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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58733	The Second part of The pilgrims progress from this present world of wickedness and misery to an eternity of holiness and felicity : exactly described under the similitude of a dream, relating the manner and occasion of his setting out from, and difficult and dangerous journey through the world, and safe arrival at last to eternal happiness.	Bunyan, John, 1628-1688. Pilgrim's progress.; T. S.	1683 (1683)	Wing S179; ESTC R13979	81,625	207

him in White and shineing Garments placed a Crown of Glory on his head and palms of Triumph in his hands he then lead him towards and according to the promise he had formerly made him in the day when he entered into Covenant with him he presented him to his Father without any kind of spot or Defilement being blameless in Love before him for ever in the Beatifick Vision of whose blessed face and the familfar Injoyment and full fruition of whose Glory and Love he is to live and Reign for ever and ever World without end Amen And now methoughts when I saw the Gates opened to give admittance to this happy Pilgrim I took that opportunity to look in and take a delightful view of that blest and glorious place which is so much famed in sacred Story and I found the Prospect of it to afford such an abundance of Pleasure and Satisfaction I think I shall never forget it And I hope I shall never sit down satisfied until I also have obtained the Possession thereof This sight being so Pleasant and the Prospect of its Glory being so ravishing and Delightful to me I would willingly give you a Description of the Country in hopes thereby to make you in Love with it But yet I must do it with a caution and beg that you would not expect I should give you an exact and perfect description of a place which I only know my self by report or at best by that short and transient Glimpse at a vast and incredible distance which I then obtained especially since its extent and largeness its glory and sweetness c. is not only more then can be any way expressed by the Tongue of men or Angels or described by the most florid and ingenious Pen but even above and infinitely beyond all possibility of Conception too when the Soul most expatiates and inlarges it Thoughts and Contemplations thereon however assure thy self that what I do say of it is really true and infinitely more than I can either write or think The full Prospect and Knowledge whereof thou must be content to stay for till thy self shall be admitted as an Inhabitant thereof Celestial Paradice is a place admirably scituated in a most incomparably sweet Serene and delectable Air infinitly exceeding the fairest and the best scituated place which this World wherein we now live can possibly produce for being advanced by the Almighty Jehovah who contrived and formed it by his Wisdom and fixed and established it by his Power far above the heavy Earth whereon we walk and the thick foggy Air wherein we breathe it aspires into the purer Sky where the Eternal Jehovah himself ever shines and is that Glorious Sun whose Bright and Illustrious Rays fill those happy Regions with a perpetual Confluence of Light and thereby maintains an Eternal day by the help whereof and the Advantage of its Scituation the whole Universe presents it self at once to the admiring view of its blessed Inhabitants And the whole Circumference thereof seems to make their prying Souls the happy Center wherein all its Beauty and Glory Conspires to meet no noysom or offensive scents can possibly penetrate or infect that sweet and Blissful Place for there is nothing affects that Air but what is pure and Odoriferous and serves only to perfume the Heavenly Mansions with the more exhilerating Fragrancy and moreover a perpetual Calm and Quietude reigns in that happy Region and therewith Eternally crowns all its other Felicities For there you shall hear nothing but what will infinitely delight and charm thy ravished Soul into sweet and delightful contemplations And when thou shalt hear the infinite praises of thy great Creator sung forth by all his works of wonder and every Creature thou beholdest with Chearful Hyms and Seraphick Songs Celebrate the Admirable Wisdom and the Infinite Goodness of him that Created it The Harmony thereof will be so ravishing and their imploment so pleasing that thou thy self wilt jo● and dance in company and rejoyce and sing together with them And as the Situation of Paradice is delightful and pleasant so are its Dimension large and extensive its Buildings stately and glorious and all those varieties wherewith it is beautified and adorned are splendid and rich every where becoming the Majesty and Glory of that Palace which is the Royal City and Palace of the Great King The Metropolis of the Universe and the Residence and Seat where the Imperial Majesty of Heaven and Earth whose Dominion is an everlasting Dominion and who extends his Reign throughout all Generations keeps his Court and whlther his happy subjects repair to behold the Majesty of his Glory stand before him as his devoted Servants and worship and adore the Soveraign of the World to view and admire the Wisdom and Righteousness of his Government the Goodness and Equity of his Laws the strange and wonderful methods of his Grace the admirable continuance of his works and the universal care he takes of every Creature the Infinite extent of his Providence the greatness of his Power and his absolute and unaccountable Authority whereby he unites those things which were in themselves at the greatest distances and dissolves the