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Title: The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream
Year: 1863 (1860s)
Authors: Bunyan, John, 1628-1688 Cheever, George Barrell, 1807-1890. (from old catalog) Harvey, William, 1796-1866, (from old catalog) illus Dalziel, George, 1815-1902, (from old catalog) engr
Subjects: Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Publisher: London, H. G. Bohn
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ed them The holy people, the redeemed of theLord, Sought out, &c. (Cant. ii. 10-12; Isa. lxii. 4-12.) Now, as they walked in this land, they had more rejoicingthan in parts more remote from the kingdom to which theywere bound; and drawing near to the city, they had yet a moreperfect view thereof. It was builded of pearls and preciousstones, also the street thereof was paved with gold; so that,by reason of the natural glory of the city, and the reflectionof the sunbeams upon it, Christian, with desire, fell sick;Hopeful also had a fit or two of the same disease; where-fore, here they lay by it a while, crying out, because of theirpangs, If you see my beloved, tell him that I am sick oflove. But being a little strengthened, and better able to beartheir sickness, they walked on their way, and came yet nearerand nearer, where were orchards, vineyards, and gardens, andtheir gates opened into the highway. Now, as they came upto these places, behold the gardener stood in the way, to whom
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the pilgrims said, Whose goodly vineyards and gardens arethese ? He answered, They are the Kings, and are plantedhere for His own delights, and also for the solace of pilgrims ;so the gardener had them into the vineyards, and bid themrefresh themselves with dainties (Dent, xxiii. 24). He alsoshewed them there the Kings walks, and the arbonrs whereHe delighted to be; and here they tarried and slept. Now I beheld in my dream that they talked more in theirsleep at this time than ever they did in all their jonrney; andbeing in a mnse thereabont, the gardener said even to me, Wherefore mnsest thon at the matter ? It is the natnre ofthe frnit of the grapes of these vineyards to go down sosweetly as to canse the lips of them that are asleep to speak. So I saw that when they awoke they addressed themselves 212 THE EIVER OF DEATH. to go up to the city; but, as I said, the reflections of the sunupon the city (for the city was pure gold *) was so extremelyglorious, that they could not, as yet, w

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