nd then--for Greatheart was a bit of a philosopher, and
liked to entertain and while the away with tracing things up to their
causes--"it was all," he said, "because Mr. Fearing was so tender of sin.
He was above many tender of sin. He was so afraid, not for himself only,
but of doing injury to others, that he would deny himself the purchase
and possession and enjoyment even of that which was lawful, because he
would not offend." "All this while," says Bunyan himself, in the eighty-
second paragraph of _Grace Abounding_, "as to the act of sinning I was
never more tender than now. I durst not take a pin or a stick, though
but so big as a straw, for my conscience now was sore and would smart at
every touch. I could not now tell how to speak my words for fear I
should misplace them." "The highest flames," says Jeremy Taylor in his
_Life of Christ_, "are the most tremulous."

7. "But when he was come at the river where was no bridge, there, again,
Mr. Fearing was in a heavy case. Now, he said, he should be drowned for
ever, and so never see that Face with comfort that he had come so many
miles to behold. And here also I took notice of what was very
remarkable; the water of that river was lower at this time than ever I
saw it in all my life, so he went over at last not much above wet-shod."
Then said Christiana, "This relation of Mr. Fearing has done me good. I
thought nobody had been like me, but I see there was some semblance
betwixt this good man and I, only we differed in two things. His
troubles were so great that they broke out, but mine I kept within. His
also lay so hard upon him that he could not knock at the houses provided
for entertainment, but my trouble was always such that it made me knock
the louder." "If I might also speak my heart," said Mercy, "I must say
that something of him has also dwelt in me. For I have ever been more
afraid of the lake, and the loss of a place in Paradise, than I have been
of the loss of other things. Oh! thought I, may I have the happiness to
have a habitation there: 'tis enough though I part with all the world to
win it." Then said Matthew, "Fear was one thing that made me think that
I was far from having that within me that accompanies salvation; but if
it was so with such a good man as he, why may it not also go well with
me?" "No fears, no grace," said James. "Though there is not always
grace where there is fear of hell; yet, to be sure, there is no grace
where