combinations and confederacys of those who are enemies to his interest and people when they are most strongly and closely united and renders all the Matchiavillian designs of Rome and Antichrist barren unfruitful or else makes them prove abortive jnst when they are ready to bring forth and the disappointing the devices of the crafty and confounding the subtilty of the wise makes the adversaries of his Church become the instruments of their own ruine and overthrow And there likewise his blessed subjects satiate their Ravisht Souls with the delightful and satisfying views of the Beauty of his Holiness the brightness and extent of his Understanding the riches and the freeness of his Love Righteousness and equity of his Justice the inexhaustibleness of his Goodness and the Immutability of his Faithfulness and Truth Then next to the King himself there sits the Kings Son the Blessed Redeemer and the Mediator of the new Covenant upon a Throne of Glory at the Right hand of the Father whose Glorified Body being now in the Meridian of his Glory Exaltation and Triumph is filled with greater light shines with infinitely more brightness and splendor then the Sun vvhen shiningin its strength And there the eternal Spirit performs his Divine Operations in the Souls of the Redeemed more fully and perfectly constantly more sensibly feelingly and therefore more Comfortably to them and vvith a perpetual constancy that admits of no intermission but he is ever inlarging and disposing fitting and capacitating their happy souls to drink in those eternal pleasures and everlasting delights whereinto they are plunged and wherein they bathe themselves And is ever conveying into and more absolutely then when they vvere in their imperfect state filling them vvith the joys of the Holy Ghost and the peace of God vvhich passes all understanding Then you have the holy Angels vvhose brightness and splendor likevvise very much conduces to beautify adorn the place And there also dwell the Redeemed every one being placed upon a Throne of Majesty vvith Imperial Crovvns on their heads and Palms in their hands shine like the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father in vvhich station they ever behold the face of God in Righteousness and obtain such an understanding and knowledge of him as perfectly turns them also into the nature of him that they behold and transforms them into the likeness of that holy and pure Being which they eternally delight to be viewing of and the Reflections of whose Glory and Goodness doth as it were overshadow their inamoured souls and by living animates them into the same Disposition with its self And that Divine Beauty whereon they everlastingly feed and feast their eyes imprints its own form upon their souls and renders them fair and Beauteous with the very same lovely Excellencies which they delight to behold in him And now methought when I had taken this view of the Caelestial Paradice I wished that I might have been permitted to enter into it likewise But whilst I was thus wishing with my self the place began to appear more bright than before and the Glory and Splendor of it increased to such a degree that my eyes were too weak to behold it nor could my Mortality longer endure the sight of its Glory which now so ovewhelmed me that methoughts I sunk down and fainted away Whereupon I awoke and found my self still grovling on the earth in the same wicked and prophane and carnal hardened and secure World wherein I lived before I fell asleep and dreamed this Dream FINIS

acted upon my self and the rest who are spectators hereof by the King of Terrors now calls to us and we must all of us ere long in the self same manner call to others to mind their latter End and consider that the Remembring to prepare their great and last Change is or ought to be the chief bufiness of our Lives Lord my breath is as liable to end will be as certainly stoped as his and I find that my body likewise is compounded and made up of the same mouldering and decaying principles which incline me and render me subject to crumble into dust and fall into the Grave to which I am now following him but Lord I know not how suddenly my self may be followed thither Lord here 's his Body but where 's his Soul His departure is a sad occasion of mourning and Grief to his sorrowful Relations but Lord what is it to himself He is now got beyond the Grave and hath a clearer sight of and is thereby able to Judge more truly of unseen and invisible things than when he was here he hath other thoughts of Sin and Hell of Holiness and Heaven than us poor mortals who are yet Groveling in the dark in these lower Regions Lord Sin was the great the cruel and barbarous Murtherer that first brought Death into the World and furnished him both with the Dart and the sting wherewith he wounds O that Thou wouldst therefore affect my Soul with that Sermon which thou art novv preaching ot me by him and O let not that Lecture of Mortality which he is now reading to me ever be forgotten by me Lord give me an interest in thy Son whereby I may escape the sting and despise the Dart and Triumph over the fear of Death Amongst those few who haved practiced this abundance of good hath been observed to have been done by that means and who knows were it more generally used and become a custome amongst us at our Burials what good might be effected thereby And now that the reading this small Tract may promote thy present piety and future happiness by making thee more sensible of thy lost and undone condition by nature and by bringing thy soul mor● out of love with sin and more and more into love with God with