_Chr._ Yes, but with much shame and detestation: Truly, if I had been mindful of that Country from whence I came out, I might have had opportunity to have returned; but now I desire a better Country, that is, an Heavenly. _Prud._ Do you not yet bear away with you some of the things that then you were conversant withal? _Chr._ Yes, but greatly against my will; especially my inward and carnal cogitations, with which all my countrymen, as well as myself, were delighted; but now all those things are my grief; and might I but chuse mine own things, I would chuse never to think of those things more; but when I would be doing of that which is best, that which is worst is with me. _Prud._ Do you not find sometimes, as if those things were vanquished, which at other times are your perplexity? _Chr._ Yes, but that is seldom; but they are to me golden hours in which such things happen to me. _Prud._ Can you remember by what means you find your annoyances at times, as if they were vanquished? _Chr._ Yes, when I think what I saw at the Cross, that will do it; and when I look upon my broidered Coat, that will do it; also when I look into the Roll that I carry in my bosom, that will do it; and when my thoughts wax warm about whither I am going, that will do it. _Prud._ And what is it that makes you so desirous to go to Mount _Zion_? _Chr._ Why, there I hope to see him alive that did hang dead on the Cross; and there I hope to be rid of all those things that to this day are in me an annoyance to me; there, they say, there is no death; and there I shall dwell with such Company as I like best. For to tell you truth, I love him, because I was by him eased of my Burden, and I am weary of my inward sickness; I would fain be where I shall die no more, and with the Company that shall continually cry, _Holy, Holy, Holy_. Then said _Charity_ to _Christian_, Have you a family? Are you a married man? _Chr._ I have a Wife and four small Children. _Char._ And why did you not bring them along with you? _Chr._ Then _Christian_ wept, and said, Oh, how willingly would I have done it, but they were all of them utterly averse to my going on Pilgrimage. _Char._ But you should have talked to them, and have endeavoured to have shewen them the danger of being behind. _Chr._ So I did, and told them also what God had shewed to me of the destruction of our City; but I seemed to them as one that mocked, and they believed me not. _Char._ And did you pray to God that he would bless your counsel to them? _Chr._ Yes, and that with much affection; for you must think that my Wife and poor Children were very dear unto me. _Char._ But did you tell them of your own sorrow, and fear of destruction? For I suppose that destruction was visible enough to you.