The Pilgrim's Pꝛogreſs
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Chr. What I promiſed thee was in my non-age; and beſides, I count that the Prince under whoſe Banner now I ſtand, is able to abſolve me; yea, and to pardon alſo what I did as to my compliance with thee: and beſides, ( O thou deſtroying Apollyon) to ſpeak truth, I like his Service, his Wages, his Servants, his Government, his Company, and Countrey better then thine: and therefore leave off to perſwade me further, I am his Servant, and I will follow him.
Apol. Conſider again when thou art in cool bloody what thou art like to meet with in the way that thou goeſt. Thou knoweſt that for the moſt part, his Servants come to an ill end, Apollyon pleads the grievous ends of Chriſtians to diſwade Chriſtian from perſiſting in his way. becauſe they are tranſgreſſors againſt me, and my ways: How many of them have been put to ſhameful deaths! and beſides, thou counteſt his ſervice better then mine, whereas he never came yet from the place where he is, to deliver any that ſerved him from out of our hands: but as for me, how many times, as all the World very well knows, have I delivered, either by power or fraud, thoſe that have faithfully ſerved me, from him and his,F
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