Pilgrim's Progress §367: IGNOR.
Source: John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress (1678) (§367) · external_aligned
IGNOR. You go so fast, I cannot keep pace with you. Do you go on before; I must stay a while behind. Then they said-- Well, Ignorance, wilt thou yet foolish be, To slight good counsel, ten times given thee? And if thou yet refuse it, thou shalt know, Ere long, the evil of thy doing so. Remember, man, in time, stoop, do not fear; Good counsel taken well, saves: therefore hear. But if thou yet shalt slight it, thou wilt be The loser, (Ignorance), I'll warrant thee. Then Christian addressed thus himself to his fellow:-- CHR. Well, come, my good Hopeful, I perceive that thou and I must walk by ourselves again.
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