Publisher's Synopsis
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. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ... THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS; IN THE SIMILITUDE OP A DEEAM. THE' SECOND PAET. Coueteous Companions, SOME time since, to tell you my dream that I had of Christian the Pilgrim, and of his dangerous journey towards the Celestial 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 showed you, he left them and departed." Now it hath so happened, through the multiplicity of business, that I have been much hindered and kept back from my wronted travels into those parts [from] whence he went, and so could not, till now, obtain an opportunity to make further inquiry after whom he left behind, that I might give you an account of The Second Part of this pilgrimage comes nearer to the ordinary experience of the great multitude of Christians than the First. The First shows, as in Christian, Faithful, and Hopeful, the great examples and strong lights of pilgrimage; it is as if Paul and Luther were passing over the scene. The Second shows a variety of pilgrims, whose stature and experience are more on a level with our own. The First is more severe, sublime, inspiring; the Second is more soothing and comforting. The First has deep and awful shadows mingled with its light, terribly instructive. The Second is more continually cheerful, full of good nature and pleasantry, and showing the pilgrimage in lights and shades that are common to weaker Christians. them. But having had some concerns that way of late, I went down..."
