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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.

for the cross, where we have one professor, we should have twenty; but this cross, that is it which spoileth all. Some men, as I said before, when they come at the cross they can go no farther, but back again to their sins they must go. Others they stumble at it, and break their necks; others again, when they see the cross is approaching, they turn aside to the left hand, or to the right hand, and so think to get to heaven another way; but they will be deceived. ‘Yea, and all that will live godly
Volume 3, Page 388