Pilgrim's Progress §125: Then said Charity to Christian, Have you a family?

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? Christian's love to his wife and children 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 shown them the danger of being behind. CHR. So I did; and told them also of what God had shown 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. Christian's fears of perishing might be read in his very countenance CHR. Yes, over, and over, and over. They might also see my fears in my countenance, in my tears, and also in my trembling under the apprehension of the judgement that did hang over our heads; but all was not sufficient to prevail with them to come with me. CHAR. But what could they say for themselves, why they came not?