Christ and holiness is the desire of him who is thy cordial friend and hartily wishes the Eternal wellfare of thy immortal Soul T. S. THE PILGRIMS PROGRESS PART II. THE Spring being far advanced the Meadows being Covered with a Curious Carpet of delightful Green and the Earth Cloathed in Rich and Glorious Attire to Rejoyce and Triumph for the Return of her Shining Bridegroom The Healthful Air rendred more Pleasing and Delightful by the gentle Winds then breathed from the South impregnated with the Exhilerating Fragrancy of the Variety of Flowers and odoriferous Plants over which they had passed and every Blooming Bush and Flourishing Grove plentifully stored with Winged Inhabitants who with a delightful Harmony sweetly Sing forth their Makers Praise and Warble out their Joyful Welcomes to the Gaudy Spring I one Day took a Walk in the Fields to Feast my Eyes with the variety of Delightful Objects which that Season of the Year wherein the Universe bears the nearest resemblance to the happy state wherein the Immortal God at first created it liberally offers to the view of the Admiring Beholders and thereby lays an Irresistible Obligation upon Heavenly Minds to Spiritualize the several Obiects they b●hold and satiate their happy Souls with Heavenly Meditations by affording them such innumerable occasions of Contemplating the Divine Goodness And as I walked the various Objects represented to my View afforded divers occasions of and furnished me with matter for different Meditations Sometimes I would Contemplate the Divine Wisdom in the curious Frame and Fabrick of the World stretching the North over the Empty Place and hanging the Circle of the Earth upon nothing when by the irresistable Power of his Almighty Word he spake a Confused Chaos into Form and Beauty Commanding some part of the Earth to raise it self into lofty Hills and aspiring Mountains forming their Concave Heads for Springs and ordaining their Bowels for the Production of the Usefullest and the Richest Minerals and appointing other Parts of it to subside into Humble Valleys and be Formed into Champain Plains whose Surface he Clothed with a Carpet curiously interwoven with various and delightful Flowers and Adorned with a Natural Landscape of stately Cedars Shady Palms and Spreading Pines Fruitful Groves Aromatick Plants and Balsamick Shrubs Invironing the whole with the Liquid Ocean Commanding the Sea to Compass and Imbrace the Habitation of Man reserving it as a perpetual store to Administer Rain to the Bottels of Heaven and Convey Liquor to the Bubling Fountains supply Mankind with the variety of Useful and Delectable Creatures wherewith the Almighty hath stored it and serve him for the use of Navigation and Commerce Replenishing the Earth likewise with innumerable Rarities and almost Infinite Variety of Living Creatures and furnishing the Air with the most admirable and Ravishing Musick Establishing a Glittering Cannopy admirably Beautified with Spangling Stars to cover all his Sublunary Works Ordaining it to be a Tabernacle for the Sun whose Influence and Motion Conveys Heat and Vegitation and Measures Light and Darkness to all things beneath his Sphere And having thus finished and Beautified the World and prevented the very Wishes of Man by those admirable Preparations for him at last he Formed him also and from a Clod of Earth exalted him to be the Head of the Universe and the Perfection of all the Visible Creation advanced him into the Throne and gave him Dominion over all the rest of the Creatures appointing him to be their High Priest to Offer up their Tribute to their Great Creator whereby the Divine Goodness antedated his most Ample Desires rarified his Inlarged Heart and filled his Capacious Soul with Sacred Wonder Sometimes I would Expatiate in my Thoughts upon the Reasonableness and Easiness of that Law which God gave to Man in the Primitive state of Innocency and Happiness as the Rule of his Obedience and the Condition upon which he should remain in the perpetual Possession of all those Glorious Felicities wherewith he was then Crowned And then upon the Folly and Madness of Man that notwithstanding the Reasonableness of the Homage he was Obliged to pay to the Great Monarch of Heaven and Earth he should so easily permit himself to be puffed up with so much Pride and Arrogancy as to aspire after an Equality to and be prevailed upon and wheadled by the very first Temptation to fall into flat Rebellion against and Commence open War with his Soveraign whereby he lost at once the Divine Favour and all the Happiness and Felicity which was the Consequence thereof Expelled himself out of Eden and Barocado'd the enterance into the Celestial Paradise against him and his Posterity for ever Precipitated himself into a Gulf of

afterwards appear to have in the Bowels of them the peaceable Fruits of Righteousness and if thou wilt take care to keep the Word of my Patience I also will ingage to keep thee from the hour of Temptation which shall come upon all the World to try them that dwell upon the Earth and when thou hast overcome I will make thee a Pillar in the Temple of my God and thou shalt go no more out and I will write upon thee the Name of my God and the Name of the City of my God which is the New Jerusalem that cometh down out of Heaven from my God and I will write upon thee my New Name and I will Grant that thou shalt sit down with me on my Throne even as I also overcame and am set down with my Father on his Throne in the mean time I will be your Mediator to my Father and when the Accuser of the Brethren shall bring any Accusation against you into the Court of Heaven