Chr. Indeed I cannot commend my life; for I am conscious to myself of many failings therein:  I know also, that a man by his conversation may soon overthrow, what by argument or persuasion he doth labour to fasten upon others for their good.  Yet this I can say, I was very wary of giving them occasion, by any unseemly action, to make them averse to going on Pilgrimage.  Yea, for this very thing they would tell me I was too precise, and that I denied myself of things (for their sakes) in which they saw no evil.  Nay, I think I may say, that if what they saw in me did hinder them, it was my great tenderness in sinning against God, or of doing any wrong to my Neighbour.

Char. Indeed Cain hated his Brother, because his own works were evil, and his Brother’s righteous; and if thy Wife and Children have been offended with thee for this, they thereby shew themselves to be implacable to good, and thou hast delivered thy soul from their blood.

Now I saw in my Dream, that thus they sat talking together until supper was ready.  So when they had made ready, they sat down to meat.  Now the Table was furnished with fat things, and with Wine that was well refined:  and all their talk at the Table was about the LORD of the Hill; as namely, about what HE had done, and wherefore HE did what HE did, and why HE had builded that House:  and by what they said, I perceived that he had been a great Warriour, and had fought with and slain him that had the power of Death, but not without great danger to himself, which made me love him the more.

For, as they said, and as I believe (said Christian), he did it with the loss of much blood; but that which put Glory of Grace into all he did, was, that he did it out of pure love to his Country.  And besides, there were some of them of the Household that said they had seen and spoke with him since he did dye on the Cross; and they have attested that they had it from his own lips, that he is such a lover of poor Pilgrims, that the like is not to be found from the East to the West,

They moreover gave an instance of what they affirmed, and that was, He had stript himself of his glory, that he might do this for the Poor; and that they heard him say and affirm, That he would not dwell in the Mountain of Zion alone.  They said moreover, that he had made many Pilgrims Princes, though by nature they were Beggars born, and their original had been the Dunghill.

Thus they discoursed together till late at night; and after they had committed themselves to their Lord for protection, they betook themselves to rest.  The Pilgrim they laid in a large upper chamber, whose window opened towards the Sun-rising; the name of the chamber was Peace, where he slept till break of day; and then he awoke and sang,—­

  “Where am I now?  Is this the love and care
  Of Jesus for the men that Pilgrims are
  Thus to provide!  That I should be forgiven! 
  And dwell already the next door to Heaven!”