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The Riches of Bunyan by Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin
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and spirit, and all."

I saw then in my dream, that they went on in this their solitary
ground, till they came to a place at which a man is apt to lose his
way. Now, though when it was light their guide could well enough
tell how to miss those ways that led wrong, yet in the dark he was
put to a stand; but he had in his pocket a map of all ways leading
to or from the celestial city; wherefore he struck a light--for he
never goes without his tinder-box also--and takes a view of his book
or map, which bids him be careful in that place to turn to the right
hand.. And had he not been careful to look in his map, they had in
all probability been smothered in the mud; for just a little before
them, and that at the end of the cleanest way too, was a pit, none
knows how deep, full of nothing but mud, there made on purpose to
destroy the pilgrims in. Then thought I with myself, Who that goeth
on pilgrimage but would have one of these maps about him, that he
may look when he is at a stand which is the way he must take?

If we consider that our next state must be eternal, either eternal
glory or eternal fire, and that this eternal glory or this eternal
fire must be our portion according as the word of God revealed in
the holy Scriptures shall determine, who will not but conclude that
therefore the words of God are they at which we should tremble, and
they by which we should have our fear of God guided and directed?
for by them we are taught how to please him in every thing.

"Noah drank of the wine and was drunken." The Holy Ghost, when it
hath to do with sin, loves to give it its own name; drunkenness must
be drunkenness, murder must he murder, and adultery must bear its
own name. Nay, it is neither the goodness of the man, nor his being
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