hame. So Evangelift drew nearer and nearer
and coming up to him. he looked upon hi
with a fevere and dreadful Countenance a
thus began to reafon with Chriftian.

Evan. Evan. What doft thou here, Christian ? zelift rea-faidhe. At which Words Chriftian knew not jons afresh what to answer; wherefore at prefent he with ftood fpeechless before him, Then faid Chriftian. Evangelift farther, Art thou not the Man that I found crying without the Walls of the City of Deftruction?

Chr. Yes, dear Sir, I am the Man.

Evan. Did not I direct thee the Way to the little Wicket-Gate?

Chr. Yes, dear Sir, faid Chriftian.

Evan. How is it then, that thou art fo quickly turned afide? For thou art now out of thy Way.

Chr. I met with a Gentleman fo foon as I had got over the Slough of Defpond, who perfuaded me, that I might in the Village before me, find a Man that would take off my Burden. Evan. What was he?

Chr. He looked like a Gentleman, and talked much to me, and got me at last to yield; fo I came hither: But when I beheld this Hill, and how it hangs over the Way, I' fuddenly made a Stand, leaft it should fall on my Head.

Evan. What faid the Gentleman to you? Chr. Why, he asked me, Whither I was going; and I told him.

Evan. And what faid he then ?*

Cbr. He asked me, If I had a Family? And I told him: But faid I, I'am fo loaded with the Burden that is on my Back, that I cannot take Pleafure in them as formerly.

Evan. And what faid he then ?

When

When Chriftians unto carnal Men give Far,.
Out of their Way they go, and pay for 't dear.
For Mafter Worldly Wifeman can but fhow,
A Saint the Way to Bondage and to Woe,

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Ch.

Chr. He bid me with Speed get rid of m Burtben; and I him told, It was Eafe th I fought; Ard, faid 1, I am therefore goin to yonder Gate to receive further Direction how I might get to the Place of Deliveranc So he faid that he would fhew me a bette Way, and short, not fo attended with Diff culties, as the Way, Sir, you fee me in which Way, faid he, will direct you to Gentleman's Houfe that has Skill to take o thefe Burdens: So I believed him and turne out of that Way into this, if happily might be foon eafed of my Burden. Bu when I came to this Place, and I behel Things as they are, Iftopped for fear a I faid) of Danger: But now know not wha to fay.

Evan. Then (faid Evangelift) ftand ftil a little that I may fhew thee the Word of God. So he stood trembling. Then (faid Evangelift) See that ye refufe not him that Heb. 12.Speaketh; for if they escaped not who refu 3. 5. Sed him that Spake on Earth + much mor Evange, shall not we escape, if we turn away from lift convin-bim that speaketh from Heaven, He faid ces Chrifti- moreover, § Now the just shall live by Faith, an of his but if any Man drarus back, my Soul shall Error: have no Pleafure in him. He alfo did thus Ch. 1o. apply them, Thou art the Man that art run

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ning into this Mifery; thou hast begun to rejec the Counsel of the most High, and to draw be thy Foot from the Way of Peace, even almoft hazarding of thy Perdition.

Then Chriftian fell down at his Foot & dead, crying, Wo is me, for I am undone ! at the Sight of which Evangelift caught him by the right-hand, faying, All manner of Sin

Blafphemies shall be forgiven unto Men:

be dot faithless, but believing. Then did Chrifiian again a little revive, and stood up trembling, as at the first, before Evangelift.

Theu Evangelift proceeded. faying, Give more earnest heed to the Things that I fhall tell thee of. I will now tell the who it was that deluded thee, and who it was also to whom he fent thee: The Man that met Mr.

thee was one Worldly Wifeman and rightly is Worldly he fo call'd, partly, because he favoureth Wifeman only the Doctrine of this World; (there- defcribed by fore he always goes to the Town of Mor- Evangelift. rality to Church) and partly, + because het Col. 6. loveth that Doctrine beft; for. it faveth him 12. beft from the Crofs; and because he is of this carnal Temper, therefore he feeketh, to prevent thy Ways, though right.

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Now there Evangeare three Things in this Man's Counsel that lift difco

thou must utterly abhor.

1. His turning thee out of the Way.

2. His labouring to render the Crofs odious

thee.

vers the Deceit of Mr. Worldly

3. And thy fetting his Feet that Way that Wifeman. leadeth unto the Adminstration of Death,

Firft. Thou muit alfo abhor his turning thee out of the Way; yea, and thine own confenting thereto; because this is to reject the Counsel of God, for the Sake of the Counfel of a Worldly Wifeman. The Lord fays, Strive to enter in at the Strait Gate, the Gate

Luke which I fend thee, For Strait 12. 14. that leadeth unto Life, and few Mark ht be that find it From this little Wick- 13. 14. et Gate, and from the Way thereof, bath this Wicked Man turned thee, to the bringing of thee almost to

Hate, therefore, his turning thee out of the
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Way,

way and abhor thyself for hearkening to him. zdly. Thou must abhor, his labouring to render the Crofs odious unto thee; for thou +Heb. 11 art to † prefer it before the Pleafures in Egypt: 25. 26. Befides, the King of Glory hath told thee *Mark 8.* That he that will fave his Life hall loofe

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it And he that comes after him and hates not John 3. 1. bis Father, and Mother, and Wife, and Chil 25. dren, and Brethren, and Sifters, yea, and bis Mat. 10. own Life alfo, cannot be his Difciple. I fay 39. therefore, for a Man to labour to perfuade Luke 11. thee, that that fhall be thy Death, without 16. which, the Truth haft faid, thou canst not have Eternal Life; that Doctrine thou must abhor.

woman.

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3dly. Thou muft hate his fetting of thy Feet in the Way that leadeth to the MiniAration of Death. And for this thou must confider to whom he fent thee, and alfo how unable that Perfon was to deliver thee from thy Burden.

*

He to whom you were fent for Eafe, being by Name Legality, is the Son of the *The Bond Bond-woman which now is, and is in Bondage with her Children, and is, in a Mystery, + Gal. this Mount Sinai, which thou haft feared will fall on thy Head. Now, if the with her Children are in Bondage, how canst thou expect by them to be made free? This Legality therefore is not able to fet thee free from thy Burden. No Man was as yet ever rid of his Burden by him, no, nor ever is like to be: Ye cannot be justify'd by the Works of the Law; for by, the Deeds of the Law no Man living can be rid of his Burden: Therefore Mr. Worldly Wifeman is an Alien; and Mr. Legality is a Cheat: And for his Son

Civility