. ttje f&tlgntn’g #?ogrefg. Great-heart encourages 'em. A Lyon. They went therefore on, as being a lfitde refce(hed*j but they had not gone ar, before M-rcy, looking behind her, aw, as (he thought, ibmetljing almoft ike a Lyon, and it came a great pad- ,1 ing i 'ace after; and it had a hollow Voice of Roaring, and at every Roar that it gave, it nade the Valley Eccho, and all their Hearts to ake, Xve the Hearc of him that uas their Guide. So it :ame up and Mr Greai-heart went behind, and put * he Pilgrims all before him The Lyon alfo came on Space, and Mr. Great-hean addrefs’d himfelf to give ill dr; i ? urn Battle, i Pet. $ 8 But when he law that it was ietermincd, that Kefiftance (hould be made, he alfo irew back, and came no farther. u Then they went on again, and their Condu&or did jo before them, ’till they came at a Place where was aft up a Pit, the whole Breadth of the Vay, and before they could be prepa- A Pit and ed to go over that, a great Mift and Darknefr. , Oarknefs fell upon them, fo that they ould not fee. 1 hen faid. the Pilgrims, Alas ! Now " vhat lhall we do ? but their Guide made anfwer, Fear " iot. ftand ftill and fee what an End will be put to this lfo; fo they flay’d there becaufe their Path wasmarr’d. They then alfo thought that they did hear more ap- arently the noife and rufbing of the Enemies, the ?ire alfo and Smoak of the Pit, was much eaflcr to e difeerned. fhen faid Chriftiana to Mercy, Now fee what my poor Husband went through : I have leard much of this Place, but I never u'as here afore iow; poor Man, he went here all alone in the Night; iC had Night almoft quite through the Vay, alfo chefe Fiends were bufieabout Chriftiana im, as if they would have torn him now knows flfn Pieces. Many have fpokeof it, but what her Huf- one tell what the Valley of Ihe Sha- band jelt. ow of Death fhould mean, until they ome in themfelves, The Hearc knows its own Bitter?iefst E a Stron* ■