1l4 THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS,

“ Hanging is too good for him,” said Mr. Cruelty. “Let us dispatch him out of the

way,” said Mr. Hate-light. Then said

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“They burned him to ashes at the stake.”

Mr. Implacable, “ Might I have all the world
given to me, I could not be reconciled to him;
therefore let us forthwith bring him in guilty
of death.”

And so they did: therefore he was pres-
ently condemned to be had from the place
where he was, to the place from whence he
came, and there to be put to the most cruel
death that could be invented.

They therefore brought him out, to do with
him according to their law; and first they
scourged him, then they buffeted him, then
they lanced his flesh with knives; after that
they stoned him with stones, then pricked
him with their swords, and, last of all, they
burned him to ashes at the stake. Thus came
Faithful to his end.

Now, I saw that there stood behind the
multitude a chariot and a couple of horses
waiting for Faithful, who (so soon as his ad-

versaries had dispatched him) was taken up into it, and straightway was carried up

through the clouds with sound of trumpet the nearest way to the Celestial Gate.

But as for Christian, he had some respite, and was remanded back to prison; so he

there remained for a space. But He who overrules all things, having the power of

their rage in his own hand, so wrought it about that Christian for that time escaped

them, and went his way. And as he went, he sang, saying,

‘Well, Faithful, thou hast faithfully professed
Unto thy Lord, with whom thou shalt be blest,

When faithless ones, with all their vain delights,

Are crying out under their hellish plights.

Sing, Faithful, sing, and let thy name survive ;
For, though they killed thee, thou art yet alive.”’