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The Pilgrim's Pꝛogreſs
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Chr. Take my advice, and do as I bid you, and you mall find that he will foon be fick of your Company too, except God mail touch his heart and turn it.

Fait. What would you have me to do?

Chr. Why, go to him, and enter into ſome ſerious diſcourſe about the power of Religion: And ask him plainly (when he has approved of it, for that he will) whether this thing be ſet up in his Heart, Houſe or Convention.

Fait. Then Faithful ſtept forward again, and ſaid to Talkative: Come, what chear? how is it now?

Talk. Thank you, Well. I thought we ſhould have had a great deal of Talk by this time.

Fait. Well, if you will, we will fall to it now; and ſince you left it with me to ſtate the queſtion, let be this: How doth the ſaving grace of God diſcover it ſelf, when it is in the heart of man?

Talk. I perceive then that our talk muſt be about the power of things;Talkatives falſe diſcovery of a work of grace. Well, 'tis a very good queſtion, and I ſhall be willing to anſwer you. And take my anſwer in brief thus. Firſt, a Where the Grace of God is in the heart,
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