Now methought, while she was telling these things unto
us, my heart burned withm ran. And I said in my heart, 'If this be
true, I will leave my father and my mother, and the land of my
nativity, and will, if I may, go along with Christiana.'
"So I asked her further of the truth of these things, and if she
would let me go with her; for I saw how that there was no dwelling,
but with the danger of ruin, any longer in our town. But yet I came
away with a heavy heart; not for that I was unwilling to come away,
hut for thai so many of my relations were left behind. And I am come
with all my heart, and will, if I may, go with Christiana to her
husband and his King."
INTERPRETER. "Thy setting out is good, for thou hast given credit to
the truth; thou art a Ruth, who did, for the love she hare to Naomi
and to the Lord her God, leave father and mother, and the land of
her nativity, to come out and go with a people that she knew not
before. 'The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given
thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to
trust.'"
FEARS AND ENCOURAGEMENTS OF THE AWAKENED.
Some men are blood-red sinners, crimson sinners, sinners of a double
dye: dipped and dipped again before they come to Jesus Christ.
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