Alas, he who boasteth himself in the works of the law, he doth not
hear the law. When that speaks, it shakes mount Sinai, and writeth
death upon all faces, and makes the church itself cry out, A
Mediator! else we die.
The law out of Christ is terrible as a lion; the law in him is meek
as a lamb.
FAITHFUL. "So I went on my way up the hill. Now when I had got about
half-way up, I looked behind me and saw one coming after me swift as
the wind; so he overtook me just about the place where the settle
stands.
"So soon as the man overtook me, he was but a word and a blow; for
down he knocked me, and laid me for dead. But when I was a little
come to myself again, I asked him wherefore he served me so. He
said, 'Because of thy secret inclination to Adam the first;' and
with that he struck me another deadly blow on the breast, and beat
me down backwards; so I lay at his foot as dead as before. When I
came to myself again, I cried to him for mercy; but he said, 'I
know not how to show mercy;' and with that knocked me down again. He
had doubtless made an end of me, but that one came by and bid him
forbear."
CHRISTIAN. "Who was it that bid him forbear?"
FAITHFUL. "I did not know him at first, but as he went by I
perceived the holes in his hands and his side; then I concluded that
he was our Lord.
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