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THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, by JOHN BUNYAN

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Posted to Wiretap in June 1993, as pilgrim.txt.

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THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS

FROM THIS WORLD
TO THAT WHICH IS TO COME

DELIVERED UNDER THE SIMILITUDE OF A DREAM
BY JOHN BUNYAN

[Transcribed by C.E.K. from an uncopyrighted 1942 edition.]



Contents

THE AUTHORS APOLOGY FOR HIS BOOK

THE PILGRIMS PROGRESS
IN THE SIMILITUDE OF A DREAM

THE CONCLUSION



The Author's Apology
for his Book


WHEN AT THE FIRST I TOOK MY PEN IN HAND
Thus for to write, I did not understand
That I at all should make a little book
In such a mode; nay, I had undertook
To make another; which, when almost done,
Before I was aware, I this begun.

And thus it was: I, writing of the way
And race of saints, in this our gospel day,
Fell suddenly into an allegory
About their journey, and the way to glory,
In more than twenty things which I set down.
This done, I twenty more had in my crown;