JAMES. By His righteousness, death, and blood, and life.
PRUD. And how doth God the Holy Ghost save thee?
JAMES. By His illumination, by His renovation, and by His preservation.[140]
Then said Prudence to Christiana, You are to be commended for thus bringing up your children. I suppose I need not ask the rest these questions, since the youngest of them can answer them so well. I will therefore now apply myself to the next youngest.
PRUD. Then she said, Come, Joseph (for his name was Joseph), will you let me catechise you?
JOSEPH. With all my heart.
PRUD. What is man?
JOSEPH. A reasonable creature, so made by God, as my brother said.
PRUD. What is supposed by this word 'saved'?
JOSEPH. That man, by sin, has brought himself into a state of captivity and misery.