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The Pilgrims Pꝛogreſs
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and if you will go along with me, you ſhall fare as I my ſelf; for there where I go, is ** Luk. 15 . enough, and to ſpare; Come away, and prove my words.

Obſt. What are the things you ſeek, ſince you leave all the World to find them?

Chr. I ſeek an **1 Pet. 1.4. Inheritance, inorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away; and it is laid up in Heaven, and faſt there, to be beſtowed at the * Heb. 11. 16. time appointed, on them that diligently ſeek it.

Ob. Tush said Obſtinate, away with your Book; will you go back with us, or no?

Ch. No, not I, ſaid the other; because I have laid my hand to the * * Luk. 9. 62 Plow.

Ob. Come then, Neighbour Pliable, let us turn again, and go home without him; There is a Company of these Crazd-headed Coxcombs, that when they take a fancy by the end, are wiser on their own eyes then seven men that can render a Reason.

Pli. Then said Pliable, Don't revile; if what the good Chriſtian ſays is true, the things he looks after, are better then ours: my heart inclines to go with my Neighbour.

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