Pilgrim's Progress, The The. John Bunyan

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      THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS

      From This World to That Which Is To Come

      by

      John Bunyan

      This edition published by Dreamscape Media LLC, 2018

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      Contents

       The Author’s Apology for His Book

       1 Christian flees from the City of Destruction

       2 Christian is pursued by Obstinate and Pliable

       3 Christian and Pliable converse along the way

       4 Christian and Pliable confront the Slough of Despond

       5 Christian encounters Mr. Worldly-Wiseman

       6 Christian seeks after the Town of Morality

       7 Christian arrives at the Wicket-gate

       8 Christian is instructed at the house of the Interpreter

       9 Christian arrives at the Place of Deliverance

       10 Christian overtakes Simple, Sloth, and Presumption

       11 Christian converses with Formalist and Hypocrisy

       12 Christian ascends the Hill Difficulty

       13 Christian is approached by Timorous and Mistrust

       14 Christian meets lion-sized opposition

       15 Christian resides at the Palace Beautiful

       16 Christian enters into battle with Apollyon

       17 Christian confronts the Valley of the Shadow of Death

       18 Christian overtakes and converses with Faithful

       19 Christian and Faithful converse with Talkative

       20 Evangelist reappears to give timely warning

       21 Christian and Faithful on trial at Vanity Fair

       22 Christian and Hopeful converse with By-Ends

       23 The silver mine at the hill Lucre

       24 The monument to Lot’s

       25 Christian and Hopeful are captured by Giant Despair

       26 Christian and Hopeful at the Delectable Mountains

       27 Christian and Hopeful first encounter Ignorance

       28 The terrifying end of Turn-away

       29 The colorless testimony of Little-faith

       30 Christian and Hopeful snared by the Flatterer

       31 Christian and Hopeful meet returning Atheist

       32 Christian and Hopeful cross the Enchanted Ground

       33 The comforting delights of Beulah Land

       34 Christian and Hopeful encounter the River of Death

       35 Christian and Hopeful are welcomed into heaven

       36 The fearful end of Ignorance

       The Conclusion

      THE AUTHOR’S APOLOGY

      FOR HIS BOOK

      WHEN at the first I took my pen in hand

       Thus for to write, I did not understand

       That I at all should make a little book

       In such a mode: nay, I had undertook

       To make another, which, when almost done,

       Before I was aware, I this begun.

      And thus it was: I, writing of the way

       And race of saints, in this our gospel day,

       Fell suddenly into an allegory

       About their journey, and the way to glory,

       In more than twenty things which I set down.

       This done, I twenty more had in my crown;

       And they again began to multiply,

       Like sparks that from the coals of fire do fly.

      Nay, then, thought I, if that you breed so fast,

       I’ll put you by yourselves, lest you at last

       Should prove ad infinitum, and eat out

       The book that I already am about.

      Well, so I did; but yet I did not think

       To show to all the world my pen and ink

       In such a mode; I only thought to make

       I knew not what; nor did I undertake

       Thereby to please my neighbour: no, not I;

       I did it my own self to gratify.

      Neither did I but vacant seasons spend

       In this my scribble; nor did I intend

       But to divert myself in doing this

       From worser thoughts which make me do amiss.

      Thus, I set pen to paper with delight,

       And quickly had my thoughts in black and white.

       For, having now my method by the end,

       Still as I pulled, it came; and so I penned

       It down: until it came at last to be,

       For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.

      Well, when I had thus put mine ends together,

       I showed them others, that I might see whether

       They would condemn them, or them justify:

       And some said, Let them live; some, Let them die;

       Some said, JOHN, print it; others said, Not so;

       Some said, It might do good; others said, No.

      Now was I in a strait, and did not see

       Which was the best thing to be done by me:

       At last I thought, Since you are thus divided,

       I print it will, and