It was here that I first
conceived the idea of writing this journal, and having it printed,
and applied to Mr. Watson to print it for me, telling him it was a
religious parable such as the Pilgrim's Progress. He advised me to
print it close, and make it a pamphlet, and then, if it did not sell, it
would not cost me much; but that religious pamphlets, especially
if they had a shade of allegory in them, were the very rage of the
day. I put my work to the press, and wrote early and late; and
encouraging my companion to work at odd hours and on
Sundays, before the press-work of the second sheet was begun,
we had the work all in types, corrected, and a clean copy thrown
off for further revisal. The first sheet was wrought off; and I
never shall forget how my heart exulted when at the printing
house this day I saw what numbers of my works were to go
abroad among mankind, and I determined with myself that I
would not put the Border name of Elliot, which I had assumed, to
the work.
Thus far have my History and Confessions been carried.
I must now furnish my Christian readers with a key to the
process, management, and winding up of the whole matter; which
I propose, by the assistance of God, to limit to a very few pages.
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