The wonderful looking-glass. came trembling away, saying, 'Blessed be he and ⚫ she that is delivered from this place.' Now when the Shepherds had shewn them all these things, then they had them back to the Palace, and entertained them with what the house would afford but MERCY, being a young and breeding woman, longed for something that she saw there, but was ashamed to ask. Her mother-in-law then asked her what she ailed, for she looked as one not well? Then said MERCY, There is a looking-glass hangs up in the dining room, off which I canno. 'take my mind; if therefore I have it not, I think 'I shall miscarry.' Then said her mother, I will ' mention thy wants to the Shepherds, and they will 'not deny it thee.' But she said, I am ashamed 'that these men should know that I longed.' 'Nay, my daughter,' said she, it is no shame, but a vir'tue to long for such a thing as that.' So MERCY said, 'Then, mother, if you please ask the Shep'herds if they are willing to sell it.' Now the glass was one of a thousaud. It would present a man one way, with his own features exactly; and turn it but another way, and it would shew one the very face and similitude of the PRINCE of the Pilgrims himself. Yes, I have talked with them that can tell, and they have said, that they have seen the very crown of thorns upon his head, by looking in that glass; they have therein also seen the holes in his hands, in his feet, and his side. Yea, such an excellency is there in that glass, that it will shew him to one where they have a mind to (13.) 3 F Presents made to the Pilgrims. see him; whether living or dead, whether in earth or in heaven; whether in a state of humiliation, or in his exaltation; whether coming to suffer, or coming to reign.* CHRISTIANA therefore went to the Shepherds apart, (now the names of the Shepherds, were KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE, WATCHFUL, and SINCERE,) and said unto them, There is one of my daughters, a breeding woman, that, I think, doth long for something that she hath seen in this house, and she thinks she shall miscarry, if she should by you be denied. EXPER. Call her, call her, she shall assuredly have what we can help her to. So they called her, and said to her, MERCY, What is that thing thou 'wouldset have?' Then she blushed, and said, The great glass that hangs up in the dining-room.' So SINCERE ran and fetched it, and with a joyful consent it was given her. Then she bowed her head, and gave thanks, and said, ' By this I know that I ' have obtained favour in your eyes.' They also gave to the other young women such things as they desired, and to their husbands great commendations, for that they had joined with Mr. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass. For he beholdeth himself and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the word, this man shal. be blessed in his deed. James i. 23–25. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. 2 Cor. iii. 18. They proceed on their journey. GREAT-HEART, to the slaying of Giant DESPAIR, and the demolishing of DOUBTING-CASTLE.— About CHRISTIANA's neck the Shepherds put a bracelet, and so they did about the necks of her four daughters; also they put ear-rings in their ears, and jewels on their foreheads. When they were minded to go hence, they let them go in peace, but gave not to them those certain cautions which before were given to CHRISTIAN, and his companion. The reason was, for that these had GREAT-HEART to be their Guide, who was one that was well acquainted with things, and so could give them their cautions more seasonable; to wit, even then when the danger was nigh the approaching. What cautions CHRISTIAN and. his companion had received of the Shepherds, they had also lost by that the time was come that they had need to put them in practice. Wherefore, here was the advantage that this company had over the other. From hence they went on singing, and they said, 'Behold how fitly are the stages set, For their relief that Pilgrims are become ! What novelties they have, to us they give, That we, tho' Pilgrims, joyful lives may l. 72. That shew we Pilgrims are, where'er we go. When they were gone from the Shepherds, they quickly came to the place where CHRISTIAN met They overtake VALIANT-FOR-TRUTH. with one TURN-AWAY, that dwelt in the town of APOSTACY. Wherefore of him Mr. GREAT-HEART, their Guide, did now put them in mind, saying, This is the place where CHRISTIAN met with one TURN-AWAY, who carried with him the character of his rebellion at his back. And this I have to say concerning this man ;--he would hearken to no counsel, but, once a falling, persuasion could not stop him. When he came to the place where the Cross and the Sepulchre was, he did meet with one that bid him look there, but he gnashed with his teeth, and stamped, and said, he was resolved to go back to his own Town. Before he came to the Gate, he met with EVANGELIST, who offered to lay hands on him to turn him into the way again. But this TURN-AWAY resisted him, and having done much despite unto him, he got over the wall, and so escaped his hands.' Then they went on and, just at the place where LITTLE-FAITH formerly was robbed, there stood a man with his sword drawn, and his face all bloody. Then said Mr. GREAT-HEART, What art thou?' The man made answer, saying, I am one whose name is VALIANT-FOR-TRUTH, I am a Pilgrim, and am going to the celestial City. Now, as I was ' in my way, there were three men that did beset me, ' and propounded unto me these three things ;Whether I would become one of them ?--Or go 'back from whence I came ?---Or die upon the place; To the first I answered, I had been a true man a long season, and therefore it could not be expected |