Chr.—"Why, there I hope to see Him live that did hang dead on the cross; and there I hope to be rid of all those things that to this day are in me and do vex me: there they say there is no death; and there I shall dwell with such folk as I like best."
Then said Charity to Christian, "Have you bairns, and have you a wife?"
Chr.—"I have a wife and four small bairns."
Char.—"And why did you not bring them on with you?"
Then Christian wept and said, "Oh, fain would I have done it! but they were all of them loath to let me leave them."
Char.—"But you should have sought to show them the risks they ran when they held back."
Hypocrisy would fain have Christian think he was on the way to Zion.—[Page 34.]
Chr.—"So I did; and told them, too, that God had shown to me how that our town would come to wrack; but they thought I did but mock, and they put no faith in what I said."