...he went back to Elstow and married. He says : I lighted on a wife whose father was counted godly. We came together as poor as poor might be, not having so much household stuff as a dish or a spoon between us. But she had for her portion two books, The Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven...

...mercy," he says, " was to light upon a wife whose father was counted godly. This woman and I, though we came together as poor as poor might be (not having so much household stuff as a dish or a spoon betwixt 1 Studies in Good and Evil, p. 55. us both), yet this she had for her part,...

...mercy was to light upon a wife whose father and mother were counted godly; this woman and I, though we came together as poor as poor might be, not having so much household stuff as a dish or spoon betwixt us both, yet this she had for her part, The Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven,...

...returned to his native village, and in 1 649 married a godly woman, and to quote his own words : ' This woman and I came together as poor as poor might be, not having so much household stuff as a dish or spoon betwixt us both." She brought him, however, two books which had belonged to her father...

...brightened by the presence of love. It was not brightened by much else. " This woman and I," says he, " came together as poor as poor might be, not having so much household stuff as a dish or spoon betwixt us both." It was an unpromising ^beginning, but many that are more promising...

...and my mercy was, to light upon a Wife whose Father was counted godly: this Woman and I, though we came together as poor as poor might be, (not having so much* as a Dish or Spoon betwixt us both) yet this she had for her part, The Plain Mans Path-way to Heaven,...

...state, and my mercy was to light upon a wife whose father was counted godly. This woman and I, though we came together as poor as poor might be, not having so much household stuff as a dish or spoon betwixt us both, yet this she had for her part, The Plain Man 's Pathway to Heaven,...

...all temporal things. Bunyan married when he was nineteen years of age; and though he and his wife " came together as poor as poor might be, not having so much household stuff as a dish or a spoon betwixt them both," there was little imprudence in the union. He had his trade to...

...mercy marriage was, to light upon a wife whose father was counted godly : This woman and I, though we came together as poor as poor might be (not having so much household stuff as a dish or a spoon betwixt us both), yet this she had for her part : The Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven...

...which contained only two books besides the Bible, both of them works of practical piety: 'Though we came together as poor as poor might be, (not having so much as a Dish or Spoon betwixt us both) yet this she had for her part, The Plain Mans Path-way to Heaven,...