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CHRISTIAN: Pray sir, do explain to me this secret. WORLDLY-WISEMAN: Why a short distance away is the Village Morality, in which their lives a gentleman whose name is Legality. Now he is a very judicious man of the highest reputation, and as such he is well able to assist men…

WORLDLY-WISEMAN: How then did you come by your burden in the first place? CHRISTIAN: By reading this book in my hand. WORLDLY-WISEMAN: I thought so. It has happened to you in the same way that other weak men, in meddling with things that are too high for them, have suddenly…

CHRISTIAN: What you describe us certainly what I am seeking after, namely to be rid of my burden. But I cannot get relief by myself, nor do I know of a man in our country who can lift it off from my shoulders. So, for this reason I am heading…

WORLDLY-WISEMAN: Hello there, my good fellow, and where are you traveling with such a burdened manner? CHRISTIAN: Yes, it certainly is a burdened manner, and as good a one as any poor creature ever had. As to where I am going, sir, let me tell you. I am on my…

Now as Christian was walking all alone, he notices someone else in the distance on his way across the field coming to meet him. And so it happened that they met just when their paths crossed. The name of this particular gentleman was Mr. Worldly Wiseman who resided in the…

Now I [Bunyan] saw in my dream that by this time, Pliable had arrived back at his house. So, his neighbors came to visit him, and some of them called him wise on account of his return to his home; some called him a fool for endangering himself with Christian's…

It is not the pleasure of the King that this place should remain in such a bad condition. For this reason, His laborers have, according to the direction of His Majesty's surveyors, been employed for sixteen hundred [now over two-thousand] years attempting to mend this piece of ground. Yes, to…

However, I [Bunyan] saw in my dream that a man came to him named Help, (1) and he asked Christian, "What are you doing here? CHRISTIAN: Sir, I was advised to go this way by a man named Evangelist, and he directed me toward the Wicket-gate ahead so that I…