"Christian went without much danger...Pagan has been dead many a day; and as for the other, though he be vet alive, he is by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger dayes, grown so crazy, and stiff in his joynts, \ that he can now do little more then sit in his Caves mouth, grinning at Pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails, because he cannot come at them"
Paganism is long dead and Pope (Catholicism) is old, frail, and senile.