Jordan Joshua three seventeen. The waters, indeed 621 00:54:01.920 --> 00:54:07.559 are to the palate bitter and to the stomach cold. Yet the thoughts of 622 00:54:07.639 --> 00:54:09.920 what I am going to, and of the convoy that waits for me on 623 00:54:09.960 --> 00:54:15.679 the other side, do lie as a glowing coal at my heart. I 624 00:54:15.719 --> 00:54:21.599 see myself now at the end of my journey. My torsome days are ended, 625 00:54:22.679 --> 00:54:25.280 I am going to see that head which was crowned with thorns, and 626 00:54:25.320 --> 00:54:30.880 that face which was spit upon For me. I have formerly lived by hearsay 627 00:54:30.920 --> 00:54:36.679 and faith. But now I go where I shall live by sight, and 628 00:54:36.800 --> 00:54:40.840 shall be with him in whose company I delight myself. I have loved to 629 00:54:40.920 --> 00:54:45.960 hear my Lord spoken of. And wherever I have seen the print of his 630 00:54:45.039 --> 00:54:49.800 shoe in the earth, there I have coveted to set my foot to. 631 00:54:51.239 --> 00:54:54.519 His name has been to me as a civit box. YEA sweeter than all 632 00:54:54.599 --> 00:55:00.039 perfumes. His voice to me has been most sweet, and his countenance I 633 00:55:00.079 --> 00:55:04.920 have more desired than they that have most desired the light of the sun. 634 00:55:06.199 --> 00:55:09.719 His words I did use to gather for my food and for antidotes against my 635 00:55:09.800 --> 00:55:16.559 faintings. He hath held me and had kept me from mine iniquities. Yea, 636 00:55:16.719 --> 00:55:22.400 my steps hath he strengthened in his way. Now, while he was 637 00:55:22.480 --> 00:55:28.840 thus in discourse, his countenance changed, His strong man bowed under him, 638 00:55:29.599 --> 00:55:34.679 and after he had said, take me, for I come unto thee he 639 00:55:34.760 --> 00:55:39.039 ceased to be seen of them. But glorious it was to see how the 640 00:55:39.119 --> 00:55:45.840 open region was filled with horses and chariots with trumpeters and pipers, with singers 641 00:55:45.840 --> 00:55:51.760 and players upon stringed instruments to welcome the pilgrims as they went up and followed 642 00:55:51.800 --> 00:55:58.639 one another in at the beautiful gait of the city. As for Christiana's children, 643 00:55:59.239 --> 00:56:04.360 the four boys that Christiana brought with their wives and children, I did 644 00:56:04.400 --> 00:56:08.159 not stay where I was till they were gone over. Also, since I 645 00:56:08.199 --> 00:56:13.719 came away, I heard one say that they were yet alive, and so 646 00:56:13.880 --> 00:56:16.840 would be for the increase of the church in that place where they were for 647 00:56:16.960 --> 00:56:24.320 a time. End Part two, the eighth Stage