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The Pilgrim's Pꝛogreſs
that he is a fool. How to carry it to a fool. What, ſhall we talk further with him? or out-go him at preſent? and ſo leave him to think of what he hath heard already; and then flop again for him afterwards, and fee if by degrees we can do any good of him?
Let Ignorance a little while now muſe
On what is ſaid, and let him not refuſe
Good Counſel to imbrace, leſt he remain
Still Ignorant of what's the chiefeſt gain.
God faiths Thoſe that no underſtanding have,
(Although he made them) them he will not ſave.
Hop. It is not good, I think, to ſay all to him at once, let us paſs him by, if you will, and talk to him anon, even as he is able to bear it.
So they both went on, and Ignorance he came after. Now when they had paſſed him a little way, they entered into a very dark Lane, where they met a man whom ſeven Devils had bound with ſeven ſtrong Cords Matt. 12. 4.5. Prov. 5. 22. and were carrying of him back to the door that they ſaw in the ſide of the Hill. Now good Chriſtian
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