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"How awful is that cry of anguish which has reached us from beyond the tomb, even from the infernal realms, and on which Bunyan, with his singular and rare ability, fixes our attention. It is the voice of one who had received his good things in this fleeting life; who had fared sumptuously every day, without providing for eternity, and now cries for a drop of water to cool his parched tongue." In...

allegorize it and interpret it thus, They are such as beg earnestly for heavenly food; this is also the spirit of the children of God, and it may be, and is a truth in this sense, though not so naturally gathered from this scripture. 2. That ‘he was laid at his gate, full of sores.’ These words hold forth the distempers of believers, saying he was ‘full of sores,’ which may signify the many troubles, temptations, persecutions, and afflictions in body and spirit which they meet withal while they are
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