EVANGELIST REPROVES CHRISTIAN. 43

“ Secondly,—Thou must abhor his laboring to render the Cross odious unto thee ;
for thou art to prefer it before the treasures of Egypt.“ Besides, the King of Glory
hath told thee that he that will save his life shall lose it; and he that comes after im,
and hates not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters,
yea, and his own life also, he cannot be His disciple.” I say, therefore, for man to
labor to persuade thee that that shall be thy death, without which the Truth hath said
thou canst not have eternal life, this doctrine thou must abhor.

“Thirdly,—Thou must hate his setting of thy feet in the way that leadeth to the
ministration of death. And for this thou must consider to whom he sent thee, and
also how unable that person was to deliver thee from thy burden.

“ He to whom. thou wast sent for ease, being by name Legality, is the son of the
bondwoman which now is, and is in bondage with her children ;* and is in a mystery
this Mount Sinai, which thou hast feared will fall on thy head. Now, if she with her
children is in bondage, how canst thou expect by them to be made free? This
Legality, therefore, is not able to set thee free from thy burden. No man was as yet
ever rid of his burden by him; no, nor ever is like to be: ye cannot be justified by
the works of the law; for by the deeds of the law no man living ean be rid of his bur-
den. Therefore, Mr. Worldly Wiseman is an alien, and Mr. Legality is a cheat; and,
for his son Civility, notwithstanding his simpering looks, he is but an hypocrite, and
cannot help thee. Believe me, there is nothing in all this noise that thou hast heard
of these sottish men, but a design to beguile thee of thy salvation, by turning thee from
the way in which I had set thee.” After this, Evangelist called aloud to the heavens
for confirmation of what he had said; and with that there came words and fire out of
the mountain under which poor Christian stood, which made the hair of his flesh stand
up. The words were thus pronounced: “As many as are of the works of the law are
under the curse; for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in ali things
which are written in the book of the law to do them.” ”

Now, Christian looked for nothing but death, and began to cry out lamentably ;
even cursing the time in which he met with Mr. Worldly Wiseman ; still calling him-
self a thousand fools for hearkening’ to his counsel. He also was greatly ashamed to
think that this gentleman’s arguments, flowing only from the flesh, should have the
prevalency with him so far as to cause him to forsake the right way. This done, he
applied himself again to Evangelist, in words and sense as follows :

Curis. Sir, what think you? Isthere any hope? May I now go back, and go up to the
wicket-gate? Shall I not be abandoned for this, and sent back from thence ashamed ?
I am sorry I have hearkened to this man’s counsel; but may my sins be forgiven ?