Evangelist encourages Christian and Faithful

The crown is before you, and it is an incorruptible one; so run that you may obtain it¹. Some there be that set out for this crown, and after they have gone far for it, another comes in, and takes it from them; hold fast therefore that you have, let no man take your crown². You are not yet out of the gun-shot of the Devil; you have not resisted unto blood, striving against sin³; let the Kingdom be always before you, and believe stedfastly concerning things that are invisible⁴. Let nothing that is on this side the other world get within you⁵; and above all, look well to your own hearts, and to the lusts thereof, for they are deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked⁶; set your faces like a flint; you have all power in Heaven and Earth on your side.

¹ 1 Corinthians 9: 24-27

² Revelation 3: 11

³ Hebrews 12: 4

⁴ 2 Corinthians 4:18, Hebrews 11:3

⁵ James 4: 4, 1 John 2:16

⁶ Jeremiah 17: 9

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From The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan. This is a good book.