Comfort My people, saith your God. Speak
comfortably to My people. Come, said Goodwill, and I will teach thee
about the way thou must go. Look before thee, dost thou see that narrow
way? That is the way thou must go. And then thou mayest always
distinguish the right way from the wrong. The wrong is crooked and wide,
and the right is straight as a rule can make it,--straight and narrow.
Goodwill said all that in order to direct and to comfort the pilgrim; but
that was not all that this good man said with that end. For, when
Christian asked him if he could not help him off with his burden that was
upon his back, he told him: 'As to thy burden, be content to bear it
until thou comest to the place of deliverance, for there it will fall
from thy back of itself.' Get you into the straight and narrow way, says
Goodwill, with his much experience of the ways and fortunes of true
pilgrims; get you sure into the right way, and leave your burden to God.
He appoints the place of deliverance, and it lies before thee. The place
of thy deliverance cannot be behind thee, and it is not in my house, else
thy burden would have been already off.
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