Page:The pilgrims progress as originally published by John Bunyan ; being a facsimile of the first edition (1878).djvu/224

This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.
200
The Pilgrim's Pꝛogreſs

for our Company: But however, come up, and let us talk away the time in this ſolitary place. Then directing his Speech to Ignorance, he ſaid, Come, how do you? how ſtands it between God and your Soul now?

Ignor.' I hope well, for I am always full of good motions, that come into my mind to comfort me as I walk.

Chr. 'What good motions? pray tell us.

Ignor. Why, I think of God and Heaven.

Chr. So do the Devils and damned Souls.

Ignor. But I think of them, and deſire them.

Chr. So do many that are never like to come there: The Soul Sluggard deſires and hath nothing.

Ignor.' But I think of them, and leave all for them.

Chr. That I doubt, for leaving of all is an hard matter, yea a harder matter then many are aware of. But why, or by what, art thou perſwaded that thou haſt left all for God and Heaven?

Ignor. 'My heart tells me ſo.

Chr