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In this treatise, Bunyan explores the concept of the Christian life as a foot race that requires great endurance (Hebrews 12:1). He begins with a discussion of the word "run" and proceeds to give directions for how to run, motivations for running, uses of this idea, and other exhortations to finish strong in the Christian life.

‘SO RUN, THAT YE MAY OBTAIN.’—1 CORINTHIANS 9:24. Heaven and happiness is that which every one desireth, insomuch that wicked Balaam could say, ‘Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his’ (Num 23:10). Yet for all this, there are but very few that do obtain that ever-to-be-desired glory, insomuch that many eminent professors drop short of a welcome from God into his pleasant place. The apostle, therefore, because he did desire the salvation of the
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