Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1881. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... The Second Part. Ourteous Companions, some time since, to tell you my Dream that I had of Christian the Pilgrim, and of his dangerous Journey towards the Ccelestial Country, was pleasant to me, and profitable to you. I told you then also what I saw concerning his Wife and Children, and how unwilling they were to go with him on Pilgrimage; insomuch that he was forced to go on his Progress without them; for he durst not run the danger of that destruction, which he feared would come, by staying with them in the City of Destruction: Wherefore, as I then shewed you, he left them and departed. Now, it hath so happened, through the multiplicity of business, that I have been much hindred and kept back from my wonted Travels into those parts whence he went, and so could not, till now, obtain an opportunity to make further enquiry after whom he left behind, that I might give you an account of them. But having had some concerns that way of late, I went down again thitherward. Now having taken up my lodgings in a Wood, about a mile off the place, as I slept, I dreamed again. And as I was in my dream, behold an aged gentleman came by where I lay; and because he was to go some part of the Way that I was travelling, methought I got up and went with him. So as we walked, and as Travellers usually do, I was as if we fell into discourse, and our talk happened to be about Christian, and his Travels: For thus I began with the old man. Sir, said I, what Town is that, there below, that lieth on the Left Hand of our Way? Then said Mr. Sagacity, for that was his name, it is the City of Destruction, a populous place, but possess'd with a very ill-condition'd and idle sort of people. I thought that was that City, quoth I: I went once myself thro' that Town; and therefore I know that this...
