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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Then I saw in my dream that the Interpreter took Christian by the hand, and led him into a place where was a fire burning against a wall, and one standing by it, always casting much water upon it, to quench it; yet did the fire burn higher and hotter.
 * The Interpreter answered, This fire is the work of grace that is wrought in the heart; he that casts water upon it, to extinguish and put it out, is the Devil; but in that thou seest the fire notwithstanding burn higher and hotter, thou shalt also see the reason of that.
 * Then Faithful began to answer, that he had only set himself against that which hath set itself against Him that is higher than the highest.