To blend Inftruction with Delight, To love the Things that are Divine, Defign. THE PILGRIM's PROGRESS, FROM This WORLD, to that which is to COME: Delivered under the SIMILITUDE of a DRE A M. IN THREE PARTS. WHEREIN ARE SET FORTH The Manner of his fetting out; the feveral Dangers and Printed for OSBORNE and GRIFFIN in St. Paul's Church- yard; and J. MozLEY, Gainfbrough. *** THE AUTHOR'S APOLOGY FOR HIS BOO K. WHEN at the first I took my pen in hand, This for to write, I did not understand That I at all thould make a little book In fuch a mode: nay, I had undertook And thus it was: I writing of the way About their journey, and the way to glory, Like fparks that from the coals of fire do fly. Thiereby Thereby to please my neighbour; no, not I, Neither did I but vacant feafons fpend From worse thoughts which make me do amifs. And quickly had iny thoughts in black and white. For length and breadth, the bignefs which you see. Well, when I had thus put my ends together, Now I was in a strait, and did not fee I farther thought, if now I did deny May I not write in fuch a file as this? In fuch a method too, and yet not mifs My end, thy good? Why may it not be done? Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none; Yea |