Pilgrim's Progress §338: CHR.

CHR. Then Christian began and said, I will ask you a question. How came you to think at first of so doing as you do now? HOPE. Do you mean, how came I at first to look after the good of my soul? CHR. Yes, that is my meaning. HOPE. I continued a great while in the delight of those things which were seen and sold at our fair; things which, I believe now, would have, had I continued in them, still drowned me in perdition and destruction. CHR. What things are they? Hopeful's life before conversion HOPE. All the treasures and riches of the world. Also, I delighted much in rioting, revelling, drinking, swearing, lying, uncleanness, Sabbath-breaking, and what not, that tended to destroy the soul. But I found at last, by hearing and considering of things that are divine, which indeed I heard of you, as also of beloved Faithful that was put to death for his faith and good living in Vanity Fair, that "the end of these things is death". And that for these things' sake "cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience". CHR. And did you presently fall under the power of this conviction?