Excerpt from The Pilgrim's Progress From This World to That Which Is to Come: Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream I could have enlarged much, in this my discourse, of my temptations and troubles for sin, as also of the mer ciful kindness and working of God with my soul I could also have stepped into a style much higher than this in which I have here discoursed, and could have adorned all things more than here I have seemed to do, but I dare not. God did not play in tempting me; neither did I play wheni sunk as into a bottomless pit, when the pangs of hell caught hold upon me; wherefore I may not play in relating them, but be plain and simple, and lay down the thing as it was: he that liketh it, let him receive it and he that doth not, let him produce a better. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.