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hind me a Wife, and five fmall Children; let me intreat you, at your Return, (for I know that you go and return to your Master's House, in Hopes that you may be a Conductor to more of the Holy Pilgrims) that you fend to my Family, and let them be acquainted with all that hath, and fhall happen unto me. Tell them moreover of my happy Arrival to this His Errand to Place, and of the prefent and late bleffed bis Family Condition that I am in. Tell them alfo of Chriftian and Chriftiana his Wife, and how fhe and her Children came after her Hufband. Tell them alfo, of what a happy End fhe made, and whither fhe is gone. I have little or nothing to fend to my Family, except it be my Prayers and Tears for them; of which it will fuffice if you acquaint them, if peradventure they may prevail.

When Mr. Standfaft had thus fet Things in Order, and the Time being come for him to hafte him away, he alfo went down to the River. Now there was a great Calm at that Time in the River; wherefore Mr. Standfaft, when he was about half-way in, ftood a while, and talked to his Companions that had waited upon him thither : And he faid,

This River has been a Terror to many; yea, the Thoughts of it also have often frighted me now methinks I ftand easy, my Foot is fixed upon that on which the His last Words Feet of the Priefts that bare the Ark of Jof. 3. 17. the Covenant ftood, while Ifrael went over this Jordan. The Waters indeed are to

the Palate bitter, and to the Stomach cold; yet the Thoughts of what I am going to, and of the Conduct that waits for me on the other Side, doth lie as a glowing Coal at my Heart.

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I fee myself now at the End of my Journey; my Toilfome Days are ended. I am going to fee that Head that was crowned with Thorns, and that Face that was spit upon for me.

I have formerly lived by Hear-fay and Faith; but now I go where I fhall live by Sight, and fhall be with him in whofe Company I delight myself,

I have loved to hear my Lord fpoken of; and wherever I have feen the Print of his Shoe in the Earth, there have I coveted to fet my Foot too.

His Name has been to me as a CivetBox; yea, fweeter than all Perfumes. His Voice to me has been moft fweet; and his Countenance I have more defired than they that have moft defired the Light of the Sun. His Words I did use to gather for my Focd, and for Antidotes against my Faintings.

He has held me, and hath kept me from mine Iniquities; yea, my Steps have been ftrengthened his Way.

Now, while he was thus in Discourse, his Countenance changed, his Strong Man bowed under him: And after he had faid, Take me, for I come unto Thee, he ceafed to be feen of them.

But Glorious it was to fee, how the Open Region was filled with Horfes and Chariots, with Trumpeters and Pipers, with Singers and Players on Stringed In

ftruments,

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ftruments, to welcome the PILGRIMS as they went up, and followed one another in at the Beautiful Gate of the City.

As for Chriftiana's Children, the Four Boys that Chriftiana brought, with their Wives and Children, I did not ftay where I was till they were, gone over. Alfo fince I came away, I heard one fay, they were yet alive, and fo would be for the Increase of the CHURCH in that Place where they were, for a Time.

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Shall it be my Lot to go that Way again I may give thofe that defire it, an Account of what I here am filent about; mean Time I bid my Reader no

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