I will be your Advocate I will appear for you and plead my Merits in Bar of any punishment he shall Imprecate against you for the same I am and will be your High Priest and as I have already offered up my self to the Father as an Acceptable and a Propitiatory Sacrifice for you whereby I became at once your Sacrifice and your Altar whereon your Sacrifice was Offered so I will now perform the other part of my High-Priesthood and I will Interceed for you to my Father and my Intercession will be prevalent enough and sufficient for thee and I will thereby procure thee whatsoever thy Heart desires for the Father can deny me nothing In fine my Merit and my Fulness and all that I am and have shall be thine and whatsoever I am to my self that I will be to thee Now therefore be of good Courage go on thy Pilgrimage with an Holy Resolution to be Faithful and cleave to the Lord with full purpose of Heart all the Days of thy Life thou wilt meet indeed with abundance of Enemies and innumerable Discouragements but fear thou none of these things for God shall be thy Leader and the strong God thy Captain he shall teach thy Hand to fight and thy Fingers to War nay he shall fight all thy Battels for thee give thee Victory over all thine Enemies and make thee more than a Conqueror overthe Powers of Darkness and all the rest of thy Adversaries both within and without thee Wisdom it self shall be thy Guide Almighty Strength thy Support and Infinite Goodness thy Reward at the period of thy Pilgrimage when thou shalt receive from me the end of thy Faith the Salvation of thy Soul And then taking him by the Hand he led him to his Store-House the Sacred Armory where he hath always in readiness all kinds of Armor and Arms admirably Designed and fitted for the Spiritual Warfare and from thence he furnished him with a Sword a Shield a Helmet a Brestplate and Sandals together with a well contriv'd Engine of such mighty force and efficacy that with it he afterwards did wonders and so did some of those who had formerly made use of it for they did by it shut and open Heaven Battered down the Walls of Cities Conquered their Conquerours and put their insulting and Victorious Enemies to flight for of such force and prevalency it is that in less than a Minute it is able to bring into our assistance so many Auxilliary Forces as may be able to defend us against and inable us to Conquer more than 10000 times 10000 Enemies which occasioned a certain Queen who was a Soveraign Princess to say that she was more afraid of the Prayers of a certain Pilgrim who was her Subject than of many Regiments of Armed Men and yet this Engine as mighty as it is is no bigger than a Man may carry always about him which is somewhat signified by its Names which as I was told are two Pray always and with all manner of Prayer I was told likewise that those who have it not are liable to all manner of danger and misery and have not any manner of defence against it nay it hath a Voice too and imprecates Ruine and Misery upon all those that have it not for I my self heard it often call out to Heaven saying Lord pour out thy fury upon the Heathen that know thee not and the Families who call not on thy Name But seeing that all those Pieces of Armour were design'd for Front Pieces and that he received none for the defence of his Back-parts he humbly inquired the reason thereof and was told that it was because the Nature of the War wherein you are to ingage is such that you must stand fast fight manfully and resist to the very death and spilling your Blood rather than yield or flee and therefore bear it always in your Thoughts and let it be written in your Memory that if ever you turn your Back you thereby lay your self open to be Mortally wounded by your Infernal Adversary having no Armor given you to defend those parts Then said he Lord is there no Case wherein I may turn my Back and flee Yes reply'd he that is fairer than the Children of Men in some extraordinary Cases it will be both your duty and your safety too to flee as when the Sin you are tempted to commit hath such a likeness to interest in and Correspondency with your Flesh and the very Complexion of your Nature that the very standing to contend with it may prove your overthrow and the very yielding to fight only lay a sure foundation for its obtaining the Victory the Weapon wherewith thou intendest to wound it may stab thy self and those very thoughts and considerations wherewith thou intendest to choak and strangle it prove Cordials to revive and strengthen it adding more Fewel to the Fire and proving like Oyl to increase those Flames which burn with too much vehemency and violence already I say in those cases you must flee and you have a Paragraph in the Sacred Statute-Book to Warrant your so doing viz. flee also youthful lust Being thus Harnessed the Son of the Blessed Blessed him and sent him away and I saw him go forward in his Pilgrimage with abundance of Chearfulness and Agility and as he walked in the Narrow Way he thus discoursed to himsef Oh how Beautiful and Comely is my Beloved His Aspect was sweet and his Countenance was pleasant he was arraied with Flames of Love and filled with Bowels of Compassion in his Right-Hand he had plentious Redemption and in his Left-Hand multiplied Pardons methinks I could see his Sacred Brest swelled with Mercy and Love and by their pantings discovering themselves uneasy and even in Pain until they were eased by the sucking of my Hungry and my Thirsty Soul wherefore wonder O my Soul and all the Powers within me be ye amazed and astonished at the greatness of the thing for the Tabernacle of the most