The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

him with their swords. Last of all,
they burned him to ashes at the
stake! Thus Faithful came to his
end.
Now I saw that behind the
multitude, there was a chariot
with horses waiting for Faithful,
who, as soon as his adversaries
had murdered him — was taken
up into it. He was immediately
carried up through the clouds,
with the sound of the trumpet, to
the nearest way to the Celestial
Gate.
But as for Christian, he had some
reprieve, and was sent back to the
prison — and remained there for a time.
Then He who overrules all things, having power over the rage of His
enemies in His own hand — so brought it about that Christian escaped
from them, and went on his way.
As he went, he sang,
"Well, Faithful, you have faithfully professed,
Unto your Lord, with Whom you shall be blessed,
When faithless ones, with all their vain delights,
Are crying out under their Hellish plights,
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