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Title: The Heavenly Footman

Author: John Bunyan

Release Date: October 14, 2004 [eBook #13750]

Language: English

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The 8th Chapter of Joshua is referenced in the phrase:
"It is taken from that xxth of Joshua"

THE HEAVENLY FOOTMAN

or, A Description of the Man That Gets to Heaven:
with Directions How to Run So As to Obtain

by

JOHN BUNYAN

"So run, that ye may obtain."--1 Cor. IX. 24.

THE AUTHOR'S EPISTLE TO ALL SLOTHFUL AND CARELESS PEOPLE.

Friends,

Solomon saith, that "the desire of the slothful killeth him;" and if
so, what will slothfulness itself do to those that entertain it? The
proverb is, "He that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame:"
and this I dare be bold to say, no greater shame can befall a man,
than to see that he hath fooled away his soul, and sinned away eternal
life. And I am sure this is the next way to do it; namely, to be
slothful; slothful, I say, in the work of salvation. The vineyard of
the slothful man, in reference to the things of this life, is not
fuller of briers, nettles, and stinking weeds, than he that is
slothf