fore, did burdened Christian run, but not
without great difficulty, because of the load on his back. He ran thus
till he came to a place somewhat ascending, and upon that place stood a
cross, and a little below in the bottom a sepulchre. So I saw in my
dream that just as Christian came up with the cross his burden loosed
from off his back, and began to tumble and so continued to do till it
came to the mouth of the sepulchre, where it fell in and I saw it no
more. Then was Christian glad and lightsome, and said with a merry
heart, 'He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death!'"

"Blest Cross! blest Sepulchre! Blest rather be
The Man that there was put to shame for me."

But, then, how it could be that this so happy man was scarcely a stone-
cast past the cross when he had begun again to burden himself with fresh
sin, and thus to disinter all his former sin? How a true pilgrim comes
to have so many burdens to bear, and that till he ceases to be any longer
a pilgrim,--a burden of guilt, a burden of corruption, and a burden of
bare creaturehood,--I must leave all that, and all the questions
connected with all that, for you all to think out and work out for
yourselves; and you will not say any morning on this earth, like Mrs.
Timorous, that you have little to do.

3. The third of the three Shining Ones who saluted Christian at the
cross set a mark on his forehead, and put a roll with a seal set upon it
into his hand. A roll and a seal which he bid him look on as he ran, and
that he should give that roll in at the Celestial Gate. Bunyan does not
in all places come up to his usual clearness in what he says about the
sealed roll. We must believe that he understood his own meaning and
intention in all that he says, first and last, about the roll, but he has
not always made his meaning clear, at least to one of his readers.
Theological students, and, indeed, all thoughtful Christian men, are
invited to read Dr. Cunningham's powerful paper on Assurance in his
_Reformers_. The whole literature of Assurance is there taken up and
weighed and sifted with all that great writer's incomparable learning and
power and judgment. Our Larger Catechism, also, is excellent on this
subject; and this subject is a favourite commonplace with all our best
Calvinistic, Puritan, and Evangelical authors. Let us take two or three
passages out of those authors just as a specimen, and so close.

"Can true believers"--La