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Title: The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Bunyan, John, 1628-1688 Barnard, Frederick, 1846-1896
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Publisher: Chicago (etc.) The Werner Co
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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s we were come from the gate that is at thehead of this way? You know that there was an orchard on the left hand,on the other side of the wall, and some of the trees hung over the wall,and my brother did plash and did eat. Chr. True, my child, said Christiana, he did take thereof, and dideat; naughty boy as he was, I did chide him, and yet he would eat thereof Skill. I knew he had eaten something that was not wholesome food;and that food, to wit, that fruit, is even the most hurtful of all. It is thefruit of Beelzebubs orchard. I do marvel that none did warn you of it:many have died thereof Chr. Then- Christiana began to cry, and she said, Oh, naughty boy!and oh, careless mother! What shall I do for my son? Skill. Come, do not be too much dejected; the boy may do well again,but he must purge and vomit. Chr. Pray, sir, try the utmost of your skill with him, whatever it costs. Skill. Nay, I hope I shall be reasonable. So he made him a purge, but it was too weak; it was said, it was made
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DOOTOR SKILL. MATTHEW FALLS SICK. 273 of the blood of a goat, the ashes of an heifer, and with some of the juice ofhyssop, etc. (Heb. ix. 13—19; x, i—4.) When Mr. Skill had seen thatthat purge was too weak, he made him one to the purpose. It was made(The Latin I borrow, remarks Bunyan in the margin) ex came et san-guine Christi ()o\vx\. vi. 54—-57; Heb. ix. 14);—(you know physicians givestrange medicines to their patients!)—and it was made up into pills, with apromise or two, and a proportionable quantity of salt. (Mark ix. 49.)Now, he was to take them three at a time, fasting, in half a quarter of apint of the tears of repentance. (Zech. xii. 10.) When this potion was prepared and brought to the boy, he was loth totake it, though torn with the gripes as if he should be pulled in pieces. Come, come, said the physician, you must take it. ^ It goes against my stomach, said the boy. I must have you take it, said his mother. I shall vomit it up again, said the boy. Pray, sir, sa

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