Wikipedia CommonsIllustrations to Pilgrim's ProgressChristian With the Shield of Faith
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He who Loves feels love descend into him & if he has wisdom
may percieve it is from the Poetic Genius which is the Lord
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Man can have no idea of any thing greater than Man as a cup
cannot contain more than its capaciousness But God is a man not
because he is so percievd by man but because he is the creator of
man
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Even I already feel a World within
Opening its gates & in it all the real substances
Of which these in the outward World are shadows which pass away
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Thy pity is from the foundation of the World & thy Redemption
Begun Already in Eternity Come then O Lamb of God
Come Lord Jesus come quickly
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These represent those who tho willing were too weak to Reject Error without the Assistance & Countenance of those Already in the Truth for a Man Can only Reject Error by the Advice of a Friend or by the Immediate Inspiration of God
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The Elect is one Class: You
Shall bind them separate: they cannot Believe in Eternal Life
Except by Miracle & a New Birth. The other two Classes;
The Reprobate who never cease to Believe, and the Redeemd,
Who live in doubts & fears perpetually tormented by the Elect
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no man can do a Vicious action & think it to be Virtuous.
no man can take darkness for light. he may pretend to do so & may
pretend to be a modest Enquirer. but is a Knave
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And by came an Angel who had a bright key,
And he open'd the coffins & set them all free.
Then down a green plain leaping laughing they run
And wash in a river and shine in the Sun.
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Execution
is only the result of Invention
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Nature Teaches nothing of Spiritual Life but only of Natural
Life
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