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Rh Well, I was not so fond of his company at first, but I am as sick of it now. What shall we do to be rid of him?

Take my advice, and do as I bid you, and you shall find that he will soon be sick of your company too, except God shall touch his heart and turn it.

What would you have me to do?

Why, go to him, and enter into some serious conversation about the power of religion and ask him plainly (when he has approved of it, for that he will) whether this thing be set up in his heart, house or conduct.

Then Faithful stepped forward again, and said to Talkative, "Come, what cheer? How is it now?"

Thank you, well: I thought we should have had a great deal of talk by this time.

Well, if you will, we will fall to it now; and, since you left it with me to state the question, let it be this: How doth the saving grace of God show itself when it is in the heart of man?

I perceive, then, that our talk must be about the power of things. Well, it is a very good question, and I shall be willing to answer you. And take my answer in brief, thus. First, where the grace of God is in the heart, it causeth there a great outcry against sin. Secondly,—

Nay, hold; let us consider of one at once. I think you should rather say, it shows itself by inclining the soul to hate its sin.