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The Pilgrim's Pꝛogreſs

grace hath but appeared, The Kings Champion and no marvel, for he is the Kings Champion: But I tro, you will put ſome difference between Little-faith and the Kings Champion; all the Kings Subjects are not his Champions: nor can they, when tried, do ſuch feats of War as he. Is it meet to think that a little child ſhould handle Goliah as David did? or that there ſhould be the ſtrength of an Ox in a Wren? Some are ſtrong, ſome are weak, ſome have great faith, ſome have little: this man was one of the weak, and therefore he went to the walls

Hopef. I would it had been Great-grace, for their ſakes.

Chr. If it had been he, he might have had his hands full: For I muſt tell you, That though Great-grace is excellent good at his Weapons, and has and can, ſo long as he keeps them at Swords point, do well enough with them: yet if they get within him, even Faint-heart, Miſtruft, or the other, it ſhall go hard but they will throw up his heels. And when a man is down,you know what can he do.

Who ſo looks well upon Great-
graces