{"id":1874,"date":"2021-05-04T06:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2021-05-03T21:36:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T01:36:29","slug":"christianas-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/christianas-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Christiana’s Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Christian<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The next night Christiana had a dream; and behold, she saw as if a broad parchment was opened before her, in which were recorded the sum of her ways; and the times, as she thought, looked very black upon her. Then she cried out aloud in her sleep, \u201cLord, have mercy upon me, a sinner!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>

And the little children heard her.<\/p>

After this she thought she saw two very ill favored ones standing by her bedside, and saying, \u201cWhat shall we do with this woman; for she cries out for mercy waking and sleeping? If she be suffered to go on as she begins, we shall lose her as we have lost her husband. Wherefore we must, by one way or other, seek to take her off from the thoughts of what shall be hereafter; else all the world cannot help it but she will become a pilgrim.\u201d<\/p>

Now she awoke in a great sweat, also a trembling was upon her; but after awhile she fell to sleeping again. And then she thought she saw Christian her husband in a place of bliss, among many immortals, with a harp in his hand, standing and playing upon it before One that sat on a throne, with a rainbow about his head. She saw also as if he bowed his head with his face to the paved work that was under the Prince’s feet, saying, \u201cI heartily thank my Lord and King for bringing of me into this place.\u201d Then shouted a company of them that stood around about, and harped with their harps; but no man living could tell what they said but Christian and his companions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Notes and Commentary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bunyan relates the entirety of The Pilgrim\u2019s Progress<\/em>, both Part 1 and Part 2, \u201cunder the similitude of a dream.\u201d But now he uses dreams within his story to give us more insight into Christiana\u2019s distress. As she lies down to sleep, her thoughts are unsettled. Though grace has begun to stir in her heart, she is still troubled with guilt and fears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Continue reading Notes and Commentary<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The text for <\/b>The Pilgrim’s Progress<\/b><\/em> and images used are public domain<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notes and Commentary for Part II \u00a92014, 2021 Ken Puls<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are from 
the New King James Version (NKJV) \u00a91982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The next night Christiana had a dream; and behold, she saw as if a broad parchment was opened before her, in which were recorded the sum of her ways; and the times, as she thought, looked very black upon her. Then she cried out aloud in her sleep, \u201cLord, have mercy upon me, a sinner!\u201d\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[286,277,208,12,140,11,66,57],"class_list":["post-1874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-the-pilgrims-progress","tag-children","tag-family","tag-heaven","tag-john-bunyan","tag-judgment","tag-pilgrims-progress","tag-spiritual-warfare","tag-witness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lLgO-ue","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1880,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions\/1880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}