THE OLD AND NEW DISPENSATIONS.
There is as great a difference between their dispensation and ours
for comfort, as there is between the making of a bond with a promise
to seal it, and the actual sealing. It was made indeed in their
time, but it was not sealed until the blood was shed on Calvary.
THE PILGRIM IN NEW ENGLAND.
My Pilgrim's book has travelled sea and land;
Yet could I never come to understand
That it was slighted, or turned out of door
By any kingdom, were they rich or poor.
In France, and Flanders, where men kill each other
My Pilgrim is esteemed a friend, a brother.
In Holland too, 'tis said, as I am told,
My Pilgrim is with some worth more than gold;
Highlanders and wild Irish can agree
My Pilgrim should familiar with them be.
'Tis in New England under such advance,
Receives there so much loving countenance,
As to be trimmed, new clothed, and decked with gems,
That it may show its features and its limbs.
Yet more, so public doth my Pilgrim walk,
That of him thousands daily sing and talk.
NOTICES OF BUNYAN.
THIS wonderful book, [the Pilgrim's Progress,] while it obtains
admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who
are too simple to admire it.
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