Pilgrim's Progress §308: IGNOR.
Source: John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress (1678) (§308) · external_aligned
IGNOR. Sir, I was born in the country that lieth off there a little on the left hand, and I am going to the Celestial City. CHR. But how do you think to get in at the gate? for you may find some difficulty there. IGNOR. As other people do, said he. CHR. But what have you to show at that gate, that may cause that the gate should be opened to you? IGNOR. I know my Lord's will, and I have been a good liver; I pay every man his own; I pray, fast, pay tithes, and give alms, and have left my country for whither I am going.
Witnesses (Deuteronomy 19:15)
- manuscript_tradition: First edition Nathaniel Ponder, London 1678 — original imprint
- critical_edition: Oxford World's Classics — Roger Sharrock, 1960/1984
- republication: Project Gutenberg — Pilgrim's Progress
- republication: Internet Archive — multiple editions
- non_government_archive: Christian Classics Ethereal Library
- citation_tradition: Cited extensively by Spurgeon, Edwards, modern Reformed writers