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The Pilgrim's Progress
The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come delivered under the similitude of a dream, wherein is discovered the manner of his setting out, his dangerous journey, and safe arrival at the desired country / by John Bunyan.The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come delivered under the similitude of a dream, wherein is discovered the manner of his setting out, his dangerous journey, and safe arrival at the desired countrey / by John Bunyan.
London: printed for Nath. Ponder, 1678
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But they want solidness: Speak man thy mind, They drowned the weak; Metaphors make us blind.
But they want solidness: Speak man thy mind, They drown'd the weak; Metaphors make us blind.
Solidity, indeed becomes the Pen Of him that writeth things Divine to men: But must I needs want solidness, because By Metaphors I speak; Was not Gods Laws, His Gospel-Laws, in older time held forth By Types, Shadows and Metaphors? Yet loth Will any sober man below find fault With them, lest he be found for to assault The highest Wisdom. No, he rather stoops, And seeks to find out what by pins and loops, ⟨image 4⟩By Calves; and Sheep; by Heifers, and by R•ms; By Birds, and Herbs, and by the blood of Lambs, God speaketh to him. And happy is he That finds the light, and grace that in them be.
Solidity, indeed becomes the Pen Of him that writeth things Divine to men: But must I needs want solidness, because By Metaphors I speak; Was not Gods Laws, His Gospel-Laws, in oldertime held forth By Types, Shaddows and Metaphors? Yet loth Will any sober man below find fault With them, lest he be found for to assault The highest Wisdom. No, he rather stoops, And seeks to find out what by pins and loops, ⟨image 4⟩By Calves; and Sheep; by Heifers, and by R•ms; By Birds, and Herbs, and by the blood of Lambs, God speaketh to him. And happy is he That finds the light, and grace that in them be.
Be not too forward therefore to conclude, That I want solidness, that I am rude: All things solid in show, not solid be; All things in parables despise not we, Lest things most hurtful lightly we receive, And things that good are, of our souls bereave.