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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1874 Excerpt: ... angel of light. How, then, shall they test those they meet so as to walk wisely in relation to them? The text supplies the answer to this question. "Ye shall know them by their fruits." An exposition of this language may be found, by those who need one, in the Epistle to the Galatians (v. 19-23). The pilgrims described in Bunyan's Allegory are represented as making the acquaintance of various other persons; and the "fruits" of these persons were worldliness, heresy, hypocrisy, apostasy, and infatuation. You will see, therefore, that by the acquaintance of the pilgrims I do not mean their fellowpilgrims, but rather certain men and women who had no share in the blessings they enjoyed. I. Among the acquaintance of the pilgrims were certain Worldlings of the most pronounced type. They professed to be nothing else, and were ready at any time to pour contempt upon the pilgrim's name. There are many such persons to be met with in every age. Their own hopes are bounded by the present world, and they therefore live as though it were the only world in existence. One such person was Obstinate. When Christian fled with his burden from the City of Destruction a great commotion was aroused among his old neighbours. Some of them mocked, others threatened, and others entreated him to return. Two of them started in pursuit, and Obstinate was one of the two. It was in vain, however, that he sought to make Christian return; but, on the other hand, it was in vain that Christian urged him to become a pilgrim like himself. In a little while, therefore, they parted company, and Obstinate went back to his own place expressing the greatest contempt for those who adopted the pilgrim's life.. There are many worldlings in our day who have obstinately interfered to the full extent of t
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