{"id": "card_n_eef08a1b6fb6", "kind": "note", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §174: FAITH.", "body": "FAITH. I escaped the Slough that I perceived you fell into, and got up to the gate without that danger; only I met with one whose name was Wanton, who had like to have done me a mischief. CHR. It was well you escaped her net; Joseph was hard put to it by her, and he escaped her as you did; but it had like to have cost him his life. But what did she do to you? FAITH. You cannot think, but that you know something, what a flattering tongue she had; she lay at me hard to turn aside with her, promising me all manner of content. CHR. Nay, she did not promise you the content of a good conscience. FAITH. You know what I mean; all carnal and fleshly content. CHR. Thank God you have escaped her: \"The abhorred of the Lord shall fall into her ditch.\" FAITH. Nay, I know not whether I did wholly escape her or no. CHR. Why, I trow, you did not consent to her desires? FAITH. No, not to defile myself; for I remembered an old writing that I had seen, which said, \"Her steps take hold on hell.\" So I shut mine eyes, because I would not be bewitched with her looks. Then she railed on me, and I went my way. CHR. Did you meet with no other assault as you came?", "source": {"label": "John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress (1678)", "url": "/canon.html?ref=pilgrim_174", "ref": "§174", "authority_tier": "external_aligned"}, "shelf": "classics", "box": "pilgrims_progress", "bands": ["pilgrim", "bunyan", "allegory", "Gen. 39:11-13", "Ps. 22:14", "Prov. 5:5", "Job 31:1"], "connections": [{"to_card_id": "card_n_efbd4a8bc00a", "relationship": "same_section", "origin": "nesting_2026_06_12"}, {"to_card_id": "card_n_ee3132f7ff3a", "relationship": "same_section", "origin": "nesting_2026_06_12"}], "author": "engine", "created_at": "2026-05-19T13:07:21.394763+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-19T19:57:54.884450+00:00", "visibility": "public", "lifecycle_stage": "public", "volatility": "permanent", "metrics": {"paperclips_count": 0, "helpful_count": 0, "not_helpful_count": 0, "cite_count": 4, "walks_through_count": 0, "flagged_count": 0}, "source_hash": "7f9314f57a68d53709e686f3ca1164bf104677eced8d63124f6bfdaa7334cc9c", "witnesses": [{"class": "manuscript_tradition", "label": "First edition Nathaniel Ponder, London 1678 — original imprint", "ref": "Ponder-1678"}, {"class": "critical_edition", "label": "Oxford World's Classics — Roger Sharrock, 1960/1984", "ref": "Sharrock-OWC"}, {"class": "republication", "label": "Project Gutenberg — Pilgrim's Progress", "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/131", "ref": "PG-131"}, {"class": "republication", "label": "Internet Archive — multiple editions", "url": "https://archive.org/search?query=pilgrim%27s+progress+bunyan", "ref": "IA-Bunyan"}, {"class": "non_government_archive", "label": "Christian Classics Ethereal Library", "url": "https://www.ccel.org/ccel/bunyan/pilgrim.html", "ref": "CCEL-Bunyan"}, {"class": "citation_tradition", "label": "Cited extensively by Spurgeon, Edwards, modern Reformed writers", "ref": "Spurgeon-Edwards-cites"}], "witness_status": "passed", "witness_status_reason": "6 witnesses across 5 independence classes: ['citation_tradition', 'critical_edition', 'manuscript_tradition', 'non_government_archive', 'republication']", "surface": "secular"}