Pilgrim's Progress §305: Then they essayed to look, but the remembrance of that last thing that the Shepherds ha...
Source: John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress (1678) (§305) · external_aligned
Then they essayed to look, but the remembrance of that last thing that the Shepherds had shown them, made their hands shake; by means of which impediment, they could not look steadily through the glass; yet they thought they saw something like the gate, and also some of the glory of the place. Then they went away, and sang this song-- Thus, by the Shepherds, secrets are reveal'd, Which from all other men are kept conceal'd. Come to the Shepherds, then, if you would see Things deep, things hid, and that mysterious be.
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