THE HEAVENLY FOOTMAN

or, A Description of the Man That Gets to Heaven:
with Directions How to Run So As to Obtain

by

JOHN BUNYAN







"So run, that ye may obtain."--1 Cor. IX. 24.




THE AUTHOR'S EPISTLE TO ALL SLOTHFUL AND CARELESS PEOPLE.


Friends,

Solomon saith, that "the desire of the slothful killeth him;" and if
so, what will slothfulness itself do to those that entertain it? The
proverb is, "He that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame:"
and this I dare be bold to say, no greater shame can befall a man,
than to see that he hath fooled away his soul, and sinned away eternal