John Bunyan
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 100
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ...through in these waters, are no sign that God hath forsaken you; but are sent to try you, whether you will call to mind Lhat which hsrettrofore you have received of His goodness, and live upon nn m your is esses. Then I saw in my dream, that Christian was in a muse a while. To whom also Hopeful added these words, "Be of good cheer; Jesus Christ maketh thee whole." And with that, Christian brake out with aloud voice, "Oh!_I see him_ again: _and he tells me, 'When thou passeth through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee.';lj Then they both took courage; and the enemy was after that as still as a stone, until they were gone over. ' ei. y die without the fear of future misery: or, to enlarge a little, in the word _ 'l_ pious commentator on the Holy Scriptures, "their end seems to be peace; thfiwas ever thought to be the peculiar privilege of the godly; Psalm Xxxvii. and yet to outward appearances, it is nilentimes the tliot of t e un odly;--'they have hands in their rleath;' they are not taken 0 hy a violent death: they are to; and yet die not as fools die; for, 'their hands are not bound, nor their t'_ t into letters.' 2 Sam. iii. 34. They are not taken oil' by an untimely' Ih, like the fruit forced from the trees before it he ripe; but are left to hang on, till, throuizh old age, they gently drop off themselves._ They do not die of sore and painful diseases; there are no pnnizs, no agonies in their death, but their strensth is firm to the last, so that they smrcely feel themselvee_dlo'? Tfley are of those 'who die in their full strenzth, being wholly at ease and 'gt not of thosethnt 'die in...