The Pilgrims Progress

John Bunyan
The Pilgrim's Progress

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Title: The Pilgrim's Progress
Author: Bunyan
Edition: 11
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
Release Date: May, 1994 [eBook #131] [Most recently updated on
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PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, by JOHN BUNYAN Digitized by Cardinalis
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[Transcribed by C.E.K. from an uncopyrighted 1942 edition.]

Notes:
1. Legends: = Sidenotes [Bible reference] = Bible references
2. Sections are numbered for future reference. These sections have been
chosen arbitrarily, i.e., {1}, {2}
3. This is `Part 1', but is a complete work in itself. Bunyan wrote a
sequel (`Part 2') some years after the first part, hence the `Parts'.
THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS From This World To That Which Is To
Come

Part One
DELIVERED UNDER THE SIMILITUDE OF A DREAM BY JOHN
BUNYAN
The Author's Apology for his Book
{1} When at the first I took my pen in hand Thus for to write, I did not
understand That I at all should make a little book In such a mode; nay, I
had undertook To make another; which, when almost done, Before I
was aware, I this begun.
And thus it was: I, writing of the way And race of saints, in this our
gospel day, Fell suddenly into an allegory About their journey, and the
way to glory, In more than twenty things which I set down. This done, I
twenty more had in my crown; And they again began to multiply, Like
sparks that from the coals of fire do fly.
Nay, then, thought I, if that you breed so fast, I'll put you by yourselves,
lest you at last Should prove ad infinitum, and eat out The book that I
already am about.
Well, so I did; but yet I did not think To shew to all the world my pen
and ink In such a mode; I only thought to make I knew not what; nor
did I undertake Thereby to please my neighbour: no, not I; I did it my
own self to gratify.
{2} Neither did I but vacant seasons spend In this my scribble; nor did I
intend But to divert myself in doing this From worser thoughts which
make me do amiss.
Thus, I set pen to paper with delight, And quickly had my thoughts in
black and white. For, having now my method by the end, Still as I
pulled, it came; and so I penned It down: until it came at last to be, For
length and breadth, the bigness which you see.
Well, when I had thus put mine ends together, I shewed them others,
that I might see whether They would condemn them, or them justify:

And some said, Let them live; some, Let them die; Some said, JOHN,
print it; others said, Not so; Some said, It might do good; others said,
No.
Now was I in a strait, and did not see Which was the best thing to be
done by me: At last I thought, Since you are thus divided, I print it will,
and so the case decided.
{3} For, thought I, some, I see, would have it done, Though others in
that channel do not run: To prove, then, who advised for the best, Thus
I thought fit to put it to the test.
I further thought, if now I did deny Those that would have it, thus to
gratify. I did not know but hinder them I might Of that which would to
them be great delight.
For those which were not for its coming forth, I said to them, Offend
you I am loth, Yet, since your brethren pleased
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