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done despite to the Spirit of grace.” Therefore I have shut myself out of all the
promises, and there now remains to me nothing but threatenings, dreadful tnreatenings,
fearful threatenings of certain judgment and fiery indignation, which shall deyour me
as an adversary.

Curis. For what did you bring yourself into this condition ?

Man. For the lusts, pleasures, and profits of this world; in the enjoyment of which
I did then promise myself much delight ; but now every one of those things also bite
me, and gnaw me, like a burning worm.

Curis. But canst thou not now repent and turn?

Man. God hath denied me repentance. His Word gives me no encouragement to
believe ; yea, Himself hath shut me up in this iron cage; nor can all the men in the
world let me out, O eternity ! eternity ! how shall I grapple with the misery that I
must meet with in eternity ?

Inter. Then said the Interpreter to Christian, “Let this man’s misery be remem-
bered by thee, and be an everlasting caution to thee.”

Curis. “ Well,” said Christian, “ this is fearful! God help me to watch and be sober,
and to pray, that I may shun the cause of this man’s misery. Sir, isit not time for me
to go on my way now?”

Inter. Tarry till I show thee one thing more, and then thou shalt go on thy way.

So he took Christian by the hand again, and led him into a chamber, where there
was one rising out of bed; and, as he put on his raiment, he shook and trembled.
Then said Christian, “ Why doth this man thus tremble?” The Interpreter then bid
him tell to Christian the reason of his so doing. So he began, and said, “This night,
as I was in my sleep, I dreamed, and behold, the heavens grew exceeding black; also
it thundered and lightened in most fearful wise, that it put me into an agony. So I
looked up in my dream, and saw the clouds rack at an unusual rate; upon which I
heard a great sound of a trumpet, and saw also a Man sitting upon a cloud, attended
with the thousands of heaven ; they were all in flaming fire; also the heavens were in
a burning flame. I heard then a great voice saying, ‘Arise, ye dead, and come to
judgment. And with that the rocks rent, the graves opened, and the dead that were
therein came forth: some of them were exceeding glad, and looked upward ; and some
thought to hide themselves under the mountains. Then I saw the Man that sat upon
the cloud open the book, and bid the world draw near. Yet there was, by reason of
a fierce flame that issued out and came before Him, a convenient distance betwixt Him
and them, as betwixt the judge and the prisoners at the bar.“ I heard it also pro-
claimed to them that attended on the Man that sat on the cloud, ‘Gather together the