arts, by which, in other European kingdoms, they have fo fatally prevailed, it becomes the duty of every man, who is fenfible of the importance of thofe religious and political truths, which united form the great palladium of our state, to exert his utmost efforts in refifting the attacks, and expofing the wiles, of our arch-enemy, PHILOSOPHISM.

-"Quanto ille magis formas fe vertet in omnes,
"Tanto, nate, magis contende tenacia vincla '

VIRG.

While, with the worst defigns, the name of every moral virtue is affigned to its oppofite vice, the unwary are led into danger, even by the goodness of their own intentions. Reflection on the arts thus ufed to impofe on their credulity, has fuggefted the idea of the following pages. Mr. JOHN BUNYAN is an author fo generally known, that it can fcarcely be neceffary to make any preliminary obfervations on the quaint allegory, which is taken as the ground-work of the present performance. The pilgrim CHRISTIAN, was the companion of our childhood, till the refinements of modern education banifhed him from our nurseries. He still retains his place on the shelves of our grandmothers; from which high station

ftation may he look down with paternal regard upon the labours of this his defcendent, who, by the careful use of his itinerary, has accomplished a progrefs fimilar to his own, even in Jacobinical times!

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T was lately my chance to walk alone in the wilderness of this world, where I faw many things which were grievous and doleful to my eyes, and where I heard of many more which did even make my hair to ftand on end; for behold! the earth was filled with violence, and the number of the faithlefs ones was increased. Now, as I mufed thereon, and was wearied through the length of my way; at the laft, my eyes grow heavy, and I laid me down to fleep: and in my fleep I dreamed; and methought I was in a wide plain, where many were paffing to and fro; and after a time there came towards me an old gentleman, whom, when I faw him, I knew. to be Mr. SAGACITY; the fame who had formerly recounted to one who had vifited thofe parts the adventures of certain pilgrims, in their road from the city of Defiruction to the Celestial Country: fo when he accofted me, I was glad; and, after the firft greetings were

past, I began to speak with him of the pilgrim CHRISTIAN; alfo of CHRISTIANA his wife, with her children and companions; and of all the dangers and difficulties which had encountered them in their journey: and I found it some folace to my thoughts, which had been occupied with the deeds of ungodly men, to turn them to the remembrance of the righteous of former days, and of the glorious rewards which had attended such at the laft.

Now as I knew that CHRISTIAN and CHRISTIANA had left behind them four fons, and that to those fons alfo children had been born, I afked Mr. SAGACITY whether any of their lineage were yet remaining unto this day? and whether, if there were, they were mindful of the good example which their ancestors had set them?

"The family hath multiplied exceedingly," answered he;" and all who have belonged to "it, ever fince the days of CHRISTIAN, have "held themselves obliged to fet out on the fame "pilgrimage, which was fo happily performed "by that good man: yea, though some of them "have perifhed by the way, yet there have been

many who have accomplished their appointed "courfe, and who are now partakers in those

glorious rewards which are laid up for all faithful pilgrims in the Cœleftial City."

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"I am glad," quoth I, "to hear of their good "fuccefs; yet it grieves me that there fhould "have been any, among the descendants of such cc a man as CHRISTIAN, who have not walked "worthy of the vocation whereunto they were "called."

"Why truly," replied the old gentleman, cr you have lefs caufe to wonder that fome should "have forfaken the right path, than that any "should have kept on their courfe in it un"fhaken; for though, in the time of CHRIS"TIAN, the road of the pilgrims was both "difficult and perilous, the dangers which befet "it now are much more numerous, and the al"lurements to turn afide from it lefs eafy to be "refifted."

"I can fcarcely think that poffible," answered I; "for, befides that the things which hap"pened unto CHRISTIAN muft have ferved "both for enfample and for warning to all fuc "ceeding pilgrims, I imagined that all t "moft formidable enemies of their way h

long fince been removed. Did not the fo "fiend, APOLLYON, fpread his wings, whe "he felt the edge of CHRISTIAN's sword, an "flee to the place from which he came ? Did nc "Mr. VALIANT-FOR-TRUTH defeat the rob"bers? And were not the giants GRIM, MAUL, "and SLAY-GOOD, and above all that fierce